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Did the Web Help Kanye Outsell 50 Cent?

No one really believed that 50 Cent would stop recording if Kanye West outsold him, did they? Some wanted it to be true though, as was witnessed when this latest hip-hop rivalry played out heavily on blogs, as well as community and social networking sites.READ»

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Kanye Joins Twitter, Files GREATEST TWEET OF ALL TIME!

"DON'T HAVE A F****** TWITTER... WHY WOULD I USE TWITTER??? I ONLY BLOG 5 PERCENT OF WHAT I'M UP TO IN THE FIRST PLACE."READ»

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Kanye West, Have You No Sense Of Decency?

Our communication with each other has unacceptably coarsened.READ»

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Kanye West and His Absolut Image

On the train ride home last night, there was an ad for "BeKanye" -- a miracle drug to turn YOU into Kanye West! It was a fun poster, done in the style of those cheesy supplement ads. And though it made me smile, it took me ...READ»

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Spike Jonze's Newest Project: Resuscitating Kanye's Withered Public Image

In a short film created by Jonze, West plays an egomaniac rapper gone off the rails. Sound familiar?READ»

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Business Inspiration From Kanye West

Creator of one the best rhyming couplets ever*, Kanye West has retuned to doling out gems ON HIS BLOG (my caps), this time opining on CREATIVITY (his caps) as he listened to his own music. Here are a few choice--if ...READ»

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Six Fascinating Things Online this Week

Watch Those Fingers Imagine you had the opportunity to meet President Obama in Prague this week. Now imagine that you had no idea who he was, and so you decided to stick your fingers in his nose and eyes. Such are the joys of ...READ»

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Apple Throws the Rule Book at Music Stars

Rockstars are notoriously hard to control. Which makes it especially odd that Apple, for its new music social network Ping, would release a nine-page book of guidelines for artists planning to join the service. READ»

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Wallpaper Magazine's Design Awards 2009

What do Kanye West, French architect Jean Nouvel, and an Aussie product designer have in common? They were all judges for Wallpaper's Design Awards 2009. The results were just posted. The winners include the new BMW museum in ...READ»

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Different Air Max Shoes

Air jordan shoes the shoes that have also had air Jordan shoes specifically designed for them. They involve Chris Paul among others Air Jordan 2010. These different Air Max Shoes but very light to allocate players especially basket ...READ»

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ed hardy Shirts

Its star goods are the shirts and there are of a certain stage in the purse contain: being made of copied leather; dual handles; ed hardy logo droop embellishment; platform bottom with feet; top zip closure; and creates a sharp effect ...READ»

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24th Anniversary of the Electric Dylan Incident

When Bob Dylan took the stage with an electric guitar at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, he was booed by fans loyal to folk’s acoustic roots. Twenty-four years later, fans seem far more receptive to technological advances in music. ...READ»

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Kanye West is Alive, But Memes May Be In Danger

Even if you hate the jackass who stole Taylor Swift's spotlight, it pays to know that Kanye lives. Why? Because the rabble have turned it into a Google-beating malware scheme that could punk you into downloading some bad ...READ»

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Fast Talk: Hip Car Hits the Clubs

Jeri Yoshizu Sales Promotion Manager, Scion Torrance, California Jeri Yoshizu, 38, who runs lifestyle marketing for Toyota's brand Scion, has been helping local musicians produce CDs for more than three years. She is now ...READ»

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MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free

Guest Column: MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free Authored by Hal Bringman on January 22, 2009 - 12:54pm. As Digital Media Wire readers ready themselves for the highly anticipated Digital Music Forum East, here’s an overview of the ...READ»

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MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free

Guest Column: MIDEM 2009 - Setting Music Free Authored by Hal Bringman on January 22, 2009 - 12:54pm. As Digital Media Wire readers ready themselves for the highly anticipated Digital Music Forum East, here’s an overview of the ...READ»

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The Right Way to Lay People Off

"I'm tryin' to right my wrongs, But it's funny them same wrongs helped me write this song" --Kanye West Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of ...READ»

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Education: Making the Classroom Hot

"School" and "cool" rhyme, but, sadly, you probably won't find the two together in any sentence uttered by today's students. With growing adoptions of the latest technology in the classroom, however, educators are trying hard to ...READ»

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Best -- And Worst -- Brand Extensions Of 2008

It's hard work building a big, recognizable brand. Naturally, once they’ve built one, most companies find it irresistible to try and extend that brand love to other products. Sometimes this is a good idea: Starbucks’s lattes are good; Starbucks's latte ...READ»

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How Do You Extend a Watch Brand? Create a Perfume That Smells Like Watches

Nooka's known for their futuristic watches, but in a bid to become something more, they've created a strange fragrance.READ»

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Universal Sues Grouper and Bolt.com

Vivendi-owned Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit Monday against video-sharing YouTube rival Websites Grouper.com and Bolt.com, accusing the sites of hosting pirated versions of Universal music videos. Universal maintains that ...READ»

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2009 Hall of Shame Inductees

Three words have been weighing heavily on my mind lately: unconscionable, outrage, and cynicism. I haven't used unconscionable too often in my life; it's an extreme and unforgiving descriptor. But in the last year (okay, the last decade really, but you have to let go sometime), unconscionable has been a steady mantra cycling through my brain. When unconscionable crosses my mental landscape, its fellow travel companion, outrage, is always at its side. And their favorite destination these days is the state of cynicism.READ»

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Media: Can Google, Limewire Outplay iTunes?

The digital music market continues to be an exemplary battleground for the implications new media has on pre-established business practices. Startup gBox and infamous Limewire are venturing into the digital music market to try to ...READ»

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Jay-Z Turns 40

The self-proclaimed God of Rap has lots to celebrate. Jay-Z earned $35 million over the past year -- mostly from a sold-out world tour and his stakes in the New Jersey Nets and 40/40 bar chain -- making him hip-hop's top player, ...READ»

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Update: imeem's Final Label Match

I posted a few weeks back at length about imeem's success in securing the rights to stream from three of the four major labels' catalogs. (You can read the post here.) Earlier Monday, imeem announced that it had made a deal with the ...READ»