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| Thursday, June 29 07:30 PM |
| No Purpose. No Soul. |
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Soulpurpose.com is another UBO foundation site. It's supposed to be a community site for an e-mail list that recycles press releases and covers parties sponsored by Moet and Captain Morgan's spiced rum. Interns everywhere read it thinking they'll get a glimpse into the entertainment industry.
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| Sunday, June 11 06:17 PM |
| Digital Divide by Four and Take Away Millions. |
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The Digital Divide has become the new media code word for anything black online, creating a tremendous boon for black new media CEOs. These shameless self-promoters use every panel on the Digital Divide to advance their own company interests, regardless of whether they are actually doing anything to help black people get wired.
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| Monday, August 20 03:03 AM |
| CODE Deciphered: Past, present and future! |
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Larry Flynt Publications, as well as the whole Larry Flynt empire, is undergoing a restructuring of sorts, and CODE Magazine, along with several other titles and holdings (including LFP headquarters in Beverly Hills) have been put up on the block for a rumored price tag of around 8 million dollars. So what’s in the future for CODE magazine and the HNIC, Editor-in Chief Eugene Robinson? I sat down with him and he spoke on LFP, the sexual orientation of magazines, as well as the history and future of CODE Magazine.
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| Friday, June 23 08:35 PM |
| Ring Kings Go Bling Bling |
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What is it about the truth that makes people crazy? As Urban Expose continues its critical review of the soap opera that is the urban new media industry the level of insanity within the industry only seems to increase. Our latest reports indicate that the industry is in turmoil over the exposure it has received in recent days with highly paid executives from AKA.net to Hookt.com, all publicly threatening to commit felonies against one another.
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| Monday, August 20 01:20 AM |
| No More Grapes of Wrath. TheSource Fires Whole Online Staff. |
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TheSource fired its 8-person online division last week in a vote of no confidence from David Mays. TheSource.com, which was supposed to debut the same day as the televised Source Awards, launched late without much fanfare. Even after showing the uncensored fight scenes from the Source Awards via the site response was at best lukewarm. How come the number one hip-hop magazine was not able to translate its success online?
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| Monday, June 19 09:27 PM |
| Darien Dash: Race for Cash |
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Darien is preparing to launch "Places of Color". Sounds more like a smarmy romance novel by Terry McMillan than a co-branded ISP play involving AOL. The site currently consists of the ubiquitous Flash intro -straight from a Macromedia tutorial- and a grating sound track guiding us through uninspired visuals. The press for this deal sounds great: AOL working with a company called Digital Mafia, to bring poor black people Internet service at $19.95 when many ISPs are giving away service for free!
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| Monday, August 20 01:20 AM |
| No More Grapes of Wrath. TheSource Fires Whole Online Staff. |
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TheSource fired its 8-person online division last week in a vote of no confidence from David Mays. TheSource.com, which was supposed to debut the same day as the televised Source Awards, launched late without much fanfare. Even after showing the uncensored fight scenes from the Source Awards via the site response was at best lukewarm. How come the number one hip-hop magazine was not able to translate its success online?
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| Saturday, August 12 01:36 AM |
| Impact 24/7 Gets Better! Can't Say the Same for Soul Purpose Newsletter. |
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Soul Purpose newsletter has steadily gotten worse, if such a thing was possible, proving that James Andrews can't walk and chew gum at the same time. Perhaps the problem is that as they make the push to become daily; they are realizing that Mr. Andrews has nothing to say. The level of content seems to be aimed more at transit workers than "tastemakers" (whatever THAT is…). Needless to say, David Mohammed's phone is not ringing off the hook.
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| Saturday, August 12 01:36 AM |
| Impact 24/7 Gets Better! Can't Say the Same for Soul Purpose Newsletter. |
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Soul Purpose newsletter has steadily gotten worse, if such a thing was possible, proving that James Andrews can't walk and chew gum at the same time. Perhaps the problem is that as they make the push to become daily; they are realizing that Mr. Andrews has nothing to say. The level of content seems to be aimed more at transit workers than "tastemakers" (whatever THAT is…). Needless to say, David Mohammed's phone is not ringing off the hook.
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