Daily Dose

• sanctimony: Twenty-nine dollars and fifteen cents
  I’ve made $25 total using Google Ads so far (though they don’t send a check til you rack up $100), which equates to less than $4/month. BlogHer is more lucrative by $2-4/month, and they send a check any time you rack up as little as $25, but they’re also
  (tags: blogging advertisting blogherads googleadsense)
• Can a vagina drive a bus? « The Trivial Pursuit of Happiness
  I’m surprised it took two years for Ella to pick up the word, since one of my favorite moments from the first year of Ella’s life was reading the monologue “I was there in the room“(video not of me) for a production of the Vagina Monologues when s
  (tags: vaginamonologues vaginas parenting girls)
• jen lemen » Blog Archive » To Rwanda With Love, Hope & a Whole Lotta Girl Power
  CHIP IN: Announcement number two! I have the opportunity to go to Rwanda to visit my friend Odette’s daughters and to encourage all the other girls along the way. “They need to know they are the power behind their country,” my dear Odette says to me
  (tags: jenlemen, Rawanda, chipin)
• 9-year-old Rides Subway Alone: Is Mom a Hero or an Abuser? | BlogHer
  Being a parent is a constant struggle to balance keeping our kids safe and teaching them how to take care of themselves. I suppose this story is so sensational because the subway represents, for many, the seedy underbelly of a busy city (whether it really
  (tags: kids parenting publictransportation)
• Can’t we all be colleagues? – Cornered Office – Work It, Mom!
  Maybe I’m naive, but I don’t understand this attitude that everyone else who does what I do is somehow standing between me and success.
  (tags: blogging writing freelance community networking mir)

• FunnyBusiness: Everything About Business Except The Bottom Line : Affinia Manhattan Gets It Right: Customer Service is Superior
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• BlogHers Act: Donate Now to Save Women’s Lives | BlogHer
  As part of our BlogHers Act commitment to make a difference on the issue of maternal health, BlogHer has joined forces with Global Giving to help save women’s lives and we need your help. We’ve spent the last six months blogging about serious issues relat
  (tags: blogher bloghersact maternalhealth globalgiving donate fundraising)
• The Hidden Side of a Leaf » 2008 Printz books
  Should I add these to my Printz Award challenge? I’ve read most of “Your Own Sylvia…”
  (tags: 2008PrintzAwards PrintzAwards YA)
• Meet The Parents (Who Blog) – Couric & Co.
  The Silicon Valley Moms Group was in town for the annual BlogHer conference, a gathering for women entrepreneurs in the Web world, so we invited them to my office for a visit. There was no better way to learn who they were, and why they wrote about their
  (tags: blogher bloghercon mommybloggers svmoms lisastone katiecouric)
• Hullabaloo
  Ok, look. You can hate Clinton or love her, but this is the lowest form of campaign journalism and it should be condemned. At this point they have said, over and over again, that Clinton told “untruths” or “exaggerated” when the fact is that she repeated
  (tags: election08 hillaryclinton campaignjournalism)
• Gay-Friendly in Name Only? – Strollerderby
  The fathers quoted in the article, all of whom were given anonymity in exchange for honesty, protest a little too much about how totally awesome and gay-friendly they are (“If I”m on a set and there are no gay people, I actually get worried,” one who wor
  (tags: GLBT parenting)

• Gawker slices pay of Valleywag writers & some thoughts on blogger pay : The Blog Herald
  Earlier this year, Gawker CEO Nick Denton established a new pay system for his bloggers. Unlike a typical pay per post or revenue sharing scheme, Denton began to set quarterly payrates for bloggers based on the number of pageviews that their posts generat
  (tags: blogging business pageviews gawker valleywag)
• The Stories Our Bodies Tell | BlogHer
  I believe our bodies have amazing stories to tell, and can offer incredible advice regarding our health and emotional well-being if we only opened to experiencing its wisdom. I began a new relationship with body that day on the massage table. And for the
  (tags: blogher lettertomybody bodyimage childhood)

