WASN'T that long ago that it seemed every baby girl was named either Ashley or Tiffany.But current polling on the Parent Soup Web site says those two very 80s monikers are among the least liked for babies today.
But Internet time being what it is,a 90s name for girls-Madison-managed to top the lists for the least-popular and the most-popular names simultaneously.
To help parents avoid a baby-naming faux pas-like"Bertha"-Parent Soup has long offer its Baby Name Finder,serving up researchon more than 10,000names for both boys and girls.Go goo-goo-ga-ga at http://www2.parentsoup.com/babynames.
Reaching out
to Asian youths
CYBERSPACE
is a great place to generate buzz on the entertaiment industry,espeacially
if you want to grab the attention of today's youth.
"We think
MTV Asia is Southeast Asia's biggest on-line hang-out,"says James Chadwick,marketing
director of Tricast,a Singapore Internet start-up.Tricast has a join venture
with MTV Asia and runs MTV Asia's online business, in-cludding its English
Web site (at www.mtvasia.com)
and (at www.mtvchinese.com).
"Young people
from Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia are posting messages
to bulletin boards at our sites.You got to reach the youths where they
are hanging out."
Classical Chinese
poetry
CARE for Chinese
poetry? Here's a site which has a collection of classic Chinese poetry
from as early as Shi Jing to the late 19th-century, from the greats to
some of the lesser known poets.Poems are in the Chinese with English transiations,
with some complete collections. There are also some famous English language
poems translated into Chinese. For the poetical ones, turn to http://www.chinapage.com/poetry9.html.
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