Queens...of...Cyberspace: Women speakers at SXSW

Queens....of....Cyberspace! The Austin Chronicle has a write-up on many of the women speaking at SXSW that makes me proud of my alternative weekly roots as a journalist. If you squint really hard, or check out a large version of the cover art here on my neglected Flickr blog, you'll see they promote Heather Armstrong, Ronnie Bennett, danah boyd, Barb Dybwad, Anastasia Goodstein, Lynne D. Johnson, Glennis McClellan, Maxine Sherrin, and Ruby Sinreich. (For those of you who don't know, conference programmer Hugh Forrest has worked hard to walk his talk about a representative group of speakers. As a result, more than 100 of this year's 300 speakers are women. He recruited BlogHer to produce five panels and we are just a drop in the bucket.)

I copied some story links below to get you started.

If you read through it all, like I did, you'll enjoy rich, deep quotes from all of the women above. You'll also see my admiring description of CE Melinda Casino, whose surfing guides to Feminism & Gender are among our best. People the Chron doesn't mention on the cover -- whom I expect to raise the rhetorical roof at SXSW and are a big part of the reason I'm getting a sitter and going -- are:

Tiffany B. Brown, who is on two panels: Blogging While Black, Revisited and Public Square or Private Club: Does Exclusivity Strengthen or Dilute?

Power Trio Grace Davis, Nancy White and Tish Grier, who are joined by Bill Andersen and Jimmie Bise, Jr. at 11:30 am Sunday on a panel called, "Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide"

For a full speaking schedule, see here - if I've missed any links, please let me know and add them below.

Here's a menu of the Chron's terrific coverage:

South by Southwest Interactive 06 BY SHAWN BADGLEY March 10-14, Austin Convention Center

Reciprocal Demand BY JAMES RENOVITCH Ladies, what has the gaming business done for you, lately?

City of Games BY N. EVAN VAN ZELFDEN ScreenBurn reinvents itself for launch

The Consequences of Getting Personal BY MARRIT INGMAN The BlogHer founders bare all

Don't Fear the Interface BY KATE X MESSER Web designers are wielding the coolest new tools for the greater good

The New Reliable BY MARRIT INGMAN With Dooce.com, pro blogger and crazy Utah housewife Heather Armstrong stands by her brand

Come in From the Old BY JOSH ROSENBLATT Warming up to folksonomies, recommendation systems, and glocalized environments

Enjoy. I'll see everyone Friday night, March 10, at the BlogHer/SXSW meet-up coordinated by the amazing Paige Maguire. P.S. Yes, men are invited.

Tags: blogher, sxsw

Comments

[Mary]

Thanks for the links. Great interviews all. Wish I could be there! Have fun.

[Roxann]

Love it. See you Friday night.

[Lisa Stone]

Mary, I wish you could be there too! Get your rest for July's rave...

[Lisa Stone]

YAY - See you there Roxanne!

[Lisa Williams]

OMG. I was so happy when I saw the Austin Chronicle cover, I think I actually made a weird little squeaking noise when I pulled it out of my swag bag.

You know, the next time, if there's a BlogHer track at a conference, I'm going to offer any session I'm a part of for it if it works in that context. I don't know why Julie and I didn't do that! Pre-conference deer-in-headlights syndrome.

[Lisa Stone]

Now that is a compliment to BlogHer, Lisa Williams, and I am grateful for it (huge kudos to Elisa Camahort, BlogHer co-founder, for incubating the panels for six months and making sure they delivered). I have learned from experience that anything you and Julie Leung do, together or separate, has a nonzero chance of being irresistible in topic and exceptional in execution. I only wish I'd been able to attend your couples-who-blog panel before racing back home. Jory had some great insights from it.