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Re: LeBron James And Miami Heat Do The Harlem Shake [VIDEO]

Markus Robinson — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:25:07 -0000

Pause

Re: Is This Google’s Groupon Clone? Well The Logo Fits …

Markus Robinson — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:32:05 -0000

Why can't there be two? Seems like it may amount too double the deals for me!

Re: Learning Ruby: Expert Advice for Absolute Beginners

Markus Robinson — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:57:31 -0000

Point taken, though I disagree that most of what you listed are "benefits" of Ruby over PHP. I also believe that its a major misconception that it "doesn't hurt to learn a new language every year."I believe it does. For every year spent learning a new language, it's one less year you could have spent working to become an expert in one (10,000 hour rule). Imagine if jason fried or DHH stopped programming with RoR just to play with another language.

Young programmers, find a great programming language and master it. Move on only if the language stops meeting your needs, or if the business requirements call for it (ie mobile). Anything else is probably a distraction.

Just my $.02

Re: Learning Ruby: Expert Advice for Absolute Beginners

Markus Robinson — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:53:31 -0000

PHP is a far superior language. Be sure to check out some of the php frameworks before you jump ship.

Re: Apple’s iOS 4.2 is Finally Here, iPad Owners Rejoice | Black Web 2.0

Markus Robinson — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:35:27 -0000

It's about time.

Re: Links for 2010-11-12

Markus Robinson — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 14:09:18 -0000

Yay Code Igniter!! Are you still using it?

Re: Ebony’s Website Re-Launch puts Magazine over Digital

Markus Robinson — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:36:33 -0000

Lack of a well supported CMS was just one of the observations I made in this post.

Re: Ebony’s Website Re-Launch puts Magazine over Digital

Markus Robinson — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:21:38 -0000

The shift in content strategy, that you indicated in your comments, is far from "simply a facelift". If this current site, both content and design, is any indication of things to come, then I'm quite frankly worried. Digital is one of the most important pieces of Ebony's brand, and quite frankly I don't see the capital investment I believe it deserves.

Re: Ebony’s Website Re-Launch puts Magazine over Digital

Markus Robinson — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:04:30 -0000

I'm not sure if the a paywall is relevant to this particular discussion. But sense you bring it up. The problem with a lot of black media is that they are working with the same premise as you, they're assuming that somehow that the content on the web page somehow will decrease the amount of the print subscribers... I don't agree. A great example of a company successfully managing both a print magazine and an online website is Mansueto Ventures LLC, owner of Inc and Fast Company. Their websites consist of some of the same articles you will find in their print edition with absolutely no paywall. Why do they do this? Because they've realized that the website is reaching people whom they would not normally get through print, and vice-versa.

Re: Ebony’s Website Re-Launch puts Magazine over Digital

Markus Robinson — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:51:32 -0000

Agreed. They're missing out on a large and loyal online following. I think the bottom line is that they're investing in their bread and butter. The website, for the most part seems to be an after thought.

Re: Ebony’s Website Re-Launch puts Magazine over Digital

Markus Robinson — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:49:42 -0000

My comments were meant to be more constructive than critical. Looking back i guess I could have been a little snarkier. For the most part I thought I did a decent job of pointing out the site's flaws without boring you all with each detail. Hell, maybe im just getting soft...?

Re: Skype Introduces Ten-Way Video Calls

Markus Robinson — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:47:41 -0000

No beta for OSX?..BOOOOOO

Re: Tuesday Open Thread

Markus Robinson — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:25:14 -0000

A Carnival Grows in Brooklyn: Reflections on the West Indian Day Parade
http://politic365.com/2010/...

Re: Tuesday Open Thread

Markus Robinson — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:07:34 -0000

Tensions Persist in Portland Since Fatal Police Shooting of Unarmed Black Man http://politic365.com/2010/...

Re: The 100 Most Powerful Black Men on Twitter

Markus Robinson — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:01:39 -0000

You truly are clueless.

