No Women Bloggers?! We tried!
Today we posted “Top Tech Bloggers Define Web 2.0” featuring Dan Farber (CNET News.com), Marshall Kirkpatrick (ReadWriteWeb), Mike Butcher (TechCrunch), Dean Takahashi (VentureBeat), Scott Beale (Laughing Squid), Josh Lowensohn (Webware).
We got an email from All Things D’s Kara Swisher saying no women bloggers were featured in the post. True, but we did try. Sadly, Caroline McCarthy from CNET and former-Valleywag-now-freelancer Meghan McCarthy both were too busy for a short–2 minutes max–interview. We did feature Mashable’s Kristen Nicole and BlogTalkRadio’s Hilary Leewong in our Daily Wrap-ups.
I’m not a big fan of featuring only old white men, and neither is Marie. My mom is a strong defender of civil rights, especially for women. As a lawyer, she fought so that women could run around bare-chested in Texas. I also worked on my Bachelor’s degree studying race and urban spaces, and wrote my senior thesis on how the Texas history museum only tells a male–mostly white–story.
We want to interview women reporters and blogger, so give us a shout.
There were loads of female bloggers there… at points Blogtropol.us was nearly 50/50. Maybe not everyone is recognizable or famous enough to the point of the pasty white men?
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
April 28, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Hi Cyndy:
Thanks for your comment. Good point. A lot of the women I spoke to in Blogtropol.us were marketing/PR contacts for companies. *shrug*
We’ve had women on the show and hopefully will have more women!
Chris
Chris Lynn
April 28, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I was there, I swear! I was doing double duty in the booth and covering the conference for the blog, and there may have been more of us. Blogging is my “real” job though; the booth was helping out.
Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
April 29, 2008 at 2:28 am
Chris,
I”m a retired Texana librarian, with an interest in museums. I find your senior thesis an interesting topic. In addition to my “Texas Parlor” blog I publish an e-journal, Will’s Texana Monthly. If you wish to continue exploration of that topic, let me know. The vast majority of museums in Texas are, as they are in most locales, interested in their community’s or state’s history and accomplishments – hence Texana in Texas. Most are not affiliated with the Texas Association of Museums. The emerging “minority” museum and the emerging role of “minorities” within traditional museums will be genuine growth section. Your developing a continuing focus on such would be interesting for sure and a focus of future study and an added value to your employment options. Did you compile a directory of those that you DID find in Texas which did demonstrate an inclusive practice?
Will Howard
April 30, 2008 at 5:22 am