Black Bloggin

Flip Wilson DVD Contest Giveaway

2007-02-24T17:09:00.000-05:00

The Flip Wilson Show was an instant smash when it premiered on NBC in September 1970, becoming the highest-rated variety program on television. This first-ever collection of full-length episodes from The Flip Wilson Show features guest performances by Ray Charles, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Albert Brooks, Redd Foxx, Joe Namath, Johnny Cash, Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, and many more.

These treasured shows will have you laughing from beginning to end, but it won’t be the Devil who made you do it. It’ll be Flip Wilson.

Five Grand Prize Winners will recieve: One copy of the Flip Wilson DVD

The Black Web Awards

2006-07-18T12:51:00.000-04:00

The BlackWebAwards are the first and only organized effort to recognize African, African American and Caribbean excellence online. The BWA's celebrate Black creativity and entrepreneurialism by highlighting Internet content from the Black perspective.

Official Site: www.blackwebawards.com

*Remember to vote for Multiple Shades of You Online: six years of positive content for People of Color Online (www.msoyonline.com)

Famous African Americans

2006-04-12T15:57:00.000-04:00

Looking for Famous African Americans? Visit Finding Famous Faces a SAIO site that I've put to help you run popular searches on popular people. Here are some of the links:

·Black Celebrity Couples
·Hip Hop / Rap Artists
·Young Black Celebrities
·Black Athletes
·Black TV Celebrities, Sitcoms, and Characters
·Faces of Black History
·African American Authors and Poets
·Black Leaders and Politicians
·Black Models
·Black Talk Show Hosts
·Black Enterpreneurs
·African American Inventors
·Reggae Artists
·Black Body Builders
·African American Fashion Designers
·RnB Singers
·Gospel Music Artists
·African American Cartoons
·Black Comic Strips
·The Black Greats of Jazz, Blues, and Classic Soul
·Black Actors
·Black Comedians

Black Celeb Buzz

2006-04-12T15:48:00.000-04:00

One of the best things about blogs, is this new breed of journalist that has emerged. Anyone with a little interest and insight can spread their news to the masses. I find this particularly interesting with respect to Black Entertainment. With alittle effort on, I've come up with a collection of Black Celebrity Blogs, for the fanatatic in all of us. Finally, a space where we can talk about our who's who, with out feeling like a handful of Black Celebrities get highlighted while the rest sit on the side lines. So if your looking for news about Black Celebrities, with a little gossip in between, check out Black Celebrity News and Gossip on Black People News.

New Black Movie Trailers Blog

2006-04-12T15:24:00.000-04:00

In an effort to show our Black Films some love, I created the Black Movie Trailers Blog: a place to find and watch the latest movies that show case African American Actors and Actresses. Plus I've put together a list of links to find more information about Black Movies, film festivals, celebrities, and other forms of Black Media Entertainment.

Black Movie Trailers Blog
Officicial Url: http://blackmovietrailers.blogspot.com/

Add your Black Blog Feed to Black People News

2006-04-02T17:04:00.000-04:00

Black People News is a site for those interested in finding and subscribing to Black Interest News. This site currently includes feeds from over 100 Black websites. Do you have a Black feed to share? Let me know about it.

Current BPN Categories:

Black People News brought to you by Urban Dynamics

Black People News is Here?

2006-04-02T17:02:00.000-04:00

Black People News brought to you by Urban Dynamics

Who is that Black Person?

2006-03-31T17:42:00.000-05:00

I do ALOT of black net searching; forever on the look out for something interesting to add to my site. A few weeks ago one of those cute light bulbs lit up over my head and I thought, "wouldn't it be cool if you could take all the information you could possibly find on a person or topic and put that info in one place... I mean everything. Images, video, audio, articles, blog posts, you name it, all in one spot for convenient browsing." The thought was so tempting I had to put it into web form, which lead to the creation of SAIO, my little all in one search aggregator meant to make searching super easy for instant gratification junkies like myself.

Here is a SAIO on 'Beyonce'. From flickr fotos to technorati feeds, yahoo to google to amazon, I've put in all the most popular search spots for what can only be described as an amazing search experience.

I originally created SAIO to look up Black Celebrities, but you can actually use it for just about anyone or anything. I'm sure its not an original concept, but here's my version to share with the masses.

-l
go forth and SAIO

New Black Blogs Added

2006-03-31T17:29:00.000-05:00

Today Black Blogs had my full attention. I just updated the Black Blog Directory on msoy and Urban Dynamics. You can find the most recent additions and all my favorite older ones in the Search Urban Directory accessible at the bottom of this page (Note: if you like this directory you can go to go to Urban Dynamics web tools and add it to your site).

If you have a black blog that is not listed, well why isn't it? Submit your blog to Urban Dynamics, its quick, easy, and yes.... FREE! I'm always looking for new Black Blogs to support. On the topic of supporting black sites, for the next few weeks I'll be adding several African American blog feeds to Black People News, a News Feed Aggrator that I hope will become a useful site for those interested in finding and subscribing to Black Interest feeds.