Re: Friday Open Thread

Markus Robinson — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:00:29 -0000

Meeks is running for state senator. The gubernatorial race is between Scott and Alex Sink. Looks like he's not only going after the black vote, but he's looking attack Sink's lead with women voters. Not to mention Carroll is an immigrant too. Carroll is a three-for.

Re: Friday Open Thread

Markus Robinson — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:15:41 -0000

Florida GOP Gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott has selected Jacksonville state Rep. Jennifer Carroll, the only black Republican state legislator, as his running mate. Carroll, a 51 year-old Trinidadian immigrant, is a 20 year navy veteran and was head of the state Department of Veterans Affairs under Gov. Jeb Bush. Carroll is the first black Republican woman ever elected to the Legislature and would be the first black woman to serve as Florida’s lieutenant governor.

http://politic365.com/2010/...

Re: The 100 Most Powerful Black Men on Twitter

Markus Robinson — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:03:04 -0000

@Lynne these are all great methods, and I appreciated you listing them, I would love to give them a try, but I'm not so convinced that they would yield such different results.

Re: The 100 Most Powerful Black Men on Twitter

Markus Robinson — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:00:36 -0000

@ Alfred You're calling us cowards for not picking and choosing our favorites? We've seen the editor selected list done time and time again, at the end of the day it leaves you saying, "Look at all of Alfred's buddy's on his "top" 100 list." Instead of a biased editorial staff choosing their favorites, we used a metric. We can debate the metric all day (kinda what Lynne and I were doing if you read our threads), but I think this method leans more towards what the crowds/re-tweeters think are interesting and less on the "good ole boy method". Sure the results aren't what we all envision, but it is what it is, and we decided not to screw around with the results.

Also, I appreciated the advice on the differences in how you run BE and we run BWM, at the end of the day the metrics will decide this too.

Re: The 100 Most Powerful Black Men on Twitter

Markus Robinson — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:33:14 -0000

1) I don't disagree with you. My point was, what other metric would you use to judge influence/power/or whatever? In the same vein, if you have 1 million followers but don't say anything worth being re-tweeted then you don't have influence. So if followers isn't the right metric and until we can make better sense of the fire-hose of tweets (working on this too) then I think re-tweets is a pretty decent judge of influence considering what we have to work with.
2) Who's to say that using a nomination/voting process wouldn't lead to a popularity contest? Not to mention coordinating a fair and impartial voting system is not simple task (remember I've worked on the black weblog awards for a few years). The point is, there's no true way to build a list like this without a people ruffling some feathers. We chose what we thought was the most impartial system at the time. Please keep in mind that the purpose of this was to start a discussion and judge responses. The response is clear, but this is only the beginning of the conversation. We will refine and improve as we go forward.

Re: The 100 Most Powerful Black Men on Twitter

Markus Robinson — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:27:07 -0000

Lynne if you could suggest something other than Klout and TwitterGrader to grade power, influence, or whatever, we're open. But when judging a person's influence on Twitter, what better method than to use the amount a person gets re-tweeted? If i have a million users and never get re-tweeted, and you have 8000 and you get re-tweeted often then you're more influential right?

Re: The 100 Most Powerful Black Men on Twitter

Markus Robinson — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:13:05 -0000

With a list like this, there are bound to be some over sites. The Twitter pool is so vast that making sure that every person of color was counted can be a daunting task. Obviously we missed some, but as we continue to create these list (hopefully at min. yearly), our goal is to improve on what I call our" seed list". We are also working on segmenting this list into categories (though I doubt we can do 100 in each category).

This was our first go round, though not perfect, it will get better.

Re: The 100 Most Powerful Black Men on Twitter

Markus Robinson — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:51:10 -0000

Not sure why people are upset with the list, numbers don't lie. The real question is why do we pay so much attention to entertainers and athletes?

Re: The 100 Most Powerful Black Women on Twitter

Markus Robinson — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:03:01 -0000

There's nothing weird about creating a list for a particular demographic. Forbes has the richest women's list, the richest people under 40, etc. This is done to shine light on a particular demographic, not to knock the excluded demo.

Re: 5 Black Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Who Use Social Media

Markus Robinson — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:47:10 -0000

Sorry about that Nnedi, this has been corrected.