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Links that just might satisfy your sweet tooth
for news and schmooze.

Gender Analyzer: Is there such as thing as a male or a female blog style? Now, there’s Gender Analyzer, a tool that claims the power to reveal whether a blog was written by a man or a woman. Literary amniocentesis? Perhaps the sex selection software searches for words like children, pregnant, diet. Test your own blog’s DNA and see if X marks the spot.

Top 100 Female Bloggers: Enkay Blog counts down the top 100 female bloggers as of July 2008.

NxE’s Fifty Most Influential ‘Female’ Bloggers : North x East lists the 50 most influential female bloggers, complete with a description and “why she matters” blip.

Women on the Web: The Women on the Web offers a question of the day, good/bad hair day weather reports, conversation, ideas to change the world, plus columns from Lesley Stahl, Lily Tomlin, Peggy Noonan, Whoopi Goldberg and other women of a certain age.

Citizen Sugar: Headlines and political news from the Sugar network.

Divine Caroline: Conversations about issues of interest to women.

The Huffington Post: One of the original new media women entrepreneurs.

National Women’s Editorial Forum: Site that publishes commentaries by women on issues in the news.

She Made It: Paley Center site celebrating women pioneers in news and entertainment radio and television.

Women Daily: A busy mix of news and views from the World News Network.

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NMWE  is a unique initiative addressing opportunity and innovation, recruitment and retention for women in journalism by spotlighting their ingenuity and entrepreneurial abilities. Pilot projects will show what can be done. Research will tell us what more to do. And an awards program and summit will showcase women’s creative ideas. NMWE is supported by the McCormick Foundation.

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New forms of journalism are being created around the country where online local news sites have launched to report on their communities. The journalism is characterized by a deliberate shift in the definition of objectivity, a drive for community conversation and discussion and other themes. Read the report.