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Backchannel thoughts

Women and the backchannel on This is Rachel Andrew talks about the backchannel comments directed at female presenters at the recent 200th Boagworld podcast. A couple of good ideas were proposed to deal with the issues raised.
The chatroom on the Boagworld show was essentially a backchannel, and similar issues have happened in conference backchannels in [...]

Twitter lists of Women in Tech

I saw this post on Twiangulate at TechCrunch. Looking at Erick
Schonfeld list of who in tech he triangulates with, it occurred to me that he’s only listening to men in tech.
If the men in tech are only listening to the men in tech, it’s no wonder they can’t find any women in tech when they [...]

Catch me tomorrow on BlogTalkRadio

Tomorrow at 1PM Eastern is the date for  the Fem 2.0 Wake Up Campaign on work/life blog radio series program where I’ll be representing the elder blogger community. The program I’m involved in is  “Work/Life and Older Americans: Taking Care of Oneself & Others.”  The discussion airs at Talk Shoe. Luckily, I’ll be the moderator [...]

Useful Links: Microformats, HTML5 Mess, gender issues, accessibility conference, CSS spirites, Twitter in class

Microformats Workshop is the slides by Emily Lewis from the Workshop Summits event. Outstanding presentation, excellent slides.
SitePoint Podcast #44: HTML5 is a (Beautiful) Mess is a discussion about HTML5 and related issues among Sitepoint’s Kevin Yank, Opera Software’s Bruce Lawson, author Ian Lloyd, and Kyle Weems  of the CSSquirrel web comic.
whose voice do you hear? [...]

Useful Links: Making money, tweethearts, woman domesticated

Your dream is under attack from Copyblogger talks about making money online. It relates what I talked about in this post: The Value of an Affiliate Link.
Are women running the Twitterverse? It’s men’s names we see on the “people you need to follow” lists. But Vanity Fair says America’s Tweethearts are really the big news.
Woman [...]

Useful Links: Accessiblity not an afterthought, Outed by underpants

Web accessibility is no longer an afterthought at CNET is a good summary of some of the accessibility issues in web design and would make a good reading assignment for a web dev class. The article interviews Yahoo! trainer Alan Brightman, who is quoted as saying,
There are about 60 million people in the U.S. who [...]

Canada’s National Day of Remembrance

In Memory – École Polytechnique, Dec. 6, 1989 from Faye Hicks’s Blog talks about this event:
Just after 4 pm on December 6, 1989 a man carrying a semi-automatic rifle entered the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Canada and shot 28 people.  He killed thirteen…  all women…  most were engineering students.  In the twenty years since, these women have [...]

Useful Links: Males vs. females, Google & HTML5, 50 Cent Lessons

Males vs. females in social media has stats, graphs, and the male to female ratio for 19 social media sites. Overall, women are in the majority but the men have yet to notice and take effective action.
What’s powering Web apps: Google waving goodbye to Gears, hello to HTML5 [Updated] The LA Times reports that Google [...]

Social media and success The L Word way

The L Word ended on Showtime in March. For people like me who don’t have Showtime, the final season is just now coming out on DVD. We are finally getting to see season 6 and watch how the series ended.
I say “watch how the series ended” carefully, rather than “watch how everything turned out.” The [...]

Useful Links: Geek of the Week, accessible video, Glamour

Geek of the Week is a feature on The Big Blog from Seattle PI Blogs. Interesting geeks profiled thus far include Wendy Chisholm, Kathy Gill, Doug Ireton, Rachel Strawn, Brian Dorsey, Natala Menezes, Jenny Lam, Marty Stepp and more. Each geek gets the same set of questions to answer. Fascinating.
Make video accessible, localised, mobile and [...]