CEA Unveiled: A Preview to the Big Show
by Sherri L. Smith
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) raised the veil of secrecy for a few lucky New York tech writers concerning the 2010 International CES. For those of you that don’t know the Consumer Electronics Show is like the techie Superbowl or maybe it’s more like a cotillion. Everyone has on their best business casual outfits showing off their latest and greatest additions to the tech universe and we journalists, geeks, and gawkers lap it up like honey.
Read MoreTwitter Lists Gather Latest Info on Fort Hood Tragedy
by Lesly Simmons
Last week’s shooting rampage at a military installation in Fort Hood, Texas quickly became the top news story across the country, and several major news organizations used Twitter Lists to aggregate information coming from local news outlets after the shooting, including the New York Times, CNN, and the Austin-American Statesmen. The Times prominently displayed their [...]
Read MoreBET.com News Producer Tracy Stokes Dies
by Angela
The journalism world and Black Entertainment Television lost a true professional and friend Sunday afternoon when BET.com news producer Tracy Stokes succumbed to complications from kidney failure. He was 37 years old.
BET.com News Producer Tracy Stokes
According to his mother, Lilly Stokes, a retired teacher living in North Carolina, Tracy died a 4:07 p.m. Sunday at [...]
Read MoreBreaking: Essence Lays Off Digital Team
by Angela
Via Journalsticks: After relaunching their website last week, Essence magazine laid off its web team today citing budgetary reasons.
“They told us it was downsizing,” says one Essence employee. “We’re very confused. We worked so hard for the relaunch.”
Another insider tells J’sticks: “This is normal practice. Companies relaunch with new [site] schemes that allow them to [...]
Creating a new generation of technology entrepreneurs Part 1: Changing the Value Proposition for Urban Youth
by navarrow wright
Being a pro athlete or an entertainer is great but the odds are extremely high for people to have careers in those fields. But that is who our youth see. And one of the largest problems is that our youth don’t see people they can identify with in technology entrepreneurial roles so they don’t believe it is in the realm of possibility for them. Yes, they love to use Facebook but they never think that they can create the next Facebook. So I ask the question what can we do to change their value proposition. Let’s talk about any ideas people have and start working to making this become reality for our youth.
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