Women bloggers, fashion victims?
Women like fashion. Women like style. So what's all this fuss in the blogosphere about a wee article covering the conference, , in The New York Times? Sounds like The NYT is trying to break some stereotypes here, reporting this huge festival of women bloggers...or is it?
BlogHer features over 10,000 blogs covering a long list of topics, see the , from health and food to politics, green issues and technology. So why does the article feature in 'The Fashion and Style' section of the paper?
Blogger Jo Christie-Smith wrote to iPM and has covered the story on .
It originally appeared on blog. It's writer Amber Naslund, wrote a letter to the NYT editor:
I'm so disappointed that you managed to completely undermine the professional, hardworking group at BlogHer by parking that article on your "Fashion & Style" page. Why not Business? Technology? These women are changing the face of technology and the online world, and you're parking them off in a trivial corner instead of among the gamechanging minds of Web 2.0 where they belong.
Read the .
It was also picked up by and and has been across the net.
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