In the company of BlogHers . . .
By Tom Foremski - July 20, 2005
SiliconValleyWatcher is a proud media sponsor of the BlogHer conference, the first conference highlighting the emerging elite of women bloggers.
As far as I know, tickets for this conference are already sold out; unfortunate, as I would like to take my 11-year-old daughter, Sarah. I've no idea if Sarah wants to be a BlogHer, but I'd love to expose her to a new environment and dynamic role models.
BTW, wouldn't you almost think that a blogging conference focused on women, or anything gentrified as such, is more of an artefact of the 70's, 80's and 90's? Along those lines, I'm interested in the vibe they'll try to extend, if it'll be a NOW-type one.
I often say that blogging is about meritocracy of content. I never check for gender bylines. And blogging is about authentic voices and a viral distribution system. Women bloggers will surely find their way into the limelight. I meet more of them every day.
The BlogHer conference organizers want to publicize the best women bloggers and encourage more women to climb into the top echelons of the blogosphere.
I'm glad somebody is encouraging more women to become bloggers, because we need some fresh voices. It is always the same A-list bloggers, you know who I mean. At every conference I go to, and every panel I moderate or take part in, it's the same group. It's people like Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, John Udell, Ross Mayfield, Marc Cantor, Jeremy Zawodny, Dan Gillmor, Mike Manuel, Om Malik, etc.
It is a group I like because the company is never dull. But it is all men, except for Charlene Li, Forrester's superstar analyst, who seems to be on every panel on blogging in the western hemisphere :-).
I've no doubt that the male dominated geek blogger community would do everything in its power to encourage women to blog, and to attend their geek conferences in large numbers.
And I'm happy to accelerate the building of women blogger media brands - if you'd like to send me a guestblog.
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Comments (1)
I've been writing an often snarky opinion column ("Calhoun's Can(n)ons")for our Los Osos (CA) community paper for about 12 years, and have recently been asked to join a local/writer's focused blog (www.newsmission.blogspot.com) and now have my own blog at the site (www.calhounscannon.blogspot.com) Since I'm a "her," I guess I can now claim to be part of the greater blogHers.
Being one of the few or often the only local woman columnist,(they don't call it SLO County for nothing) I know the weirdness of being that solitary voice baying in a dark tunnel. Especially since from day one I refused to write about cooking or 101 ways to chase dust mice around the house, or dating and/or children -- "safe" topics the local papers only seemed interested in.
I am delighted to know my sister writers are out there -- baying.
Posted: August 2, 2005 6:38 AM