Blogher Action Items!

Updated with corrected links.

Well, I couldn’t go to the conference. I’m coming to terms with that. But what I can do is catch up on what happened and do my part to broaden the discussion about women in the blogosphere, give other bloggers a hand up, and work on giving more women a voice by introducing them to blogging.

I also want to figure out what the hell I’m doing with my blogroll. It got bloated, so I trimmed it down, but didn’t like the look aesthetically, so I pondered doing some DHTML show-hide magic, but I have yet to learn how to do that, so it’s hovering in it’s own lonely PHP file here for now. I have a dozen or two links to add, and I’m thinking about ordering them into groups - but then I need to figure out some sort of grouping system and it’s all tiring. But one way for me to give other bloggers a hand up is to link to them, and that’s what a blogroll is for.

So until I do that, here are some current faves you may not be reading [yet]:

Just Down the River Road
Lita Jente writes about life as a grad student, newlywed, and recent Yankee transplant in the Deep South. She likes comic books and the Pet Shop Boys too.

casa del harrison
She quilts! [And could totally school me if she so chose]. And she just had a beautiful red-headed baby girl, Norah, and moved to Carolina. On the downside, her Volvo has a nail in it.

Delightfully Mundane
AB is a triathlete [medal-winner!] with a new job and a soft spot for random puppies in distress.

dirty olive
Is a student living in Canada with two beautiful curly-haired guys: her husband and her son. She loves her vagina, is on the brink of a new job, and is not afraid of potty training [I mean, “toilet learning.”]

mama c-ta
A fellow Baltimorean who *just* had a baby and is kind enough to blog about it in exquisite detail.

miss domestic
has a two-year-old son and is living overseas [in Germany?]. She has fantastic taste in music and enviable hair.

nordensved
Razor-sharp wit and writing that will suck you in. Her daughter is one month younger than Owen and her husband is from Sweden, a fact that is endlessly interesting to me. Sweden! It’s not just furniture, people.

talkin’ loud
Another fellow Baltimorean. Her photography knocks my socks off every time, and in RL she is sweeter than pie.

work for idle hands
The Rock Star of mommyblogging. Debbie launched Rock’n’Romp and sings in a band and might even swear more than I do.

And here are some belonging to people I met yesterday: Drowning in Kids, Spanglemonkey, burningbird, Daily Dose of Denise, Wee Hours, the Ugly Green Chair, Beth’s Blog, SoCal Mom.

There were a couple people in the chat who sounded FASCINATING [“sisoma”? Can’t remember] but I had to leave abruptly because our company had arrived. Kicking myself for not finding out more.

My last two goals are to broaden my own blogroll and find some new people to read, and to evangelize blogging to three new people. Mom, this means you. I think you need to start a blog. It would fascinate people. Readers, if you think my dear sweet mom should start a blog, please comment in favor.

The beauty of blogging is that it can be whatever you want it to be. You write as much or as little as you want. Share only photos. Share only links. Share only stories about your three-week-old baby and his constipation problem [wait — been there]. Completely personal, or completely impersonal. Blog about politics, journalism, technology, crafting, science, work, art, even Rob Thomas. Bloggers span the genders [including inbetweens and crossovers], ages [young and old. And “old” is relative. Is 75 old?], classes [you just need access to the internet, which is free at the library], countries … it’s truly fascinating, and I believe it’s a freedom we should exercise fully [if we so desire] and protect fiercely.

Imagine, a blog solely about Rob Thomas. I think it needs to be done. And I think I know just the person to do it.

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