BlogHer - '07 Sessions/Speakers - Comments

Ha Ha

Virginia DeBolt — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:45:16 -0600

Just proves that advertisers can make anything sound like sex.
I entered "Web Teacher" and the slogan came back: Do the Web Teacher.
I entered "Mastering HTML and CSS" and the slogan came back: Splash Mastering HTML and CSS All Over.

What a stupidly funny mismatch of messages.

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Love Amy!

Princess Bubble — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:27:18 -0500

I have to admit did not watch clip because my sound card is screwed up and can not hear anything. But I think Amy is so funny. I went recently to see David Sedaris who I thought was great too-till I saw him live -and was turned off by his whole sex with animals routine. GROSS!

I am so jealous I can not hear the video!

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i was really uncomfortable with the comments outlined above

laurie — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:56:24 -0500

as well as when she referred to the native woman on the butter packaging as the "squaw" (more than once).

It just made me cringe.

I think humour that shocks can be very funny. This, however, was just plain offensive.

I think the difference for me is the funny kind of humour suggests "aren't people ridiculous?" (which is kind of exclusive) whereas the kind of jokes Sedaris was making seem to elicit contempt for the groups about whom she was being pejorative.

My two cents.

laurie
www.notjustaboutcancer.blogspot.com

I would ask her: - As a

Sahar Maranlou — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:23:00 -0500

I would ask her:
- As a woman, what are her main criteria for initiating dialogue between South and North women activists to peace building?
- As an attorney, how US can use international human rights discourse with a real good faith as an instrument to improve human rights situation first within USA and then in other countries? Without double standards raising from US political interest, like its different approach to human rights abuse to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt and Iran...
- As an advisor for her husband, how US is going to cover Iraq’s war damages and deaths? Is it possible to fill the deep gap in Iraqi life that Bush has created just by brining home American soldiers? And also what’s her reflect on Iran? Is she thinking about another war even for a short moment in her strategic planning?
- As an American, what she is thinking about interacting just dialogue between American society and other nations ( Middle East)? ...we in South countries in particular Middle East have been influenced by American media propaganda; we are scaring from American empire building which caused us a lot of difficulties...

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I vote for...

msjen — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 22:30:16 -0500

Somewhere cool in the summer... Seattle, San Diego, Portland, Lake Tahoe, etc...

;o)

p.s. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new design and layout!

Black Phoebe :: Ms. Jen
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Around Ireland

We did ask them to convert a men's room to a women's room...

Elisa Camahort — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:24:39 -0500

But they converted the one on the third floor near the rooftop terrace, so I don't think it was the most obvious...I never saw anyone but me go in there :)

I think because the public could still access other parts of the facility they didn't want to convert a more obvious one.

But, yes, every year in fact we've had them turn some of the men's rooms over to the womens :)

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
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Vegas is nice

toledolefty — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:26:44 -0500

...because cheap flights are available, but then there's always the fear that I'd miss sessions because I was winning at Blackjack.

If I can find a way to attend BlogHer next year, I will, no matter where it's held.

I put it on my survey, but want to chime in here too: Make sure to consider the restroom facilities when choosing next year's venue. The long lines at Navy Pier meant many of us were late to sessions. I can't believe that a conference facility wouldn't have more than a couple of women's stalls on each floor.

----
Jen
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Re: VEGAS, BABY? Where should BlogHer '08 be ...

bobafifi — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:39:00 -0500

Hi Elisa,
Vegas sounds good! The National Flute Convention held their annual event there a few years ago in August and aside from the 110 degree heat outside and a sinus condition, I had fun.

-Bob
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Did you include your name or not Maurene?

Elisa Camahort — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:46:56 -0500

If you included your name I should be able to find you if I do a database search. If you didn't but know the time you think you completed it I can try to figure it out, but it might be hard.

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

did you get my completed survey?

Maurene Caplan Grey — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:33:34 -0500

Elisa,

I was completing the last question in the survey and was about to click on Submit. Before I could do so, I was taken to the intro page of the survey. By chance did the completed survey come through. If not, has this happened to others?

Thanks,
- Maurene

E-Communications & Community

Never let the urgent crowd-out the important.

I fixed it for those who did not attend

Elisa Camahort — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 10:34:02 -0500

Sorry about that, I messed up the skip logic on that question, and they won't let you edit skip logic on a live survey :(

So, here's what I did: the only other "mandatory" question on the first page is now the one about how you feel about our 100% women speaking roster (which anyone can weigh in on, not just those who attended, after all.)

The skip logic works on the next pages, so as long as you keep answering "no, I did not attend day one, day two, the OpenSpace" etc. with just a couple of extra clicks you should get to the end where the topic and location voting happens.

Again, sorry...please give it another go!

Elisa Camahort
BlogHer
elisa@blogher.org

You mean you don't have moderator superpowers?

momomatic — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:04:57 -0500

Jenny,

Very gracious of you to reply, as I fear I was not so gracious in my post.

It was a short time period for such a loaded subject. And as I said in the post, had I done a little pre-research regarding the topic I would not have started the conversation with the "lardass" opener. The word seemed to eclipse the idea I was trying to talk about. (Turning fat words that used to shame you into something funny so you can brush them off and move on).

In general I think it's frustrating to try and put out a sticky opinion in a group discussion. There is no guarantee you will get to to contribute more or clarify as the conversation progresses. But it's difficult to be so zen about it when you are in the moment.

I think your self-deprecating comments were dead on as a general comment. I bristled because it felt like you were speaking to me directly and it just didn't apply. But as a blogger I'm a natural narcissist. (What do you mean it's not about me!) so that could have been my hotheaded perception.

At any rate, thanks for the discussion and your nice response.

Your contributions to the panel

Jenny Lauck — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:03:13 -0500

I'm just now catching up with post-BlogHer recaps, and I wanted to let you know I hear you on this.

My comments about the reasons behind the self-deprecating humor that many of us use to take the sting out of hateful words was perhaps ill-timed, in light of your heartfelt contributions. As a woman who has struggled with her weight and body acceptance issues, I was speaking from my own perspective. I want you to know I was speaking to the group in general, not to you individually. I apologize if you felt that your thoughts were cut short or belittled. With only 75 minutes to explore these difficult topics, and a sea of hands in front of me, I found myself wishing for a longer, and perhaps more intimate setting for this very loaded discussion.

The Circus is in town!

Fill in the required fields...

Denise — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:37:29 -0500

As well as you can without having attended. The only fields required are the * fields and you can answer based on how you think you'll feel next year.... so the swag question, how do you think you'll feel about having swag at a conference next year. That works. :-)

~Denise
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the survey doesn't work for those of us...

Crunchy Carpets — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:07:30 -0500

clicking on 'did not attend.'

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