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Category Archives: women

My Ada Lovelace Day Pick: Emily Lewis

It’s Ada Lovelace Day! This day is for all of us to honor, mention, and share the names of the women in STEM that we admire. Who’s my choice for 2011? Emily Lewis! Emily is a web designer running her own business at Emily Lewis Design. She has a blog at A Blog Not Limited. [...]

Women in Tech

I’ve stumbled on a few nice resources for articles and interviews about women in tech of late. Thought I’d share. Gaming Angels has a section of interviews with women who work in gaming or tech. Geek Feminism Blog is running a series of articles called Wednesday Geek Women that deals with women from the past. [...]

Apps Against Abuse

The White House has challenged developers to develop apps that help prevent abuse. The announcement at Challenge.gov is called Apps Against Abuse. The challenge:  Vice President Biden and Secretary Sebelius are honored to announce a challenge that encourages the development of applications that provide college students and young adults with the tools to help prevent [...]

A Tale of Jazz, Food, and the Freedom to Blog

Back when I lived in Austin, the live music capital of the world, I was doing some freelance web design. I made a number of sites for musicians. Among them was Mady Kaye, a jazz vocalist. The Jazz Mady has a solo career with 3 CDs under her own name. She’s part of a group [...]

Useful links, Pseudo Elements, h1 in HTML5, Being Geeky, social media

A whole bunch of Amazing Stuff Pseudo Elements can Do is from CSS Tricks. On using h1 for all heading levels in HTML5 from 446 Berea Street. This worries me, too. Happy to see Roger doing some testing on it. Is There Still a Social Stigma for Geek Girls? What do you think? The GOP [...]

Useful links: tech podcasts, rem, Whitney Hess, memes

Open Culture is a great resource for all kinds of educational podcasts and videos. Check out the technology podcasts list. Some terrific programs there that you will enjoy. Have you heard of rem? It means “root em” and is a new feature in CSS 3 that you can learn about from Jonathan Snook in Font-sizing [...]

Useful links: Interactions, Mary Sue, Steampunk, Biz Stone

Visualizing First-Time Interactions at SXSW from Pleasure and Pain is another of those charts of hubs, connections, and connectors that is so fascinating. This time it uses contacts made via Hashable. The Mary Sue is a new blog devoted to female geek culture. I’ve been watching them a couple of weeks and have seen several [...]

Useful links: Mobile market, Academy Awards, The Mary Sue

The mobile landscape: 10 things media pros should know at contentious is a good look at the current mobile situation for marketers. Were you watching the Oscars and tweeting along? I was and it made the experience more fun (and funny). I wasn’t the only one: And the Winner of the Academy Award Goes to [...]

Useful links: Screen readers, Ada Initiative, HTML versioning

Videos of screen readers using ARIA at zomigi.com is enlightening. Watch. The Ada Initiative is dedicated to increasing participation of women in open technology and culture, which includes open source software, Wikipedia and other open data, and open social media. HTML as a Living Standard – For and Against is must reading at HTML5 Doctor. [...]

Terri Jenkins: entrepreneurial woman in tech

She’s been in the SEO and PPC business for 16 years. Sixteen years! You don’t find that kind of longevity and expertise in many web-based businesses. She owns a company that enables her to do the thing that is closest to her heart: find young women with marketing backgrounds and train them to be both [...]