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Blog Reader Appreciation Day
Robin Reagler of The Other Mother is hosting her annual Blog Reader Appreciation Day today, which seems like a wonderful idea and a great reason to offer my appreciation to you, dear readers. If a blog falls in a forest, and no one is there, it doesn’t make a sound. (Trees are still open for [...]
Happy Holidays
We’re having a bit of a family emergency here right now, hence the lack of vlog yesterday. I’m also going to skip the Weekly Political Update today; I’m assuming that this week of all weeks you’ve been keeping up with the political news, and that many of you have left for the long weekend already [...]
We’ve Got the Beat: Mombian Cited as Cool Beatblog
Mombian was cited today as a “really cool beatblog” by Beatblogging.org, in an article that looks at how “instead of just writing about the joys and trials of motherhood,” mommy bloggers are “branching out into other areas.” “What’s a beatblog?” you ask. Here’s Beatblogging.org’s definition: A beat blog in the expansive sense is any blog [...]
Join the Blogswarm: The Only Agenda Is Love
It’s another blogswarm! This Monday, February 9, bloggers in the LGBT community and our allies will be participating in “The Only Agenda Is Love,” a blogswarm in support of Freedom to Marry Week. By being a part of this effort, you will help contribute to a blogsphere-wide education campaign about ways your readers can help [...]
I’m a Lezzy
. . . or at least I’ve been nominated for one. The Lesbian Lifestyle blog is hosting its annual lesbian blog awards, The Lezzys, all this month, and one (or more) of you kind readers has thrown Mombian’s virtual hat into the ring. That means I need more nominations to make it into the final [...]
Thanks for Your Votes!
Many thanks to all who took the time to vote for Mombian as Best Large Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards. I didn’t win (the honor went to Jammie Wearing Fool), but I wasn’t last, so I’m happy. All in good fun, and I got to peruse a bunch of new blogs. Congratulations also to [...]
Final Reminder: Please Vote for Mombian in Weblog Awards
A final (thank heavens!) reminder to vote for Mombian as Best Large Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards. I know I won’t win at this point, but I’d love to go out with a big rally. Voting ends at 5:00 p.m. EST today. I know the Weblog Awards site has been slow to unavailable at [...]
Weekend Voting Reminder
A friendly weekend reminder to keep voting for Mombian as Best Large Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards. You can (and should!) vote once every 24 hours through January 13, since results are cumulative. (That means in two more days I’ll stop posting these annoying reminders.) Right now, I’m far from first—but I’m not last, [...]
Working Mother L-Moms Breakfast in New York
I’ve been graciously invited by Working Mother magazine to give the keynote speech at their first-ever L-Moms & Allies Breakfast on January 21 in New York City. If you live in the greater New York City area, you are more than welcome to attend. I’d love to meet you there. The only catch is that [...]
Time to Vote Again!
Just a gentle reminder that 24 hours have elapsed since voting began in the 2008 Weblog Awards, and that Mombian is in the running for Best Large Blog. You can (and should!) vote once every 24 hours through January 13, since results are cumulative. Right now, I’m far from first—but I’m not last, either, and [...]
2008 Weblog Awards: Please Vote for Mombian
I’m honored to announce that Mombian has been selected as a finalist for “Best Large Blog” in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Voting is now open! I’d very much appreciate your votes. You can vote once every 24 hours in each blog category through Tuesday January 13, 2009 at 10:00 p.m. GMT (5:00 p.m. EST and [...]
Winter Wonderland
Sometimes I blog, sometimes I just play in the snow. (Actual picture of my backyard.) Posting will be light this week. I’ll probably put a few things up, though, so stop by between slices of fruitcake or latkes. I suspect I’ll be spending Thursday helping a very excited five-year-old assemble various Lego projects. (In a [...]
My New Project
I had the pleasure last weekend to meet Bil Browning, founder of The Bilerico Project, the largest LGBT group blog. He’s posted a couple of guest posts from me in the past, and has just invited me to be an official member of the gang at Bilerico. Never fear, Mombian is not going anywhere. I [...]
