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More Blogging While Brown…About Science

A follow-up to my first Blogging While Brown…About Science is in order.

Blogging While Brown

Thanks to the great comments made here and at Jack & Jill Politics, I realized that you all were absolutely right. I’ve got to push through the discomfort, create my own air for this issue. So here I am sounding off [...]

7Apr2009 | dnlee | 8 comments | Continued
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Links and Tweets for This Week

Links and Tweets for This Week http://tinyurl.com/d66nh5 #
Duck for breakfast #ias09 http://post.ly/9×8 #
3/21 Daily Deal: Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together. Everyday price: $6.99 Today’s price: $1.99 http://snurl.com/34×4m (via @amazonmp3) #
Just had a great convo with @deebadgurl. Video soon! #
Has anyone tried / been on / currently using gather.com? Earning points (and dollars) from social interaction [...]

28Mar2009 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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Blogging While Brown…About Science

Each time I read an announcement for the upcoming Blogging While Brown Conference, June 19-20, 2009, in Chicago I get excited. The format is straight-forward and the conference itself should be a great networking experience.

Blogging While Brown

Track No. 1 - John H. Johnson Track
This track will feature sessions related to blogging about current events, [...]

26Mar2009 | dnlee | 6 comments | Continued
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YBP Interview: Dee Adams, Sr. Design Specialist at Yahoo! Inc.

Dee Adams

While at IA Summit 2009, I got a chance to sit down with a very cool person. Deone ‘Dee’ Adams is a Sr. Design Specialist at Yahoo! Inc., a Cornell graduate, and a well-known painter.
She has an eye for many things, whether its practical design or inspiration simplicity. All in all, she is [...]

24Mar2009 | Fredric | 5 comments | Continued
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Links and Tweets for This Week

Awake and dressed, finally. Waiting on @abenton. At some point, I will get my badge. *sigh #sxsw #
Links and Tweets for This Week: Watchmen IMAX. T-Minus 3 hours, 47 minutes. #
Watchmen imax. Get familiar. #
&#8.. http://tinyurl.com/catqef #
In bootstrapping your startup with @BlackWeb20 #swsx. follow @blackweb20 for the live updates #
It takes 10,000 hours to get [...]

21Mar2009 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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My SXSW 2009 Roundup (First Timer)

Going In
I really wasn’t sure what to expect. I was invited to speak on a panel a few weeks prior and knew with that premise came uncertainty. I didn’t have any speakers I had to see, so I anticipated that my unfocused intentions would get swept away in the white water rapid of geeky madness.
First [...]

20Mar2009 | Fredric | 2 comments | Continued
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Links and Tweets for This Week

Watchmen IMAX. T-Minus 3 hours, 47 minutes. #
Watchmen imax. Get familiar. #
…and my taxes are done. Finally. #
RT @ColonelTribune: Local couple travel far to buy only from black-owned biz. Do you agree with the “Ebony Experiment”? http://tr.im/halj #
[Cmnt] The problem with Ebony/Jet, and all newspapers/mags on the old medium, is that they’ve failed to be.. [...]

14Mar2009 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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Links & Tweets for 2009-03-11

YBP Links / Twitter Updates for 2009-03-10: Twitter Updates for 2009-03-09: RT @ColonelTribune: Local couple tra.. http://tinyurl.com/c3h3c3 #
Reading: Diversity Hiring Is Right, Smart - Huffington Post: Diversity Hiring Is Right, SmartHuffington .. http://tinyurl.com/cn9gyl #
Reading: Apple’s redesigned iPod shuffle hits 4GB, talks to you (updated with video!):
Bam, another Ap.. http://tinyurl.com/cxxs9y #
RT @clairecmc: Stimulative spending by [...]

11Mar2009 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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YBP Links / Twitter Updates for 2009-03-10

Twitter Updates for 2009-03-09: RT @ColonelTribune: Local couple travel far to buy only from black-owned biz. Do.. http://tinyurl.com/cfdc9l #
RT @MommyJD: RT @darlinghill: fedexKinkos free resume copies today for unemployed http://tinyurl.com/adm8gd #
RT @jungledisk: Jungle Disk is giving away LIFETIME online licenses for FREE to our followers during #SxSW! http://tinyurl.com/dhqh36 #
Reading: First African-American comic book up for [...]

10Mar2009 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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YBP Guide at SXSW 2009

Just in case you haven’t heard or seen my twitter updates, I’ll be live and in the flesh at South by Southwest 2009 in Austin, Texas with a slew of the black blogosphere this Friday, March 13th through Tuesday, March 17th.

YBP Guide @ SXSW 2009

If you’re in Austin, be sure to stop [...]

10Mar2009 | Fredric | 4 comments | Continued
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Twitter Updates for 2009-03-09

RT @ColonelTribune: Local couple travel far to buy only from black-owned biz. Do you agree with the “Ebony Experiment”? http://tr.im/halj #
@ColonelTribune I’m guessing from vitriol expressed in the cmmnt on the Ebony Experiment, that ‘a convo about race’ is fleeting in Chicago in reply to ColonelTribune #
[Cmnt] The problem with Ebony/Jet, and all newspapers/mags on [...]

9Mar2009 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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BigUps: Dr. Gina Francis

I saw this come across my Google Reader and wanted to share.

Dr. Gina Francis

Dr. Francis is an accomplished veterinarian and writer who not only holds the distinction of being the first practicing Black veterinarian in Jacksonville, NC, but also the recipient of the Intriguing African-American Women award by the Northeast Community Development Corporation.
More about Dr. [...]

17Feb2009 | Fredric | 5 comments | Continued
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