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07.30.05 11:58 AM
the beginning of the beginning
one line entries about blogher (the list will get longer as the day progresses)...
1. It's interesting of the few men here, most are lining the walls and not sitting down
2. A men's bathroom has been converted into a women's bathroom (that rocks)
3. It sucks that I have to leave early, perhaps I should change my flight so I can stay for the after party (I am researching changing my flight now-damn it's too late)
4. Do women care about link status (visibility) ranking - women are not showing up on technorati - (80/20 rule - 80% of the blogging by 20% of the people) halley who is on the A-list says we shouldn't want to be on the list - halley also says women don't ask for links - there's a lot of debate going on about this topic of course (my thoughts later)...other thoughts is the technorati 100 the A list?...do women and men network differently?...if you want to play by the rules and care about these lists and networks, then you have to follow these rules says danah boyd
5. This is going really well. I am far more interested than I thought I'd be. Of course while we are here speaking about where are the women bloggers - the little bit of diversity in the room (black, asian, or otherwise) has me reminiscing blogging while black
6. Ok my mind shifted for a second as I was looking for someone in the audiences photoshop blog over at weblogs inc. what distracted me was the digital music blog - this is something i was thinking about doing ever since my digital music column got canned in Vibe Magazine
7. nile from technorati is here stating that nothing gets removed from technorati, b/c people are concerned about technorati censorship - mena trott says when networking women need not hate on those who are doing it - another voice from the crowd says start a blogher 100
it's 10:02 am time for a break
previous blogher posts:
in santa clara
the road to blogher
i'm a blogher
there's a blogher conference going on
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Well I can talk about this - I was one of those guys. But I can't talk about all the guys. I'm probably not even the "average" guy. But here is my take.
OK, I get to the opening gig a little late. So I walk in and the room is really crowded, there is a table about 3 feet in front of the door and no room to walk. So I dive for the wall. And then I start to notice there are some empty chairs. But I wonder - if I walk through the middle of the room to an empty seat will it look like I'm acting like I think I'm entitled to a chair because I'm a guy or just completely cool?
Was I terrified? No. But I'm am 6'4", so I did think about sitting in front of people. This is a problem with round tables when everyone needs to face one direction. To see the stage I would have had to sit down with my back to the table. Sort of rude to just sit down with my back to people.
Later on I made it a point to get to rooms early enough to get a seat.
So, if you go to a conference that is mainly guys (like, I guess, all the others) where do you sit?
posted by kirk | August 4, 2005 1:47 AM #