Last week we looked at Rap Genius’ phenomenally dumb SEO strategy which landed them with a smackdown Google penalty and virtually removed them from the search results. Now, after ten days, the website appears to have cleared the penalty, and are ranking for their own name (hey, it’s a start). They’ve also uploaded a lengthy […] Continue reading → Getting rid of Facebook, Twitter and Google I am overwhelmed with content. Everything I do is pumping content to my head. Whether it is email (Gmail Meter says I received 19,000 emails in December), Facebook, Twitter, feeds, TV (hundreds of channels don’t help), news, and then of course advertising. So I decided to cut off […] Continue reading →
I’m a radio host on the weekends, and one of the genres that fascinates me most is the rap coming out of the underground, social justice, and queer circles—people like Angel Haze, Le1f, and Blue Scholars. These artists use rap as the medium for some incredibly well-written messages. The best rap is filled with double […]
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Continue reading → I’m a radio host on the weekends, and one of the genres that fascinates me most is the rap coming out of the underground, social justice, and queer circles—people like Angel Haze, Le1f, and Blue Scholars. These artists use rap as the medium for some incredibly well-written messages. The best rap is filled with double […] Continue reading →