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This is what I wrote out, intending to jarvis it on MSNBC this afternoon. I'm not sure what I actually said.

There's been a fair bit of discussion about the fact that tech conferences, for all their good intentions, haven't been able to attract enough women onto panels or into the audience. So a group of women bloggers have started a conference, called Blogher, July 30 in Santa Clara. One of the contributors to the Blogher blog, Surfette, or Lisa Stone, says that the conference is being organized as a do-ocracy - you want a topic on the schedule, then do it! She writes ""How do you subvert the dominant hierarchy? You give up control."

There's also been discussion of clampdowns on blogging. China has shut off access to a blog by Isaac Mao a popular blogger, In fact, tomorrow, the OpenNet Initiative, a consortium of 3 universities, is going to issue their latest report on which sites countries are blocking access to. Tomorrow's report is on China.

Hoder, the Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan, reports an Iranian correspondent has been banned from the Iranian parliament building, supposedly for being rude and intrusive,— Hoder suspects it was really her reporting on corruption — so now she's started a Persian weblog to get her story out.

Then there a couple of sites making creative use of the satellite images of the earth Google's providing. They're collecting interesting shots: Fenway park from above the Grand Canyon, Bill Gates' house. Lotta fun. And that's a little of what's going on in the blogosphere

You know what distinguishes professionals from amateurs in this line of work? The professionals can look into the image of themselves projected in front of the camera and not be thrown off by their own image or by the three second delay... [Technorati tags: msnbc blogher hoder berkman]