Interview with Yahoo Sr. Design Specialist Dee Adams

While recently attending the IA Summit in Memphis, I ran into Sr. Design Specialist Dee Adams of Yahoo! Inc. Aside from the coolness that she is an avid painter, lover of Opera, and recent Australian native, she also is responsible for the Flickr homepage redesign. Check out part 1 of the interview I did with her [...]

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WorldstarHipHop.com Takes the Crown

If there is one type of site that possibly rivals Black gossip and celebrity sites, in terms of numbers, it is Hip-Hop sites. Excluding blogs, sites like AllHipHop.com (AHH) and SOHH.com were the de facto kings. Well, according to new numbers, WorldstarHipHop.com (WHH) seems to have taken the crown. Looking at the 2008 stats from Compete, [...]

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That ‘McNugget Lovin’ Commercial

Some love it. Some hate it. To be quite honest, I’ve seen the commercial so many times that I actually sing-a-long with ol’ boy as he gets on his hands and knees and makes a fool of himself. You can’t really deny the marketing machine that McDonald’s commands. For those catching up, here is the ‘extended’ version [...]

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The Ebony Experiment Launches

Maggie and John Anderson, a highly educated and middle-class couple, are launching the Ebony Experiment on January 1, 2009, aimed at reaching multiple social and economic conclusions by shopping with exclusively Black-owned businesses for the entire year. Teamed with experts such as Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Steven Rogers, Dr. Michael Bennett, and Walidah Bennett, the goal [...]

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A Troubled Marriage: Journalism and Blogging

The crux of professional journalism is the first amendment of the constitution, enabling the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press. As with most interpretations, the definition of this fact is slanted with the ubiquity of perspective the internet provides. Blogging and its popularity is the quintessential example, and most bloggers just want [...]

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Common Launches ThinkCommon.com

Mr. Electric Circus has jumped on the bandwagon of internet presence and officially launched his site. Soulbounce has echoed, per one of his own vlog posts, that Common now adds ‘blogger’ to his resumé. A heavy dose of flash greets you over at ThinkCommon.com, but it’s not obnoxious. The opening menu is a little weird as [...]

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?uesto’s Bus Crashes, Blogs / Twitters It

If you follow ?uestlove, the eccentric and completely awesome drummer of the Roots, on Twitter, you get the feeling that dude is constantly on his mobile device, in front of his computer, or doing something electronic-y when not DESTROYING a set. Such as the case, recently, when their tour bus crashed last night in Paris. Thankfully, again, [...]

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Help a Black Science Blogger Win Scholarship

We’ve all been our soap boxes. Unabashedly pointing our fingers and accusatory voices at our counterparts espousing how we don’t support each other, how we need to do better, and how nice it would be if we had a Black President. Well, we have one out of the three. Can we get another one? One of our [...]

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BWB Conference June 19 -20, 2009 - Chicago, IL

I managed to catch Gina’s tweet this morning about the 2nd Blogging While Brown Conference coming up in June. I am delighted to find that the conference will indeed be in my hometown of Chicago, IL and will take place at the University Center from June 19th to June 20th. For those that are unfamiliar or [...]

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Global Grind Implements Facebook Connect

True story. I had just finished reading Lynne’s comment about the influential Black Tech Evangelists on Twitter and decided to start clicking around in people’s profiles and sites. I stumbled across Miss Theda’s site and found a gem. Director Charles Stone III had updated his international, award-winning ‘Wasssup’ commercial for Bud Light to highlight the need [...]

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