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Social Media

Podcasting Wikipedia update

I wanted to note that the Podcasting article at Wikipedia has been designated a good article and may end up being a featured article. There have been edits to the section I re-wrote, but the edits have been to add additional information. I wouldn’t necessarily have added some of it, but what was added was neutral in tone, […]

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Diversity Social Media

Ladies, Wikipedia is ours

Rogers Cadenhead wrote on Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales edits of his own biography. During the discussion, Rogers mentioned his own Wikipedia entry. I checked, and sure enough: Rogers has an entry. That’s odd, I thought. Many of the male webloggers I know have an entry in Wikipedia, but most of the women I know, don’t. I […]

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Diversity

Women and visibility panel canceled

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Sunday, March 12 panel on Women and Visibility at SxSW has been canceled. update Point of clarification: I was given responsibility for this panel, unexpectedly, late Monday afternoon. Because of the number of panel members who had dropped out, I made a call to cancel. The SxSW organizers did […]

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Stuff

Never need

Recently, I was the target of recruiters for a well known company. I wasn’t particularly interested in working for the company, especially since it meant I would have to move back to the Silicon Valley area (something I didn’t want to do). The recruiters were nice, and I was flattered. However, I was also aware […]

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Weblogging

Ain’t no cobwebs here

Bob Wyman has made a point of clarifying that Structured Blogging is a thing you do not a format. This is a good point to make, because there has been some strong association between the first release SB-generated metadata format, and the concept of Structured Blogging, itself. The SB plugins can be (and are being) modified to […]