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« Wednesday « September 27, 2006
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  1. {09272006}
  2. {07:33:55 AM}
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  1. NYC Official Slams Ad Agency Execs for Skipping Diversity Hearing
    
    (Advertising Age)
  2. New York City Councilman Larry Seabrook blasted ad agencies who failed to show today for a public hearing on minority-owned media, saying they "ran like chickens with their asses plucked clean."
    
    Once again, here is the advertising industry's approach to dealing with its documented diversity problems, and its spotty record in hiring and engaging minorities in commerce: deny, deny, deny. That's an ad man for you! Without any features or benefits to tout with regard to their approach to diversity, there's absolutely nothing for them to say.
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  2. 07:33:55 AM
  3. New York City Councilman Larry Seabrook blasted ad agencies who failed to show today for a public hearing on minority-owned media, saying they "ran like chickens with their asses plucked clean."..."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. marketing and advertising
  3. racism
  4. tags:
  5. hiring
  6. employment
  7. madison+avenue
  type
« Saturday « September 23, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09232006}
  2. {01:00:31 PM}
  content
  1. Beyonce album sales fall after 'black' comments (Netscape) Pop star Beyonce Knowles has sparked controversy by saying she only makes records for black people. (Well, the claim is being disputed, but her songs are probably too bootylicious for, say, country-club Republicans, eh?)
    01:00:31 PM
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2. datetime
  1. {09232006}
  2. {08:19:41 AM}
  content
  1. The 2006 Black Weblog Awards
  2. [ c|b ].rating: 4.6/5 stars (92%)
  3. There are definitely a lot of interesting blogs published by bruthas and sistas, many of them yet undiscovered by the vast, unwashed masses of cyberspace, or recognized by the Technoratis and Digg.coms of the Web. I have a theory on that, which is a rewording of the classic line: "On the Net no knows if you're a dog." My rewrite goes something like this: "On the Net, no one cares if you're black unless you include the words black, negro, or n*gga in the title of your blog, or post constantly and defiantly about the same five or six major beefs going on in the world of Hip-Hop, and sh*t.) You know, black people are very musical. Anyway, this list of winners is a great starting point for the curious and undercolorized. Blog on.
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  2. 08:19:41 AM
  3. There are definitely a lot of interesting blogs published by bruthas and sistas, many of them yet undiscovered by the vast, unwashed masses of cyberspace, or recognized by the Technoratis and Digg.coms of the Web. I have a theory on that, which is a rewo..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. weblogs
  3. black people
  4. tags:
  5. blog
  6. awards
  7. negros
  type
« Thursday « September 21, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09212006}
  2. {06:50:33 PM}
  content
  1. Yahoo hooks up with Current TV
    
    (The Technology Chronicles)
  2. Now she is training her satire on the Internet, and all the "hypocrisy and irony" found there. "The Internet is like holding a mirror to ourselves," said Smithberg, who will be working out of Current's China Basin headquarters.
    
    What got me about that quote about the "hypocrisy and irony" of the Internet is that it came from the mouth of a corn-fed TV producer. A TV producer who's planning to trawl the Internet and turn what she finds into, yeah, that's right, more television. And pop culture will eat itself! Maybe she was trying be funny when she talked about the hypocrisy and irony of the Internet, but if you think about it, since the brightest idea she has is to televise content found on the Internet, she's really just being hypocritical and ironic. We already have the "Boob Tube!" Do we really need a "Boob Net" too? Well, if TV producers flock to cyberspace that's what we're going to get. Hell, it's already happening faster than a muhf*cka can say YouTube! Oh boy.
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  2. 06:50:33 PM
  3. Now she is training her satire on the Internet, and all the "hypocrisy and irony" found there. "The Internet is like holding a mirror to ourselves," said Smithberg, who will be working out of Current's China Basin headquarters...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. cyberculture
  3. entertainment
  type
« Saturday « September 16, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09162006}
  2. {08:23:50 PM}
  content
  1. The 25 Worst Web Sites (PC World) The worst of all? MySpace. Hey, just because it's popular with kids and non-digerati doesn't mean that it's not a big steaming turd of a Web site.
    08:23:50 PM
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« Friday « September 15, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09152006}
  2. {10:06:29 AM}
  content
  1. Why race-based 'Survivor' makes us squirm
    
    (USATODAY.com)
  2. Segregation is seeping back into public schools, though we justify it away. Perhaps our discomfort with this TV show is in its reflection of truths in our society.
    
