The Ebony Cactus is a free, online magazine. It is dedicated to minority businesses in the Southwest United States. It comes in full color showcasing new and existing businesses in Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California. It is the “largest free non-governmental online source of information on African American business in the Southwestern United States.” It is a for profit business that is supported by magazine advertising revenues.
Purpose
Ebony Cactus is meant to provide information, training, and strategic solutions in the areas of human resources, supplier diversity, business management, creating opportunity, and creativity and innovation. They provide knowledge to minority business and Fortune 1000 companies with Cactus radio, TEC magazine, and ProServices. They value creativity as the link between minorities and American business as well as access and exposure to leaders and professionals around the U.S. and the world. They use interviews with “C-level” individuals, CEO, CSO, COO, etc., to bring insight and experience to the readers.
Layout and Subscription
Subscribers receive the magazine twice a month in PDF format that can be viewed on a Macintosh or a PC. It can also be viewed directly from the website. Archived editions are accessible from the homepage. The magazine prints into hard copies just as it is viewed on the screen.
As of March 2006, there are 30,000 subscribers. Most are located in the Southwestern United States but their readership extends through 45 states and 49 countries.
On the Air
On the Air is an internet business radio show that is broadcast once a month to offer insight about connecting small businesses with larger corporations. It is an auditory supplement to the online magazine. The radio shows are available in podcast format on the home page.
NxT Horizon Magazine
This is a new branch of The Ebony Cactus magazine that emphasizes a “seize the day”
methodology. They acknowledge that there is a new American Renaissance that encourages the coming together of the American people. They believe that when the diversity of America can bring about an explosion of education, arts, and culture. The purpose is to share the how of achieving innovation in the business realm.
Purpose
Ebony Cactus is meant to provide information, training, and strategic solutions in the areas of human resources, supplier diversity, business management, creating opportunity, and creativity and innovation. They provide knowledge to minority business and Fortune 1000 companies with Cactus radio, TEC magazine, and ProServices. They value creativity as the link between minorities and American business as well as access and exposure to leaders and professionals around the U.S. and the world. They use interviews with “C-level” individuals, CEO, CSO, COO, etc., to bring insight and experience to the readers.
Layout and Subscription
Subscribers receive the magazine twice a month in PDF format that can be viewed on a Macintosh or a PC. It can also be viewed directly from the website. Archived editions are accessible from the homepage. The magazine prints into hard copies just as it is viewed on the screen.
As of March 2006, there are 30,000 subscribers. Most are located in the Southwestern United States but their readership extends through 45 states and 49 countries.
On the Air
On the Air is an internet business radio show that is broadcast once a month to offer insight about connecting small businesses with larger corporations. It is an auditory supplement to the online magazine. The radio shows are available in podcast format on the home page.
NxT Horizon Magazine
This is a new branch of The Ebony Cactus magazine that emphasizes a “seize the day”
methodology. They acknowledge that there is a new American Renaissance that encourages the coming together of the American people. They believe that when the diversity of America can bring about an explosion of education, arts, and culture. The purpose is to share the how of achieving innovation in the business realm.
Udo Prambs, CMC, is a Certified Master Chef born in Germany, who has worked in Five Star European hotels and restaurants including the Kulm Hotel (Switzerland), Maritim Group (Germany), Da Ivo (Italy), Four Seasons Group and Hunstrete House (England), and the Neptune Hotel (Israel). He has been Executive Chef of L'Auberge Restaurant in Dayton, Ohio, and is currently a Chef Instructor at the Professional Culinary Institute in Campbell, California.
Introduction
Zombie and Mummy is a significant piece of artwork by the well renowned graphic artist Olia Lialina, which has been funded by the Dia Art Foundation. Zombie and Mummy is an interactive web base that contains personalized simple black and white comic strip stories all revolving around the same two characters, Zombie and Mummy. Olia Lialina came up with the original concept of Zombie and Mummy and in designing the web base she allows for each individual story to be told without having any continual story plot connecting individual stories. Each episode has a detailed background setting, embedding each episode in a colorful environment. All the images are drawn on Olia Lialina's palm pilot, creating images that are simple, with no shades of gray, with only 160x146 pixels per frame. All the images are available to be downloaded onto personalized palm device.
Formatting
The website utilizes an animated GIF image for each link to each individual cartoon. This gives each link a different look that is more tailored for fit each cartoon's theme. This is convenient and essential for this site to be easily viewed, because nearly any standard browser supports GIF images. This eliminates the need for an additional plug-in or flash player. Once each link is accessed each cartoon has an individual background. Each cartoon is then set up to be in a text box. While the animations make the site seem intricate it is actually quite simple. This could be partly because the site was initially built via palm pilot.