• Would You Announce This On A T-Shirt? – Strollerderby
  many victims, the terror and violation of being raped is compounded every day by the shame, humiliation, and isolation that takes much, much longer to heal. So you have to admire anyone who is trying to increase social awareness about rape, and to give vi
  (tags: tshirt iwasraped rape sexualviolence violence)

• First Time Business BlogHer attendee says, “I’m Probably The Oldest Person In The Room.” | BlogHer
  27 years ago she founded the first women’s only newspaper. Since then she and her husband, who was killed in a car accident last year, founded several businesses. She is now the CEO of an emerging social media company targeted to baby boomer women–even t
  (tags: blogher blogherbiz08 blogherbiz terrygamer elanacentor audio podcast socialmedia socialnetworking business)
• Ogilvy PR 360 Digital Influence Blog
  Ogilvy PR blogging BlogHer Biz
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• THE WOMEN’S DISH with Diane & Friends: Making the most of your next conference
  advice for people attending conferences
  (tags: blogher blogherbiz blogherbiz08 conference tips networking)
• Deadliest Catch Blogger Call audio in Discovery’s public channel on Share on Ovi
  Sorry I missed the call!
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• BlogHer Recap: Day Two at Fast Wonder Blog
  It is important to be a real person with a real personality when working with online communities. You have to be authentic, and in order to do that your personality has to come through and you become the face of the company for that community. You represe
  (tags: blogher blogherbiz identity blogging)

• Who’s Your BlogHer Hero? | BlogHer

  Nominate your BlogHer Hero – free BlogHer Con pass and stuff

  (tags: blogher womenbloggers bloghercon blogher08 contest wiley)

• 5 Things I Love About BlogHer

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• Dean says he’s committed to seating Florida’s delegates – CNN.com

  “It is my commitment, working with the Florida delegation and the campaigns, to find a fair solution so that Florida will be seated — and we are confident enough that we have reserved hotel rooms for the delegates from Florida in Denver,” he said.

  (tags: election08 florida dnc delegates)

• BlogHer | Compass Partners 2008 Social Media Benchmark Study: Blogging mainstream, “Reliable” for fun, advice and information | BlogHer

  This spring, BlogHer partnered with Compass Partners to do a sweeping social media benchmark study of more than 6,000 women. We surveyed 1,250 female Internet users via a nationally representative panel, and 5,000 visitors to BlogHer’s network (BlogHer.com our syndicate of 1,500 blogs).

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• Flickr: The J&J Camp Baby 2008 Pool

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Someone on Twitter, I can’t remember who, said she’d love a “10 reasons to go to BlogHerCon 08” list. Because she was thinking about it, but she just wasn’t sure. I didn’t have the time to make a list, and I still don’t have time. But, I did have time to ask Prince J for his list.

You see, Prince J went to BlogHerCon 07 with us and he LOVED IT. He loved it so much that he is really TICKED off that he cannot attend this year. Seriously TICKED off about this. But, he’s a good sport and happily spouted off ten reasons people should go to BlogHerCon 08.

1) Denise will be there (which counts as 9)
2) There’s free stuff (Prince J’s sister is also ticked that she is not going to BlogHerCon08 this year. She was at camp last year and missed the big event. She wants to go for the big PPP pens.)
3) The coffee bar was awesome so there should be one again this year.
4) He’ll be there (ha in his dreams, he’s not going this year and he is angry about this.)
5) They have a really good internet connection with a lot of places to plug in your laptop or (recharge your gameboy/ds)
6) You can meet Tish Grier (is she going to be there in 08? Prince J was really taken with Tish, as any smart person would be.)
7) You can stalk the sushi guy at the cocktail party.
8) You can meet people who care about what you’re interested in (He met gamers!)
9) People talk to you, who you don’t even know! (And they expect you to talk back to them! Even if you don’t really know them.)
10) You can meet new computers and check out their cool laptop stickers! (Prince J really enjoyed scoping out all of the different laptops and their stickers.)