Author Shelley Powers asks: Where are the women of blogging?

When we women ask the power-linkers why they don’t link to us more, what we’re talking about is communication, and wanting a fair shot of being heard; but what the guys hear is a woman asking for a little link love. Hey lady, do you have what it takes? More important, are you willing to give what it takes? Groupies and blogging babes, only, need apply.

Her piece is firmly planted tongue-in-cheek, but after reading it rather self-consciously I started to look around to evaluate how many women were linked on this blog. Looks like at best I’m severely female link intolerant (or should I say “impotent” to follow the tone of Ms. Power’s piece). We do have a couple female contributers to this blog but they don’t post very much. Can’t say that’s my fault as I’ve encouraged them to do so. Certainly they could — and should – link up as many women as they wanted. 

Ms. Powers doesn’t really get into the reality that women, generally speaking, tend to be a jealous lot. Without trying to be sexist here, I would say significantly more jealous than men on the whole. Let’s look at the bloggers BBN referenced. If Scoble was going into a linking frenzy over say Halley Suitt, what would Maryam think? Heck, she made him (nicely, I’m sure) add a disclaimer to his recent post about looking for someone to share a room that it must be a guy. I’ve seen Winer link to women (lest we forget his regular linking to that #1 podcasting couple Dawn & Drew). Gillmor or Kas Log? Don’t read them that often. Mark Jen has made what: 10 blog posts in his life? Rubel? If it will give him a scoop or angle of some kind, then I’m sure sex wouldn’t matter. Time? Read the magazine, not the blog. Never paid much attention to the sex of who Tim Bray links to, but he links to some mighty interesting people, places and things.

Finally, after all this male blogger and self-analysis I analyzed Shelley Power’s blog, herself, and what did I find?

Apparently at least one woman doesn’t link either, look at the blogroll on her page … er, wait, there is no blogroll. In fact, there are no links anywhere on this page save for self-references. Doh!

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