The Most Powerful Female Bloggers on FriendFeed

Svetlana Gladkova,

on July 26, 2008,

We do seem to be talking too much about women in technology lately but given the latest Playboy poll and the BlogHer conference I think it is not surprising. So ReadWriteWeb came up with a list of favorite female bloggers compiled by its bloggers. Obviously, it was a pleasure to have two Profy bloggers included in the list. After that Orli Yakuel (who was obviously on the list as well) created a slideshow of 50 blogs written by women which inspired Marjolein Hoekstra to find all the women on the list on Twitter and offer a list of all their Twitter accounts for those interested in following.

But since FriendFeed is growing to be a more and more powerful tool for communications around the content we all create, I have decided it would not hurt to have another list - this time with the accounts of these women that you can follow on FriendFeed as well. Unfortunately not all of them seem to be on FriendFeed so I have only gathered those who are. And for those missing: feel free to email me if you are both on the list and on FriendFeed and I have failed to find you. So my list is below for you. By the way, if you are not following the three female bloggers of Profy we can be found there as well: Svetlana Gladkova, Cyndy Aleo-Carreira, Leslie Poston.

Marjolein Hoekstra - Cleverclogs
Laurel Papworth - Slikcharm
Corvida - Shegeeks, ReadWriteWeb
Tamar Weinberg - Techipedia
Veronica Belmont - Veronica Belmont
Natali Del Conte - Natali Del Conte
Gina Trapani - Lifhacker
Emily Chang - EmilyChang
Leah Culver - Leah Culver
Susan Mernit - Susan Mernit
Tara Hunt - HorsePigCow
Sarah Perez - Sarahintampa, ReadWriteWeb
Holly Ross - Nten
Calley Nye - SiliconCally
Charlene Li - ex-Forrester, not sure where now
Jen Consalvo - Jcsalvo
Beth Kanter - Beth
Cathy Brooks - Other Than That…
Liz Gannes (private feed) - Newteevee
Sokari Ekine - Blacklooks
Sarah Austin - Pop17
Kathy Johnson - Consortpartners
Orli Yakuel - Go2web20

And for those of you still willing to find some more tech-oriented bloggers on FriendFeed, a good place is the "Girls. Geeks." Room - so join the discussions there as well.

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13 Comments (Subscribe to rss)

FriendFeed - July 26, 2008 at 02:34 pm PDT

How many of these women actually participate in FF? Just signing up means nothing.

Natali, Sarah, Calley, Emily
Rahsheen - July 26, 2008 at 03:20 pm PDT

Yeah, this is definitely bad business. Most of these powerful female bloggers definitely have accounts on FF, but their interaction there is almost nothing.

This article would tend to make one think that they could actually converse with these bloggers there, but one would definitely be sadly mistaken.
Svetlana Gladkova - July 26, 2008 at 09:47 pm PDT

Absolutely, some of the women listed here do not really participate in FriendFeed activities heavily - but that does not change the fact that many of them are very active and hugely involved. They really add to the conversation there and if you use the list to see who you want to follow, you are free to make your decisions on your own willingness to follow them.
Beth Kanter - July 27, 2008 at 10:08 am PDT

I do. I’m also on the “Frienderati” list too. I co-host the NpTech room .
Svetlana Gladkova - July 27, 2008 at 09:43 pm PDT

Hi Beth, thanks for stopping by and for proving my point - it is true that some of the women on the list merely sign up to see what’s that fresh little toy but others (you and many others on the list) actual get involved and contribute a lot to the conversation.
Jeneane Sessum - July 27, 2008 at 10:07 pm PDT

I hereby declare myself powerful. /jeneane
sokari - July 27, 2008 at 10:17 pm PDT

Thanks for the inclusion. Although I do occassionaly post “technology” pieces, I dont really see my blog as being a “Tech” blog. With regard FF - I have not entered into any conversations but I do read it regularly and find it a great resource. I dont think one has to comment to necessarily participate!
Svetlana Gladkova - July 27, 2008 at 11:03 pm PDT

@sokari: I did not mean it to be tech-only - I merely based my list on that created by Orli for her slide show so no need to thank me actually.

As for FriendFeed participation, I think it is obvious that not every blog reader has a blog or ever comments on blogs. Same goes for FriendFeed - I believe the vast majority simply broadcast their content and watch what others have to say without ever clicking the like link or leaving a comment. I guess a level of participation should be determined by everyone based on their personal preferences, not on the community expectations.
Beth Kanter - July 28, 2008 at 04:43 pm PDT

Sokari is a rock star in my book!

@svetlana I agree with you about participating and commenting. I prefer not to just broadcast my content vis friendfeed. The rooms are wonderful - intentional sharing and peer to peer knowledge. But, doesn’t that pattern fit with 5-10-85 rule of online communities? 5% participate heavily, 10% moderately and the rest lurk.
Svetlana Gladkova - July 28, 2008 at 10:24 pm PDT

@Beth: Totally correct: it is hard to expect that everyone will be participating in FriendFeed (or any other network at that) as heavily as Louis Gray or Robert Scoble. And the majority of the users will always be consuming content without interacting with it at all - and I personally see nothing bad about it. Again, it is just the matter of personal choice and what this or that user actually expects to get from the service.
Aaron Brazell - July 29, 2008 at 12:12 pm PDT

Where’s QueenofSpain?
Svetlana Gladkova - July 29, 2008 at 10:10 pm PDT

@Aaron: I have answered so many emails from my own FF female friends asking why they were not included The thing is that I only based my list on that created by Orli - and thus I decided not to add any of my personal favorites here. You know, I don’t think I’m the right authority for that.
amber - August 21, 2008 at 01:02 pm PDT

Dude I’m more active on FF than half of those women. /sda

And I’m following /jeneane—because she wins.

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