Posts tagged ‘blogging’
2011.03.05 Wikipedia and non-mainstream views (3)
I was cynical about Wikipedia’s openness to minority views in the comments of a previous post, I’m a woman, and I’ve edited Wikipedia. Based on past experience as a former, obsessive Wikipedia editor several years ...
Full Story »2011.01.13 Kids these days spend so much time linkspamming they don’t know what real friendship is (14th January, 2010) (2)
tigtog has some tips for bloggers at How I minimise the online abuse I receive: So here is an assortment of technical tips & tricks whereby bloggers can cut down the volume and the repetition ...
Full Story »2011.01.06 Quick hit: getting too close to power (7)
Trigger warning: this post describes and discusses harassment and threats. Sady Doyle writes on Tiger Beatdown: When feminist women reach a certain critical mass of readership or influence, then mass negative exposure and harassment invariably ...
Full Story »2010.11.13 Does my linkspam look big in this? (14th November, 2010) (21)
Recommendation letters could cost women jobs, promotions: Turns out women and men get different types of recommendation letters. “Female candidates were described in more communal (social or emotive) terms and male candidates in more agentic ...
Full Story »2010.09.27 How to Appear Incompetent in One Easy Step (7)
Amber is a Capital Markets Technology consultant who currently works on Wall Street making trading platforms suck less. If she’s not online kicking ass in PvP, you can probably find her somewhere on the Lower ...
Full Story »2010.09.22 CompSci Woman: Looking for stories of women in computer science (2)
My friend Cate and her friend Maggie have started a blog called CompSci Woman that I think many of you will enjoy reading, and hopefully some of you in computer science will be interested in ...
Full Story »2010.07.09 Open Thread: But what if I want to hear about more than 10 terrific tech blogs? (21)
BlogHer has a post listing 10 Terrific Tech Blogs (written by women). We’re even included, as is my university friend Gail! I enjoy seeing these lists and learning about a few new blogs, but it ...
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