Posts in: Pop culture
- Who do you trust more: Corporations or Government?
- This post takes the long road. If you don’t want to take the long road, skip the train of thought and get to the point. In one of my moments of Random Thoughtitude, I was thinking about what my ideal country would look like. My first thought was infrastructure. I want a government that adequately funds [...] [28 Apr 2008]
- Jay Smooth on Ashley Dupri and the Music Biz
- Original post [17 Mar 2008]
- GlobalGrind.com = A failure about to happen
- Yes, I am a few days late commenting on this. When I first wrote about GlobalGrind.com, it was in its alpha phase as a start page geared towards the hip-hop generation. You could search pre-existing content and feeds or add your own to the GlobalGrind.com ecosystem. Think NetVibes, but with curated content that had a hip-hop perspective. [...] [15 Jan 2008]
- Overview: Miro 1.0
- I missed this because I was on vacation, but on November 13, the folks over at the Participatory Culture Foundation released the 1.0 version of Miro. Miro, formerly known as Democracy Player, likes to compare itself to the on-demand video service Joost. The two are quite different, however. Joost is very much on-demand television over the [...] [26 Nov 2007]
- On Bill O’Reilly
- Re: Bill O’Reilly’s dinner with Al Sharpton: O’Reilly surprised “there was no difference” between Harlem restaurant and other New York restaurants. [24 Sep 2007]
- Joost invites
- I have invites to the It App of the moment: Joost. It’s TV on demand, over the Internet (a combination of P2P and HTTP), with the requisite social networking features, such as chat / instant messaging. You do have to download an application (available for both Windows and Mac OS X). If you’re not packing [...] [2 May 2007]
- Before you say anything about “Stop Snitching”
- Ask yourself: Didn’t you hate tattletales as a little kid? Don’t criminals of every color adhere to a stop snitching ethos? So how is this a black thing? If snitching could get you and/or your family members KILLED, would you do it? Unless you can say with whole-hearted honesty that you would die to help the police put away [...] [28 Apr 2007]
- Have you read any good books lately?
- I’m seeking suggestions. I’m not looking for tech books (although, if you can recommend an amazingly kick-ass JavaScript book, I’d appreciate it). I’m looking for good stories with lyrical prose that leaves you in a mood once you close the back cover. Genre-wise, I’m open to anything but science fiction. I will make an exception, though, [...] [6 Apr 2007]
