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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Race-Hustling the 2012 Election?

This week on The Confab: Join The Root's assistant editor, Akoto Ofori-Atta, as she chats with staff writer Jenée Desmond-Harris and contributor Edward Wyckoff Williams about Republican race-baiting, the NAACP's stance on same-sex marriage and whether celebrities' sexual orientation is our business.


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Thursday, May 17, 2012

DoubleX Gabfest: The Bare-Chested Edition

In this week’s Gabfest, DoubleX editor Hanna Rosin joins nymag.com staff writer Noreen Malone and DoubleX blogger Libby Copeland to discuss the infamous Time magazine story on attachment parenting, President Obama’s college love letters, and the question of whether a child can really be a psychopath.


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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Obama's Endorsement and Black Obesity

This week on The Confab: Join political correspondent Cynthia Gordy as she chats with staff writer Jenee Desmond-Harris and contributing editor Demetria Lucas about the political risk in Obama’s same-sex marriage announcement and the lesser-known factors behind obesity in the black community.


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Friday, May 4, 2012

7 Timeless Business Lessons You Can Learn from Hollywood Screenplays

I love movies. In fact, movies are what led me into copywriting and eventually to building a successful software company.

Better explain that one, huh?

Back in 1997 when I bolted from the big law firm and moved down to Austin, my plan was to become a screenwriter. Feast or famine, damn the consequences, starving artist type stuff.

Well, instead of writing screenplays, I got caught up in the Web 1.0 boom, and read a lot of books about the film industry in my downtime.

Turns out, being a screenwriter in Hollywood ranks somewhere below “best boy” and “key grip” when it comes to actual influence. Not exactly inspiring.

The only way to have true influence in the film world as a writer is if you are also the director and/or producer. That fact made me realize that I am really an entrepreneur, not a pure writer.

And being an entrepreneur is so much like being a Hollywood writer / director / producer, except you operate in the real world. But often the writing part gets neglected, and that ultimately hurts the business.

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Author: Brian Clark is founder of Copyblogger

Thursday, May 3, 2012

DoubleX Gabfest: The Your Baby’s Name Is Brand-Shift Edition

In this week’s Gabfest, DoubleX editor Hanna Rosin joins nymag.com staff writer Noreen Malone and DoubleX blogger Bryan Lowder to discuss a new study that suggests homophobic people might be secretly gay, our cultural fascination with celebrity pregnancy and the furious debate over how one should spend one’s workday lunch break.


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