Who Was Missing: BlogHerCon 2005

At the cocktail reception, I had a brief discussion with Nameless Girl (I didn't get her name....) who pointed out there were large chunks of the Big Internet Conversation missing.  In her case, faith-based blogs.

Staci Kramer thought that BlogHer did a good job of capturing the diversity of the internet.

I thought about that some more.  I have identified a few missing blog identities.

Here are some blog foci that were missing:

Female Milbloggers (some nominees, in no particular order, all members of the MilBlog webring; if I find more I'll add 'em):

• Hooah Wife
• Kim Ponders, Femme La Guerre
• The combat medic, Female Soldier2
• The fiber artists, RenFair participant, and oh, yes, soldier.
• The female marine Akinoluna
• Military wife TryingToGrok

Bloggers with a strong religious slant to their blogging (again, random selections--Baraita is at the top of my blogroll, and then I used hers, and then I...)

• Baraita
• Barefoot Jewess
• Velveteen Rabbi
• Sage Starwalker (pagan)
• Amy Welborn at Open Book
• Feminist Mormon Housewives
• Beth Quick
• Maggi Dawn
• Reverend Mommy

I'm still looking for blogs by Islamic women and blogs by Buddhist women.  They are out there, I am just not looking in the right places.

Health-care bloggers who are women (non-exhaustive list, all right)

• Shrinkette
• Genetics and Public Health Blog by Hsien Hsien Lei --she is also a  LiveJournal tipster (her personal blog is  CottonTime)
• Alisha at Pink Slip Central
• The Well-Timed Period
• Maria at Intueri
• Doc Shazam
• Crazy Tracy
• Mediblogopathy (for a complete list of nursing blogs)
• Michelle at the Underwear Drawer

I'm sure there are more there, too...

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Comments

[Lei/cottontimer]

Hey Liz,

I've been enjoying the BlogHer round-up posts. Just wanted to say that I'm a woman :D and I write the Genetics and Public Health Blog (http://www.aboutweblogs.com/genetics), which was one of Forbes.com's Best of the Web health and fitness blogs (http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=7871). Just wanted to give a toot on my horn. Hope you don't mind. :)

[Akinoluna]

Thanks for the mention. :-)

[Lei/cottontimer]

Thanks for adding me, Liz. It tickled me to be called a tipster. :D

[Kim Ponders]

Thanks for thinking of me. I'm very interested in joining the network making it to BlogHerCon'06.

[Akinoluna]

I would too...but I'll probably be out of the country by then. Marine Corps does that too you sometimes. ;-)

[Rachel]

Thanks for the mention! I was sad to miss BlogHer, and it's oddly gratifying to know that my absence was noticed. :-) Maybe next year...!

[HypnoKitten]

Thanks so much for mentioning me! I did not even know that BlogHer existed.. I'll obviously have to be more prepared for the next time it comes around. :D