blog degrees of separation

Well, I know The Food Pornographer ( http://www.thefoodpornographer.com/ ) is a lesbian, and she lives in Perth.  Her blog is really a food blog, but she also talks about her life and her partner.  You might try contacting her to see if she has some blogs she could recomend if you're looking for Astrailian lesbian bloggers that is. 

I'll see if I can find some links for you later today.

I know what it's like to think you're all alone out there. :-)

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings ( http://www.flamingohouse.net/ )

I have every confidence that you will do well to represent. 

I am a fairly new blogger - just got serious about it about 6 months ago.  Therefore I am still stumbling around the blogosphere trying to find my place in it and find out who else is inhabiting it.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a single Aussie lesbian blogger.  I have no idea where they are hiding.  They must be out there somewhere. Obviously, they all have elite ninja skills. 

On a different note, how could you sleep through Star Wars??  At least the loud sound effects should have been enough to keep you awake. :) 

Dancing About Architecture ( http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org ) - Blogging just got queerer.

I'm not a Star Wars fan, I've slept through them more than I've seen them. But, I bonded over them with a 13 year old... so this, I need.

Awesome.

Nice to meet you - are you on a lot of Australian lesbian blog lists? Maybe the six degrees doesn't work as well - trans-Atlantic style?

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings ( http://www.flamingohouse.net/ )

I tried the six degrees of seperation lesbian blogger experiment and after much more than six degrees, I am still out there trying to find my way back home.

Dancing About Architecture ( http://www.dancingaboutarchitecture.org )- Blogging just got queerer.

Hah. I have sometimes enjoyed being the token lesbian but it is quite a huge responsibility and I end up resenting it.

I hope you'll say something if you begin to resent being the token non-lesbian. Hah.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings ( http://www.flamingohouse.net/ )

You know, I don't think I've ever been a token non-lesbian before.  I feel like I've arrived.

I am not a lesbian blogger so I'm not on many dyke blogrolls. I might get lucky if someone has "nuthinfancy" linked in her blogroll, then I could get back to my blog.

Now about this Six Degrees thing - It's a problem. When I was looking at lesbian bloggers, to try and find an editor for BlogHer.... you all link to each other!! I'd find like one "new to me" blog on each lesbian blog. It was time consuming and fun at the same time.

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings ( http://www.flamingohouse.net/ )

I errr didn't see myself on your blog list, probably because I didn't look for my name. Hah. I feel like a lesbian blogger now. Weird how that happens.

That not knowing who is a lesbian and how isn't - that's a big one. I appreciate people who sort their rolls by orientation but I cannot imagine ever doing that myself. So, it's often very hit and miss (mostly miss) when I surf blogs starting at queer sites.

I think you should build that tool - if twitter can have a tool that searches your friends list and then recommends friends, we should have the same thing for blogs. Oh yea, you need more time and more practice with databases. Don't we all? Blah. Who can we hire? I'd throw in money. lol

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings ( http://www.flamingohouse.net/ )

Well if you started at me, you could get directly back to yourself because you are in my blogroll.  Unless something strange has happened, that is. 

The hard thing about the degrees of separtation and finding your way home is, that unless someone spells it out, you don't always know who if the blog is written by a lesbian.  And, if other bloggers are like me, not all of the blogs in there blog roll are strickly lesbian blogs.  I've got straight women, straight men, and lesbians in my blog roll. 

What is sort of interesting to me are the blog circles, and where the overlaps are, and more specifically, where they aren't.  I've been tempted to map it and try to figure out what common denominators are, but I think that would be a long involved process.  It would be cool though to compile blog rolls, like a who reads who, and build a data base that might be able to recommend new blogs based on the blogs that you like.  If only I had more time and database building skill. 

I started with Waiting for Dorothy because she's at the bottom of my feedreader and happened to be the last blog with a new feed - six clicks and I couldn't get back to myself. Weird, I thought I would find Suburban Lesbian faster... but I didn't. Very odd.

I started at your blog, gaymo - and knew I could get to mine quickly - gaymo to Suburban Lesbian to Carolina on My Mind (my old old old friend nuthinfancy) to me.

That's probably as good as I'm every going to get, from lesbian blog rolls and I can live with that. :-)

~Denise
BlogHer Community Manager

Flamingo House Happenings ( http://www.flamingohouse.net/ )

As the Lori mentioned above who has OC on my blogroll, along with Suburban Lesbian, Just Eat Your Cupcake, and a myriad others, I wrote about this phenomenon a couple years ago I think. I actually drew out a chart of some of the blogs on my roll and how they interconnected, much like Alice's Chart. Even straight people were interconnected to me through other lesbian blogs. It's kind of funny in a ha-ha way when you stop to think about it - it's kind of like being in the one girl bar in town on Friday night when the same butts sit on the same barstools. Still, this blogging thing is far healthier and much more interesting.

Lori Hahn
Link Text ( http://www.hahnathome.com )Hahn at Home