Melissa Ford

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  1. Mark Zuckerberg Marries Longtime Girlfriend, Priscilla Chan

    5/19/12 6:48pm by Melissa Ford
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    Mark Zuckerberg

    Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, today in a ceremony at his home and... yes, he changed his Facebook status to married.  It was a big week for Zuckerberg which also included moving Facebook to be a public company on Friday as well as a big week for Chan who graduated medical school.  In fact, the guests believed they were there to celebrate Chan's graduation.  Read more >

  2. The Shrinking Blog Comment Section

    5/14/12 6:00am by Melissa Ford
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    Tiny Person on Blog

    There has been talk around the blogosphere about comments tapering off; where there were once vibrant conversations, there are now only a few people talking. And yet the same people report that their overall stats haven't fallen. Readership for the most part remains constant, but the discussion has tapered off, almost as if it has been sprayed with experimental perfume and we're witnessing the Incredible Shrinking Blog.  Read more >

  3. Watching What You Say Online: Teaching Social Media Circumspection

    5/7/12 6:00am by Melissa Ford
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    Teens looking at cell phone

    Some people are more circumspect than others while they're online, thinking before they post.  While they'd love to upload that incredibly amusing photograph of them drunk on Spring Break, they think about potential future employers viewing it and their posting finger stops twitching.  Or they may leave their office fuming about their boss, but they give themselves time to calm down before taking to the Internet to let loose a string of curse words. But that doesn't mean that your friends are being as thoughtful as you are on your Facebook wall.  Read more >

  4. Infertile Shouldn't Mean Replaceable

    5/4/12 8:00am by Melissa Ford
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    Marit & Toomas Hinnosaar (Flickr)

    The National Zoo in Washington DC may be getting a new female panda because the one they have hasn't been able to produce more cubs after one successful pregnancy. I can't help but feel sad about this. I am an infertile woman who was successful with treatments the first time around. I am an infertile woman who has not been able to get pregnant again since. The message being inadvertently given by zoo researchers is that this panda is worthless if she can't reproduce.  Read more >

  5. Life of Julia Takes a Woman Through an Obama or Romney America

    5/3/12 3:15am by Melissa Ford
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    Life of Julia Site

    The 1998 film Sliding Doors showed Gwyneth Paltrow two versions of her life, one in which she caught a train and one in which she missed it, causing Americans everywhere to wonder about all of their roads not taken. Today, President Barack Obama's campaign released a website called Life of Julia, which depicts a woman throughout her life under either Obama or Mitt Romney's policies.  Read more >

  6. NaBloPoMo Soup: Add Your May Posts

    5/1/12 6:00am by Melissa Ford
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    May's NaBloPoMo

    You have posts and we want to read them. This is a way for people to post a link to their daily May NaBloPoMo posts that they publish on their personal blogs. Please use the linky feature below daily to add your post, and peruse the ones already entered in order to find great things to read as well as support your fellow NaBloPoMo'ers. Bookmark this post so you can use it all month.  Read more >

  7. Would You Want to Become a Meme?

    4/30/12 6:00am by Melissa Ford
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    Meme

    Mental Floss recently hunted down nine regular people who became memes -- or, at least, their picture became a meme. Ryan Gosling being turned into a meme is just an extension of his celebrity. But there are also regular people like Blake Boston, who became known as Scumbag Steve after his picture was appropriated for a meme from his mother's Myspace page.  Read more >

  8. Women of America, Suit Up! Notes from the DNC's National Issues Conference

    4/29/12 10:17am by Melissa Ford
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    President Obama

    On Friday, I attended part of the 18th Annual National Issues Conference held by the Democratic National Committee's Women's Leadership Forum. I was there to cover the President's remarks at the end of the day, but arrived early to hear some of the speakers. It was the best example of the personal becoming political, with each speaker drawing from her life in order to explain why this upcoming election matters.  Read more >

  9. Join Us for May's NaBloPoMo and Write Every Day

    4/26/12 6:00am by Melissa Ford
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    NaBloPoMo's Theme

    So what is the NaBloPoMo theme of the month?  Read more >

  10. NaBloPoMo May 2012 Blogroll

    4/26/12 6:00am by Melissa Ford
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    NaBloPoMo Blogroll

    The theme for May is PLAY. If you're posting every day in May and would like to join the blogroll, fill out the NaBloPoMo Blogroll Form.  Read more >

Mel Ford

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Mel Ford
Member Since
July 2006
About Me: 
I write Stirrup Queens when I'm not reading other people's blogs, cooking, or chasing after my twins. I'm the author of two books: Life from Scratch, a novel about blogging, and Navigating the Land of If, a non-fiction book about infertility and pregnancy loss. You can find me on Facebook and on Twitter. You can reach me via email at melissa.ford@blogher.com.
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