Halley on women and weblogging:
Although the three women on the cover of Time Magazine were not bloggers, the women using blogging tools are doing a variation on daily whistle-blowing as they blog. They are using weblogs to tell their truth. Much of their truth has been silenced and not allowed to appear in main stream press which is dominated by men. I honestly don’t believe this is any conspiracy by men, but rather a shocking disconnect from the reality men live in and the reality women live in. Weblogs are not controlled or controllable by any one group. Weblogs are a no-barriers-to-entry publishing phenomenon. Weblogs are giving women a publishing platform unparalleled in history. Women are not self-editing their voices out of existence. With weblogs, women are telling their truth without even noticing. Weblogs are creating a level-playing field for women.
Read the whole thing.
Will post more thoughts on this (and on Shelley’s frustration with the level of discourse on technical mailing lists, and Janet’s comment on my “women and social software” post, and recent social software gatherings, and more) after I get to Toronto tomorrow.
Weez has posted her “nerd word” for an upcoming taping of her radio show What The Tech! The word (well, phrase) is “multiple dimensions,” and she does a lovely job of providing a non-nerd’s version of this complex space-time continuum concept.
(Something about upcoming trips seems to throw me into link-and-comment mode, it seems…)
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