BLOGHER CONFERENCE

the blogher conference is tomorrow and i have been invited by sixapart to join. i landed today at 5.45 to san jose, california and booked into my hotel intending to go to the blogher pre-dinner. i made the mistake of forgetting that in american everyone eats really early...6pm! by the time i got unpacked, turned on my computer, took a bath it was 8pm (ready to leave right? nooooooooot) and i looked at the email with the address to the bar and realized it started at 6pm. i called the restaurant and asked if the event was still happening and first i was told that it was over (but i could hear an incredible noise of talking in the background) and then i was transferred to someone else who told me that all the food was put away (at 8pm already????) and everyone was leaving. it didnt sound like everyone was leaving, but if they say so then i guess there's no point to go. so here i am in my hotel room bummed that i missed the dinner. sigh. i really love mexican food and the venue looked so awesome! i really really wanted to go. why did i think dinner was at 8pm? i have holes in my head sometime i think.

now i am looking at the schedule for tomorrow to see what rooms i want to attend and i have this really big sinking feeling as i look at all the people coming (they have links on the page) that i will be the youngest person there (why are there not any people my age interested ever in the kind of stuff that i like??? i am always with older people...sigh). i wish so much that diane was there -- i can only imagine that we'd be sitting there laughing our heads off (why are you not there diane!!!). i am starting to feel like, why did i come here...

i am looking at the schedule and i am thinking, from what i can see from the last conferences that i attended, there doesnt seem to be anything new on the schedule...it's a re-ideration of the same-old same-old...why are we not pioneering here? why are we still having classes about "how to blog" and soforth. there are 14 million in the world and if they are coming to blogher i think they already know how to blog. just my opinion.

on the plane ride over here i found this great magazine called MS. and at the back of the magazine there was a list of women orientated events happening all over the country and i wondered, why is the blogher conference not listed? why didnt anyone contact this magazine and invite them to come so that all these women could get real press? i am sure this magazine would be so happy to run a story on an all women conference. i really dont understand. but then, i am not organizing a whole conference--yet!

i am now doing a lot of research and i found one really cool fashion thing: this woman blogged blogher girls bags...very cool.

OOOH! AND I JUST FOUND OUT TECHNORATI HAS A NEW MOBILE BLOG SERVICE!!

I CANT WAIT TO TRY IT TO SEE WHO'S BLOGGING BLOGHER!

i am getting really tired now...doing all the reasearch for tomorrow so i know what's the discussions...

Yet at the same time, as we all know, women are virtually missing-in-action in the game of best-known blog listings, like the Technorati Top 100 and TLB Ecosphere, which rank blogs based on the number of incoming links (not quality). The miniscule number of women on these lists is as unrepresentative of women bloggers as the number of women CEOs in the Fortune 500 (eight) is to the number of women working (nearly 50 percent). Bottom-line: It's hard to find you. And if you care, then it looks like we'll have to fix that ourselves.  {read more...}