I was listening to NPR this morning in bed when I heard a program, Obama Hip-Hop: From Mixtapes To Mainstream, on Weekend America Sunday Edition. It talked about the history of hip-hop and its descendant, rap, in the political landscape and what it's done this election. Guest Mark Anthony Neal is ...

I was in a discussion with friendfeeders here at about a comment which Robert Scoble tweeted (@scobleizer): “I wish Twitter had a "retweet button." For instance, I'd retweet @nytimes stuff a lot.” Unanimous aggreement preceeded. If you're not familiar with Twitter's user interface, there are two things you can do with other peoples' ...

We're pretty much fucked right now. The Dow is dropping faster than a rock-it's dropped below 10,000 right now. We're majorly in debt, we owe over $10,000,000,000,000,we're dropping faster and faster in a recession that's quickly getting uglier, and people's retirement and college money is going poof. Of course, companies ...

If some of you didn't notice, I've started writing at a new blog at Wordpress. This blog will be solely about social media and marketing, my newest venture, alhamdulillah. I'll still be writing at this Hadithuna blog, so no worries. Plus this one will be much more interesting, I hope. ...

I've noticed that an uninteded benefit from the current global financial crisis is the fact that it has initiated alot of youngsters like myself (I just turned 15) into the world of finance and money in a way that makes them think about what the hell is going on with the ...