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April 27, 2006
BP, BV, BET and the CBC 3
I tooled around this morning to see if any of the major black web properties - Blackplanet.com, BET.com and AOL Black Voices - were covering the recent net neutrality committee vote or the curious votes by Congressional Black Caucus members Edolphus Towns, Albert Wynn, and Bobby Rush.
Not suprisingly, after clearing a few navigational hurdles (dudes, fix that header) I found no mention of the story on BV's news page. Nor was it on BET's new page or BP's. One bright note was that BP's new beta site (nice work, BTW!) now includes a user-powered news sharing tool.. I added the story; we'll see what the crowd does with it.
(Not to brag, but the first deployment of digg/slashdot/plastic-style news sharing tools on a black site was on my late, great Africana.com, the last of which has apparently been finally and completely deleted from AOL's servers. Pour one out for the A-List and the Africana Racism Threat Index; you will not see their like again, except for maybe, like, here.)
A check of Tom Joyner's BlackAmericaWeb.com also produced bupkis on net neutrality and the CBC 3. It's sad, actually. If African American web professionals don't care enough about net neutrality to push a single button on their content management systems, how can we expect black users to care?
Posted by ebogjonson in politricknal sciences, on April 27, 2006 10:02 AM
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