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Nielsen Online’s Power Mom 50 is a collection of leading voices in the mom blogosphere based on a blend of blog posts, comments and link love developed through ongoing monitoring of more than 10,000 mom and parenting blogs as tracked by Nielsen Buzzmetrics. In addition to site engagement, number of Twitter followers, ratings and other metrics were included in the calibration to provide a comprehensive sphere of authority and influence.

Momversation panelists, including Daphne Brogdon of Cool Mom, comprise six of the top 15 Power Moms online.

Momversation’s Heather Armstrong, Karen Walrond, Giyen Kim, Mindy Roberts, and Daphne Brogdon (also of Cool Mom) were featured on the April 6, 2009 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Secret Lives of Moms.

Daphne Brogdon of Cool Mom contributed an essay about childbirth to the April 2009 issue of Pregnancy. Excerpt:

What’s with the superiority of vaginal birthers? I’ll admit it, I once was one of them. Of course this was before I’d given birth. When I was pregnant with my daughter, I envisioned a totally natural birth. I was all ready to drop her in an open field, cut the cord with a nearby branch, and wrap her up in a hemp blanket. It didn’t go like that. She was breech and late, so after much protest I succumbed to a C-section. Sure I felt like a truck had hit me for the first few days afterward, but at least I could still hold my pee in. Life is full of trade-offs.

Earlier this year, the Unilever and Sprint-branded web series In the Motherhood, starring Chelsea Handler and Leah Remini, got a deal to become a mid-season replacement show on ABC. Johnson and Johnson enlisted Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay to create a series of mom-focused animated shorts. And new media studio Deca got all parental with CoolMom….Why are moms suddenly so hot? As we noted in February, BSM Media reported that 80 percent of moms had watched an online video in the last week.

There may some incredibly mouth-watering aromas wafting from one Hancock Park kitchen soon. Mark Peel, executive chef and owner of Campanile, has moved in.

Peel, who opened Spago in 1982 as head chef under Wolfgang Puck, has bought a classic Mediterranean in Windsor Square for $3.1 million, according to the Multiple Listing Service…Peel’s wife, comedian Daphne Brogdon, is host of TV Guide Channel’s weekly series “The Fashion Team.” She is creator of CoolMom.com. And we’re going to assume she leaves the cooking to her hubbo.

Cool Mom host Daphne Brogdon visits Better.tv and counts down the top 5 things that moms feel but never say.

For CoolMom, Brogdon turns the glamour down a notch; she dresses like a “mom” (though she’s not wearing mom jeans, per se) with very little makeup. She looks like a real person (granted a very attractive real person), versus a TV host. But unlike the everyday mom, Brogdon is polished in front of a camera, and her quips are a step above what you might overhear at a PTA meeting. She’s also a reminder that you can be a great mom without being a “perfect” mom.

… New media studio DECA is nurturing its maternal side with the new online series Cool Mom, which launches today. Show host Daphne Brogdon hopes to provide an entertaining jolt to the motherly market with a comedic takes on what’s good (and not so good) about being a mom.

Los Angeles-based digital entertainment studio DECA said today that it is launching CoolMom, a new web site focused on providing video content of interest to mothers. The new site, which will feature professionally produced video, will be hosted by Daphne Brogdon, current host of TV Guide Channel’s series The Fashion Team; Brogdon also regularly appears on CNN Headline News Showbiz Tonight. According to DECA, Brogdon will offer her opinions about personal life, and issues that mothers deal with but don’t discuss.