via: msnbc, read the article: Blogging Beyond the Men's Club
"Since anyone can write a Weblog, why is the blogosphere dominated by white males?" the author asks.
Suitt puts it more bluntly: "It's white people linking to other white people!" (A link from a popular blog is this medium's equivalent to a Super Bowl ad.) Suitt attributes her own high status in the blogging world to her conscious decision to "promote myself among those on the A list."
interesting to find another factor that destorys the balance of media through a self-strenghening process.
is there a way to promote diversity online, given the built-in decentralization of the blog world?
so far so bad, the only approach suggested by the article is,
MacKinnon is involved in a project called Global Voices, to highlight bloggers from around the world. And at the Harvard conference, Suitt challenged people to each find 10 bloggers who weren't male, white or English-speaking—and link to them. "Don't you think," she says, "that out of 8 million blogs, there could be 50 new voices worth hearing?" Definitely.
sometimes i talk with friends and ask them why we don't have a <Migrant Worker's Daily> in china, they ask me, "how long can you sustain the project only with the sense of responsibility?"
related links:
simon world has this interesting post: Talking amongst yourselves