Women who blog

Since we had a long weekend, and I moved last week, I decided to just write something about the history of women bloggers. I was inspired by a tweet from The Bloggess, about this article which asked, "Why are bloggers male?" I had to check the date and was aghast that a journalist would write something like that in the year 2010. Surely she, as a woman online, should know that bloggers aren't solely male, right? She hasn't heard of BlogHer? huh...guess not. We obviously need a history of women who blog. I decided to look into it, myself.

What I found, was that I so take the internet for granted. I thought that, like most things, I could just Google "first woman blogger" in some form or another, and I would get a page of results to choose from. I tried several phrases and keywords, but only came up with links to women oriented website associations or newish articles about female bloggers. I forget that the web really isn't that old, and that while we create new things on it every day, we don't have much of a history documented about it, so far.

I can see that this project is going to have to be on the long term research list, and published at another date. Either that, or we'll have to base it on what we know now. I also am hoping that some of you might be able to pass on some info on what you know about the short history of women bloggers. Then we can let the web-ignorant know about the fab women blogs that have been going on for years.

Here is what I've found in regard to the first woman blogger: (This info has been corrected - we don't know anything more about the blogger than what's here...if anyone does, please let us know!) Carolyn Burke started her blog in 1995. It is now a "museum, so unlike many old blogs, you can still read what's there. This is not the same person as this Carolyn Burke, as I mistakenly wrote earlier this week.

From there, there isn't any timeline, so unfortunately I can only go by personal experience. I began blogging in 2004, and read a ton of wonderful blogs written by women. Some were unpublished writers, some were bitchers, some were mommies or politicos. One of the first that I loved to read was Pia Savage's Courting Destiny. I also read Finding Zen, Leila Radan's Miz Bohemia's Rhapsody, and so many others that I can't remember the name of now - I remember tons of women-written blogs and know that there are tons more. Mommy blogs, diaries, politics, technology - women are and have been writing blogs all over the place.

Right now, we know of a lot of fab women bloggers, from Dooce to Go Fug Yourself to Veerle's Blog, to so many I can't mention, we know that women rule the blogosphere. Let's start the history lesson now - we can fill in the blanks as we go.

Pitch in with your fave woman blogger - comment or email us with your take on who is paving the way for all women on the web.