John Hawkins has a great post today titled Blogging While Female: 5 Conservative Women Bloggers Talk About Gender Issues And The Blogosphere.

Are there lots of other little subtle differences between the ways men and women looked at blogging that I hadn’t caught onto before?

I decided to find out.

So, in order to do that, I reached out to a few of the more intriguing women on the right side of the blogosphere and interviewed them about their backgrounds and gender issues.

His discussion with Pamela Geller, Rachel Lucas, Amanda Carpenter, Ericka Anderson, and Michelle Malkin is extremely intriguing. It is a longish post that is well worth the time it will take to read.

But beyond the gender issue that Hawkins is examining, the post is also contains some great advice regarding blogging success.

Rachel Lucas:

I think a lot of blogs by people who complain that they don’t get much traffic? Those blogs tend to be very boring. If you can read the exact same material on 10,000 different blogs and all they’re doing is repeating the same thing and it’s not very well written, I don’t know what they expect. I think people need to have a little more humor, either really know what they’re talking about… and have connections and do interviews, or they need to be a lot more interesting. I think a lot of blogs are really boring.

Michelle Malkin:

There are a couple of factors. The first is not to try to be somebody else. If you want to be a success…don’t be another Michelle Malkin or Glenn Reynolds or a Drudge wannabe. The marketplace of ideas rewards original ideas and original thinkers and I think having a niche is very important. …The blogosphere rewards fresh information and reporting, energy, initiative, and…I think a lot of the humor blogs do well, like Iowahawk, Ace of Spades HQ. There are so many people with something unique to add. Plus, it takes a work ethic. You’re not going to be successful if you only post 2 or 3 times a day and if you don’t have fun doing it, you shouldn’t be in it.

Great advice and a great post. Do go read the whole thing.