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Diversity Weblogging

Steve Levy, Dave Sifry, and NZ Bear: You are Hurting Us

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I knew as soon as I saw the Steve Levy article that we would see a backlash about the domination of whites and males in the weblogging ranking systems. While my “Guys Don’t Link” post tried to make a point with humor, and invite the guys to be part of […]

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Weblogging

Attack of the She-Blogger

Oh, this was lovely! From tild~ via Watermark, via Pen-Elayne.

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Diversity Technology

Number 9 Number 9 Number 9

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wanted to welcome you all to this, the third annual Burningbird Bash of ETech! This year’s show promises to be the best ever, especially considering that O’Reilly has, after all these years, finally broken the 10% rule for percentage of presenters that are female! Yes, indeedy, this year’s female participation is […]

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Weblogging

The SxSW bloggers

One of the best live webloggers at SxSW was Nancy White — be sure to catch her writing on “Blogging While Black”. Still trying to find notes on the Women in Design session (anyone?), but Joe Clark has done a terrific job on the design sessions. Molly wrote a post that JavaScript is the new black; Javascript combined with the […]

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Programming Languages

PHP and the corporate seal of approval

I did want to point something out before I forgot, but IBM is putting its corporate blessing on PHP with, among other things, a new PHP Weblog site. I was reminded of it today with a link in Dave Winer’s weblog, which disappeared. (Hey, did I happen to mention Mark Pilgrim is back?) Anyway, folks on […]