Excuse the deliberately salacious title. Via blogpopuli.blog (I love the way those pyrate-types make up their own extensions, data-freely), I picked up on a two-week old post about the balance of links among men and women, especially at the famous/influential end of the swimming pool:
The current state of affairs can be changed. The weight and power of the collective blogalaxy can cause a huge shift if it wants to. That's how revolutions begin. Of the heavy hitters, I will look to Stephen Green for my link rundown, Doc Searls for my tech news, Jeff Jarvis as my media insider, Charles Johnson for my war information - but then I will spend the rest of my day reading everyone on my sidebar links and hopefully find even more new people with interesting things to say, and try to expose them too. That would be time better spent. Of course this merely the opinion of a woman who talks about bj's, boob and butts.That last comment reminds me of a game I played with two friends at High Sierra a few days ago, with a pen in my notebook. It was called "Boob, ball, or butt?" and the artist would add lines while the other two guessed, taking turns. A laff riot.
Butt seriously, I think it's a mistake to view the blog-world as a pyramid or hierarchy. Look at it instead as a series of spheres, some big, some small, some overlapping, some not. Every part of an ecology is important to the whole. If you want fame, cool: go for fame, but that's not all there is.
As for the question of female bloggers not getting linked from males or not getting their due or not making up as large a fraction of the demographic or etc., I'm not sure I have anything useful to add except to note that the blogosphere mirrors the world, or at least one microcosm of it.
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4:53:21 PM 
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Here's the first concrete dividend from Salon's blog initiative: Scott Rosenberg's massively credible blog could serve as a coequal (with Instapundit) staging place for the extensive blogotastic discussion of the Salon article on forbidden thoughts about 9/11 as Glenn's.
The feedback loop provided proves to me that Salon has joined the blogosphere and is not cynically trying to coopt it.
Here's a snippet of Scott's response to reader comments:
Another comment suggests that I am supposedly out of touch with Blogland because I have not encountered Damian Perry's blog before, and it has been "prominent on Instapundit's list for a year." It's true, I have not religiously explored Instapundit's blogroll. On the other hand, I was reading (and writing about) weblogs for many years before Instapundit existed, and before the whole phenomenon of "war bloggers" and those who rose to prominence around and after 9/11. I think Glenn Reynolds runs a great blog but, hey, I'm not going to spend all my blog-reading time among any one crowd. I like to read technically oriented blogs, media oriented blogs, personal blogs. I try to devote extra time to reading these here Salon Blogs because they're written by people who have pitched their virtual tents on Salon's ground. Life is too short to read everyone.
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11:07:50 AM say what []
And, yes, I am available for quotes. :')
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10:59:15 AM say what []
A little after noon I realized I was passing out so I got into bed and slept until 3:30 when the phone rang. After that call I slept almost another hour. Still felt groggy and dour in the evening and went to see Road to Perdition at the Parkway Bowl. The movie, gory as it was, provided some fine escapism and beautiful old-Master-looking cinematography to appreciate, but when the dream wore off I was just as down as before.
This morning after eight more hours of sleep, I am beginning to feel myself again. A little stressed about the numerous things competing for my time and attention, but no more than usual.
I am reminded that my friend J, a magazine editor, told me that one of his employees, a young man (in his 20s) went to see Perdition a month or so ago and reported back that "the salad-dressing guy was really good."
Current Mood: somewhat rested
Current Music: Bird Song (Uniondale, New York 3-29-90)::Grateful Dead::So Many Roads (1965-1995) (Disc 4)
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9:20:22 AM say what []
I don't spend as much time reading warblogs as I do other blogs, and my own political steam-outlet, Bite Media, gets less of my attention these days than this metablog and my own journal, but the anniversary this week sent me off on some unusual rounds and I couldn't help being struck by the fact that Glenn Reynolds's famous Instapundit site received over 100,000 page impressions on the anniversary of the attacks.
This is an astounding number. Does he have a book deal? Publishers would drool over that many paying readers, no matter what the topic. I think all the Salon blogs together have barely doubled that total number of views since July.
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