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Mar. 29th, 2006 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflydreamingSomehow I've been reading "Young Adult" catagorized books. The first was Feed (M.T. Anderson). Now I'm in the middle of Wolf Moon (de Lint). It's perplexing to see how things are marketed. What criteria earn the YA label? Sex? Age of protagonist? Themes? Length?
Why isn't Promised Land (Cynthia Felice) YA?
On an only vaguely related note, Beverly Cleary is turning 90. She has recently okayed a movie version Ramona. She made the writers change the ending of the screenplay.
Newsweek told me this, the same issue that has a big cover story about user-generated web content. The article mentions My Space, Flickr, and others. The article is a minimum content overview, but I did learn that as many people as live in St. Paul, MN (I think that was the city of comparison) signed up for My Space all on one recent Monday, making it the largest new account activation day to date.
Before anyone {*cough*rhonan*cough*) says anything like "that's a lot of emo", I would like to remind my readers that my big brother is on My Space.
And don't go saying Emo like it's a bad thing. Emo is the natural decendant of Goth!
Why isn't Promised Land (Cynthia Felice) YA?
On an only vaguely related note, Beverly Cleary is turning 90. She has recently okayed a movie version Ramona. She made the writers change the ending of the screenplay.
Newsweek told me this, the same issue that has a big cover story about user-generated web content. The article mentions My Space, Flickr, and others. The article is a minimum content overview, but I did learn that as many people as live in St. Paul, MN (I think that was the city of comparison) signed up for My Space all on one recent Monday, making it the largest new account activation day to date.
Before anyone {*cough*rhonan*cough*) says anything like "that's a lot of emo", I would like to remind my readers that my big brother is on My Space.
And don't go saying Emo like it's a bad thing. Emo is the natural decendant of Goth!
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Date: 2006-03-30 05:50 pm (UTC)I think the appeal to the masses is that it asks for very little maintainance. You put up a picture, maybe send out a "bulletin" every now and again. The profile page is the focus. Your "friends" can post a comment that shows up on it and stays there, something like a Glitter Graphics picture or some such.
Funny enough, my profile was "collected" by some random guy who seems only to want a large list of pretty girls. It has amused me to keep him in the friend list.