And in effect, how do you get to be one?

EU blogger Julien Frisch has written an excellent post on the self-referential nature of the EU blogosphere, that many of the bloggers are starting to get to know each other in real life as well as talking to each other online and the fact that its deeply saturated in EU constitutional geekery.  

I'm wondering if, in addition to my self-censorship because I rather enjoy my job and don't want to blog on anything that might affect that, being female is an aspect that would keep me outside the circus of EU geeks. 
I notice that other women bloggers are also active in commenting on the EU but are outside the circus (check out Antonia at Talking about the EU - but as she's employed by an EU institution maybe she's not citisen blogger enough? Or simply doesn't want to or have time to spend all her free time commenting on other EU blogs?)
Of course, my blog is not just about the EU - my faith-based posts seem to get pretty high ratings (but so far nothing beats how to choose a wedding dress, and the perfect Valentine's menu... French food beat Italian by quite some way...)

Just to show how self-referential some of this can be, here's my response :

Yes the EU blogosphere is geeky - let's face it, it's online, and it covers subjects that are either passionately cared about or totally beyond the interest or possibly even comprehension of non-geeks... surely that's the definition of geekery.

If there's a place to discuss EU constitutional issues etc., float ideas, challenge misapprehensions etc. then I'm happy ;)

Bruno's right to identify the gap - where's the discussion of what 90%-odd of what the EU actually does, the technocratic detailed Directives? No, wait, if it's jam it's over there on Nosemonkey's blog.
The point is that actually the fact that technical issues are discussed at EU level does not mean that people interested in the institutional/constitutional issues are going to discuss them. For example, people interested in the environment are blogging on that elsewhere, it doesn't matter at which political level the discussion is taking place because if you're passionate about the subject you'll talk about it whether it's local riverbanks in Coughton or endocrine disruption in the Rhine.
Transport geeks might well be blogging on discussions on air policy that take place at EU level- or not, given that Council working groups are closed shops and EP discussions can be interminable. I should know.

But if you're on the outside (or at least the outskirts) like me the fact that the circus is so self-referential can be a bit off-putting.
What if you're pro-EU but think Barroso's not so bad actually?
What if you don't understand why some people capitalise the EU bit of EUrope?
And what if you blog on the EU and equally on the EU and other issues - how geeky is geeky enough?