A good rule of thumb for web design is that indulge your interests in nifty tools–DHTML*, Flash, whatever–but your navigation should never be made up of anything other than a hypertext link, and you should never make your critical content accessible primarily (or only) through a mouse. Lately, I’m seeing more and more sites use […]
Category: Culture
I don’t respond to most of the weblog postings that Halley Suitt writes about women in general. I do think she tends to promote stereotypes as often as not. However, I also think that sometimes she breaks stereotypes by presenting the concept that women can be many things and still be womanly or even girly […]
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From the Underworld comes the Troll
Recovered from the Wayback Machine (Insert your favorite mental image of troll here) Introducing the troll We all know what a weblogging troll is; it’s the person, man or woman, who writes a comment or comments in post after post trying to pick a fight with one or more members of a comment thread. This […]
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Pop!Dicks! Oh, I mean Pop!Tech!
Recovered from the Wayback Machine In the comments to Frank’s post at the Kitchen, Barbie Baywatch (Sherry), writer of Stay of Execution, wrote about attending the Pop!Tech conference, and how there was one woman presenting out of 30 presenters. She also details the experience in her weblog . Since yesterday afternoon I’ve been pretty troubled by a pattern emerging […]
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No, that’s not true
Recovered from the Wayback Machine From David Weinberger I found out about a “Blogging for Women and Girls” workshop in Boston. According to the event description: Blogging is emerging a powerful opinion-making force, but though the technology is fairly cheap and widely available, most blogs are still written by men. This workshop will teach women and girls the basics of […]