Soulja Boy’s Epic Gaming Battle

I remember it like it was yesterday. My aunt came out to visit us in small town Minnesota for my 6th birthday. With her she carried a very special gift, a gift that would change my life: Nintendo. The one with duck hunt. I hooked it up to the busted TV [...]

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Codeblack Redesign

Codeblack recently redesigned, and the first word that comes to mind is sleek. As was their previous design, the homepage again uses muted grays and blacks to make a solid statement and a great backdrop for multi-media presentations. If you aren’t familiar with Codeblack they tout themselves as “the first on-demand network exclusively serving fans [...]

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Q&A: Lauri Lyons, First black female Getty Photog

As traditional and new media become more and more intertwined it is always interesting to speak to people who are involved with the more traditional medias about their methods, to see how they differ from those that are purely new media based and how they see the intersection of traditional and new media. We [...]

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Ebony, Jet and Google

It is really great to see this company continuing to use the tools that are out there to digitize their content. Back in October we were happy to announce that EbonyJet had joined YouTube to put up their archives. Yesterday news stories were all over the place about Google putting up old magazine archives [...]

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Voyages: Slavery Online

A tweet originally posted by @guykawasaki from @TheJennTafur let us know about a new history initiative that was launched by Emory University and the National Endowment for the Humanities.   Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database is a project that took two years to bring to life online and pulled from data collected since the [...]

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Soulja Boy’s Bird Walk

It was over year ago that we declared Soulja Boy a Web 2.0 Wonder. Well he’s back at it again, but this time with a new hook. With his new song and dance, “Bird Walk,” fans are given the opportunity to learn the dance and upload their own video to be featured [...]

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#blck on Twitter

The past few days we noticed a hashtag appear on Twitter that we hadn’t seen before: #blck. In a system that doesn’t allow for the creation of communities, an easy search for robust profiles, the “#blck is a tag created at first with the idea that you can identify yourself as a “black person” on Twitter… [...]

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MTV Base builds on African mobile use and UGC

Have you heard of MTV Base? I hadn’t until this past weekend when the first African Music awards show was held. They’re something awesome with their awards show though, they let viewers vote for winners via text message. So, what is MTV Base? Launched in 2005, MTV Base is a 24 [...]

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Online Hip Hop Awards

I guess you can say I am disappointed with the Online Hip Hop Awards.  I see a good media partner (MTV Jams), a nice straight forward site, and a good concept: You choose the winners for these awards and we will have live performances etc… and then I see the amount of votes 181,586 and [...]

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Rodney Jerkins to Launch MusicMogul.com

Would you pay to see a live performance online in a virtual world? How about paying for a monthly subscription to let an avatar live and dress like a celebrity? Do you want to see how your favorite artist would be living large online? Do you want to upload your own videos [...]

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