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Diversity Technology

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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Diversity Weblogging Writing

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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Diversity

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 […]

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Diversity JavaScript

Gewgaws can be accessible. Valid, too.

One of the DHTML (Dynamic HTML) effects not built into my own libraries is a fish-eye effect. Those of you who have a Mac will know the effect I’m talking about: when you move your mouse over a menu bar, the items expand but in a way that emulates a ‘fish-eye’ magnifier. This isn’t a […]

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Connecting

RDF stuff

Just in time for the Jena conference this week, Leigh has posted links to local mirrors of useful RDF data sources. Unfortunately, as Michael Bernstein pointed out to me in a recent email, the historical site needs a new home. I really do like Danny Ayers’ posts where he mixes tech and critters. Dave Beckett blogs his company, or as much as he […]