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rsspect.org

the young black professional guide would like to announce the completion of rsspect.org, a new project that, hopefully, will begin networking a lot of the black blogs.
the concept of rsspect.org is very simple. it is a neat little web application that acts as a headline feed reader for a variety of blogs surrounding the african-american [...]

31May2007 | Fredric | 8 comments | Continued
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the “cynthia rodriguez” edition : tech news 5/30

since the last edition of tech news, crazy things have been popping up all over the place a la similar sentiment cynthia rodriguez must be feeling right now after seeing her husband alex rodriguez in a wtf moment.
and so, we press on…
walmart, the evil big company that destroys helps our economy with its criminal low [...]

30May2007 | Fredric | 1 comment | Continued
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tech news 5/23: “chitika” edition

if you have (or haven’t) noticed, we did a few upgrades to the website to not only enhance security and usability, but also to reap a little more benefit from all of our readers and visitors.
we did upgrade to wordpress 2.2 ultimately improving security and simplifying a few of the features currently available, like recent [...]

23May2007 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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tech news 5/16: “we’re back!” edition

i know, i know. shame on me for waiting so long to actually hit you guys with tech news knowledge. i can see that the last official ‘tech news’ post was may 2nd.
but i have a good reason!
well, no i don’t really.
to make up for it, i wanted to unofficially call this post [...]

16May2007 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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joost invites available

what’s up!
sorry for the late thursday post. i’m sure many of you are gearing up for the weekend. i know i can’t wait!
anyways, i got invited as a beta tester for a new online media service called joost awhile back. it was invented by the same swedish guys who invented skype and kazaa. think of [...]

3May2007 | Fredric | 7 comments | Continued
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tech news 5/2: “updates to ybpguide” edition

in this edition of tech news, i wanted to highlight some of the website enhancements that we have made so that all of our readers, including those who read our posts through email, can enjoy the site to its full potential.
first up is the new menu at the top of the page. in an effort [...]

2May2007 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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april statistics

at the end of each month, i like to show our readers how the ybpguide is doing. this was the first full month after the shaquanda cotton story hit our servers pretty hard, but we are still going strong.
below are our stats from feedburner. pretty consistent in terms of the reader count. you can see [...]

2May2007 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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tech question? ask engadget

first off, apologies for slacking on the ‘tech news’ and ‘weekly round-up’ posts these past days. the almost wife and i have been in transition from london back to the good ol’ chi and i’ve just been exhausted. rest assure that i’ll get back on the ball this week.
ok, back to the topic [...]

1May2007 | Fredric | 0 comments | Continued
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tech tip: hide blogger nav bar

a lot of our friends in the blogosphere use google’s blogger domain as a hosting platform for their insightful thoughts and web gems. when ybpguide was on blogger, i did my best to try and customize the template kimberly had setup to minimize the ‘blogger’ appearance.
a helpful tip i found via digital inspiration is a [...]

24Apr2007 | Fredric | 3 comments | Continued
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