A student project called Blocter from the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam, is using multimedia to showcase the driving forces and faces behind blogs. Started out of curiosity by Jorrit Spoelstra, it has become his thesis and major final exams project: A series of short, especially for the web created, documentaries/interviews on blogs and the people who run these blogs.
May 26th saw him publish his first online video documentary with Marjolijn Kamphuis, co-Founder of Dutch Cowgirls. Aimed at both men and women, the site uses an all women team of contributors to cover news items on trends, tech and gadgets.

Here, Marjolijn discusses how time pressures of a full time job led her to start Dutch Cowgirls, and end her own personal blog which took too much time to single handedly keep up to date.  She notes how she is committed to addressing the lack of female voice in tech writing even though Twitter is littered with female tech professionals.  Marjolijn is also part of the team at The NextWomen.


Dutch Cowgirls from Blocter on Vimeo.