BlackPerspective.net

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With yet another blogger list that disrespects bloggers of color, where white is the default for anything good; I’ve decided to get into the fray of blogger recognition.

Villager has come up with the anecdote for Black bloggers being consistently left off of Best blog list, and being highly underrepresented on the blogs sites of popular netroots sites like MYDD and Daily Kos - DO OUR OWN.

For several months now he’s conducted Villager’s Best Black Blog Rankings monthly, based on Technorati Authority and Rank

Open Entrance recently did a Top Black Bloggers List, based solely on traffic

I want to create a list that takes in popularity, influence authority, and subjective quality criteria. To that end I’m holding a contest to create BlackPerspective.net’s Best Black Blogs List.

The process will go as follows:

1. We will take the top 50 blogs from Villager’s most influential list that’s based on Technorati Authority

2. From those 50 we will have a popular vote, and we will take the top 20 vote getters as finalist.

3. From that list of 20, we will personally examine all 20 blogs to determine a top 10 list, and the other 10 will be awarded Honorable Mention.

The criteria for examination are as follows with number 1 being the criteria to carry the most weight and descending in importance from there:

1. The veracity of the content of the blog; including use of multimedia
2. The creativeness and uniqueness of the perspective or twist on the information provided
3. How well written the content is
4. The diversity of content
5. The balance of informative versus entertainment or engagement value
6. The readability of the text area
7. The presentation via the layout

This will provide for a more comprehensive Black Blog list. It will go beyond the often use popular vote; which tells you more about which blogs have more mass appeal and less substantive material, more than it tells you the quality of the blog.

BlackPerspective.net’s Best Black Blogs List will start with its basis being the influence level of the blogs then taking the popularity pulse of those blogs, and yet finish with a human taking stock of the actual quality of the blogs based on some criteria.

This provides a more balanced level of objectivity with a level of critical judgment; rather than just going by raw numbers.

We’ll run this contest either bi-annually or quarterly, I haven’t decided yet.

The post to start your voting with the list of candidates will go up soon, so stay tuned.

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