While there are a number of successful African American blogs, why does email continue to be such a big driver of political discourse in the African American community?
Well, let's see email is pretty much free. Yahoo and other makes it pretty simple to set up an email.
Once someone sends you something to read, with a click of the mouse you can send it to another person, effortless.
If they get an email that is from a friend or family marked urgent, it is sent to everyone they know. And if you check the chain mail list and find a friend or family member name missing you send it to the next person.
It's easy to get away with sending stuff on email on the job.
Email spam is easy to do when you are bored.
Email does not require you to know how to write.
Now blogging.
Blogging can be time consuming.
Blogging requires you to write.
Blogging requires you to post
Blogging may cost you money.
Blogging may require you to have your own computer.
I would suggest that many bloggers are young technically savvy folks.
Of course blogging does not require either, but that's my take.
I also believe many African-Americans bloggers are college students.
I suggest that the young students use myspace.
Email generation tend to be older African-Americans who are unwilling to give up time to learn about utilizing the internet beyond being consumers. Many of the younger generation are using IM or texts on their cellphone. Blogging reaches a broader network than the more personal email.
I had only one class in computers... to learn workprocessing. Curiosity keeps me coming back.
