Blackhacker

Freedbacking is a term coined by Chris Pirillo. Short for Free Feedback the idea is that bloggers blog about products and services they are using and tag them ‘freedbacking’. By simply scouring the internet for these tags developers and service providers can find valuable information about problems and suggestions to improve products that are used and loved all over the Internet. The desired affect is that users are brought closer to the those that bring them there products.

This is something I support. I think the developer user interaction is a key element of the Open Source movement that made the blogosphere, Web 2.0 and all of the later innovations that we see and enjoy in the post bubble era, possible. In the early days, OSS was developed for other developers. Feedback and support was carried through email lists, Usenet groups, and IRC chats. While all for those mediums still exists they have been eclipsed by blogs, wikis, and other forms of social networks, as forms of mass media.

I will lend my iron to the crucible that is freedbacking, adding a new category, and soon publish my freedbacking first post.

Wow. I’ve really been asleep at the switch. I just realized that I’m in the finals for the for Black Weblog Awards under the ‘Best Technology Blog’ category. I haven’t talked about the BWA this year. But please take the time to vote. And if you feel that I am worthy, please vote for me.
 
 
 
 

Update:
Must give Dap to Marc Lamont Hill. Had he not blog about his nomination I wouldn’t have clicked over to see my nomination.

Stody Old Mainstream Media Company Dow Jones, has been putting in a lot of work to add Web 2.0 offerings. Its latest is a blog called Tech Trader Daily. Check it out

I’m sayin’ !!!

Pretty substantial broo ha ha going on. It all started when The Conservative Brotherhood enlarged its borders to add some new members. The story got picked up on wizbang, pretty substial conservative blog. The post itself was very matter of fact, but it did state that TCB where a group of Black Conservative bloggers. Of course you KNOW what happened next.

“How come these bloggers are SEGREGATING themselves”.
“What if I started a WHITE ONLY bloggers group.”
“This is RACISM !!”

Yadda Yadda Yadda. I can’t get into the TCB either but you don’t hear crying about it. I am not really of the same political persuaison, but at lest there sre SOME black people out doin it. Sometimes black people need to be with black people. I never thought that that would be such a hard concept to understand in America, given American history. Of course we don’t study History anymore.

To see the carnage:
Ambra
Wizbang
Baldilocks

Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog says :

You probably aren’t aware of this if you don’t lurk at right-wing Web sites, but the questioning of those National Guard documents doesn’t just make conservatives think they’ve caught Dan Rather and CBS with egg on their faces — it makes them think they are on the verge of destroying the entire established media universe.

I am a new jack to the blogosphere, both as a reader and writer. And I do think the concept of blogging is revolutionary. Its cool to think that ordinary people with little, zero, or negative cash flow can can compete on the big stage with large more established and better financed media companies. But can we just check ourselves a minute? The "Old Boys" have been doing this longer than I have been alive. They have larger and smarter staffs, and nothing else to do all day (being that reporting news and providing content is their profession and lively hood) I will grant that the "Old Boys" have gotten complacent and become sensation seeking gossip mongers. (not entirely their fault being that there is a huge market for the stuff)

Blogs are not going to replace "Old Boys" as the primary sources of News in this country. In my little bit of experience I found that blogs are reactive. People blog about stuff that happens to them. Bloggers are not going to be first hand reporters. So if there was no "Old Boy" news networks to bring us the info in the first place what the heck would we blog about?

What I can see is blogs as the sounding board to what the US and the world is thinking. I suspect CBS News and Dan Rather will be around for a while. (I hope so.) But Nielsen Media Research better watch their backs.