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...Japanese. Articles on how to write an essay, turn down a date and weigh the pros and cons of dorm life went over well too. "I'm going though some of these same things," said Layra, 17. On the downside, they found the overall format and design dull. Unlike Alloy and Bolt, which pulsate with colors, animations and links, Kibu's haiku look--which features nothing but a series of faces on the opening page--got old fast. "It's too flat," said Aurin, 17. Others scoffed at topics like how to write a love letter ("If you need help...
...what did the girls like? Anything interactive, especially the quizzes and polls in which you get to see how everyone else answered the same questions. More creative types of interactivity included the friend finder on Bolt, the reader poetry on Gurl and digital snapshots of Alloy members posing with celebrities. The teens also loved Alloy and Bolt's celeb news and gossip, something the more highbrow Kibu eschews. Extras like Alloy's free voice mail and extensive online clothes shopping also got a thumbs-up. Renata, 17, who had already ordered clothes from Alloy, was impressed that they had arrived...
...girls got frustrated on all the sites whenever they'd click on a broad topic, like sports, and find nothing they were interested in. Then there were the lengthy sections on obscure topics, like Alloy's strangely elaborate list of magical spells, which got the big thumbs-down. "That is so stupid," said Alexis, 16, to nods all around. And they didn't like anything that slows you down, like the mandatory registration on Kibu or the jumbled look of Gurl, which made the site feel like "everything is cluttered and thrown together," said Rabiyah...
...Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) went into effect Friday, and already America Online has deleted the online profiles of anyone who is self-identified as being under the age of 13. Other popular youth sites such as Alloy have banned preteens from chat rooms, while the so-called "i-generation" site Snowball.com has cut off free e-mail and home page services...
...been to Gutenberg. Equipped with a sufficient supply of metal letters, a printer could use and reuse them in any order required, running off not just handbills and brief documents but a theoretically infinite number of individual pages. There were technical obstacles to overcome, including the discovery of an alloy that would melt at low temperatures, so that it could be poured into letter molds, and of an ink that would crisply transfer impressions from metal to paper. And what force would be employed to make these impressions? Gutenberg hit upon the idea of adapting a wine press...