Is Twitter the New Auto-Tune?
by Jabari Johnson
With the rise of entertainers signing up for Twitter in the past year, many artists have added “tweeting” to their daily routines. Whether it be for promotional use (Soulja Boy), to inspire the world (Diddy) , or to simply interact with fans (Wale), Twitter seems to be here to stay (until the next hot social network emerges) among entertainers.
Read MoreJay-Z the #1 Trending Artist on Twitter
by waynesutton
To take a look at Jay-Z ’s trending reign on Twitter you’ll have to go back to June 5 when Jay-Z released Death of Autotunes track. We covered it here on the post “Jay-Z Kills AutoTune via Twitter with D.O.A.” Ever since then Jay-Z has been trending on Twitter longer than any other music artist. Jay hasn’t been trending every day since June 5 but every time a new announcement about the Blueprint 3 album was made he would crawl back to #1 trending on Twitter or reappear.
Read MorePBS Frontline’s Your Digital Nation Project
by Robin Caldwell
Michael Lang always finds the most obscure yet compelling and exciting videos for his site BlackDigerati.org. Last week, I posted one I found on his site featuring a young woman discussing how she uses her mobile phone to access the Internet and social networks (I use my T-Mobile). I noted that her video was submitted to PBS Frontline’s Your Digital Nation Project, which is a part of a larger multimedia project, Digital Nation, that involves social media, broadcast media and technology. It is interactive and honestly, quite brilliant because it invites viewers to submit video testimonies of their use of digital media. (I think it’s smart any time you posit users as experts.) Watch these very brief videos recorded at BlogHer 09.
Read MoreTrend with Truth: The Real Maia Campbell Story
by Robin Caldwell
Today I looked in the trending topics on Twitter and saw a familiar name, Maia Campbell, the sweet faced, beautifully locked girl from L.L. Cool J’s TV sitcom, In the House. I read hundreds of tweets but only found one kind post asking that folks stop making fun of her and pray instead. I then saw a post containing the link to a video featuring Maia on Youtube.com. I watched as much as possible and decided to tweet what I knew. Maia is schizophrenic; a fact that brought her late mother Bebe Moore Campbell and her father and step-father much anguish.
Read MoreQuincy Jones Talks about Future of Music at 2009 SxSW
by Robin Caldwell
Quincy Jones is the cat who performed with some of the greatest names in music, produced some of the hottest music for some of the hottest musicians most recently and notably Michael Jackson. He is the founder of Vibe magazine who found the perfect formula of bringing together multiple genres of music with a focus on the vibe and less on the difference. Do you think I’m a fan? I am.
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