BurningbirdThe importance of supporting diversity
..and why should we care because he doesn’t have a lot of female readers? He wrote: I’m a bit surprised that there hasn’t been more discussion of the overwhelmingly male (on the order of 80%) cast of political blog readership. At first glance, one might think of this as an internet issue, related to hardy perennials […]
I find myself in agreement with Dave Winer and Marc Cantor about O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference, but maybe not for the same reasons. I don’t have a problem with a more traditional presentation format, but Web 2.0 sounds, frankly, closed door and elitist. It seems like Tim O’Reilly is forgetting his open source, just plain folks roots. What is it lately […]
Surety be damned, the hell if I’m going to see women made the scapegoats for Abu Ghraib. We’ve gone from this incident being one of frat boy behavior (and supposedly harmless) to blaming it all on women. My first reaction is: Since when did President Bush get a sex change operation? Buck stops at the top, people. Buck stops […]
Julie Lerman is doing a phenomenal job of taking on the discussion about women and technology. She has a web site with references, and also brought this up in a recent article where she was honored as .NET Rock Star (It’s funny, but Julie was also angry when Microsoft came out with .NET. She got over her anger. I turned […]
I was so very pleased about the turnout for the Women’s march last Sunday. What impressive pictures there were! All those people, united in support of a woman’s right to control her own destiny. I can’t really add much to the discussion on this March that hasn’t been ably said by Feministe, Body & Soul, and Ampersand. However, […]