An open
letter to the Women’s Media Center….
Suggestions of long time women bloggers for your linkage:
Jeneane
Sessum blogs at “Allied.” Jeneane was the
founding “Blogsister” and I see you have linked to Blogsisters but not to Jeneane directly. She has been writing online daily for over
four years.
http://allied.blogspot.com/
Shelley
Powers blogs at Burning Bird. Shelley
has been blogging since before it was called that. She’s a techie, a published writer, a
photographer and her work bespeaks a rare sensitivity as well as a feminist
focus.
http://weblog.burningbird.net/
Sheila
Lennon is a media professional, a proto blogger who writes for the Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island.
http://www.beloblog.com/ProJo_Blogs/shenews/
Leslie
Winer is Madame Levy, blogging from France at La Vache Qui Lit. She is the godmother of trip hop or something, an old
associate of William Burroughs and Gregory Corso, a one time high fashion
model, the mother of four or five girls and a no nonsense genius. She played at the ATP festival this summer… here’s a BBC cultural comment that could lead you to more info. You really have to link to her.
http://lavachequilit.typepad.com/la_vache_qui_lit/
Denise
Howell, an LA Corporate lawyer from Orange County, blogs at Bag and Baggage, has
written daily for the last four or five years, coined the terms “blawg” and “blawger”
for – you guessed it – legal blogs and bloggers.
http://bgbg.blogspot.com/
Rebecca
Blood may be the first woman blogger. Ever. (Although I doubt she would claim that). She wrote a how-to book
about blogging four or five years ago. Rebecca’s Pocket remains one of the best informed, most diverse
sites. It’s a pleasure to visit. Rebecca could give up her day job if there
was a way for individual bloggers to make money. She’s a professional.
http://www.rebeccablood.net/
Ronni
Bennett, blogging at “Time Goes By” is probably the only person blogging
professionally into the “aging” space. She’s
passionate and brilliant, used to produce for Barbara Walters among other
shows. A list of women bloggers can not
be complete without Ronni.
http://www.timegoesby.net/
There are
of course dozens and dozens of other women blogging who deserve linkage, but these
seven just leap to mind as missing when I read your blog roll. I’m sorry I can’t list every woman blogger I read, everyone whose work I’m fond of, but the seven above are feminists all, women
who have been blogging for a long time and have a huge readership, and who will
enhance your blogroll. Blogging is to a certain extent about linky love, so if I was you, I’d
link these people. Wait. I already have linked these people!
Frank Paynter
http://sandhill.typepad.com
… and
elsewhere
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Thanks for including me on this list — it’s fine company — and for the kind words also. I truly am not the first woman blogger. I can think of 5 who preceded me: Tara Calishain at http://www.researchbuzz.com/ , Laurel Krahn at http://www.windowseat.org/, Jessamyn West at http://www.librarian.net/ , Brigette Eaton at http://www.eatonweb.net/ , and Heather Anne Halpert, who once maintained a site called Lemonyellow.
Aw, Frank, aren’t you kind to include me in your list.
Checking out the WMC site, I think it’s not that they’ve omitted many excellent women bloggers (and they have), but that they included many women bloggers who are either feminist-centric or are well-known outside the blog world which, given their columnist list above the bloggers, may have been the point.
In their Welcome message on the upper left, they say: “The WMC website is the ONLY place for news on women, links to women columnists, bloggers, media organizations and more…”
Only? Oh, puh-leeze. Don’t you dare feel stupid, Frank. For me, that “only” makes the entire place hard to take.
5. 5 girls. if i was a poker playa…
Frank, a brilliant list, indeed! I admire many of the women on the Women’s Media Center columnist list (Susan Mernit!) and their blogroll is a great start. I just hope that the prevailing attitude over there is one of inclusion. This is a start, not a definitive list.
Frank, a brilliant list, indeed! I admire many of the women on the Women’s Media Center columnist list (Susan Mernit!) and their blogroll is a great start. I just hope that the prevailing attitude over there is one of inclusion. This is a start, not a definitive list.