Girl power
Friday, October 27, 2006 at 06:42AM by
Charlie O'Donnell Ok, so the worlds of finance, tech and probably to a lesser extent politics are still boys clubs, but I like to point out when my favorite gender makes some noise.
Found two cool new female bloggers...
A video blog on finance called Wallstrip hosted by Lindsay Campbell. She's still looking for a "booyah"-like catchphrase, but Jim Cramer should still be watching his back.
Ashley Cecil paints politics and other newsworthy items... literally. I'm really tempted to buy the Bubba painting... Gotta love that little stubby thumbs up he gives...she's captured it perfectly.
Also, BizDev2.0 is going to feature some very successful women in technology... Catherine Levene, formally of the NYT Digital and now working with TheFind.com, Tina Sharkey, SVP of AIM and Social Media at AOL, and now a late addition, Zia Daniell Wigder from Jupiter Media.
Now if we could only skew the 90/10 boy/girl ration in the audience.
Some people think this stuff doesn't much matter, but for me, getting perspectives from a wide variety of people is one of the reasons why I blog and participate in these communities. I hope we can see more of this in the future.

Reader Comments (3)
Glad you saw Ashley's blog. In the eyes of a very biased observer, she's doing great things.
Best,Matt
As a girl in tech the ratio gets a little insane. I remember the entering freshman CS class I was in (8 years ago? ow.) having 17 girls out of 450 students.
The blog world seems more friendly than the other tech boys' clubs. (IRC, Usenet, etc.)