The Industry Standard's Top 25 B-to-Z List Blogs
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As the title suggests, Internet telephony is the name of the game here, but Andy Abramson also touches on the uses of voice over IP, such as telecommuting and how people access the Internet for voice calls, such as public Wi-Fi.
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Wow out of all the experts, entrepreneurs, observers, VCs and coders in the b-list through z-list, you think you might have happened upon a woman.
jeneane,
In a world of opportunity, crank up a blog and give it your best shot. Competition and voices is what keeps the soup hot.
DevChix is a 'A' list tech blog that I frequent. Good pieces and great ideas. Plenty of others as well.
Some of the blogs are really new to me. Thanks for introducing it to all of us. Good work.
I have to say, I agree with Jeneane.
Ok -- so make some suggestions regarding woman bloggers and add a link. Sheesh, let's be proactive here instead of just bitc**** erh.... whining.....
One of the best things to do is get paid what you like to do. For example, if you love to write blogs, you make money doing that. There's site coming out call www.ihype.com. Where basically they'll pay you to write reviews about a product.
I was surprised by how many of these I follow or have followed at one time or another in the past - definitely some great choices!
@jeneane and @Another Woman: thanks for your thoughts. Obviously the apparent male-bias wasn't intentional. Ian and I just looked for 25 blogs that we have liked for a while, don't get enough recognition, and had consistently good content that was relevant to The Industry Standard.
I hope it goes without saying that we had no "male-only" agenda, in the same way that we had no "positive discrimination" or "gender quota" agenda.
@johnmc google me. I cranked up my blog in 2001. @richi - the whole POINT is that you didn't have a male-only agenda. This is not a new issue (aka Mistake) and is not unique to your "TopWhateverList" in this space. Some people even create lists like this - with obvious bias - as link bait. Not insinuating you did.
Bottom line: Sloppy reporting. Google is a powerful tool. I'm tellin' you.
Your male bias to the list may not have been intentional, but it does demonstrate that your list is not something one should accept as an "industry standard", or even particularly useful. Why? Because 50+% of the people in the industry you reference are women. By not interacting with women, both as reader and writer, your reporting is at best incomplete, at worst, self-defeating. It signals an intention that you're only interested in interacting with 50% of the target audience.
Perhaps it is not the list that should change.
Perhaps one should consider a "Top 25 up-and-coming female bloggers" report. Just a thought.
I'd like to respond to the criticisms of the B-to-Z list special feature. Note that at least one of the group blogs -- Venture Hacks -- does have female members listed on its "about" page, and three other blogs on the list have anonymous authors who may or may not be women. This did not impact their inclusion in the list. As Richi noted earlier, the driving criteria were quality and a lack of recognition, based on our collective experience reading and writing about blogs for years.
Moreover, there are two other bloggers who I would have loved to include on the list, both of whom happen to be female. They are Melissa Chang, author of 16th Letter, and Jessica Lipnack, author of Endless Knots. The reason they were not included: They have already been recognized by The Industry Standard. Both are contributors to TheStandard.com, and regularly add to our online discussions. You can see their most recent contributions on the profile pages for Melissa Chang and Jessica Lipnack.
Tree - are you serious? If so, please take your vitriolic nonsense elsewhere. If not, couldn't be less funny.
Tree's post has been unpublished.
Well, you certainly are living up to your name. Pretending to not notice that you have mentioned no women blogs, suggesting Jeneane Sessum (veteran blogger) and Shelley Powers (who was writing coding books when you were at some poxy art school) "crank up a blog and give it your best shot" is a classic characterisation of the "Industry Standards", so classic in fact, that you (claim you) don't even notice it, and have to point out the only two women you can find. Then you moderate my comment two days after it was posted. Typical.
Tree, you're confusing the issues and misrepresenting The Industry Standard -- for instance, the "best shot" comment was posted by another reader, not the Industry Standard.
Also, your first comment -- posted at 1:30 on Sunday morning -- was rude and extremely offensive to women, autistic people and their family members, and Jessica and Melissa. If you want to participate in the discussion here, treat other readers and groups with respect or your comments will be removed.
this is a great article. some of the blogs mentioned are very informative while some others land in the dept. of self-indulgement and redundancy, but i definitely picked up some interesting viewpoints and sites from this list. thanks!
I think it's called satire. Juvenal and Swift. I have a screenshot of the original post if anyone wants to see it. treeshapiro gmail me if you're interested, or just go here: http://tiny.cc/3EMSj
I'm with jeneane sessum, Another Woman, and shelley here.
Ian, saying "oh we really wanted to add a couple of women to the list but didn't" doesn't change the fact that, um, there aren't any women on the list.
I added this to my thread "Gender, race, age, and power in online discussions, chapter n" on Liminal States at http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=70#comment-2497
Jon: I appreciate that you've taken the time to join the discussion, but I would like to point out two facts about the special feature that didn't notice, or chose not to mention:
1) One of the blogs does have female authors -- see my earlier comment
2) Three of the blogs have anonymous authors, whose gender is uncertain.
As I have stated before, the fact that several authors are female and others are of unknown gender did not did not impact their inclusion.
Ian,
Thanks for the responses. I saw your earlier comments about how one (4%) of the blogs you listed had some female bloggers. Why do you think that changes anything?
The repeated pattern here almost-completely-male "most influential" lists. (It's not just you; that thread also talks about The Economist, TechCrunch, the Berkman Center, Dissent, and the Telegraph.)
It would be great to discuss that, rather than whether it's "only" 96%-98% male.
Do you think there are influential women out there?
If so, why didn't you as Managing Editor give Richi feedback that the list wasn't representative?
jon
PS: If anybody here hasn't read Scott Page's The Difference, you should. Its treatment of the importance of diversity for problem solving and prediction is especially relevant for "Industry Players" given the Industry Standard's all-male staff and the currently-all-male nature of Ian's "Industry Standard Connections". More on the "Industry Player" self-description in the thread on Liminal States.
For those who are interested in doing their own analyses, the full text of the article is at http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=EA0A879C-17A4-0F78-3139D6E496654B53 It seems to me that every name mentioned is male — the pseudonymous “Arthur” and “Mordaux” both describe themselves as “he” on Emergent Chaos.
Ian pointed to Venture Hacks as an example of where females are involved, and so I looked at this in some detail in http://www.talesfromthe.net/jon/?p=70#comment-2580 ... a brief excerpt:
"People’s profiles are also revealing. The Mike who’s featured twice on the page has “subscriptions” to Nivi, Rob, Paul, Reid, Evan, Tony, Marc, Josh, Mike, Josh, Michael, and Michael. Nivi is “recommended” by Naval, Ethan, Brian, Healy, Farbood, Drew, Jon, Pejman, John Philip, Jeff, Kurt, Marc, Mazen, Ryan, Kamal, Andrew, Andre, Matt, and Rahmin. Hmm."
jon
You should post an OPML file of all these blogs, I think people would find that useful for subscribing.
Pretty limited list, IMO. Plus, I hate the A-list, B-list ranking ideology. What's useful to one person might be tedious to someone else. Think "niche".
P.S. Why is it that when women complain it gets called "bitching" and "whining" and when men do it's called "criticism" and "feedback"? I knew there was a male bias in blogs but, c'mon, it's not the 1970s.
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