The Evening Standard decided to extol the efforts of political blogging on Friday with their article entitled “Webminster” on Friday.

As a review of political blogging, it seems to focus on the high-traffic, highly paid-for blogs which are led chiefly by the right, much like our press.

There is also significant attention provided to Labour and Tory collaboration blogs, but none to Lib Dem Voice, the yellow version of the same.

In addition to this, the article disregards other blogging forays such as the Huffington Post which gives cross party coverage and embraces all ranges of political bloggers.

The focus is heavily on the political parties and begins to read like it was sponsored by Damien Bride et al, such is the ignorance of other blogging industries, politically aligned or not.

And there is lies another issue, Damien Bride et al are male.

As Digital Politico comments, “Why are there no female blogs?”.

Of course, I write this with self interest, being a female blogger, but there are many out there, not getting the recognition they deeply deserve. Do we need to embrace an ‘Orange’ sponsored female only blog award to enhance the oft overlooked?

Even “Diary of a Benefit Snatcher” written by a female Labour card carrier has shown tremendous increase in traffic in the last year, in just four months jumping to position 28 in the Wikio Political Blogs Charts.

Even Laurie Penny, in spite of heavy criticism, receives a vast forray of traffic to Penny Red and helped her become a “real” journalist.

Others will be aware of blogs I support in the Lib Dem world, most notably Caron’s Musings and Spiderplant Land.

We need to see more female bloggers and we need to recognise their very strong contributions. Stories like this in The Standard may not intentionally do so, but still do project a patriarchal concept of a male-dominated world, while women, and their opinions, are reduced to a second-class status that should be addressed.

The nature of a media and technology dominated world requires more women and less obsequious adoration of the men that control it.