Submit your black blog, check out Black People News, and of course let me know what you think.

forever on the grind
l.

Looking for Black Writers?

2006-03-25T20:43:00.000-05:00

Urban Dynamics has recently launched 'A Little Black Know How', a free article submission site for African American writers. This site is currently looking for Black News, Reviews, Commentary, Short Stories, Events, Poems, Self Help articles and Spiritual Testimonies. If you have something you would like to share visit A Little Black Know How and sign up for a free Urban Dynamics account. This site does not include Black Press Releases. If you have a Black Press Release, please submit it to Black PR Posts, which is acessible through Urban Dynamics Web Tools.

Official Site url: http://www.msoyonline.com/ud/alittleblackknowhow.php -

lhenry
ud.msoyonline.com

Phat Girlz Movie Post

2006-03-21T12:10:00.000-05:00

Enter to win a Phat Girlz prize pack! The new film starring Mo’Nique as Jazmin Biltmore, is about a smart-mouthed aspiring fashion designer. PHAT GIRLZ is an edgy comedy about two frustrated plus-size women obsessed with their weight while struggling to find love and acceptance in a world full of "hot bodied" babes. The PHAT GIRLZ are thrown a major curve ball when they meet the men of their dreams in the most unexpected of ways... The movie hits theatres April 7, 2006.

Click Here or visit Multiple Shades of You online (www.msoyonline.com) for more details.

Bloggers of color underrepresented by mainstream media

2006-01-25T16:53:00.000-05:00

By CHRISTABEL NSIAH-BUADISpecial to the Amsterdam News

With the acquisition of African-American media titans by corporate machines – the latest being that of Essence magazine by AOL Time Warner – there are very few places people can go to hear or read news content that reflects the increasing diversity of the United States.

In some ways, bloggers, independent journalists and writers who publish their own columns and articles online, have forced the mainstream media to investigate real news and maintain some level of diversity. Last year, bloggers were invited to both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions as part of the press corps.

Earlier this year, two liberal blogs, “Daily Kos” and “AmericaBlog,” exposed the real identity of the right-wing “journalist” Geoff Gannon (aka James Guckert). “Gannongate” was a top news story for weeks. And bloggers are regularly invited onto the top radio and TV news shows to provide an “alternative” voice on top news stories. But the most prominent bloggers, the ones who are regularly invited to provide this “alternative” voice, are overwhelmingly white and male.

Some people say that the bloggers who appear on TV and radio are the best of the crop and choose not to question the lack of diversity. They justify this theory by claiming that blogging is democratic in nature – people can publish what they like and people can read what they like. So the best writers will naturally gain more prominence. But surely not all the best bloggers are white and male? When asked why there is so little diversity, members of the bloggers network BrownBloggers.com agreed that the lack of non-white representation was the result of a lack of media control and because, as one respondent put it, “White America thinks that what brown bloggers write about doesn’t apply to them.”

Abhi Tripathi, co-founder of Sepia Mutiny, a blog that takes a look at the world from a South Asian-American perspective, also suggests that the failure by the white dominated mainstream media to reach out to other cultures has contributed to the poor representation of bloggers of color in the mainstream: “Journalists seem to perform the bare amount of work necessary to report a story nowadays. This seems to be because it is more difficult to try to understand people of different cultures than it is to understand someone like them.”

Chris Rabb, founder and chief evangelist of Afro-Netizen, takes this point further. He argues that the “blogosphere” reflects and in fact amplifies the inequalities of our society. He also says that the inability to include different people is more of a problem for liberal white America: “There are highly visible non-white conservative bloggers, La Shawn Barber, Michelle Malkin, who is Asian-American, and then there is Black America’s Political Action Committee … (but) you only have a few non-white bloggers – who are not politicians – who are given [mainstream media] access. Ron Walters and Donna Brazile. There are few others. And when you look at who is receiving contracts, very few are issued to African Americans that anyone is familiar with.”
Rabb has been subjected to this attitude himself. As one of only 37 bloggers invited to be part of the press corps at the Democratic National Convention last year (and the only credentialed blogger at the DNC whose readership was primarily Black), Rabb sought advice on how to raise the profile of his blog, Afro-Netizen, from Markos “Moulitsas” Zuniga of “Daily Kos” fame. Rabb said Zuniga “looked at me like I was crazy. He had no interest in the world to help me. He never extended himself; that speaks volumes.”

But Rabb and Tripathi concede that another reason for the poor representation of blogger-pundits of color in the mainstream media might be because there really are fewer career bloggers of color right now. Rabb cites less money, time and access to technology as a few reasons for this, and says communities of color need to empower their technically savvy grassroots movements if we want to have a voice in the future. But for people who are already tapped into the blogosphere, there are groups who can help get the word out.

One such group is BrownBloggers.com. Its co-founder, Nichelle Stephens, says she created the network because she recognized the need for bloggers of color to help each other get their message out to the wider community. For her the solution is simple in concept: It’s all about connecting and spreading the word. It’s about everyone sharing in order to get ahead. And I want to share information.”

Originally posted on Afronetizen

Laugh Sistah Laugh

2005-10-26T20:25:00.000-04:00

For all those men who say,"Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free."

