Comments on: Poll: Can the ‘Family Jewels’ be Saved? http://www.blackweb20.com/2009/06/26/poll-can-the-family-jewels-be-saved/ The premier destination for African-American’s in Technology and New Media Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:06:36 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Villager http://www.blackweb20.com/2009/06/26/poll-can-the-family-jewels-be-saved/comment-page-1/#comment-31112 Villager Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:55:03 +0000 http://www.blackweb20.com/?p=5159#comment-31112 We had subscriptions to both Jet and Ebony when I was growing up. The Jet Beauty of the Week was the first page that I turned to every time! Today, I can see beauty on the Internet if I want. The news in a weekly magazine is simply never as timely as what I can learn on Twitter or various RSS-feeds from Black bloggers around the nation. And Ebony/Jet haven't adopted to the new Internet-age ... as evidenced by the Q&A session at last week's Blogging While Brown conference in Chicago.<br><br>Sometimes it is better to live with a pleasant memory than deal with a rotting corpse in the room.<br><br>peace, Villager We had subscriptions to both Jet and Ebony when I was growing up. The Jet Beauty of the Week was the first page that I turned to every time! Today, I can see beauty on the Internet if I want. The news in a weekly magazine is simply never as timely as what I can learn on Twitter or various RSS-feeds from Black bloggers around the nation. And Ebony/Jet haven't adopted to the new Internet-age … as evidenced by the Q&A session at last week's Blogging While Brown conference in Chicago.

Sometimes it is better to live with a pleasant memory than deal with a rotting corpse in the room.

peace, Villager

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