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Diversity

Irony

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oh god, please, won’t someone notice the irony of this post, and the accolades heaped on this white boy? I can’t be the only human being on this planet who sees this as absolute proof of everything we’ve been saying for years about the invisibility of women. I am silenced. I have nothing more […]

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Focusing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting. The Ajax Experience no longer has the dubious distinction of have no women in its speaker list. It now has Molly Holzschlag. Since I know absolutely squat about JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest other than what they do, it’s rather humorous I’d get picked up for such a seriously geeky conference as […]

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Diversity Technology

Focusing

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Interesting. The Ajax Experience no longer has the dubious distinction of have no women in its speaker list. It now has Molly Holzschlag. Since I know absolutely squat about JavaScript and XMLHttpRequest other than what they do, it’s rather humorous I’d get picked up for such a seriously geeky conference as […]

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Diversity

Museum Piece

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Women have gone to space. Women have led nations. Women have died for their countries. Women have invented, pioneered, and broken barriers and boundaries. They’ve had babies and buried husbands while they did these things, too. And on the eve of the very overdue day when a woman will lead […]

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So much fun

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The conference organizer for Office 2.0 has added three more women speakers. Actually, three very impressive women speakers. To address those who think that achieving diversity means giving up quality–you’re a putz. Speaking of putz, Dennis Howlett wrote the following in comments at Robert Scoble’s weblog related to this issue: Sadly to say Robert, […]