How not to attract new semantic web readers, especially among the women. Write the following: I just thought that this is a smart strategy to make video tutorials about the Semantic Web more appealing to female* or otherwise not so super-tech-savvy* audiences: Just put a Lolcat in it! Though the author wrote that she matches the […]
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noticed a correlation between my last two posts on the lack of women at Ajax Experience and the seeming lack of RDF or semantic web applications. Both are based on perennial questions: Where are the women in technology? Where are the semantic web applications? Next time I’m asked either, I think I’ll answer that the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been told in comments associated with a post in the O’Reilly Women in Tech series that I’ve ‘intimidated and silenced’ others, presumably because of my wicked, evil communication skills and general, overall not niceness. Well, huh. Do let me know if you’ve felt ‘intimidated or silenced’ by me in the […]
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O’Reilly has been running a series this month titled, Women in Technology. I contributed one of the earlier essays, titled So, What?. I had ambivalent feelings about participating, not the least of which I wasn’t sure that grouping essays by a bunch of women together for publication during the same month was necessarily a ‘good […]
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So What?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Part of the O’Reilly Women in Tech series. A few weeks back, the book Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think hit the streets. What a terrific concept: get several prominent programmers to write about their own unique perspective on programming and donate the money to a good cause […]