The New York Times wrote about the BlogHer conference. In the Fashion/Style section.
It makes sense, though. It’s hard to have found any other section for it.
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Boo. I was interviewed for that and it didn’t make the cut.
Hey, I hope you don’t mind if I give the link to my guest-post at Feministe on this Times article:
http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/07/26/teh-laydeez-are-so-cute-when-they-try-to-blog/
Hm. Putting that article in the Fashion/Style section is such an obviously stupid idea that it’s hard to believe it wasn’t done intentionally.
When I followed the link to the tech section, the article in question came up there. Although I would add that the technology section tends to cover technical innovations and major trends, rarely conferences or the like. The only ones I can remember seeing covered there are huge trade conferences.
Oh, fuck! I am such a total dorkwad!
Thanks for the link, holmes! LOLZ!
Dan: Practically everything to do with women in the NYT goes into Fashion/Style. I’m not sure whether they think that’s all we read, or if they just believe we’re too silly and frivolous for any other section, what with our clothes and our shoes and our thinking we can blog just like the men do.
hey amanda! i wrote about it on my blog asking why they didn’t mention wymyn political/social writers, and named you specifically! damn them!
Well, I don’t know if I blame the writer. I suspect that you’re under a lot of pressure from the editorial staff. The sad thing is that this story probably got more readers for being in this section than if it were in the tech section.
I don’t really have a problem with blogging as a whole going in Fashion/Style.
Computers are pretty wholly assimilated into daily life. And Technology should limit itself I’d think to new gadgets. If software should bother, it should at least not be something that utilizes decade plus levels of tech.
Basically, Blogging is a social networking phenomenon, not a technological one.
Of course, if they stick MANLY BLOGGING in Tech, well then fuck ‘em, it goes there too. But “conference on social networking stuff” I’d say goes in social networking section.
Also, isn’t BlogHer kind of explicitly feminist in orientation? Shouldn’t that be… I dunno, Politics? Doesn’t the whole Kos network have some conference? isn’t that in politics?
I’m gonna go rage about this on slashdot.
or I would, if they weren’t kind of creepily, violently anti-feminist.
Them computers is just a fad. Pretty soon people’ll be back to using a string and tin can, like in the good ol’ days.