Comments on: SXSW: Everything I Needed to Know about the Web, I Learned from Feminism

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:45:38 +0000

call me excessively cynical, but that bit in particular did NOT impress me, although it might take me some work to articulate exactly why. Elaines last blog post.. finance 2.0

By: vdebolt

vdebolt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:24:36 +0000

Hope Elaine’s write up makes more sense than mine. Thanks for the link.

Also, on the MySpace stuff, I was having a problem understanding what topic she was addressing with her story about going there, so take that as less than wonderful reporting on my part.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:20:25 +0000

link to Elaine's writeup

By: Shelley

Shelley — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:01 +0000

From Elaine Nelson’s first impression, she said about the same thing.

“Angwin: My Space was created by men, but is actually about girls. She went to My Space and all the guys were reading Seventeen and Cosmo to try to figure out what to do with My Space. The audience was girls and men had to learn to speak the language. What used to be called women’s work is now just the way the world is.”

Then why the heck didn’t MySpace recruit more women into working in the company, rather than try to study silly magazines?

By: vdebolt

vdebolt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:04:10 +0000

I was tired, and probably shouldn’t have attempted to blog the conversation. It was more of a conversation than a panel, which seemed annoying at the time. Now that I’ve had some sleep, it seems far less of an issue and more a way to open a discussion, and ultimately feminine.

By: heather

heather — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 06:48:30 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts Virginia. Seems like you'd like More time for answers+ slower/clearer threading. Got it. The general idea of the discussion was to look at the ways feminism made the web possible and to serve the current questions of the community about the topic. heathers last blog post.. theHeatherGoldShow@SXSW07: Continuous Partial Attention