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March 16, 2005
Women Bloggers
There's sure are a lot of people talking about women bloggers, or the lack there of. However, all the posts I read seemed to be talking about the same few women bloggers, so I thought I'd take a second and link to 15 random women bloggers from my "READ THIS NOW!!!" folder in my RSS reader. That means anytime these blogs are updated I'm reading them in minutes. You should be too. I didn't even look in the "READ THIS SOON" or "READ THIS LATER" folders which are full of blogs that I only refresh a little less frequently than the NOW folder. Here they are: 1. Caryn Coleman That's just 15, there's tons more and if I had more time I'd link to more of them. There's probably some obvious exceptions on there but I wasn't trying to list the 15 most popular, seriously that's a pretty random grab with the exception that I didn't list Xeni becuase I've yet to meet the person who dosen't already read her blog, and of course I had to link to Caryn because she's my wife and she rocks. Want more? We've got women writing for every single metroblogging site - that's probably not a terrible place to start. I'm sure you know of some others so how about it? Pick 15 women bloggers you read all the time that I might not know about and blog them, or post them in the comments. I want to know what I'm missing. Posted by sean on March 16, 2005 07:57 PM | View blog reactions
Previous Entry: eTech: James Larsson Rocked Next Entry: eTech: Hardware Hacking IRC Logs I am a psychotic atention whore, so thanks for the link. I went to that panel on women on the web at SXSW, and have a lot of my own views on it. It blows. It's a boy's club. But not for any good reason, nor is it anyone's fault. After all, all us girlies post about is kittens (http://www.tripindicular.com/archives/2004/10/this_is_what_i.html). But, for serious, I think there is an issue with women of the web not being taken as seriously as men. I had to bust my ass to get recognition studying Interactive Multimedia in college, a department which had a roughly 8:1 ratio of men to ladies. The seriousness goes way down the shitter when you have a face that doesn't break a mirror to go along with it. 9 times out of 10, you are dismissed as just some chick, some dude tries to get your number and says "Oh, you have a blog? How cute". Posted by: Lauren on March 16, 2005 08:38 PM
I'd also like to add that on art.blogging.la I have four women writers contributing to the site and only one man. When people say there's a lack of women bloggers, they just aren't paying attention (and probably like to complain anyway). It's like a stereotype that people want to be true instead of facing the facts. Posted by: caryn on March 16, 2005 10:59 PM
There's a collective blog for and about romance writing (not romance books) over at romancingtheblog.com. In the left column you'll see direct links to well over 130 blogs written by women. (There's maybe 150, but several of them are written by men.) Most of those on that bloglist have blogs focused on romance writing; many of them are published authors, and their blogs the active part of their promotional website. I doubt if many of those blogs are socio/political in nature, perhaps keeping them off the radar screen of many non romance readers. However, being published authors, many of their blog posts do have the advantage of being well written... Posted by: Walt Stone on March 17, 2005 01:11 PM
The link to Xeni should be http://boingboing.NET (or http://xeni.net/ of course). Posted by: Fuzzy on March 17, 2005 01:50 PM
well i've got three: me (http://www.tiffanybbrown.com/), Azzari Jarrett ("http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~a-caillier/hardscrabble/) and Cecily (http://www.notformi.ca/) Posted by: tiffany on March 18, 2005 08:43 AM
Does Wonkette count? Posted by: Koganuts on March 18, 2005 11:30 AM
Thanks for reading me NOW. Makes me feel like I should be writing NOW, but I've always been an overachiever. I have to say, without hard data I'm going with Caryn on this one. There are legions of women bloggers out there; perhaps they're (we're) being marginalized b/c our sites aren't as hit-heavy, perhaps b/c the topics are of less interest to the print journalists, who are (ahem) likely looking for blogs that conform to their dinosaur paradigm of "important content." I mean, there's been a lot of blogging about blogging lately, but blogging as a topic seems to have achieved critical mass in the traditional media, too. So I'm not surprised if/that a lot of this is us being measured by their rusty old folding yardstick. Posted by: Colleen on March 19, 2005 03:06 PM
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