Advertising slogans are supposed to state the main benefits of the brand. Good slogans, make that great slogans, have a distinct personality of their own and are  hard to forget. Scotland used to have such a slogan. It was,"Scotland, the Best Small Country in the World."

In part 5, Elizabeth Edwards discusses Iraq, Rupert Murdoch, and how she reads blogs.

In part 4, Elizabeth Edwards answers your questions about childcare and how to get young people involved in the political process.

In Part 3, Elizabeth finishes her statements regarding universal health care, Hillary Clinton, and raising taxes.

In part 2 of Lisa Stone's interview with Elizabeth Edwards, she talks about Ann Coulter and why she doesn't have a personal blog.

It grew out of a session at the BlogHer Conference: One of the most gratifying things coming out of this session was that here we were, all sharing a general sense that we had to do something -- and someone suggested we start right there, in the room, by gathering everyone's contacts into one meta-group, networking and mentoring each other and just staying connected. That made total sense! As a self-taught geek who's too much the dork to be any good at networking, this was music to my ears. I mean, this room was its own estroswarm of geek power in this corner of the 'net industry. So I pulled my notepad out of my bag and started passing it around the room, and it seems like everyone add [sic] their name and email....

One of our '06 Technology partners, ListenShare, conducted a bunch of interviews at BlogHer '06 and has posted them to a variety of places: -Download from the ListenShare site. -Subscribe or download via Odeo. -Subscribe or download from

Here are the first batch of BlogHer breakout session audio recordings. The sessions from Day Two, Session #1 can be found after the jump.

I'm excited to publish the first of many recordings from the BlogHer Conference '06 sessions. Each of BlogHer's sessions were lovingly recorded by

[img_assist|fid=1396|thumb=1|alt=TIME Coolest Websites graphic ] Congratulations to two long-time and ever-inspiring food bloggers for inclusion in TIME's 50 Coolest Websites! Munich-based Delicous Days made the Top 50 list. California-based Simply Recipes got a mention too, in the cooking section. (Does the name Elise Bauer ring a bell? She's a contributing editor here at Blogher, too! She recently wrote about How to Increase Blog Traffic. Do you suppose she'll be adding, "Get mentioned by TIME magazine" to the list?) By complete coincidence, today three food bloggers are sharing a little Elise Bauer & Simply Recipes Love starting at A Veggie Venture too.

Last year I wrote some posts about how we found speakers and how programming decisions for the conference got made, and there is definitely a group of BlogHers who like getting the "inside scoop." Now I've written a couple of posts over on my Worker Bees blog and my personal blog about my broader feelings about post-conference feedback, but I thought I would write here about conference content. This year there has been some feedback that people felt that conference content was skewed in certain directions. Some people felt it was skewed toward MommyBlogging; some felt it was skewed toward those who want to commercialize their blogs. Some people who only attended Day One said they wondered where the "conversation and community" was, and some people who could only attend Day Two wondered where the technical content was.

One topic I feel I covered poorly in my short time as a contributing editor on Feminism & Gender at BlogHer is gender. The second definition of gender at Merriam-Webster Online is “a: SEX b : the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex,� but I don’t agree at that idea all. Gender means many different things to different audiences. Unlike the dictionary, in past posts, I tried hard to not equate gender with sex, not always successfully.