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Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

Stephanie — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:26:12 -0000

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.

Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

Andrea Baker — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:30:15 -0000

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

Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

gia — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:58:20 -0000

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. ;)

Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

Stephanie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:53:15 -0000

Nice post from Louis in response to the comments about the lack of women in his list: http://www.louisgray.com/li...

Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

Bret Taylor — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:42:33 -0000

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!

Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

Stephanie — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:38:03 -0000

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.

Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

Corvida — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:41:08 -0000

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.

Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

Louis Gray — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:27:30 -0000

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!

Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

gia — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:30:30 -0000

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... ;)

Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

Ambiome — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:03:17 -0000

Merci Stephanie :)

Re: FriendFeed Appeals to Women, Too!

francine hardaway — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:09:50 -0000

I'm also on Friendfeed,
Francine Hardaway /Stealthmode Blog
http://friendfeed/hardaway