“A billion people around the world work hard every day to lift themselves out of poverty. They don’t want your charity. They want your investment. Invest today, earn a return, provide them with a livelihood.” - Microplace.com homepage. Sounds pretty good, huh? Microplace is owned b...

Not that charity is ever bad in any form, but Madonna could probably do better than sending old clothes and her own damn children's book to the Malawi orphanage where she found her son, David. Yeah she sent the Home of Hope Orphanage a big box full of David's old clothes, said a source close to the ...

An incredible mother’s journey to help her son who was diagnosed with Autism at the age of 6 brought this fabulous skincare collection to life.  This amazing woman and mother of two is named Wei.  She was born and raised in China then came to America to further her studies.   Her eastern/we...

Adding a little star power to The Giving Back Fund’s VIP “Big Game - Big Give” charity event, Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore were out in South Tampa on Saturday evening (January 31). The “Ghost” actress and her “Punk’d” hunk helped promote the $1,000 pe...

At the Ugly Sweater party at Impromptu Studio last week, there was much more going on than met the eye.  It wasn't all about ugly sweaters, twitter handles, and making new connections...it was about doing something for others.  Daniel Shipton has certainly stepped up and grabbed the ball with this...

Regardless of the scale of publication, one of the interesting things about making and sharing any kind of art is the reaction you get from your audience. Sometimes the difference between an artist’s espoused intent and viewers’ perceptions has led to conflict (I think of Serrano or, more recent...

The echo chamber When you participate in a new paradigm, you get a lot of fellow early adopters, similarly fascinated by the new tools. And you get a lot of conversation going around how cool this site is, or what they’re doing with that new medium, or whatever. It’s fun, you feel a part...

So in my previous post I talked about one of my favorite companies - LDC. Next up is Yipit. But this isn’t just about how awesome Yipit is. No no - today they launched profile pages, and in the process, further convoluted their home page. So this post is about how I would look over their site,...

This Wednesday, the Writer’s Guild of America launched its first ever “American Idol Truth Tour” with a fiery press conference at WGA headquarters in the Fairfax district. Designed to promote awareness of the gross mistreatment of workers on Fremantle Media’s top-rated “...

The Future of Responsible Sub-prime Lending and Financial Literacy Remarks given by John Hope Bryant Before the FDIC Forum on Mortgage Lending for Low and Moderate-Income Households Tuesday, July 8, 2008 FDIC Seidman Center Arlington, Virginia I am honored to be here today with the likes of U.S. Tre...