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From Yellowstone Public Radio:

Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogging

a live call-in
Tuesday, March 29, 7pm (that’s TODAY!)
call 657.2941 or 800.441.2941

Join YPR New Media Manager Ken Siebert
for an hour-long panel discussion about blogs: what
they are, who’s doing it, and what it means for traditional
journalism and the Internet. The discussion will also
feature the community of Montana bloggers and what they’re
saying about the state and the people who live here.

Guests include Ed Kemmick of the
Billings
Gazette, Billings
Outpost Editor David Crisp, Craig
Sprout, who runs the mtpolitics.net
blog, and Karen Hergenrider, who runs
the karbonkountymoos
blog. Listener comments and questions are welcome throughout
the program.

In honor of the event, for Moos, and courtesy of the sassy Tild ~, we have the new, feisty Calamity She-Blogger. I’m guessing that she may be added to the She-Blogger product line.

Up in the corner of the Yellowstone Public Radio site, I see a Listen Online notice; I assume this means we can listen to the program, even if
we are not in Billings. I’ve never used my computer for this before, so
I plan to test it out this afternoon.

I know that Karen, Craig, David,
and Ed will do us proud; we have a wide range of politics, opinion, and
style here. And I’m pleased that YPR
responded promptly to requests for a bit more gender diversity on the
panel. My guess is, though I don’t know for sure, that all are white. I
had a brief fantasy that Moos might be Jamaican or something, but
judging from these photos, I would imagine not.

Note, however, that the issue of diversity in the blogosphere is a
different (and more difficult) issue, than the easily resolved
challenge for conferences, panels, and news reports (and blogrolls) to
represent the diversity that already exists.