Such as it is today, the blogosphere is a sub-optimal technology for advancing black interests. Threaded discussion I got no problems with. With proper slashdotting, the emergent qualities of the same are of indisputable benefit. But slashdotting is not what's happening in the black blogosphere. What is instead happening by-and-large is that we are caught between a demographic and technological Scylla and Charybdis of a technology architected as popularity contest - with financial rewards proportional to popularity. In my opinion, this greatly limits the utility of the blogosphere as an instrumentality of free black pedagogy and leadership in what appear to be some fundamental and irremediable ways.
In a nutshell, free and valid black-partisan demagoguery {demos - the common people agein - to lead} cannot be undertaken in a context in which facilitators between people's emotions and their decisions are constantly at moral and economic cross-purposes with themselves.
Four data points prompt me to these conclusions;