February 2012
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Participants Needed // @blackenterprise Faces of @SXSW
If you know of any people of color attending @SXSW (Blk, Latino, Asian) and they are doing major things within the interactive space and/or start up world please let me know. I would like to possibly grab a photo and/or small video interview of you and your suggestions for a client project taking place during SXSW in Austin. Please hit me via DM @laydeefly for more information.
Peace,
-M
How Forbes Stole A New York Times Article And Got All The Traffic →
nickoneill.com
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but how much is a title worth? If the story that proceeds is any indicator, a title is worth over 6700 words and months of research. It all began Friday when the New York Times published an article “How Companies Learn Your Secrets“. It was an extremely long article which discussed how large companies like WalMart and Target collect data about your individual consumption patters to figure out how to most efficiently make you happy. It was a great piece but there was one problem: it didn’t have the title it deserved.
The original title was “How Companies Learn Your Secrets”. Kashmir Hill, a writer at Forbes, realized this and quickly developed a condensed version of the article with a far more powerful title: “How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did“. It cut out the crap and got to the real shocker of the story. As of the writing of this story, the New York Times article has 60 likes and shares on Facebook versus 12,902 which the Forbes article has. The Forbes article also has a mind boggling 680,000 page views, a number that can literally make a writer’s career.
Forbes did some journalism this weekend.
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They give Deadmau5 less than a minute of performance. They let Nicki Minaj get up on stage and do a fucked up freaky exorcism that'll have those Illumanti theorists on her ass for ages.
You, America, are screwed.
B SAYS: All the information you need if you want to talk to me about singing. →
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I got a mind to drive 9 hours and pinch bf really hard for trying to tell me Adele should have done the Whitney tribute instead of Jennifer Hudson. Granted this is a discussion we had last night via Facebook, but I am not over it!
I actually had to explain to him why Adele doesn’t belong in a…
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NYPD must pay $15 million for illegally arresting 22,000 people →
dominionofnewyork.com
For almost 30 years — from 1983 to 2012 — the New York Police Department went about arresting people under laws that state and federal courts had long declared unconstitutional, cuffing and booking almost 22,000 people. In 2010, federal judge Shira A. Scheindlin finally held them in contempt of court. Yesterday, she signed an order approving what is effectively their punishment: a $15 million class-action settlement that could generate individual payments of as much as $5,000.
Those arrested were forced to defend themselves in court and even served jail time for completely lawful behavior. The class action settlement also requires the city to help the courts vacate and seal all convictions stemming from the illegal arrests.
The three unconstitutional laws under which the NYPD made the illegal arrests prohibited people from loitering to panhandle, to search for sex partners or to wait in a bus or train station. Federal and state courts struck down all three of those laws between 1983 and 1993 as violating First Amendment rights, according to The New York Times.
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Does Stones Throw have plans to release any more Dilla projects?
We always talked about releasing—and we wouldn’t call it this—but a Donuts part two.
Dilla’s beat tapes always had these great titles, named after unhealthy food that he wasn’t allowed to eat. The doctors would always tell him that he couldn’t have Burger King, he couldn’t eat this, he couldn’t eat that. So he always named his beat tapes based around that. He had one that was really great that’s still unreleased called The Pizza Man—and we always wanted to do something with it.
” —Peanut Butter Wolf, talking about unreleased Dilla in a recent Complex interview. (via djlowkey)Theres is Nothing Wrong with Dark Skin
You don’t have to come from Africa to have dark skin. You can come from any part of the world and be born with a darker shade of skin.
Instead of demonizing dark skin. Understand the beauty in color.
Reblogging this for the message and also for people who don’t know what actual dark skin is. When a writer writes a character as having “dark skin” this is what they are talking about. Every single one of these women are beautiful.
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