Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After checking out the tech.memeorandum.com web site for a few weeks now I’ve made several observations: First, most of the stories covered are about business, rather than technology. The companies in focus may be technical, but the stories are about commerce. Second, if you’re a woman writing about technology, don’t expect to […]
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Stavros the Wonderchicken returns in true style: I hit post, now, dear lost readers in their thousands, not sure if this is resurrection or coda, but hoping a few diehard outliers of the wonderchicken army are still out there, and when their newsfeed ticks over from that limp and dusty (0) over to an erectile (1), that […]
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PopTech: Better
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A year ago I and others wrote on Pop!Tech and the lack of women and diversity in its speaker list. At the time, the conference had one woman speaking out of 30. I don’t know if what we wrote had an impact or not, but I was heartened to see […]
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Looking outside of self
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dori Smith writes about putting together conference panels made up exclusively of women. Coming up with panelists for SxSW was easy. As Shelley gave away a few days ago, she, Kathy Sierra, Virginia DeBolt and I are going to be on a panel together, and I think it’s going to be a […]
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A sudden weight was felt in the room
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I find it, well, I have a hard time explaining the experience but I guess I’ll use ironic for now that it took a post by Anil Dash to push the issue of lack of diversity at O’Reilly conferences into the tech.memeorandum.com hot tech issues page. None of the other writings by women on […]