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I've elected to interpret "10 bloggers who weren't male, white or English speaking" as equivalent to "10 bloggers with the following property: either they aren't male, or they aren't white, or they aren't English-speaking" (though it could also be interpreted more strictly as equivalent to "10 bloggers who are neither white, nor male, nor English-speaking.)

A couple of thoughts on this: it has been observed that the web, whilst also allowing for gratuitous self-publication, allows for an unusual degree of privacy. It is possible to publish a weblog without telling anyone your real name, your gender, your ethnicity. That said, I read recently (if I find the link I'll add it) that the majority of bloggers do choose to reveal their real names, where "majority" turns out to be 55%. Often this tells us something about their gender. Sometimes it tells us something about their ethnicity. Others post photographs of themselves. Q. Who would be likely to publish their gender and ethnicity in this way? A. Those who suspect that it is to their advantage. Q. Who would be more circumspect about revealing these things? Someone who had found that they had worked to their disadvantage in the past, and felt they would be taken more seriously if no-one knew these things. It would be interesting to know whether the proportion of non-white, non-male blogs is higher in the percentage of blogs that remain anonymous. And it would be interesting to know whether that varied depending on the topic. Being female might seem to be more of an advantage if one is blogging about women's issues, and less of an advantage if one is blogging about programming languages...

Added later in the day: here are 5 more weblogs, this time they are all weblogs in logic, language or philosophy:

Majikthise- analytic philosophy and liberal politics
Diana's Bloggerific Musings - Philosophy
The X-Bar - Two lingustists walk into an X-bar...
For the Record - Jessica Wilson
Sappho's Breathing

My experience has been that it is much easier to find blogs that seem to be written by women than it is to find blogs that seem to be written by non-whites. Part of the explanation is that it is harder to tell the skin-colour of a blogger than it is to tell their gender. But in the case of philosophy blogs, I think the reason is also that there are very few non-whites in the discipline. (The bar to my promoting blogs in other languages is, of course, my own ignorance.)

Your link to Diana's blog is broken--here is a working link.

Thanks Matt - I've fixed the link.

Some non-white bloggers:

Black Looks: http://okrasoup.typepad.com/black_looks/

Black Feminism:

http://blackfeminism.org/

Niggerati:

http://www.niggerati.net/

Pseudo-Adrienne:

http://www.niggerati.net/

Sisters Talk:

http://sisterstalk.tblog.com/

Steve Gilliard:

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/

Bent Fabric:

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/

Hi Gillian,

Perhaps it is appropriate for me to say that you are the 2nd most indispensible female blogger according to my very subjective standard of wanting to read, the most being Amy Elizabeth Sullivan who is a semi-permanent guest blogger at the Kevin Drum effort, and has her own independent effort. Keep up the good work. In my view, you need not keep the rather tight focus on logic and philosophy, this entry was very much appreciated...

I should add that I can come up with 10 weblogs from non english speakers without thiniking about it, since I try to follow german language weblogs. Weblogs by native speakers of neither english nor german would be hard, though.

If I ever were to start a German language weblog, I would call it Reinheitsgebot...