Another Web Revolution?
In 2000, as the dot-com bubble was experiencing its last burst, black enterprise assessed how African American-owned sites fared. Littered as the landscape was with dot-coms-turned-dot-bombs, the picture was hazy, at best. Fast-forward to 2009 and things look a bit different: Black-focused sites and blogs cover a huge swath of the Web 2.0 space and show no signs of decreasing. A recent Pew Internet and American Life Project report shows that African Americans and Hispanics far outnumber other groups engaging in online social networks (see “African Americans Love to Tweet,†Talking Points, August 2009).
