Our Spare Time has always made others rich

Thanks to Cindy E. Rodriguez to sharing this article with me (re:Serfs). Thanks to Cindy E. Rodriguez to sharing this article with me (re:Serfs). In light of the Huffington Post’s recent deal, we are fooling ourselves if we believe that we are making other people rich from our direct efforts as opposed to when we are not actively engaged, such as watching television (aka, spare time). Some background The Huffington Post recently sold for over... Read More

Think Now, Post Later

No posts today – I’m thinking (which is the same as writing to me anyway), and organizing. Thinking is solitary, so I’ll share later. If you have not seen, please go to the Hispanicize site and check out the beta version along with some cool articles. The bilingual posts are great! You can also check out my post on Social Media Today about the Lack of Latino Attendees at Conferences. Someone brought up a point about light-skin,... Read More

The Art of the Draft Post

At the time of this writing I have a total of 22 draft posts. This does not include what I’ve written offline. Some of these posts are half done, while some are almost complete; some capture an idea and stand only one sentence long, others sport just a title; some are disjointed pieces waiting to be merged into a larger whole, while others have a scope beyond this blog which may never appear except maybe as a pointer to the place where they... Read More

My 2011 Latino-lutions (Resolutions)

Subtitle: New writing directions. It’s day 6 of the new year, and I’ve already accomplished one goal by landing a post on one of the major social media news sites – Social Media Today. I was concerned of posting it at first, because the entry goes in a different direction than the usual content covered here. But, I need to stay fresh, innovative, and excited about what do – it’s part of the growth process. SMT served... Read More

You Don’t Know Squat About Hispanics

Subtitle:  Hispanic Media Myths A great article…it even seems to have some picante to it as it’s spiced up with some humor and witty lines. If you have some image in your head of a poor campesino looking confusedly at a computer screen, delete it. Replace that with an image of Perez Hilton tweeting and blogging and instant-messaging all day. In fact, Latinos far outpace Anglos in online and mobile usage. Of all wireless users in the... Read More

Q&A: Blogging and LATISM

I did a Q&A for FH Hispania Plaza, which was published yesterday. They were interested in Latinos In Social Media and blogging. MF: How much Latino presence do you think there is currently on the blogosphere? (…)With all the hype about Twitter and Facebook in the news these days I see little attention given to blogs as opposed to a few short years ago when blogs were all the rage.  Don’t feel sad for blogging though, because blogs... Read More