BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Recently, the Information Technology Association of America released a report examining the state of diversity in IT in the United States and the results are less than comforting: IT is rapidly becoming less diversified, rather than more. According to the study the *number of women in IT-related positions dropped by 20% in the last […]
Stop. Stop right now. I won’t point to the sites, and I won’t repeat the exact words. But now is not the time to point to a ‘wiki’ setup to collect information about the bombs in London, and smugly say how much better it is at covering the news than the New York Times. Now […]
The big news at Gnomedex I gather was that Microsoft was incorporating support for RSS in it’s new generation of IE, IE 7.x, as well as other components of the upcoming Longhorn operating system. In all the excitement, I’ve noticed that not many people have talked about whether IE 7.x will also detect Atom or RSS 1.0. Since […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There has been a great deal of discussion, a pile-on really (as Scoble can attest), about the fact that MSN Spaces is ‘censoring’ certain words such as ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’ from being used in specific instances associated with MSN Space-hosted weblogs. This is based on a recent article with the provocative title of […]
Pat Patterson used the Planet software to create a new aggregation of feeds from weblogs, this one surrounding the topic of ‘identity’ and called Planet Identity. As with Planet RDF, these groupings help us keep up with what’s happening within the specific community of interest. Interesting that Microsoft’s InfoCards has not had much pushback. Julian Bond is about the only […]