    Well, I'll say this of the first episode of CBS' Survivor: Cook Islands: the segregation of the cast has not changed the game one bit. As if it ever would. It's still a contest of elimination, where only one person will be left to claim the million dollar prize. And each tribe is populated with the same brand of extroverted, narcissistic people we've seen about a dozen installments before. Now, of course, the Asian tribe won the first challenge -- a puzzle-building challenge -- and the Black tribe came in last. Surprise, surprise! At tribal council, three sistas used their numerical advantage to boot one of the two bruthas. Surprise, surprise! You have to ask yourself is this a reflection of real life (because sistas flip the script on bruthas often, and a lot of times you can't blame them when they do) or is it a reflection of the contrived reality of Survivor life, because smart alliances will always use their numbers to get an edge? We'll have to watch and see, and be on the lookout for stereotypes. (Aside, the "lazy Black man" stereotype, a Survivor staple, already made its appearance in Episode 1; and yeah, he was the brutha who got voted out, by sistas who weren't playing that.) Now that I think about it, perhaps the show may be more painfully accurate about real real life than I'm willing to admit. Maybe I'm too drunk on the propaganda called American pop culture, of which this show is a part. But as for the actual mechanics of the broadcast, it looks and feels like the same Survivor to me. The format is pretty worn out by now.
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  2. 10:06:29 AM
  3. Segregation is seeping back into public schools, though we justify it away. Perhaps our discomfort with this TV show is in its reflection of truths in our society...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. television
  3. culture
  4. tags:
  5. political+correctness
  6. racism
  7. colorlines
  8. survivor
  type
« Sunday « September 10, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09102006}
  2. {11:01:52 PM}
  content
  1. The Wire (HBO.com) ...the hardest-core urban drama on air is back. I thought Season 4 got off to a slow start tonight, but that's me. It just won't be the same without Stringer.
    11:01:52 PM
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« Saturday « September 9, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09092006}
  2. {03:56:55 PM}
  content
  1. How mobile Rivers work (NewsRiver.Org) How to get a river of news and info flowing into your mobile device.
    03:56:55 PM
  type
« Friday « September 8, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09082006}
  2. {02:29:18 PM}
  content
  1. Amazon.com Unbox
  2. So, of course, Amazon.com launched its video download store today, with a great selection of movies and TV shows, both new titles and classics, with prices ranging from $1.99 to around $15. And of course, you need to use a proprietary, web-based Amazon video player, built atop Windows Media in order to play bought video, and of course, it won't work with my Mac. Naturally. The whole thing feels like a beta to me, rushed to market a little half-baked. I'll just wait for iTunes to start delivering movies. (Or until I get an Intel Mac). Not a big deal. I've learned to deal with the discrimination I face as a minority, as a Mac man.
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  2. 02:29:18 PM
  3. So, of course, Amazon.com launched its video download store today, with a great selection of movies and TV shows, both new titles and classics, with prices ranging from $1.99 to around $15. And of course, you need to use a proprietary, web-based Amazon v..."
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  1. keywords:
  2. movies and films
  3. internet
  4. tags:
  5. unbox
  type
2. datetime
  1. {09082006}
  2. {03:05:12 PM}
  content
  1. The Found Footage Festival A celebration of truly underground cinema. Call it Accidental YouTube. (Check the preview link, and when this show comes to your town, consider going.)
    03:05:12 PM
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« Thursday « September 7, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09072006}
  2. {03:34:28 PM}
  content
  1. Several Agencies Sign Agreements to Forestall Diversity Hearings
    
    (Advertising Age)
  2. Several ad agencies under scrutiny for their lackluster diversity-hiring practices have pledged to ramp up their minority recruiting, signing agreements designed to forestall potentially embarrassing public hearings planned for later this month.
    
    If you can't guess from the general tilt of the posting on my blog, I work in the advertising industry. (A related interest of mine is propaganda, a sister of advertising, and how it's used to alternately seduce and dupe the populace.) What I find interesting, yet unsurprising, about this hiring problem is that the ad industry's approach to dealing with its pitiful lack of diversity in general, and Black professionals specifically, is to simply hide from scrutiny, and avoid dealing with the problem altogether. Sure, they'll sign agreements to look into the problem, and then they'll drag their feet for months and years, cry that they can't find any qualified minority candidates, and then ultimately do nothing. But then what can you expect from people who, well, ~~tell lies~~ stretch the truth for a living? The only color that matters to the people running today's ad industry is verde. But apparently, they don't want to share that lucre.
    
