BurningbirdThe importance of supporting diversity
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Seems that O’Reilly has had another one of its invite-only summits, but this time about Ajax. If you’ve missed hearing about Ajax, it’s the web development equivalent of tags (as taxonomy) and metaformats (as semantics). This is part of the technology that makes America, well, America. A new twist, though: […]
As was pointed out in comments, according to Bill Gates–a kid born rich who got richer– since I am an unemployed computer tech, I must suck. Anybody who’s got good computer science training, they are not out there unemployed,” Gates said. “We’re just not seeing an available labor pool.” What Gates means, according to David Weinberger, in […]
How disappointing that the long fought for gay rights bill lost by one vote in Washington state. And how much this loss can be placed on Microsoft’s sudden decision to withdraw support is hard to say, other than it couldn’t have helped. Several good writings on the issue including: original report at The Stranger, New Frames, BlueOregon, CNet and others. […]
The nice thing about the current generation of women webloggers and their initiatives, such as Sheroes and Blogher, is these are well organized events managed by strong, dedicated women. Hopefully with their efforts, women will no longer continue to be invisible. For me, personally, an added benefit is that I don’t feel I have to continue […]
Couple of events related to women and weblogging are coming in the next few months. I want to talk about both them, but separately, as they deserve. The first event is Blog Sheroes, a meetup described as: Feminist bloggers meetings starting in NYC and spreading across the nation like a rabid yeast infection. Humor and strong […]