Comments on: What is the future of the Black blogosphere?

By: j_most

j_most — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:47:53 +0000

I think blogging in the future will definitely serve as a way for us to keep connected and informed. Besides reading about our common stories, it will also allow for news that is of interest to us to get to all of us.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:32:37 +0000

The future should certainly a boomarang to the past, and the BWAs of 2008 will look more like 2005. Original content and first person writing will create the niche youre talking about. Recycled news and commentary is a stale pathway that's even taking it's final breaths on newsprint. The Black Blogosphere will draw an audience of people curious to know "what you're thinking" as opposed to "what do you think about..." Sharing our thoughts and emotions is the new black. Journalism will thrive in a different venue.

By: j. brotherlove

j. brotherlove — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 15:07:18 +0000

"...those of us that write personally would like a little more love."

I'm giving pamela a high-five for that comment. As someone who began blogging on a personal tip, I'm disheartened by the proliferation of celebrity-obsessed blogs without the balance of personal storytelling. For the first time, black folk are able to communicate across the globe with ease and how are we interacting in this space? Frankly, I'm more interested in how you deal with diabetes than what you think of Beyonce's new weave. I think it will take more niche social networks to cultivate these connections. And that means we have to get more involved in programming and VC efforts. I have more ideas on this. But right now, life is kicking my ass.

By: pamela

pamela — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 13:21:11 +0000

Quite an interesting subject. I wish that a real 'association' of sorts would be developed where we could go and identify ourselves and what genre we actually write under. There are so many pages as you say – but there are even less that write consistently – lots of doing it because it's popular etc. An organization where we could go and see who else writes in our genre and talk to others who are consistent bloggers is cool. I personally want to expand who I read. I don't know where to go to see some hetrosexual political blogs etc.

My genre is personal story – those of us that write personally would like a little more love. I totally and subscribe to all the celeb blogs but to cut and paste is kinda easy. Those that open up their lives or those that write the fascinating aricles from their mind space are what's hot.

I think that as usual, we have an opportunity to combine our resouces and forces and move the entire black blog spectrum forward – but I don't think we'll use it.