Recovered from the Wayback Machine. During the weekend, much froth was expended on the concept of so-called spamming weblogs, or splogs. Tim Bray writes, Ladies and gentleman, I think we have an emergency on our hands. Chris Pirillo writes that …99% of the blogspot.com domains *I* see are from spammers. Yet, what we’re finding is that these ’splogs’, a silly word […]
Month: October 2005
How delightful
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. To find that I suck at weblogging. I post when I want, on what I want, do not have a photo, sometimes have an ‘about me’, and sometimes don’t and I think we can safely say that I’ve lost employment opportunity because of what I write. More than once, most likely. […]
Good news and better news
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have some good news and some better news. The good news is I have more time to finish two technical projects, as I won’t be speaking at XML 2005. One of the projects is a set of metadata plugins based in RDF for both WordPress and Wordform weblogs; the […]
Looking outside of self
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dori Smith writes about putting together conference panels made up exclusively of women. Coming up with panelists for SxSW was easy. As Shelley gave away a few days ago, she, Kathy Sierra, Virginia DeBolt and I are going to be on a panel together, and I think it’s going to be a […]
A sudden weight was felt in the room
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I find it, well, I have a hard time explaining the experience but I guess I’ll use ironic for now that it took a post by Anil Dash to push the issue of lack of diversity at O’Reilly conferences into the tech.memeorandum.com hot tech issues page. None of the other writings by women on […]