Here's an update for you.....

Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage.Why?Because women realize its not worth buying an entire Pig,

....Just to get a little sausage.

Black RSS Feeds

2005-10-15T18:39:00.000-04:00

Multiple Shades of You Online (www.msoyonline.com) now offers an extensive listing of Black RSS Feeds . Now you can read the latest articles from Essence Magazine to Black Conscious News, with a variety of other great African American publications mixed in between. Black RSS Feeds on msoy is powered by the Library of Urban RSS Feeds Generator, which is an Urban Web tool offered by Urban Dynamics. Web developers looking for black articles and sticky content, use this easy tool to add sticky content to their websites. To find out more about the the Library of Urban RSS Feeds, visit Urban Dynamics Web Tools.

Why Ping?

2005-10-14T13:53:00.000-04:00

A message brought to you from Ping-o-matic:

Pinging lets dozens of services know you've updated your site and increases traffic to your blog.
There are a number of services designed specifically for tracking and connecting blogs. However it would be expensive for all the services to crawl all the blogs in the world all the time. By sending a small ping to each service you let them know you’ve updated so they can come check you out. They get the freshest data possible, you don’t get a thousand robots spidering your site all the time. Everybody wins.

The Black Weblog Awards

2005-10-06T19:50:00.000-04:00

For those of you who missed the festivities, there was the first and official 2005 black web blog awards. I wish it was monthly! Perhaps I should whip up alittle awards e-show in honor of our talented black bloggers. To find out who won, visit: http://www.blackweblogawards.com/. The wheels in my brain are turning, I think I'm cookin' up something blog-o-liscious .... black blog-o-liscious that is.

...stay tuned
l.

Oh, forgive me for having desserted black bloggin' for a few weeks. I've been working on my other two blogs the Black Buzz News on msoy and Black Online Entrepreneurs. If only I had 60 arms instead of two.

Black Bloggin sitings

2005-10-06T19:48:00.000-04:00

Lidia, from "Letter from Lidia" blog linked to black bloggin. Thanks for the support.

The Black Times

2005-10-04T18:56:00.000-04:00

The Black Times
Add TBT to your site today

Hmm...

2005-08-07T18:02:00.000-04:00

Black Voices has a blog section. You learn something every day.

transparent iframes

2005-08-02T14:34:00.000-04:00

For month's I've been going crazy trying to figure out transparent iframes. I want my webtools plugins on Urban Dynamics to easily integrate into someone else's page without ugly white backgrounds. I thought I fixed it by adding background-color: transparent in the css code on the pages I was trying to embed, but doof doof me tested the plugin on pages with white backgrounds so of course it looked like the transparency was working. Today I actually decided to include one plugin on this blog, The Featured Black Blog Image Thumbnail on the right (I figured I made the tool I might as well use it). After cut and pasting the code into my blogger template I saw the dreaded white background border that I thought I got rid of, so of course I thought Google to the rescue! Typed in "Transparcent Iframes" and finally I got a breakthrough!!

In the iframe tag include the html code: allowTransparency="true". Just a few simple words and life is now grand again. :)

Great Resource Guide:

sista_web

Site for Sore Eyes

2005-07-29T15:24:00.000-04:00

I'm trying to develop a layout for this site that works for me. I came across this template, which was really cool, but not completely what I was looking for. The clarity and brightness of it drew me in, unfortunately my busy fingers went to work on the template and busied it up. I like it, but it's too heavy on my eyes and it's only been up for 2 days! *Sigh* I need help.

Categories: sistaweb_confessions

The Googilizer

2005-07-29T14:41:00.000-04:00

FreshBlog Post

A WelshView points to the Googlizer, a tool to let you "find out how many of your pages are indexed in Google and Yahoo! Also finds out how many backlinks are in Google." All good stuff.

Button Maker

2005-07-29T14:21:00.000-04:00

Thank God For FreshBlog: There is a quick and easy button maker designed by Adam Kalsey. I made this one in like 3 mins. I think I like it. I'll add it to the site shortly.

New State of Mind

2005-07-29T13:42:00.000-04:00

Thanks to BlogFresh I have a new perspective the structure of "Black Bloggin" and blogging in general. I have multiple areas of interest, and for a second there, I wanted to create a blog per interest, but that's just crazy! In addition to 101 blogs, I would need 101 blogrolls, pings, technorati updates and the list goes on! Not to mention the fact that I change my focus like I change my underwear. The probability of me having a bunch of blogs with no real content was very high until I thought what if, I could use categories in ONE BLOG! A revolutionary revalation that was quickly shot by the realization that blogger does not utilize a category structure for your posts. Fortunately where there is a Need there is a Hack, so I googled my way onto BlogFresh, a useful blog that not ONLY OPENENED BY EYES TO USING CATEGORIES IN BLOGGER, it opened up a whole new world of blog utilities! Not to mention a new direction for Black Bloggin. At first, I just wanted this community to be about African American Blogs and webrings, but now I'm thinking why think small. I'm filling this baby up with all I got.

Here goes...