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Weblogging

The infamous pancake gathering

Today Clay Shirky points to Christopher Allen’s excellent essay on the Tracing the Evolution of Social Software. Allen discusses the birth of the term ’social software’, which he traced to Clay’s summit on same, in November 2002: It isn’t until late 2002 that the term ’social software’ came into more common usage, probably due to the efforts of […]

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Diversity

Please notice me in the corner

Gina, who I like and respect, wrote a post at Misbehaving about how she doesn’t …wanna fight anymore — she doesn’t want to have to be louder online in order to be visible. She references helenjane.com who wrote: See there’s been this ongoing discussion on the Internets over where are the ladies? They’re not involved in conferences, their […]