For a guy running a search engine your internet research skills are pretty bad. I’m unemployed! No company, no tech position, no paycheck. I eat what I catch. You should probably give Google a try for future internet research projects.

You say, “I don’t know you and that’s says a lot.”

Uh, right it does. It says you dont know many people who arent screaming that everyone online is a racist trying to persecute them.

Angela needs to consider your points about her site name, but since you handing out naming advice I’d suggest you take some of it yourself and think twice about Fooky.com. Why not call it Pookydem.com its easier to remember or just cut to the chase and name it watermelonandfriedchicken.com

While you were bagging electronics at The Sharper Image and making photocopies at the American Marketing Association there was a whole bunch of folks already building internet strategies for companies large and small. Many of those folks still run Internet businesses and dont cry on every blog they find about “the man” keeping them down.

Ed I do want to thank you for you posts both here and elsewhere on the web. The mixture of hubris, entitlement and ignorance is always entertaining.

I did a little research and just realize who you are. A typical wannabee who works at a company with a tech position and feel empowered with the paycheck.

Usually those are the ones that have snotty comments about me and the matter regarding Michael Arrington, cats that want to do it also, talk about it but nothing there. I was wondering why you dismiss a matter with the term “flame bait” and now I know why.

My word was “disappointed” and whether you say nice things about me or not is not the issue. Believe me, I do appreciate it. However, highlighting positive and ignoring the negative does not equal true progress. This may have worked for Johnson Publishing but this arena is far too aggressive for sugarcoating.

Where I was “disappointed” was on several factors. First and foremost, you choose to call yourself “Black Web 2.0″ which have two fundamental issues. Please take the criticism as constructive, not personal

First issue is Tim O’Rielly applied for trademark rights to “Web 2.0″ which even if it does not go through, shows he has intellectual property rights over the term and can exercise it if he want to. This technology game involves a lot of IP research, not just the great stories and to see “Black Web 2.0″ is no different than seeing “Black Google” or “Black IBM” and I wish you provided a better name.

Second is your understanding of what Web 2.0 is to call yourself “Black Web 2.0″. Web 2.0 was nothing more than a VC stunt, not a movement. All of the participants were pretty much moving the same money around and what Web 2.0 ended being was nothing more than people with nice resume, building up a nice portfolio only to be “bought” by a larger company as a full-time employee and VC principals get the kickback. Please explain to us what is so Black about that?

And last, African-American technologists predates Web 2.0 and actually was responsible for laying the groundwork for the platform Web 2.0 claims to be about. Omar Wasow, no further discussion necessary. All I’m suggesting is if you want to discuss African-Americans in technology, do your homework and realize “Black Web 2.0″ suggest to those that have been around means you are barking up the wrong tree.

You just revealed a lot based on your comments that you are an observer with a lot of comments.

Flame bait? Racism focused on one person, one medium? Are you serious?

The sad part is yes you are.

And let’s go there, I don’t know you and that’s says a lot. If you don’t know me and make that kind of sideshow sidelines comment, that’s says a lot.

There are far to many AA’s building successful business online to take this kind of flame bait seriously.

On another note I do think Ed is right on one point. Angela and team need to up their insider game… The site definitely needs to get better to breaking news and showing that they have access beyond press releases.

Thanks Ed for leaving a comment and not sugarcoating your feelings about us. We value all sides! :) While I know we can never be all thing to all people we still appreciate your opinion. We have actually be following you for quite sometime and really like what you are doing however I will say you appear as if everyone is out to get you. That is not the case with us, we like your work but really feel the need to highlight the positive things we are all doing in the Tech space. This is exactly why we featured you in a Start-up segment we had last year on September 20th (http://www.blackweb20.com/2007/09/20/startup-fookycom/), we wanted to cover the positive things you do and not focus on the negativity that seems to come your way.

Thanks again for commenting and sharing your feedback! We appreciate it! :)

Angela Benton

At best, I’m extremely disappointed at “Black Web 2.0″ as they revealed either two things to those of us that are really in the tech arena. Either “Black Web 2.0″ chose to ignore the very documented racism specifically targeted towards me and my startup and other Blacks or they simply are followers with no inside industry knowledge.

This is not an arena to front in and some of us expect homework to be done before claiming to cover a sector from a Black perspective.