Joi Ito, A Powerful Woman in Blogging?

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2005_11_joiitopic.jpgBlog lists are awesome! Someone emailed us about being #3 on a list of the 10 Most Powerful Women in Blogging from Jack of All Blogs, which was super-flattering but it was clearly a biased list (apparently the writer has partied with our awesome Bostonist and Miamist editors). Anyway, Ana Marie Cox, check; Heather Armstrong, check...but then at number 8, there's...Joi Ito? But, isn't he a guy, just one with a girly name? Damn you, confounding, inscrutable Asian cultures!

In other words, this list is the greatest goof of all time - yowza.

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"Jen Chung of the Gothamist Empire"?
Nice Description!

Congrats, I think this is a good list to be on.

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Maybe another year or so, Jen will make it to the top of the list. She's got my vote! Good work.

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Easy solution for Joi. Just change the spelling and pronunciation of his name a tiny bit. Joey Ito works fine. Of course, some people might still have a problem identifying the gender, thanks to Joey Heatherton.

Ha! This is funny. I used to spell it Joey, but it's actually short for "Joichi". Someone spelled it "Joi" once and it switched. The problem is, if I spell it Joey, some people extend it to "Joseph"... which is wrong.

"Damn you, confounding, inscrutable Asian cultures!"
- Jen Chung

So Jen, you are a guy from Idaho, right?
;)

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Well, my parents gave me what I like to call the no-brainer of names. There were three Jennifers in my 20-kid 4th grade class - how's that for individuality? As insane as it is, maybe there is something in naming your kid Apple or Moxie Crimefighter.

And Joi, I hear you.

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