Thursday, April 27, 2006

The Rochester Insider had a story on blogging and featured five Rochester bloggers this week. It gives a good quick explaination of what blogs are and tips for good blogging.

The story starts off with a paragraph anticipating bloggers being critical of the story... and I have to say I am kinda bummed about the article.

No... not because I wasn't in it (bah-hah!)... but because all five bloggers... are guys! "A study by market research firm Perseus Development Corp says more women than men start blogs, and women are more likely to maintain them." (quote found here) So couldn't they find even one female blogger in Rochester?

This is not the first lack of visibility for female bloggers... "Susan Mernit points out that just 5 of the 100 blogs selected by CNET for the CNET 100 have a woman as a principal author." (quote found here)

Bummer.

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17 comments:

  1. omarApril 27, 2006 at 11:16 AM

    Hm. Yeah, I'm not wild about the article either. And I had heard about there being more women bloggers as well, and it seems to be true in my experience. Even locally in Rochester, I personally know of way more women bloggers than men.

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  2. foodiechickieApril 27, 2006 at 11:35 AM

    My husband actually got me and his male buddies into blogging but I find more women do blog then men.

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  3. julielionApril 27, 2006 at 12:31 PM

    hmmm, that's interesting - I never really thought about it, but I think of the dozen or so blogs I check, only one of them is by a guy.

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  4. KrisApril 27, 2006 at 1:48 PM

    Hmmm... I didn't like the article. But then, it's the Insider... ;)

    Most blogs I read are written by women. There's a few guys in there, but not too many. I wonder if guys just don't read women-written blogs. Like women will read magazines geared for men, but you never see a guy reading Cosmo. (you won't see me reading it either, but you get my drift)

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  5. Andi @ udandiApril 27, 2006 at 3:12 PM

    Write a letter to the editor!

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  6. AnonymousApril 27, 2006 at 6:48 PM

    I read the article and thought the same thing. I then checked each blog and they were lame. Whoever wrote the article did not do much research on Rochester bloggers.

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  7. Jess (fushmush)April 27, 2006 at 7:03 PM

    90% of the blogs I read are written by women. I'd say the other 10% are blogs of my male friends.

    Obviously not a very well researched article.

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  8. AnonymousApril 28, 2006 at 8:49 AM

    I read many blogs linked through your blog here and none of the ones I check daily are written by a man. If I saw a good one I would read it but I haven't come across one yet.

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  9. AprilleApril 28, 2006 at 10:40 AM

    Bummer - the link to the article is busted - do you still have your h/c? The guys blogs that I read are very specialized - authors like Neil Gaiman and Jonathan Carroll, a Second Life blog just for curiosity's sake, the Elatable by Bradley Horowitz - a social network research.
    The fun blogs - they're all chics... It irks me.

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  10. melApril 28, 2006 at 5:55 PM

    wow - I can't believe CNET. Terrible I tell ya because there are SO many female blogs that I lurve!

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  11. KikiApril 28, 2006 at 9:11 PM

    I can't believe they omitted you. I can't help but think you're the most famous Rochester blogger. I mean, look at the following you've got! I've been reading you for years! You're my first blog, in fact!!!

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  12. kikiApril 28, 2006 at 9:12 PM

    Or rather, the first blog I began following. You've been doing this since the beginning. Yay for LJC!

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  13. SilandaraApril 29, 2006 at 7:09 PM

    I didn't realize they only profiled male bloggers until you pointed it out. I did wonder why they didn't profile you (or me - but more you because you write about things other than what's going on in your head, like the cool things you do and see). And they just did a profile on GayShawn not that long ago, so I was surprised to see him in there again. Oh well. If I'd written it, I would have included more women.

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  14. SilandaraApril 29, 2006 at 7:19 PM

    I didn't realize they only profiled male bloggers until you pointed it out. I did wonder why they didn't profile you (or me - but more you because you write about things other than what's going on in your head, like the cool things you do and see). And they just did a profile on GayShawn not that long ago, so I was surprised to see him in there again. Oh well. If I'd written it, I would have included more women.

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  15. ljcApril 29, 2006 at 8:05 PM

    I fixed the link to the article.

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  16. JasonApril 29, 2006 at 10:18 PM

    I was in the "article". The writer's idea of "interviewing" bloggers was just by sending an e-mail of questions ... with no follow up. I had more contact with the photographer.

    When it came out and I realized it was so myopic, I listed your website on mine .. so I hope anyone that came from the article to my website found yours as well. I was not so happy with bloggers being called militant. In fact, I was not happy at all with the article as it rarely scratched the surface of any Rochester blogs/websites like your own. I even doubt the Rebecca Blood quotes were directly from here or from another article or book.

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  17. ElaineApril 30, 2006 at 4:19 AM

    I'd stop reading that rag and write a note to tell them why. How could they have not heard of ljc?!? I'm way out in Arizona and I have.

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