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Where in the World is PunditMom?

Well, fortunately we made it back from a few lovely and restful days in the Outer Banks before Hurricane Irene sent everyone scurrying, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that we don’t lose power as she heads our way this …

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The Flip Side of Lisa Belkin’s “Jinxed” Theory

As a general matter, I enjoy reading the posts at Lisa Belkin’s New York Times blog, Motherlode.  I’ve met Lisa and she’s a lovely person, a great writer and her column has interesting food for thought.  But there are …

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The State of the Blogosphere for Political Women

It’s time for Technorati’s annual State of the Blogosphere survey and I have to applaud them for this year’s focus — women in the blogosphere. Yup — it’s the year for the lay-deez! There are some fabulous interviews with names …

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Do You Blog for “the Man?”

Earlier this year, I had the pleasure to be on a panel at the Women, Action & the Media conference with my good friend Veronica Arreola from Viva la Feminista and Diane Farsetta from the Center for Media and Democracy…

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Mothers of Intention — What is the Future of Journalism?

This week I’m honored to have as my guest Mother of Intention, Gina Chen. Gina has 20 years experience as a print journalist and is starting a Ph.D. program this fall at Syracuse University. She blogged about parenting for two …

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is "mother’s milk" trumping the mommy-blogger?

I’m David Wescott, the political hack/PR flack who blogs about blogging at It’s Not a Lecture, and I’m so grateful to PunditMom for letting me borrow her soapbox today. One of the things I do is track the issues-based …

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MSM Not Interested in BlogHer??

One of the main items of business at this weekend’s BlogHer Conference was to announce the results of the BlogHers Act survey of thousands of women bloggers to determine what main issues we, as women, want to hear the Democratic …

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