Halley Suitt's Challenge
So I'm throwing down a month-long challenge in March, to promote TEN NEW VOICES. I'm asking all the bloggers* in the room at Harvard (Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis, David Weinberger, Rebecca MacKinnon, Susan Mernit, Shayne Bowman, Ana Marie Cox, Lisa Stone, Chris Willis, Craig Newmark, Bill Gannon) to find TEN NEW VOICES and promote them by writing a post about each as an introduction and blogrolling them.
Here are the rules:
1. They can't be male if they are white;
2. You must have five women and five men;
3. You must have at least three non-Americans.If I missed anything, please let me know. Ironically, I think the toughest criterion to meet here will be NON-AMERICANS. We bloggers** are very provincial in this respect.
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*Suitt didn't see fit to link to these folks' blogs -- guess you know if you know. I think I've got this right.
Jay Rosen = Press Think
Jeff Jarvis = Buzz Machine
David Weinberger = Joho the Blog
Rebecca MacKinnon = RConversation
Susan Mernit = Susan Mernit's Blog
Shayne Bowman = Hypergene Media Blog
Ana Marie Cox
= Wonkette
Lisa Stone
= Surfette
Chris Willis = Hypergene Media Blog
Craig Newmark = Craigblog but also the Craig of Craig'slist
Bill Gannon = editorial director of Yahoo News.
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** I still think using "blogger" in the sense of "pundit with electrons" is silly. Blogging is just a tool, just like a pencil.
I can do this easily, but the deal is, does it have to be political? Or media related? I don't know.
I read Frank Paynter (Sandhill Trek) when I have the patience to let his site load, and he has a response to the Halley Suitt challenge.
The conversation, via Jeneane Sessum, is "How White is Your Blogroll"?
I'd put it a different way: How often do you read people who
(a) have different values than yours, or
(b) have a different/opposing worldview?
And if you read them, do you link to them?
Here, Rebecca McKinnon is saying that the blogosphere = political blogs, and is also implying that there is some kind of barrier that creates a condition wherein the only voices heard are male and white. Well, I disagree that blogosphere = political blogs. Gee, if you want to know what other voices are saying, go listen, and link to them....
Burningbird, Shelley Powers, wants to know where are the women of blogging (it's pretty funny, what with Larry and all), and thinks there a sex-linked linking thing.
But there's also arisen: BlogHERCon. Are blogs written by women different? How?
Who is on the BlogHERCon bandwagon? Surfette (Lisa Stone) -- BlogHerCon, yes.
Here's why: If we can agree that it's important for Web users to be exposed* to more than one woman blogger, then you tell me...
- Do we need a global gathering place cum stage where women bloggers can have a conversation by, for and about our individual work, and share it with anyone who's interested?
- Would we benefit from creating a meeting place (virtual and actual) where we can pursue the diverse agendas, policies, ideas, journalism, brainstorming, anger, humor and <insert infinite subject loop here> that are not getting [enough] air time in any medium worldwide?**
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* look, you can go find them
**No one is controlling the airtime of blogging, except the end user. It isn't LIKE radio or TV.
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Grrr. </rant>
So. Back to BlogHercon. Googling it, there are (as of 10:30 Monday March 14, 2005) already about 8,000 mentions. Hmmn.
Full Circle Association -- Nancy White -- I'm not sure, I keep timing out trying to load the site.
EllementK who thinks the boys should be allowed to come to the conference, if they know their place.
Elisa Camahort (of the WorkerBees) today's BlogHerCon thoughts;
Lisa (Surfette) wants to know if the meeting should be open to men.
Dave Winer (Scripting News) says it was Sylvia Paull's idea, but really from her post, it seems like it arose over dinner among a number of women (including Elisa Camahort). Predictably, Dave doesn't like the girls' clubhouse idea. Sylvia sets the record straight.
People keep thinking that the way they use blogs are the only way to use blogs.
Sheesh.
Charlene Li at Forrester posts a note about BlogHer Con -- it too is taking forever and a day to load. Sheesh again -- I don't know if is my machine or something else.
Roger Benningfield at Big Damn Heroes says,
Bloghercon and the Myth of Links
The "where are the female bloggers" meme continues to throb about the blogosphere like a dull migraine. The answer is so simple: "they're everywhere". But simple answers are seldom satisfying to enthusiasts, and we end up with ideas like Bloghercon.....
It's the idea that someone out there feels like women need it, that without it they'll be marginalized in this brave new world of personal publishing... that's what bugs me. Because the women I know are a fundamental part of that new world, and they don't need a big, fat PageRank to hold their place at the table.
The American Street says: Read IddyBud, who has the goods.
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