Jet Magazine Crafts Web Strategy
For months media analysts, journalists, and the black community have been speculating the fate of Johnson Publishing Company, publisher of seminal magazines, Ebony and Jet. It’s no secret that the company like many other publications have been teetering on the brink of collapse due to decline in ad pages and subscriptions as well as increasing [...]
Read MoreYouTube Makes it That Much Easier To Cut Off Cable
As if I didn’t already have enough reasons to cancel my cable, YouTube has activated their Shows feature. Hulu is the place you go to catch new episodes of stuff like Southland, Life, and Lie To Me. Most, but definitely not all, of your favorite shows are freely available to watch on Hulu. Now, YouTube [...]
Read MoreFairtilizer is The Do It Yourself Music Club
I originally learned about Fairtilizer from Steven Hodson and Sarah Perez back in September. I’ve been playing with the service on and off, using it to find new music as well as trying to see if I wanted to make it the home for my own music. I think Sarah put it best in her post [...]
Read MoreCelebrities, Ghostwriters & Twitter—Going Too Far?
Actor Hugh Jackman is the latest celeb to get caught up in an internet scandal when he was forced to admit that he uses staff for his Twitter updates after one of them got the name of the Sydney Opera House wrong in a post about his lunch plans. Just a few years into the [...]
Read MoreWill Seesmic Desktop or Tweetdeck Solve Information Overload?
I recently caught a live broadcast by Loic Lemur, founder of Seesmic. He was doing a presentation on the new Seesmic Desktop Twitter client, which will take Twhirl’s place as one of the most popular Twitter clients. Up until now, Tweetdeck has been a step ahead of Twhirl in regards to popularity, but Seesmic Desktop [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review: NameChk, Yahoo Image Search, Meeting24.tv, Nomee, and Hunch
Namechk Ever wanted to check if your favorite username was available on over 80 different social services all at once? Well, now you can with Namechk. I was actually surprised by the results. I thought I pretty much had my brand on lock. I’ll need to sign up on a few services with the correct [...]
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