    Related: Deferring to the more qualified... (Prometheus6 blog)
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  2. 03:34:28 PM
  3. Several ad agencies under scrutiny for their lackluster diversity-hiring practices have pledged to ramp up their minority recruiting, signing agreements designed to forestall potentially embarrassing public hearings planned for later this month...."
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  1. keywords:
  2. marketing and advertising
  3. racism
  type
« Monday « September 4, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09042006}
  2. {07:35:36 AM}
  content
  1. YouTube Bubble-Burst Pool
    
    (Will Video for Food blog)
  2. A pool on when YouTube's bubble bursts...
    
    I don't know what's funnier -- sad funny, not ha-ha funny -- this dead pool, because you know YouTube is just going to implode under the sheer weight of videotaped human foolishness; or this dumb idea called viral video. People who watch these things say they're bored, but it's hard to tell which came first: boring, 2-minute Internet videos, or the boring people who watch them. At least the folks who make these videos are doing something creative with all this great technology. But is this what the Internet has come to? A sprawling wasteland of amateur home movies, full of goofy people dropping Mentos candies into diet soda bottles, or of terabytes of copyrighted music and video used without permission, or payment to the creators? Please make it stop.
    
    Updated:
    The Coming Dramatic Decline of YouTube (BlogMaverick)
    
    Related: A Bold Wager on Lonelygirl15 - A skeptic at Advertising Age deconstructs a rising video virus. Upshot: don't believe the hype; there are some interesting gems online, a few needles in the haystack, but what you'll find is mostly garbage ... just like everywhere else. Nothing innovative here, please move on.
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  2. 07:35:36 AM
  3. A pool on when YouTube's bubble bursts......"
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. cyberculture
  3. internet
  4. tags:
  5. web2.0
  type
« Sunday « September 3, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09032006}
  2. {02:57:12 PM}
  content
  1. Snakes on the internet, too?
    
    (Freakonomics Blog)
  2. Was the buzz around Snakes on a Plane artificially manipulated by people involved with the movie? Economist Cyril Morong, who teaches at San Antonio College, thinks the answer to that question may be yes.
    
    These guys are over-thinking this muthaf#@kin' snakes on a muthaf#@kin' plane deal. What the box-office flop proves is that the opinions of muthaf#@kin' geeks on the Web don't amount to a muthaf#@kin' thing. We already learned that from watching the effect of the Web on US presidential politics back in 2004: lots of sound and fury, amounting to nothing. At some point, if the Web crowd wants to have an effect in the real world, they have to push away from the computer, get up from the WiFi at Starbucks, log off of Second Life, and actually interact with, and try to influence real, sweaty, smelly people, face to muhf#@kin' face. But that's hard, and who'd want to do that? Isn't the whole point about the Net in general, and the Web in the particular that you don't have to deal with real people F2F? Plus, many of those same sweaty, smelly real people just want to sit in front of their TVs anyway, watching Desperate Housewives, CSI, American Idol, or pro sports. Oh boy. Maybe Second Life is better.
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  2. 02:57:12 PM
  3. Was the buzz around Snakes on a Plane artificially manipulated by people involved with the movie? Economist Cyril Morong, who teaches at San Antonio College, thinks the answer to that question may be yes...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. movies and films
  3. internet
  4. tags:
  5. cyberculture
  6. entertainment
  7. geeks
  type
« Friday « September 1, 2006
1. datetime
  1. {09012006}
  2. {07:43:27 PM}
  content
  1. Greece 101, U.S. 95
    
    (ESPN.com)
  2. As they warmed up before Friday's semifinal against Greece, the U.S. players put on a jam session for the fans.
    
    Well, that sums up the new American problem in international basketball: they can dunk the ball, but they sure can't shoot it, neither on the court, nor at the foul line. And they don't play defense. So until America's young ballers get more interested in shooting and defending, instead of just ending up on the ESPN's "Top 10 Highlights of the Day" with crazy, monsta dunks, the U.S. is going to continue defining its new persona as an also-ran in international hoops. The question is: can the U.S. really say it has the best basketball players in the world, if it can't beat the world when going head-to-head? And, oh yeah, I love the NBA. Yeah, right.
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  2. 07:43:27 PM
  3. As they warmed up before Friday's semifinal against Greece, the U.S. players put on a jam session for the fans...."
  categories
  1. keywords:
  2. sports
  3. culture
  4. tags:
  5. fiba
  6. nba
  7. basketball
  8. lebron
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(Advertising Age)

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« Thursday « September 21, 2006

(The Technology Chronicles)

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(USATODAY.com)

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« Thursday « September 7, 2006

(Advertising Age)

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(Will Video for Food blog)

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