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People

Women can be critical of each other

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m coming down with something and weblogging is actually becoming a least interesting thing to do, but I wanted to toss something out…something absolutely mind boggling. Women can be critical of each other. Yes, that’s right: women can be critical of each other. We can be critical, we can be […]

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Diversity

What will work

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Both Tara Hunt and The Head Lemur have written on the Office 2.0 conference and the fact that of the 53 speakers, only one is a woman. Exactly one. This isn’t a conference on esoteric technology where the participants rush out and say, ‘There are no women who do X’, whatever ‘X’ is. This is a […]

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Weblogging

For the weekend

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Elsewhere: Lauren, who used to write at Feministe, has returned with a new weblog and a new direction: After blogging for approximately three years, I started Feministe in 2003 and left in January of 2006. In the meantime I have experimented with pseudonyms and gender identity and have decided it wasn’t […]

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Books

Laura Claridge

Abbas Raza at 3 Quarks posts a pointer to a bio of Laura Claridge, former professor and author. Ms. Claridge is currently writing a book on Emily Post titled, Emily Post and the American Dream: Red Shoes, White Gloves, and the Little Blue Book, a book I look forward to reading.

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Weblogging

Teflon Webloggers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I read in comments this week about how a recent attendee at Tim O’Reilly’s FOO camp was the originator of all the discussion about there not being enough women in tech conferences such as Tim’s camp. I was surprised, and yes, hurt to find out that it only takes about 6 […]