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Three days left

Friday, February 26th, 2010

No real post today. But, if you haven't already, please take the time to do the following:

1. Vote for my Room Of Your Own for BlogHer 2010. Even if you're not planning on attending, a vote that you would attend shows interest and is likely to get my room chosen. If you don't have a BlogHer account, you'll have to create one, and you have to be logged in. It shouldn't take more than five minutes, and the voting ends on Sunday.

2. While you're logged in, vote for Faiqa's room too!

3. Ask me anything. I'll answer the questions in a later post:

(No, that's not the comment form, retard. Scroll down to leave a comment.)

(Oh, and you can go here to see my answers and ask more questions.)

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Male bloggers at BlogHer

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

In August, I will be attending BlogHer for my second time. Last year was a great weekend, even with the poor organization and supervision provided by some of the people who run it (my experience as a volunteer was extremely illuminating with regards to the chaos among the higher ranks of BlogHer). One of my favorite parts was getting the chance to speak on a panel entitled "Vaginally Challenged: The Men of BlogHer". You can read a transcript of our hilarity here. Moderated by the only person in the world capable of wrangling and channeling our awesomeness (and quite effortlessly, too, I must say), I, along with Jim and Matthew, talked for an hour to an absolutely packed room. We discussed the differences and difficulties encountered when you are a male personal blogger. Our room was standing-room only, and people were in the halls trying to listen. From the reports I heard, it was one of, if not the, most popular Rooms Of Your Own at BlogHer 2009.

And now I'm submitting it again. This year, the title is "The Male Personal Blogger: Myth, Legend, or Valuable Contributor?". The voting is still open, and I'd love to have your support! All you have to do is go here (you have to be logged in if you're not already!) and click "I would attend this session". That's it. Even if you're not able to attend the conference, your interest in attending the session will help TPTB in deciding which sessions to include this year.

Thank you!

Photo from fostercorrin

Photo from fostercorrin

Edited to Add:

Before I win the award for "Worst Friend Ever", let me also pimp out the ROYO submitted by one of my favorite people in the whole world, Faiqa. It's called "Cross Cultural Encounters of the Virtual Kind: Achieving Understanding, Tolerance and Maybe Even World Peace Through Blogging" and promises to be an interesting look at how blogging transcends cultural and racial barriers. So, while you're voting, vote for hers too!

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BlogHer 09 – If you could ask a man anything . . .

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

On Saturday, July 25th, from 10:45 AM until 12:00 PM, I'll be at BlogHer co-hosting a "Room of Your Own" panel with Busy Dad and Child's Play x2. It's called "Vaginally challenged bloggers – the men of BlogHer", and here's the description:

Among hundreds of women, we stand out as the men of BlogHer. We view the world differently. Some of us are single. Some of us are married. Some of us have kids, some don't, and some of us are just big kids ourselves. The male personal/life blogger is a minority among the personal/life blogging community, and our perspective could be invaluable to any blogger, mommy or otherwise, who wants to make the most of her audience. Join Avitable, BusyDad, and Child’s Play x2 in a discussion about the role male bloggers play within the blogging community, and how that impacts what they write, how they network, and why you should be on board with the work they’re doing.

So, for roughly an hour, the three of us will have to inform, entertain, and retain the interest of our audience. We'll have a moderator, we'll have an audience (hopefully), and now, we just need some questions to answer and topics to discuss.

Here's a few I've thought of so far:

With the majority of personal bloggers being women, it follows that most of the friendships you make online will be with women as well. What do your wives think about this? Do they handle it well? Does anything make them jealous?

When commenting on a woman's blog, where is that fine line between being supportive and friendly and being creepy and lecherous? Do you ever hesitate to comment because you're not sure how it will be taken?

Avitable, why do you constantly show your balls? Do you really think anyone wants to see that?

I don't think these three questions will fill an hour, though. Even if I do share my treatise on testicle exposure being a significant cause in the increase of laughter in the world. I need more questions and topics. And it's a Saturday, so you fuckers don't have anything better to do.

Give me some suggestions in the comments. Whether or not you're going to be at BlogHer, what questions would you like to ask a male personal blogger? Two daddy bloggers? A man who would attend BlogHer? Two men who posed for the Hot Blogger Calendar? Anyone with a penis? Anyone with a penis who still listens to Avril Lavigne and gets his eyebrows waxed?

I'm counting on your input to make this session the best one of BlogHer!

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