Kids Starting College This Fall Were Born In 1990!

I don't know about you, but I remember 1990.

I was in 7th grade

I was obsessed with New Kids on the Block

I also discovered The Beatles' White album

Anna Wintour, editor of Vogue, wrote me a letter after I wrote to her raving about an article about Kid n' Play in the July 1990 issue of Vogue. In return, she sent me the September fashion issue. I still have it to this day.

Yay! The College Student Got His Apartment!

This makes my day. We heard at 9:00 a.m. that he was in, provided he could come up with first and last months rent, via a cashier's check, by 3:00 p.m. He pulled through, and my client left happy and plans to spend the holiday weekend packing and planning for his first real, grown up, New York apartment.

Moral of the story: In New York City, you have to ask fast. Even as we were signing the lease people were calling about the place. Yowza.

Next stop this weekend: Queens!

New Huffington Post Blog: Life After College

Perhaps it was all the coffee I had yesterday, but I banged out this new Huffington Post blog about why life after college is the best time of your life, for a lot of reasons. I know way too many people who say that college was the best, which makes me wonder what they've been up to all those years after.

Attention Graduates: Life After College Will Be The Best Time Of Your Life

Everyone Wants the Youth Vote

fading news, originally uploaded by Dreamer7112.

No one ever said that transitioning newspaper into the online world would be easy. Lately, though, at least the decision makers of the media world are trying to find out what it is that the youth want.

As someone who teaches journalism to undergrads, I actually have a little insight into this. Video is better than print, and if it's going to be words, it should be online. Even though The New York Times was free on campus, not a lot of my student picked it up on a daily basis. That's not a criticism. Most of them got their news, from hard news to entertainment, online. I tell all my students to log onto The New York Times web site as often as they can, watch The Daily Show and download some NPR podcasts.

This piece from the Philadelphia Inquirer talks to undergrads about how they want to get news. I agree with the statements about never watching a 6:30 p.m. newscast. I don't remember the last time I tuned in on purpose. Instead, The Daily Show and the Colbert Report provide much better context. Who wants to watch items about shootings on the local news when Comedy Central brings real newsmakers onto its shows?

I also love this item about how John Edwards is tapping the brain of John Mayer about attracting younger voters. Again, video is good, but get to the action quickly.