Comments on: African-American Internet Summit

By: Ashley E.

Ashley E. — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:51:31 +0000

Have you heard about the facebook application that donates money to the rainforest when you use it? Users can send pictures of cute plants to their friends. For every ten plants they send, the developers buy one square foot of rainforest. It’s called (Lil) Green Patch, and it’s been featured in TIME magazine.
Some of the plants are anthropomorphized. Those look like white children dressed in plant costumes.
The problem is that none of the dozens of kid-plants have dark skin. The developers have in the past said that the kids are “raceless.”
I’m trying to raise awareness of this in order to pressure the developers to add some melanin to their application.
Could you blog about this for me?
http://www.lilgreenpatch.com/badgelanding.php

By: Gem2001

Gem2001 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:13:36 +0000

The website does leave a bit to be desired, but I can hardly talk, I have yet to update the Blogging While Brown website. I MIGHT be interested in going to that, but I found out about it a bit late.

By: JayReds

JayReds — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:46:40 +0000

Great post! Its important for the black community to host these types of events and for them to proliferate. I look forward to something similar in the Washington DC area. I may just try to organize one. Hopefully an attendee will provide a brief write up of the key points.

By: Michael Lang

Michael Lang — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:22:05 +0000

Thanks for posting Lynne. Fredric – I hope you’re joking… but if not, you didn’t have to put the site on blast. If you don’t like the site or have an idea on how it could possibly be better, email Angela.

By: Fredric Mitchell

Fredric Mitchell — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:21:16 +0000

I’ll have to see if I can poach this event.

Side note: Why does the website look God-awful. I mean, come on PEOPLE!