InternetBlogging and bringing home the bacon (CNET)

CNET - SAN FRANCISCO--The modern woman, per the popular '70s television commercial, was once "bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan." Now she's also writing a blog.

SAN FRANCISCO--The modern woman, per the popular '70s television commercial, was once "bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan." Now she's also writing a blog. As many as 3,000 women are here at the fourth annual BlogHer Conference 2008, which opened Friday, to talk about their lives, their businesses, and their blogs. And in some cases, they're all one and the same. Despite the popular perception that women bloggers are all stay-at-home mothers, many women here run their own businesses or work full-time, and they use a blog as a personal outlet, a connection to a community, or as a way to boost their career. Jamie Risdon Lentzner, for example, is the founder of Foster City, Calif.-based Jamie's Painting Design, a design shop, and she writes a blog about what it takes to run your own business. A first-timer to the BlogHer conferences, she said that she felt a bit overwhelmed because of the lineup of polished writers and the sheer volume of women. "It feels like I'm rushing a sorority," Lentzner said. It can be easy to be fooled by an event with free massage, a Sesame Street salon, and cookies-and-milk breaks. But the women at BlogHer's conference range from well-known food writers and media lawyers to political pundits and technology entrepreneurs. For them, it's not enough to succeed in a chosen career anymore; these days, they contend,... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]

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