Testosteroni: The Office 2.0 Conference (all your programs on the Web, like GMail) promises a wide ranging group of visionaries and industry leaders -- 53 men and one woman. Reactions:

Holy sausage party and Okay...rather than just complain... -- Tara Hunt

What will work - Shelley Powers

Your Balls Are in Your Court -- Jeneane Sessum

Stowe Boyd parrots the line, then does a mea culpa after his friend Jeneane calls him out.

Validating Shelley Powers or more middle aged white guys tethered together -- alan herrell - the head lemur

Conference organizers make my head explode -- Elisa Camahort

Broader: Where Are The Women Redux: Supreme Court, Office 2.0 Lacking Women

The event's organizer, Ismael Ghalimi, attempts to explain: About a Chap. I think he's saying he just wanted to have fun with his friends, and none of his friends are girls.

The fourth-grader in our family says that, too.

But he's not a CEO organizing a public event, with high-powered sponsors, a slick website and a claim to cornering the "visionaries." This "poor little me" post deserves the label Shelley gives it: Clueless.

The point? In the future, perhaps conference organizers will look beyond the comfy crowd of folks just like themselves, lest they be Ismaeled.

Resources (to avoid that fate):

Smart women speakers.

Speakers wiki: Add yourself if you're willing to go on the circuit.

(I just might. I do these speaker gigs on blogging panels sometimes, including at an upcoming AP conference Sept. 30. Journalism -- aware that its readers/users and half the population are female -- seeks out and invites women out of the blue.)