I don’t respond to most of the weblog postings that Halley Suitt writes about women in general. I do think she tends to promote stereotypes as often as not. However, I also think that sometimes she breaks stereotypes by presenting the concept that women can be many things and still be womanly or even girly […]
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The importance of supporting diversity
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Pop!Dicks! Oh, I mean Pop!Tech!
Recovered from the Wayback Machine In the comments to Frank’s post at the Kitchen, Barbie Baywatch (Sherry), writer of Stay of Execution, wrote about attending the Pop!Tech conference, and how there was one woman presenting out of 30 presenters. She also details the experience in her weblog . Since yesterday afternoon I’ve been pretty troubled by a pattern emerging […]
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No, that’s not true
Recovered from the Wayback Machine From David Weinberger I found out about a “Blogging for Women and Girls” workshop in Boston. According to the event description: Blogging is emerging a powerful opinion-making force, but though the technology is fairly cheap and widely available, most blogs are still written by men. This workshop will teach women and girls the basics of […]
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Please notice me in the corner
Gina, who I like and respect, wrote a post at Misbehaving about how she doesn’t …wanna fight anymore — she doesn’t want to have to be louder online in order to be visible. She references helenjane.com who wrote: See there’s been this ongoing discussion on the Internets over where are the ladies? They’re not involved in conferences, their […]
The folks at Misbehaving noted the lack of women in the photos from the Web 2.0 conference. As Liz Lawley wrote: Via Anil, I just saw Jeff Veen’s post on “What do these pictures have in common?” Be sure to click on the “See what you’ve won!” button. Like the first commenter, I wish he’d write the […]