This is just the kind of thing MLK was talking about in his famous "I Have a Blog" speech. During which I believe his current mood was "pensive" and he was listening to Dashboard Confessional.
Her comments on that white male nonsense are silly. Besides, if a political leader ever puts in some extra effort to announce that he is, in fact, a white male, it would probably get a chuckle out of me.
Really, though, does anyone really care about Technorati rankings?
Ranking how well read someone is by figuring out how many blogrolls they're on is silly. The truth of the matter is that many people, especially those with giant blogrolls, don't read all of what's on their blogroll. There's no way you could read all that and do anything else.
I have about 150 feeds on my Bloglines list. That covers everything from webcomics to blogs to news feeds (instead of papers and TV news). Even though many of the blogs don't update daily, I have a hard time keeping up with what I do read, and think I should cut back. I don't know how all these people with 300 blogs keep up!
I don't have a blogroll, but I do link my Bloglines feeds. It's less of a political statement than it is a statement that I don't have time to maintain two reading lists for the same set of reading. The delinking arguments, well, yes, I can see the political implications of blogs that only link to men or whatever. But all the discussions sound as much like livejournal discussions about people defriending each other as feminist discussions about the power of the link. I hate to emphasize the feminist struggle there, but the in-gossip is boring to people not in the circles involved.
This is just the kind of thing MLK was talking about in his famous "I Have a Blog" speech. During which I believe his current mood was "pensive" and he was listening to Dashboard Confessional.
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I have 2 thoughts. I think that even this far into it, a good part of the blogosphere is still made up of geeks. Based on empirical evidence I collected during my 4 years in an engineering school, I can safely say that the majority of geeks are white males. The other thought is this: conservative bloggers have gotten a lot of media attention, mostly because the GOP has brought the big ones into it's political machine where everyone promotes and references and quotes everyone else. (They also got noticed when they screamed like little bitches over Dan Rather.) For these reasons, they've gotten a disproportionate amount of the attention directed at the blogosphere, and, like most conservatives, they're mostly white men.
I looked at my own blogroll. There are a lot of great blogs written/run by women and minorities on there, but there're still more written by white males. The gadget and web design geek contingent tipped the balance in my case.
I really have no idea who is who on my blogroll. I link to them, I read their blogs, but that's about it.
In fact, I don't know what you lot are, either, and...
... it doesn't bother me one little bit.
Well it should, as I am having sex with your life partner or significant other.
That's what all those strange noises coming out of the kitchen are, then.
I thought the internet was supposed to be a magical wonderland devoid of race and gender based evaluations.
Nope, sorry, that's just me, Skrik. I was a little low on peanut butter...
quid and your SO are out back, by the pool.
This was an interesting post. I've always admired Shelley because she never gives up. As for the white male dominance of the blogging sphere, I could start in on it but there's a very good chance that my head will explode.
Thanks for those links bone, they were interesting too. I think that telling people to drop their blogrolls is silly, but I see the point they're trying to make. However, it's kind of up to the people who blog to troll around and find new sites and I shudder to think what the internet would be like if no one linked to each other.
I have a pool??
Hang on, is quid sure he's with my SO?
whalemale.