This rejection letter from the Ebay Partner Network just bummed me out. It doesn’t actually tell me why I wasn’t let into the affiliate program, it just lists a whole bunch of reasons why I may not have been up to snuff.

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It’s been nearly two weeks since I started offering people a free Wordpress blog setup. One thing I’ve discovered during that time is a lot of people interested in the offer are held up by the theme selection process.

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The Unkut Mix is Appropriately Raw

February 26, 2010

Unkut celebrates six years of blogging with the Counterstrike – The Unkut Dot Com Mixtape, hosted by DJ Doo Wop and featuring a collection of underground hardcore head-nod New York rap from the likes of Capone, Kool G Rap, Milano, Killa Sha, Mayhem Lauren and Craig G. This gives the kind of vibe you might [...]

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Things to do in New York When You’re a Head

February 22, 2010

Ego Trip film night up in Harlem will be excellent on Thursday night.
But you should also go downtown to check out the Internets Celebrities – Dallas Penn, Cas Nozkowski and myself – tomorrow, Tuesday Feb 23 7pm at KGB Bar.
We’ll be there along with dramatist Kyle DeCamp as part of an evening focused on Urban [...]

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Ego Trippin Down the Fuckin’ Stairs

February 22, 2010

If you don’t already know, the operating members of the seminal (nullus) Ego Trip collective are curating a film series at the Maysles Institute in Harlem. Under the influence of ego trip offers up six rarely seen documentaries from the hip-hop era’s first decade. The evenings are hosted by ego trip and include special guests [...]

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Blogspot Music Bloggers, Come With Me If You Want To Live

February 17, 2010

This week’s big news in music blogging involved Google’s shutdown of six popular music blogs without any warning or any chance for the bloggers to back up their data. Google owns the mega-popular hosted blogging platform Blogger which is best known for attracting beginning bloggers to its blogspot url’s and white-on-black templates.

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DJ Prince Paul’s Ustream Show NEGROESONICE Debuts Tonight

January 21, 2010

The Negroesonice show debuts Thursday 21st at 10pm on ustream tv http://www.ustream.tv/ Featuring Prince Paul and P for real ( Paul Jr ) Guaranteed to be hip hop stupidity and mayhem. Please come check us out every Thursday at 10pm eastern time.
I’m psyched for this but it just dawned on me that Negroes On Ice [...]

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DJ Flower Mantis: The Gypsy Method (Crystal Waters vs Method Man)

December 14, 2009

My YouTube pal DJ Flower Mantis has cooked up some marvelous shit with this blend right here.

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Internets Celebrity Endorsement: Nokia + NahRight

December 14, 2009

Nokia established a blogger relationship program all the way back in 2005 where they would send smartphones out to be evaluated by prominent bloggers without any requirement of a review. What they got in return was not just publicity but the feedback of vocal critics who despite getting a free gadget were also quick to [...]

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Julia Beverly ills

December 11, 2009

You can’t start “Journalism” without a j-o
Last month, a blogger named DJ Xplosive put up a controversial post on the Boosie verse-selling side hustle of Julia Beverly, the founder and editor in chief of Ozone magazine. The story spawned a lot of debate about whether the email exchange with Beverly brokering a deal on behalf [...]

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