Category: women

Useful Links: WestCiv Tools, GHC 2010, Facebook

The Stylemaster folks at WestCiv have some online CSS tools that are useful. Make gradients, transforms, shadows and stroke text with these tools. Small icons on each tool show you which browsers currently support these CSS3 techniques.

Grace Hopper 2010 Poster
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing for 2010 is themed “Collaborating Across Boundaries.” It’s set in Atlanta, Georgia, September 28 – October 2, 2010.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has put together a tutorial explaining step by step how to get the most privacy out of Facebook’s latest attempt to fix its privacy nightmare. You might get a laugh out of Wired Pen’s explanation of Facebook’s Principles.

Women in Tech

The group pool I started on Flickr for images of Women in Tech now has over 200 images. The tags accompanying these images tell a story of where the images were taken. Is there a tech event with women involved that isn’t represented in this tag cloud? Are there photos of women from the event on Flickr? Please let me know the event tag for a Flickr search and I’ll invite them to the group.

Tag cloud for Women in Tech group pool on Flickr
Tag cloud for Women in Tech group pool on Flickr

Useful links: HTML5, Fast Company lists

Removing the Details and Summary Elements at Burningbird is an extremely well organized and rational response to an issue ongoing in the development of HTML5 right now.

Fast Company listed the most influential women in tech. It’s all good, but the most interesting list for web geeks is the evangelists list, which includes Shireen Mitchell, Shaherose Charania and Angie Chang, Allyson Kapin, Molly Holzschlag, Debbie Weil, Cindy Padnos, Addison Berry, Susan Scrupski, Pamela Jones, Laura Fitton and Gina Trapani. . . . Many of these women are pictured in the Women in Tech Flickr Group, where there are over 200 images and growing.

5 awesome HTML5 demos from Designer Daily is a good list. I’d add this excellent demo by Brian Arnold from a recent Webuquerque event.

Useful links: mobile WordPress, FCC, Wired Pen, women in science

11 Ways to Create a Mobile Friendly WordPress Site lists plugins and apps that can help with your WordPress site. I need to check out some of these myself. I’m thinking I like either MoFuse or Mobify. Do any of you have an opinion about using either of these plug-ins? I’d appreciate any input.

US Court Rules Against FCC and Net Neutrality. Boo Hiss.

Wired Pen is my recommended blog of the day. Thoughtful, intelligent writing on a variety of topics around tech and media.

Women in Science is a Flickr set from the Smithsonian. Why doesn’t somebody start a modern-day set of Women in Science on Flickr? Why don’t you? I promise I’ll start a public Flickr set for women in tech as soon as I can . . . I’m swamped right now but maybe by next week. Be watching. ADDENDUM: Well, I just did it, time or no time. You’ll find the new group on Flickr. Join in and share your photos of women in technology.

Useful Links: use :focus, some new product, ad culture

Whenever you use :hover, also use :focus from 456 Berea Street explains why this is an accessibility issue.

Apple came out with some new product this week. Maybe you heard about it. I think it made the news. Okay—seriously, amid all the posturings and opinions about why the iPad was a great thing or a terrible thing, came this post from Daring Fireball: The Kids are All Right. This one appeals to me as an educator who thinks that all change is a trade off, and all trade offs are an opportunity for learning.

Which came first, the ads or the cultural change? at In Women We Trust shows some real ads from about 50 years ago. Work with me here: Mentally make those images reflect the present, and make those women the women in tech, where the images are still pretty much true to the current culture. Is this the way men should be remembered for their leadership in the tech community?