New York University’s Stern Business School’s Professor Vasant Dhar and Elaine Chang, a former student, have released the results of a study that proves online word-of-mouth can be used as a good predictor of a music albums sales numbers. Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica said yesterday that the researchers couldn’t afford the record sales reports from [...]

CONTESTANTS NEEDED: MTV IS COMING TO MIAMI FOR SPRING BREAK 2008!!!!!! Ever wanted to be on a Game Show? How about an MTV Game Show? Seeking Men and Women (18 and Over) to be CONTESTANTS on “Pretty Smart”!!!!! If you think you have the brains to battle it out against some of the hottest bods in [...]

  Being an Obama supporter myself, this news doesn’t surprise me too much: SurveyU just sent over their latest data on the college student vote:This research was gathered between January 31st and Feb. 3rd: Barack Obama (59 percent) Hillary (18 percent) On the Republican side: John McCain (34 percent) Mike Huckabee (16 percent) Ron Paul (14 percent) Mitt Romney (9 percent) What do youthink?  Let [...]

MTV’S ON-CAMPUS NETWORK IS NOW expanding to areas near campus. The place-based network, available on some 750 colleges, has reached deals with a range of MSOs to carry it, looking to reach students living outside the dorms. Cable operators Charter and Suddenlink, along with telco TV providers Verizon and AT&T and others, will offer MTVu [...]

Mark Malkoff, a comedian best known for patronizing each of Manhattan’s 171 Starbucks in a single day, needed a place to stay while his apartment was fumigated. Since his friends had no extra space in their tiny apartments and hotels were too expensive, Malkoff decided to spend his week of temporary homelessness at his local [...]

Campus Food – a network of college restaurants that let students order online — has launched a Facebook app called Food Friendzy. The pitch: “Free food for poor college kids nationwide!” The premise: win free food by playing online games and sharing the app with friends.

Do Something, the national not-for-profit that makes it possible for teens to change the world is partnering with the Hopeless/Sub City Records Take Action! Tour to offer $500 grants to young people who want to make change in their communities. The Take Action Grants, empowered by MySpace Impact, the Hot Topic Foundation and Hopeless/Sub City Records, [...]

The site has reached past 10 million book reviews and now has 700,000+ members, with the 1m benchmark on the horizon. And being named one of Time magazine’s top 10 sites of 2007 certainly helps build traffic!This site is a great place to read opinions about books you might have to read for a class.  Post [...]

  The Take Action! Volume 7 CD/DVD is set for a March 4th release. The annual charity compilation is bigger and better than ever featuring 20 tracks and 20 music videos on DVD. Consisting of the best bands in alternative, punk, indie, hardcore, and metal music, the compilation will sell for a staggeringly low suggested retail [...]

  While hip hop was the first musical genre to publish a book of lists, punk rock has answered with its own such book, The Official Punk Rock Book of LIsts, recently published by Backbeat Books. The book is by Amy Wallance and “Handsome” Dick Manitoba and features guest contributions from members of Guns N’ Roses [...]