When this actually arrives at the top of monoblogue, hopefully I’ll be compiling the photos for the next in my semi-regular series called “Weekend of local rock.” (Did you really think I sat at this computer during all of the waking hours I’m not at work? Please.) In the meantime I wanted to take this opportunity to point out another in what hopefully will be a continuing series and comment about recent changes here on monoblogue.
About 10 days back I wrote on two excellent posts put up by blogger John Hawkins, who hosts the Right Wing News blog. One of them was about blogging while female, and looked at five of the most prominent ladies in the blogosphere. On Tuesday John put out an additional list of five, a list that includes a young lady from close by my old neck of the woods (just up the pike in southeast Michigan), Emily Zanotti of American Princess.
It got me to thinking about female bloggers here on Delmarva. Probably my favorite local lady blogger is Karen from A Woman’s Point of View but sadly she’s not been posting lately. And of all the 40-plus members of the Maryland Bloggers Alliance, I think, give or take, only ten are women. I’m sure it’s not a majority since I’ve known most of my peers in that group for awhile. While I’m certainly not saying that everything should be equal down the middle genderwise in the blogging world, a few more female voices wouldn’t be a bad thing.
I also wanted to make a point about what I call my increased operational tempo. I’ve already noticed an uptick in readership since I went to a format of two posts a day and hopefully it’s something I can maintain over the summer because readership tends to decline as the weather gets warmer and people spend less time sitting at the computer perusing the blogosphere. It’s something I’ve found is not all that hard to maintain and will probably continue for the near-term future, at least as long as I have material I find interesting and worth commenting on. Likely I’ll shift slightly to having at least two posts Sunday through Thursday and one post each on Friday and Saturday – it matches up with my best readership days.
But I appreciate the increased readership and particularly the excellent reaction I’ve seen in my comments. Unlike some other websites, those who leave comments on monoblogue tend to do so in a civilized, mature fashion. Hopefully it will stay that way. I tend to allow the vast majority of comments through and thus far it’s worked out well. Keep it up!
It’s sad that you don’t recognize Stephanie Burke, (Pocomoke Tattler) and Totmom who are regular writers on my Blog as well as the fact that they have their own Blogs.
I’m quite aware of that Joe, that’s why I said my favorite. I like how Karen writes better than others. Surely there are dozens of female-written blogs in the area – I also link to the Campbell/Cohen blog On Your Side, Pocomoke Tattler, and Mainstream Shore. But I wanted one example and Karen came to mind.
Thanks for the shove Michael. I’ve had a lot of things going on. Besides, I really didn’t think anyone cared. Thanks to you, I know at least one person who does.
There are quite a few female bloggers listed on shoreblogs.net, but many of them write on more personal topics with an audience of friends and family. Four of the top 15 in the Shoreblogs Technorati rankings were female bloggers, who also accounted for two of the top six.