Women get their blog on
Inside Bay Area - July 26 2006
It's a Tuesday in July, and Alice Bradley's Bloomfield, N.J., house seems to be melting."It's 98,000 degrees in here," she said.
Bradley is the woman behind Finslippy, a blog dedicated to documenting her personal adventures raising a son. This afternoon, Henry, now 4, interrupts her phone conversation to ask for a snack.
"Want a yogurt?" Bradley asks him. "What kind? Vanilla?"
Finslippy ranks among the most popular of the "mommy blogs," but female bloggers have struggled to shake the stigma that the only things a woman can write about are motherhood, knitting and cats.
"Women are blogging about everything," said BlogHer co-founder Elisa Camahort, a 42-year-old San Jose marketing consultant. `'Many women are blogging about everything at once." [more]
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