BurningbirdThe Tutor wrote a beautifully eloquent post about the nature of giving, and in particular, the giving heart of the person who funded the Kitchen. I happen to know the person who funded IT Kitchen, and a little about his motives. I will not betray his confidences, but would like to present this a model of grassroots […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I first started planning the Kitchen, I mentioned the fact that it was being funded by a person who wanted to be anonymous. When I tried to attract more women into contributing, in order to balance the gender gap that is present in most activities, one of the first […]
In response to posts written by several weblogging women, including Jeanne of Body and Soul, about closing their weblogs or putting them on hiatus because of the re-election of George Bush, Culture Cat wrote: I know it’s awfully melodramatic, but images of self-immolation on a pyre of virtual burning books keep coming to my mind. I might […]
..but I came across Letters to an Unknown Audience some time ago, and have been enjoying it ever since. When I saw this site’s version of the ‘political maps’ (here and here) I thought it was past time to expos…no…introdu…nah…shout…oh brother, that’s overused…drop this site on all of you. Because. A taste: Some went unmarked because of the austerity of […]
Why the merge of the weblogs? Particularly since the two topics, Practical RDF and the rest of my life seem to have no common ground? Contrary to what you might expect, it wasn’t my disappointment about the ETech conference. If that was it, I would have left the weblog and put, “Reading O’Reilly books kills kittens!” scrolled […]