50 Bloggers Walk Into a Room . . .
I spent the weekend, as some of you know, at the National LGBT Blogger and Citizen Journalist Initiative Summit (NLGBTBCJIS?) It was an amazing weekend, the best part of which was meeting many of the bloggers I knew only by name and reputation. The Bilerico gang, including co-owners Bil and Jerame, Pam Spaulding of Pam’s [...]
Off to Blogger Initiative in DC
I’m off to DC this weekend for the LGBT Bloggers & Citizen Journalist Initiative. Mike Rogers is organizing it and kindly invited me to attend. I’ll also be speaking on a panel about group and event blogging, having managed one or two blogging events in my time. I’m looking forward to meeting a lot of [...]
Mombian in Curve
The Mombian vlog, “She Got Me Pregnant,” got a mention in the December issue of Curve magazine. It’s just hitting newsstands now, and has Heather Matarazzo and Caroline Murphy on the cover. The article “Vlogging Killed the TV Star,” on page 70, says: Although YouTube is synonymous with the Internet’s vlog revolution, a more fruitful [...]
BlogHer Call for Ideas
The women of BlogHer want your ideas! They are already beginning preparations for the 2009 national BlogHer conference in Chicago, and are asking people to submit themselves or others as speakers, or propose ideas for the kind of panels and content they’d like to see. Founder Elisa Camahort Page writes: BlogHer is passionate about delivering [...]
BlogHer Boston Bonanza
I had a bloggeriffic time Saturday at the BlogHer Boston conference. The best part was networking with other women bloggers, some of whom had backgrounds very different from my own. I even went to a session on food blogging just for the heck of it. (I actually have a secret desire to be a food [...]
Let’s Twitter!
Do you Twitter? I’ve just joined the micro-blogging social network, which means you can keep up with Mombian posts and other news by “following” me there, taking advantage of Twitter’s pervasiveness across the Web, mobile phones, and other devices. Just go to www.twitter.com/mombian and click “Follow.” I’ll keep my Twitter feed updated with short news [...]
Going to BlogHer Boston?
If you’re going to be at the BlogHer Boston conference this Saturday, please drop me a note so we can say hi! I’ll be on the Closing Keynote panel, “Change Your Future; Change the World,” but should be around the rest of the day as well. Here’s what we’ll be discussing on our panel: Blogging [...]
“She Got Me Pregnant”: Week Off
We’re taking the week off from our “She Got Me Pregnant” vlog because of some family happenings. We hope to be back next Thursday with another episode.
I’m Speaking at BlogHer Boston
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be speaking at BlogHer Boston, part of the BlogHer series of conferences for and about women bloggers, on October 11. Founder Elisa Camahort was kind enough to invite me to speak at the Closing Keynote, “Change Your Future; Change the World.” That sounds like the tagline for a Terminator [...]
Mombian-Bilerico Birthday Contest Winners
Thanks to the participants and winners in last week’s Mombian-Bilerico Birthday Blowout. Reader CMB won the two books and CD. Bil at Bilerico says he now has an extra copy of children’s book Choose to Love, however, and will offer it to my second-place winner Erin. Thanks, Bil! I’ll also be running a new contest [...]
Mombian/Bilerico Birthday Contest Extravaganza
Bil Browning, founder of The Bilerico Project, was kind enough to suggest we celebrate our respective blogs’ birthdays with a little cross-promotion. Bil and his partner Jerame have built their site into one of the most active and diverse LGBT communities online in only a year, all while raising a teenager and two dogs (as [...]
Birthdays All Around
Our friends at the Bilerico Project are celebrating their first birthday on Wednesday. Click over and join the fun. They’ll have contests and festivities all week long. As it happens, Mombian passed its third birthday on June 21. Since that was only a day before my two-week trip to California, with unknown Internet access, I [...]
