Influential Female Bloggers
By Sophia Charming • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Blog Improvement, Lead Story
Image via WikipediaGala from iCiNG announced on twitter yesterday: “ Someone ranked me #42 out of the 50 most influential female bloggers.” I had to know, what is this list? North X East is a relatively new website in the “how to blog” niche, and the author of “NxE’s Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers.“
Definite themes emerge on the list with technology, gossip and politics filling out most of the list. I was not terribly surprised by most of the top bloggers…Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins of Blogher, Heather Armstrong of Dooce, Lisa Sugar of Sugar Inc, Elizabeth Spiers- Co-found of Gawker and Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing. Huffington Post actually warranted two entries on the list, one for the founder, Ariana Huffington, and another for one of the top editors, Rachel Sklar. In fact, most women on the list have serious background in web design, graphic design, journalism or politics. The list is littered with women who have started successful technology startup companies.
This left me wonder, is there hope for us girls who blog on the side? Those of us who do not specialize in one of the hottest new programming languages? Is there anyway for Sophia Charming to one day emerge as a blogging leader? Or any other member of Girls Guide to Blogging? Near the bottom of the list there are a few women whose blogs are less focused, and in my opinion inspirational for new bloggers…Karen Cheng of Snippets of Life, Ms. Danielle, and my personal favorite Gala Darling of iCiNG. Looking over these blogs it is apparent that a strong voice, well written informative posts and beautiful design are definite musts for women who want to author successful blogs.
So, what do you think? Do you have what it takes to be one of the next top female bloggers? What factors do you think are important for success?
Front page image from of Gala Darling NXE
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99% of women have very little to say of interest to anyone but women. Open your minds…
Barfly, I wonder how that can be, especially given the websites mentioned above. Boing Boing and Huffington Post are two very influential sites with much to say; and yet, I’m sure if you were to find a statistical breakdown of their readership, you would find they are predominately male.
In fact, very few of the aforementioned blogs are “Women’s Topics,” if such a ludicrous proposition still exists. From politics to technology, women are paving their way in to the Boy’s Club from all angles. How is a woman’s opinion on film any less valid or interesting than a males? Or on politics? And why would their opinions and views only be appreciated by their own gender?
What really needs a change is your narrow-minded, uneducated, and chauvinistic attitude.