Blogging
Posted at 3:03pm on Jul. 10, 2008 McCotter in the alley broadcasting a message America's Mother-in-Law doesn't want you to hear
By Erick
Congressman McCotter has a message for you and the Democrats. Of course, he'll have to resort to this method of communication if the Democrats have their way.
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Posted at 8:49am on Jun. 1, 2008 How do African-American bloggers make themselves heard in the current environment?
This is mostly discussing *progressive* AA bloggers, of course.
By Moe Lane
Via Instapundit:
Black bloggers fight to make voices heard
With its power-to-the-individual approach, the new media world promises anyone with a laptop the possibility of a publishing empire. But, as some black bloggers are finding out, the new media world is a lot like the old one: racially segregated, with many prominent black voices still fighting to be heard.
Some bloggers felt insulted this month when the Democratic National Committee selected 55 state-oriented blogs to cover its convention in Denver; critics said few featured African American voices. The DNC said race wasn't considered in its selection from 400 applicants. Officials were more interested in the sites' audience size and how much chatter about local issues appeared on them. The DNC answered critics Thursday by adding several sites led by African Americans to its general blogger pool.
The answer is: they can't, of course. It's not particularly because of racism, though. It's because most African-American bloggers are progressives, and the only way any progressive blogger can truly advance is to find some way to ingratiate him- or herself to one of the big progressive blogs. The left side of the 'sphere is dominated by four or five early adopters, and they have no intention of going anywhere. Right below them are about twenty or so second-tier sites, which mostly subsist on what links get thrown their way by the big blogs. And below them is everybody else, who are starved for traffic to the extent that trying to provoke right-wing sites starts to look attractive. And the Democratic Party's leadership pretty much prefers it this way: top-down infrastructures are easier to influence and/or derive revenue from.
And that's pretty much that.
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