Strategically Hip
Image: Gill Linton (left) and Rupert Newton (right) co-founders of The Joneses.
Posted Mon Jun 2, 2008
Kindle: Amazon's iPod Killer?
So the Kindle is clunky. It comes only in white. And it is several times bigger than most portable devices we carry (phone, Blackberry, camera, iPod, etc). That's three strikes right there. But the Kindle does one thing really well, it allows you to read a book virtually wherever and whenever you want save a completely dark room (there is no back-light). I doubt I would have ever bought the Kindle myself at $399, but as a gift it's been a blessing and now I would buy one. Sold.
Posted Fri May 16, 2008
Change Management: Revolution For Sale Lots of ink has been spilled over Che Guevara becoming an icon here in the center of the capitalist world, the United States that is. Che was executed on October 9th of 1967 and some 40 years later I'll add a bit more ink.
Posted Wed Oct 17, 2007
Change Management: Urban 2.0? The urban online community dipped well before the urban music industry. The urban online effort crumbled with the rest of the dot-bust in 2001. But several recent sites signal that Urban 2.0 is on the horizon.
Posted Mon Aug 27, 2007
Change Management: Hip Hop Slips To anyone who follows the music business the fact that Hip Hop sales have tanked is not a surprise. A USA Today article illuminates the swoon with sobering statistics: Hip Hop sales are off over 43% of their high in year 2000. That Hip Hop is down is widely understood, but "why" is hotly debated. There is more than one factor at work.
Posted Sun Jun 24, 2007
Urban Everest Sibusiso Vilane climbed Everest. The South African joins fewer than 3,000 people who can say the same. And no other Black man can yet make that claim, though African American woman Sophia Danenberg did the deed in May of 2006.
Posted Sun May 6, 2007
Plug Pulled? You may have missed the headline, and maybe you never watched the channel, but Black Family Channel (BFC) is taking itself off the air and according to Multichannel News is selling its subscribers to the Gospel Channel.
Posted Thu Apr 26, 2007
City Success New York City grinds down entrepreneurs and ships them out as if the Meat Packing District was named for business owners. Some make it. And some seem as if they were made for taking on City-sized projects and churning out businesses. John McDonald chose to tackle restaurants and magazines in what seemed like a peculiarly bad choice of two notoriously difficult businesses. What he delivered, however, has been a success.
Posted Mon Apr 16, 2007
Get RED It’s funny how giving gets controversial. Superficially the idea of donating money from a purchase to a charity seems pretty innocuous. And providing money or treatments for Africans suffering from AIDS truly saves lives.
Posted Thu Apr 5, 2007
