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Beat down by example

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. From Science + Professor + Woman = me, in explanation of her hesitancy in visiting her old graduate school: Another reason I avoid that place has to do with feelings of discomfort about a situation in which I played an unknowing but counterproductive role. After I had moved on to a […]

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Switching to Pepsi

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. PepsiCo names Indra Nooyi as CEO. She comes with a very impressive record, and one can see why she floated to the top of this company. I guess I’ll have to do my Mentos rocket with diet Pepsi now, instead of diet Coke. Thanks to Karen Walrond for the link, as well as her own […]

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Girl Geeks. Fact? Or Oxymoron?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In her OPML weblog, Hilary questioned the seeming double standard of calling Dave Winer out for sexist behavior, but not dong the same with Maryam Scoble. She has a good point. I had noticed Scoble’s original posting related to BlogHer, where she wrote: Are you a a single male geek wondering why your love […]

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Measuring Success

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Before I started the new weblog(s), I told a friend that I was going to avoid saying anything even remotely critical about BlogHer. It does no good to do so, I told him. I’m sure he knew that I could not follow this vow. I don’t know if being critical […]

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When stereotypes are fostered

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote a relatively positive piece on Blogher over at Just Shelley. I guess I’ll use the Bb Gun to write the negative stuff. Or a better way of looking at this: address some of the comments that bring out the bitch in me. There’s this from a twenty something who since […]