Huffington Post Launches Technology and Innovations Section

Launches News Strategy Trends

Last Monday The Huffington Post announced it would launch a Technology and Innovations section on September 21st. The section will be lead by Jose Antonio Vargas. In the blog post last week titled Technology is Anthropology Vargas goes into detail on how this Technology blog will be a bit different than what we are use to.

Jay-Z the #1 Trending Artist on Twitter

Celeb 2.0 Trends social media

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.

Phonte Phontificates on His New Work and iTunes

Celeb 2.0 Trends

Best-selling hip hop artist Phonte gives one of the most concise explanations of the beefs recording artists have with iTunes. In this video he dishes on iTunes and discusses his latest project. (Viewer advisory. Yes, he cusses.)

Trend with Truth: The Real Maia Campbell Story

Trends social media

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.

Proposed Cybersecurity Bill Raises Privacy and Executive Abuse of Power Concerns

IP Law News Strategy

Currently there is proposed legislation that would give the President power to seize control of private networks during a national cybersecurity threat. Proponents of the legislation believe this bill is necessary to protect:

* vital private networks containing personal banking information;

* networks of power and water systems; and

* private citizens’ health records.