Earlier today I was stunned to read about the accusations of sexual harassment against Robert Scoble. We aren’t friends, but we have friends in common and we have interacted remotely in the past. I had no idea, no clue, that Scoble had harassed women. There are some people you might suspect of doing so, and some […]
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Corporate actions vs personal beliefs
2023 update: In 2023, I find I disagree with this, completely. I do think that corporations hiring known bigots reflects poorly on the corporation. Earlier Second Update Andrew Sullivan in The Hounding of a Heretic: Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole episode disgusts […]
homogeneity: noun composition from like parts, elements, or characteristics Not long ago, Molly Holzschlag tweeted an innocuous comment: I’d love to see a woman or group of women edit the HTML5 spec. It’d make for an interesting social experiment. Certainly would be a first. I re-tweeted her without additional comment, and that started a sequence […]
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O’Reilly Media’s Stop SOPA page, describing what this is all about.
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One last decision I want to touch on, for now, was the decision related to Issue 129 on ARIA Mapping. In the decision, the co-chairs sided with the change proposal that added new role mappings for several elements. An uncomplicated change proposal that should require only some small edits to the ARIA mapping […]