I didn't attend BlogHer 08 so I felt sheepish writing about it in my blog today. Yet there are a number of women (yes, really there are) who still don't know about BlogHer, so I felt it was my duty.

When I began to surf in search of BlogHer 08 coverage, I remembered why I didn't write about it right after the conference ended. There was virtually no mainstream media coverage that I could link to.

And after I read the New York Times article, I knew there would be fallout.

So that's what my blog consists of - a media roundup of BlogHer 08 coverage. My favorite? The article written by Melissa Silverstein at the Women's Media Center. She goes into thorough detail and assumes the reader knows nothing about BlogHer or past conferences, which was what I needed.

But, you know, I felt frustrated that there was so little regard for this. And I haven't even been a BlogHer member all that long, so I can't imagine how others felt.

As I was compiling resources, all I could think of was the classic family scene in which a kid (or a spouse) is searching for something specific in the house. "MOM!" the shout reverberates throughout, "Where is X? Y? Z?" And in seconds, Mom always responds and gives the precise coordinates of said item.

When I googled in search of BlogHer 08 articles, it was like screaming, "MOM! Where is ___?" But in this case, nobody in mainstream media cared enough to answer. Or they took so long that I almost forgot what I was searching for.