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Hello all, Happy International Women's Day! It has been quite a busy week in the development blogosphere. But I promise you an almost Kony 2012 and Jeff-Sachs-for-President free zone in this post. Not that these are not important debates, but they have already been in the spotlight for a few days and there were many other posts that also caught my attention. There are also three new posts on aidnography that I hope you enjoy, too. New on aidnography Is writing reflective blogs on development a girl’s thing? And if so, am I really a female blogger? In some ways, a pre-emptive Women's Day debate took place last week on the subject of gender and writing blogs. Tom Murphy's balanced post Carefully Wading into Gender and Development Blogging summarizes the debate quite well - although more research certainly needs to be done ;) Open data, crowd-wisdom and ‘hunting plagiarists’ – how a group of activists is challenging the German academic system A Wikileaks-equivalent on uncover...