2009 Blogging While Brown Wrap Up
by Markus Robinson
The 2nd annual Blogging While Brown Conference, held at the University Center in Chicago, IL, was an extraordinary gathering of participants from diverse backgrounds and a wide range of technological skill levels with many ideas. Though the participant’s backgrounds were diverse, they gathered with one common goal; to discuss the issues affecting bloggers of color. [...]
Read MoreAudio: RapRadar.com Founder and CEO Elliott Wilson
by Markus Robinson
In this edition of the Black Web 2.0 Show, I sit down with the Founder and CEO of RapRadar.com Elliott Wilson. Elliott boasts an impressive resume, spanning across nearly 20 years of monitoring and documenting Hip-Hop music and culture. Elliott’s career was jump started after he co-founded an independent magazine, Ego Trip, which subsequently morphed into successful books and television shows.
Read MoreSix Apart Calls A Truce With Wordpress
by rahsheen
Six Apart just launched some powerful plugins and services for their bitter rival Wordpress. I know it doesn’t seem to make much sense. Six Apart and Automattic are the entities behind the popular blogging platforms Typepad and Wordpress, respectively. Six Apart explains this bold move quite clearly:
At Six Apart, we love making the web better [...]
BlackPlanet’s Featured Blogger Program
by Angela
Many of you (including us) have been contacted by someone on staff at BlackPlanet about their new Featured Blogger Program. It is being described by BlackPlanet’s Chief Content Officer Smokey Fontaine as:
Essentially, it’s a home page program that uses my content sites as distribution points for our community’s best bloggers. It’s something I may [...]
Blogs Join Forces to Create “The Black Family Blog Network”
by Markus Robinson
In a post entitled Surviving the Economic Forest Fire, I mentioned that one of the keys to surviving during the economic slow down was to join forces, create partnerships, and begin working together. In a African-American targeted niche blog industry, it’s sometimes very difficult to reach and impact the numbers readers we would like too [...]
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