Comics
Zombie and Mummy is a comic strip in which the two main characters experience everyday life, doing various activities, and are always presented with some type of obstacle they must overcome. The episodes range from Zombie and Mummy forming a hip hop band to falling in love, with 18 individual episodes. Zombie and Mummy constantly have to deal with the complications that they experience being a Zombie and a Mummy trying to live in a human world. The comics themselves are drawn on a Palm Pilot resulting in a very low-tech look. Each episode consists of 6 different scenes, including a title page and a THE END page. Each storyline is very basic and the ending can be very random. The original objective Zombie and Mummy set out for is never fully accomplished and the story usually has some type of twist that catches the reader completely by surprise. The comic strip is directed towards young adults that would find humor in the hilarity of a zombie and mummy living everyday life, with frequent spoofs on popular culture throughout the episodes. The basic comic strip is imbedded into a webpage that is specifically chosen or designed to enhance the storyline. Some of the webpages simply give elaborate color and animation to the comic strip background, while other webpages are actually independent sites themselves and are meant to compliment the specific episode’s plot.
--L.graham21 (talk) 18:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
Zombie and Mummy is a significant piece of artwork by the well renowned graphic artist Olia Lialina, which has been funded by the Dia Art Foundation. Zombie and Mummy is an interactive web base that contains personalized simple black and white comic strip stories all revolving around the same two characters, Zombie and Mummy. Olia Lialina came up with the original concept of Zombie and Mummy and in designing the web base she allows for each individual story to be told without having any continual story plot connecting individual stories. Each episode has a detailed background setting, embedding each episode in a colorful environment. All the images are drawn on Olia Lialina's palm pilot, creating images that are simple, with no shades of gray, with only 160x146 pixels per frame. All the images are available to be downloaded onto personalized palm device.
Formatting
The website utilizes an animated GIF image for each link to each individual cartoon. This gives each link a different look that is more tailored for fit each cartoon's theme. This is convenient and essential for this site to be easily viewed, because nearly any standard browser supports GIF images. This eliminates the need for an additional plug-in or flash player. Once each link is accessed each cartoon has an individual background. Each cartoon is then set up to be in a text box. While the animations make the site seem intricate it is actually quite simple. This could be partly because the site was initially built via palm pilot.
Comics
Zombie and Mummy is a comic strip in which the two main characters experience everyday life, doing various activities, and are always presented with some type of obstacle they must overcome. The episodes range from Zombie and Mummy forming a hip hop band to falling in love, with 18 individual episodes. Zombie and Mummy constantly have to deal with the complications that they experience being a Zombie and a Mummy trying to live in a human world. The comics themselves are drawn on a Palm Pilot resulting in a very low-tech look. Each episode consists of 6 different scenes, including a title page and a THE END page. Each storyline is very basic and the ending can be very random. The original objective Zombie and Mummy set out for is never fully accomplished and the story usually has some type of twist that catches the reader completely by surprise. The comic strip is directed towards young adults that would find humor in the hilarity of a zombie and mummy living everyday life, with frequent spoofs on popular culture throughout the episodes. The basic comic strip is imbedded into a webpage that is specifically chosen or designed to enhance the storyline. Some of the webpages simply give elaborate color and animation to the comic strip background, while other webpages are actually independent sites themselves and are meant to compliment the specific episode’s plot.
--L.graham21 (talk) 18:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
EGLN Radio (formerly known as Hot Rock Planet and BFRadio) is an Internet radio community based off the GameSurge IRC network.
The radio station is a fast paced Rock station that consists of many different radio personalities as well as varying types of rock music, from The Beatles to Nickelback to Cannibal Corpse and other hard rock/metal bands.
EGLN Radio was partnered with EGLN (Electronic Gaming Live Networks) from December 2006 - July 2007. Since the partnership, listener counts have grown substantially on many nights and always have a steady base during weekdays. The partnership ended when EGLN closed down due to personal reasons with its ownership.
One of the more distinctive aspects of EGLN Radio is the "automated song request system" for listeners when there is no Live DJ On Air. The web based system allows users to request what music they want to listen to throughout the day. With a massive library of music, the possibilities are endless for the listener who wants to spend the day listening to the music he/she wants to.
As the community continues to grow, EGLN Radio has introduced several large giveaways and partnerships with several other communities. There are CD, DVD, Games, and Internet Gaming based prizes given away several times a month.
The radio station is a fast paced Rock station that consists of many different radio personalities as well as varying types of rock music, from The Beatles to Nickelback to Cannibal Corpse and other hard rock/metal bands.
EGLN Radio was partnered with EGLN (Electronic Gaming Live Networks) from December 2006 - July 2007. Since the partnership, listener counts have grown substantially on many nights and always have a steady base during weekdays. The partnership ended when EGLN closed down due to personal reasons with its ownership.
One of the more distinctive aspects of EGLN Radio is the "automated song request system" for listeners when there is no Live DJ On Air. The web based system allows users to request what music they want to listen to throughout the day. With a massive library of music, the possibilities are endless for the listener who wants to spend the day listening to the music he/she wants to.
As the community continues to grow, EGLN Radio has introduced several large giveaways and partnerships with several other communities. There are CD, DVD, Games, and Internet Gaming based prizes given away several times a month.