Bernie Mac, Isaac Hayes and other links….
The Undercover Black Man covers more loss to real talent in “Isaac Hayes (1942–2008)” and “Bernie Mac (1957–2008)”—this is in concert with “R.I.P Isaac Hayes, Passes at 65” and “Bernie Mac Dies at 50”…
Back when I thought that Bernie Mac would live with as many days as Red Foxx, I wrote “Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bernie Mac and Vin Diesel,” “Mantan Moreland and Bernie Mac” and “Flippant Remarks about Robin Harris and the Comedy Act Theater.”
Mobolaji Olambiwonnu starts a Blog…
We are proud to present Mobolaji Olambiwonnu, his early film, Candelight Dinner here in the kinté space. I am a bit late to the party but I notice that he has started a Blog under the umbrella “Urban Thought Collective” and these posts jump right out at me: “Does Helping Africa Have To Hurt?” and “A Grand Vision For Africa.”
After reading these two entries, now I understand why Mobolaji and I have not really had an in-depth conversation that reveals, explores (and possibly revises) our comprehensive perception of the world. Nevertheless I welcome the fact that Mobolaji Olambiwonnu is writing down in explicit words what he is actually thinking. It is important to note that on Facebook.com Mobolaji has upwards of 600 “friends” and my walled-garden game score is barely 50. So what Mobolaji thinks about the world is numerically superior to what my journeys in thought bring to me.
The Entrepreneur that impresses me: Blue Energy Inc.
Mathias Craig of Blue Energy Inc. presented his life’s work at the Google campus—and I can assure you that it was among the 800+ YouTube.com videos in the Google Tech Talks channel. Ironically I cannot find it with a Google search—but there is a Blue Energy Channel. Mathias Craig along with Tom Szaky of TerraCycle (interviewed in Venture Voice Show #16), represent the kind of African-style entrepreneurship that Mobolaji Olambiwonnu might find educational and inspiring.
As far as I am concerned Mathias Craig and Tom Szaky are both operating under “third world” conditions but they have a competitive edge because they have a progressive model of this reality instead of a degenerate one.
“Facebook US user average age now 22.96”
CPM Advisors: “We’ve been tracking a variety of statistics using Facebook’s active user figures as disclosed as part of their Social Ads system. As expected, there has been a good deal of growth in their older users, as is reflected in the chart below. The average age of their US user base is still very young, however, at 22.96 up from 22.28 when we first looked at the data on 11/24/2007.”
ValleyWag.com: “Despite improved targeting, click-through on Facebook ads remains abysmally low, at about 0.045 percent, CPM Advisors reports. The rates on those ads is similarly rock-bottom; Facebook’s automated ad-selling systems suggest advertisers bid a CPM, or cost per thousand pageviews, between $0.21 and $0.27.”