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 […]
Category: Diversity
The importance of supporting diversity
Monthly I get a fresh batch of downloads at eMusic. I don’t have the largest plan–the most I can download is 20 at a time. Usually this is enough for an album with maybe a few experimental downloads from unfamiliar groups. I think it will be years before I manage all the jazz downloads I […]
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Kicking was the operative word
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I hesitated to mention the “Whose Butt should we be kicking” panel at SxSW until I saw more detail on the session. Thankfully, Dru Blood provided a fairly detailed liveblogging of the event. It was a mistake for SxSW to keep this session once the original panel broke up. There was a […]
Julie Lerman points to a post and comment discussion related to a subject that’s been on my mind a lot this last week: Women in IT suprised by Women in IT; about a woman attending a Women in IT networking event where the weblog author found she was the only woman there who actually works with technology: Me: […]
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One last SxSW post
I discovered that the SxSW panel on Increasing Women’s Visibility on the Web: Whose Butt Should We Be Kicking is still happening, under Blogher management. One of the original panel members, Virginia DeBolt, is still on the panel, and it looks like a goodly mix of people will be featured. I am disappointed that the original panel fell […]