Russell Simmons Extends MySpace Takeover
Earlier in the week, we learned that Global Grind founder, Russell Simmons had hijacked MySpace’s homepage and music for the week. During the course of his stay he shared social and political commentary from Global Grind and excerpts from his latest book, “Super Rich: A Guide To Having It All”. Simmons also selected five unsigned [...]
Read MoreRussell Simmons Hijacks MySpace. Launches Hip-Pop Challenge and Curators Program.
Starting today Russell Simmons is hijacking MySpace to host the ‘Hip-Pop Challenge’- a search for the best musicians in hip-hop and pop. Simmons has sifted through the unsigned bands and artists of MySpace and selected 5 hip-hop acts and 5 pop acts. The MySpace community will get to vote on their favorites in each category [...]
Read MoreGlobal Grind vs. Bossip: A War of Words Gets Heated
According to Mediaite, digital publications Bossip and Global Grind are currently engaged in a nasty war of worlds. The verbal melee has its beginnings in a notorious nickname that the Moguldom-owned site christened Global Grind owner Russell Simmons. Since 2007, Bossip has been calling the Def-Jam exec “Blood Diamond Russ” or “BDR” in reference to [...]
Read MoreGlobal Grind Gets an App
Here at Black Web 2.0, we’ve been having an ongoing conversation on the necessity of black media to further embrace current and emerging technologies when promoting content. The majority of black print publications have launched websites with mixed success. We are still, however, waiting to see publications embrace mobile technology in the form of apps. [...]
Read MoreGlobal Grind Corrects Their Content Scraping Ways
A few days ago, we talked briefly about Global Grind’s content scraping practices. As you may know, Global Ground is like Digg for the hip-hop community. They cover hip-hop stories, celebrity gossip, entertainment, and more. This is a pretty broad selection of content, so many bloggers were shocked to find that Global Grind had basically [...]
Read MoreThe Global Grind and The Practice of Content Scraping
Yesterday evening Black Web 2.0 was invited to an online chat conducted by Patrick O’Keefe of iFroggy Network and Johnathan Bailey of PlagarismToday.com regarding the practice of “Content Scraping.” Patrick recently discovered that Global Grind was copying all of his articles in full, submitting them to Google News, and displaying them in on their website. [...]
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