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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November Blogging Challenge Update

November 27, 2009

On November 6 we started a blogging challenge for “fallen bloggers” to jump back into the writing regularly game. The idea was that whomever did the most blogging from Nov 6 through Nov 30 would be the winner (of props, a true thug’s wife).
With four days to go, we’re definitely in the home stretch. Let’s [...]

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Readymade777, Youtube Video Artist [Interview]

November 24, 2009

Update (3/10/2010): Since this interview ran, Youtube pulled the account of Readymade777 for reasons unknown to the artist. They have started a new account for their video art. http://www.youtube.com/readymade7777
The best part of Oh Word TV, a section of this site devoted to curating web videos, is that it’s given me cause to explore off the [...]

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Letters to Latifah

November 23, 2009

The internet can be a pretty weird place. I don’t know what else to say when I look at how the comments of one of the first articles that ran on Oh Word became a magnet for those looking to communicate directly with rapper/actress/chanteuse Queen Latifah.
When we launched Oh Word in 2005 it had a [...]

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Last Night a Door Guy Saved My Life (to a third party database)

November 16, 2009

Okay it was over a week ago really, but I think I can be afforded some poetic license for the sake of an Indeep reference.
The Internets Celebrities had been invited by Checkmate co-star Ben Popken to attend the first Consumerist meetup, show some of our videos and talk to the crowd. The event was indeed [...]

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Girl, that’s a bootyhole

November 11, 2009

Last night Monique hipped me to this. But as with most things meme-worthy, it instantly seemed familiar beyond even the Magic Schoolbus source material. Had I always known this doctored bootyhole clip? I may have been born knowing it.

“What’s that?”
“Girl, that’s a booty hole!”
“Not a hole Kiesha, a valve.”

As humans we are wired for copying, [...]

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Sesame Street turns 40 today

November 10, 2009

The Internets Celebrities owe a certain debt to Sesame Street which turns 40 today. After all, they were first to try the formula we would adopt: plop larger than life muppets and a multi-racial cast in an urban setting to delight and educate young children.
My parents ushered me along to Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact [...]

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The Fall of the Berlin Wall was good but Wu-Tang is for the children

November 9, 2009

Sure it’s Big Pun’s birthday (born 1971) and Scarface’s too (1970). But how many of us would know that if not for the internet.
On the other hand my generation lived through two unforgettable November 9th’s.
In 1989 there was the fall of the Berlin Wall. Germany reunited, the Scorpions sang about the Wind of Change, two [...]

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November Blogging Challenge (nah, write!)

November 6, 2009

So I’m jumping back into blogging and asking my fellow fallen-off bloggers to rise up and join me in a return to the habit. We’re going to have a friendly competition to see who can blog the most from today through out the rest of November.
Gretchen asked me what the rules are so I arbitrarily [...]

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