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I'm also on Friendfeed,
Francine Hardaway /Stealthmode Blog
http://friendfeed/hardaway</p>
Merci Stephanie :)
Thanks, Stephanie! I've long given up any thoughts about 'ending up on one of those lists'. To be honest, I find many of the 'elite bloggers' rather boring! I'm much more interested in the bloggers who write about things other than technology or social media or what have you. People like: Tom Reynolds, works for London ambulance service; Little Red Boat who was one of the first bloggers I started reading in 2001; or Onionbagblogger, he lives a few minutes away from me, NeonBubble who is one of the funniest people around...
I realised that I'd much rather be considered a 'good writer' than a 'popular blogger'. They don't often go hand-in-hand, so I do think one has to make a choice. So I'm working on the former and forgetting about the latter... ;)
Excellent list! Susan did a great job pointing out the discrepancy I had in the first round of "elites", which was obviously subjective. I know my RSS feeds are overweighted with the XY set, but I just don't have the knowledge you have here. I actively looked for people like Kristen Nicole of Mashable, and didn't find accounts, but I'm glad you did the work here. Over the last few days, I've thought a lot about doing more research and seeing what great women bloggers I've been missing out on. No slight intended at all, trust me!
Louis' entire list was linkbait too! Thankfully, he handed me the first spot on the list!
http://friendfeed.com/corvida
Thanks for the list! There were quite a few women on there that I had never heard of before.
Louis: rest assured I didn't think ill of you -- I think it's just a reasonably "normal" phenomenon (maybe we like reading people we can relate to, and one of the common traits we can have with somebody is gender). As I had a whole bunch of women in my network, I thought it'd be nice to share them!
Gia: I like reading non-tech blogs too (Tom's is one of the three-four blogs I read religiously). As for the list thing... well, it's not something I dwell upon (not being included in lists) but I do find it slightly ironic that there is a real discrepancy between what people tell me about how they perceive me (very influent, etc) and what actually ends up happening when people decide to "round up" influent bloggers. (Somewhat related to the stuff I was talking about here.) In any case, I'm not getting any headaches or hives over these issues. I'm not striving to be popular at all costs (I'd honestly be doing a really bad job of it if I were), just sometimes a bit perplexed by certain aspects of this little blogging ecosystem.
Thanks for the UI feedback - I agree with everything you said, and we should fix those issues soon. Thanks for taking the time to write such thoughtful feedback!
Nice post from Louis in response to the comments about the lack of women in his list: http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/03/im-not-re...>
Stephanie, I'd say it is a boys' club, but I think they're only influential to themselves.
The Guardian recently published what they thought were the 50 Most Influential Blogs and though many of them are obvious inclusions, there were several 'new' ones which were nice to see on the list (eg The F Word). There were also some notable exclusions (eg Scoble). As most of the people reading that article aren't in the blogging 'clique', the list provides a good cross of 'popular' and 'good' whilst staying away from the 'oh-we'd-better-include-him-because-he's-an-elite-blogger' decisions we're used to putting up with. ;)
Thank you for speaking up. Its not just friendfeed that is ignoring the women. There are a lot of woman in technology and we need to get our voices heard too.
BTW I am on there as well. I strive to be publicly influential one day. You know, beyond my company ;)
http://friendfeed.com/immunity
Andrea: I don't have the feeling that FriendFeed is ignoring women. My post was simply a reaction to a list of "representative reading" of a given blogger -- and noting that there weren't many women in it. That's all.