Upcoming Speaking Engagements

September 4
"Reaching Millions Online: Editors at Top Media Sites Reveal Best Placement Target and Tactics for PR" Panelist
Bulldog Reporter Audio Conference | Audio Conference

September 10
"Magazines of the Future: Maximixing your print and web strategies" Moderator
Mediabistro Panel Discussion | New York, NY

September 23-26, 2008
"New media - new business" Keynote
Web Directions South | Sydney, Australia

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A Moment of Clairty, Sanity, and Transparency

A couple of weeks ago, I was at the center of some controversy due to an interview I conducted with NPR News & Notes, "Video Blogger Dropped Over Racially Charged Posts."

There seems to have been loads of confusion and misunderstanding about why I was even involved in that interview, especially by people not familiar with my background with NPR or even with the video blogger I discussed with them. There was also some backlash around my recollecting facts about the video in question inappropriately, I published an apology regarding this on FriendFeed the same night that I realized my error. Still I was misunderstood.

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Summer Hiatus

Between speaking engagements, writing projects, some consulting, trying to enjoy the summer, and working on a brand spanking new site, I'm a bit overwhelmed at the moment. Most likely, I'll be putting blogging here on hold until the new design and new architecture of this site comes forth, but I'll be ramping up my blogging over at FastCompany.com on Digital Media Diva in the meantime. (And of course, I'll pop in on BlackWeb2.0 from time-to-time).

Hope you'll still be around when I come back.

As an aside, I'm all over the Web though, microblogging, sharing stories, listening to music, watching and creating videos, and commenting on blogs, etc. Here's some of the places you can find me:

Lijit Search

As well, check out my speaking schedule to see where I'll be, and when.

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I <3 New Supra Vaiders

It was just February when I got my Black Suede/Croc Supra Skytops, after trying hard to get the Floral. Raafi has those. But being the kicks collector that I am, I'm thinking about giving the new Vaider styles a chance, because they've gone a completely different route with the skytops now.

Here's what I'm considerng:

But then it's really a toss between the Supra Vaider Silver and the Creative Recreation dicoco metallic silver:

What's your kick's obsession?

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My last.fm 3-month listening habit wordle

following jason and cecily, i decided to make a last.fm wordle. make your own here. this is a word graph of my listening habits from last.fm as scrobbled from itunes and my ipod.

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My friendfeed w/tabs via feedalizr

If you've followed me for a while, you may know that I like trying out new apps and webservices. I often try out things until I find the one thing that works for me. Usually, a tool that works for me brings everything together in a method that makes sense in the way that i do work.

I've been using friendfeed for a while now, especially since twitter became so unreliable. For twitter, I was already using Mac dashboard widgets, browser plugins like twitbin, desktop clients like Twitterific, and smartphone apps like CeTwit on my WinMo phone and twibble on my n95. On the phone, I could have been using SMS or the mobile web, but it just wasn't the right experience for me. I needed tools that acted more like the web services themselves.

So that brings me to friendfeed, and what I've done with it lately. (It took a while to catch on for me because I was using alertthingy as an app instead of logging in on the Web. The problem with alertthingy though, was that everything ran together as one stream and it just seemed like a bunch of noise (some complain that happens anyway when you've subsribed to all a-list bloggers). It just didn't work for me, and I couldn't figure out how to make it work for me, so I started trying to get into friendfeed directly from the web.

Once Duncan Riley wrote these Greasemonkey Scripts that add tabs to your friendfeed, I found an even better reason to use the service. The tabs helped me turn friendfeed into a startpage by adding direct links into facebook, techmeme, twitter, readburner, and google reader.

Still on the friendfeed side of things, I often found myself trying to learn how to filter by hiding things so that I could get to the meat of what I really wanted to see in my overall feed. I still wasn't always happy, and still found myself weeding out a lot of noise. But now I found a tool that makes all of that easy for me. It's called Feedalizr. In fact, I was able to upload the above photo to flickr using feedalizr.

But here's what makes feedalizr hot.

1. You can add Twitter
2. You can add Friendfeed
3. You can add flickr
4. You can add jaiku
5. You can directly upload video through feedalizr

What else?

You can select filters. Either by types of content, such as blogs, youtube, twitter, pownce, of you can filter by person - the people you are subscribed to. Finally friendfeed makes sense and has a lot less noise.

Here's a video about Why I love feedalizr. It shows you how I'm using it and the benefits of the client.

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Black In America @ Brooklyn Public Library

Tonight I had the pleasure of being invited by CNN to "The State of Black America: A Panel Discussion," with Soledad O'Brien. Panelists included Janks Morton, Dr. Steve Perry, Andre Leon Talley, and Dr. Cornel West.

This is part of a series of discussions that O'Brien has been hosting in conjunction with "CNN Presents: Black In America." There'll be a special VIP screening at the Essence Music Festival, and if you're a journalist or blogger who will be down there, I can send you name forward to get on the list. Just submit your request on my contact form, and I'll send your name to CNN.

With just my Tmobile Wing, it was impossible to shoot the entire event, or even to shoot it that well, but I did get two clips of the discussion. I mainly spent the rest of my time listening in, and eventually adding commentary to the discussion -- to inform them of who currently owns BlackPlanet, as well as to engage Dr. Perry to better understand his position.

Video: Andre Leon Talley asks Soledad O'Brien about the media's fascination with Tim Russert

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