Posts tagged ‘pseudonymity’

[Warning for ableism.] Kathy Sierra has published a video about online harassment, particularly an incident in 2008 targetting people with epilepsy, transcripted here.

Linkspammed: GNOME Women’s Outreach, swearing in the work place, poor people and ebooks, and more.

Links for you! Is Wikipedia more or less gender-balanced than Encyclopædia Britannica? Is outing powerful tech figures OK? And how to praise girls.

While the discussions about pseudonym use on Google+ continues on, there’s a different front that opened up in mid-August: Science Blogs, which is the home of a huge number of top science blogs, has decided ...

Links discussing pseudonyms, Google+ suspensions, Google’s reasoning and more.

What do a PSA about backups, pseudonymity advocacy, Wikipedia and Hermione Granger have in common? They’re all linkspammed today.

This is something I asked in comments here the other day: So I think at this point we ideally would turn to research: how do people perceive the quality of communities on the real name ...

There’s been a lot of talk lately about pseudonymity and about online services that disallow it, instead requiring so-called “real names”. For example, previously on Geek Feminism: Hacker News and pseudonymity Another round of “real ...

Here’s a separate thread for people most interested in keeping track of official, semi- and unofficial pronouncements about pseudonymity and/or privacy on Google+ in particular, in addition to the more general discussions taking place at ...

People testing the Google+ social network are discussing increasing evidence that, terms of service requirement or not, Google+ wants people to use their legal names much as Facebook does. Skud shares a heads-up from a ...

Via everyone everywhere, Blizzard’s (developer of World of Warcraft and the Starcraft and Diablo franchises) game discussion forums are the latest online forum to come up with the bright idea to make everything all better ...

Mark Suster has a post about improving civility on YCombinator’s Hacker News: I’ve seen vitriolic responses on HN on several occasion. I mostly get hammered on HN if I write about a controversial topic like ...

Or, more to the point, Facebook’s privacy instability is a feminist issue. [Trigger Warning: Discussion of loss of privacy and its impact on survivors of violence.] Social media is a gamble. Unless you’re using a ...

Scholarships and grants: The GNOME Foundation have opened applications for travel grants to their GUADEC conference. Applications close April 27, 2009, 19:00 UTC (not mentioned on that page) The ESA is offering scholarships for women ...

We’re a bit late with the link, but the latest Feminist Carnival went up at Undomestic Goddess on December 9. Submissions are open for the next carnival, out December 23. Training bar staff to intervene ...

Lyz Krumbach writes “Issues of Women in Open Source” for Ubuntu Open Week, and “Why?” to answer the question of whether and how women’s groups help. A great article about 5th grade girls visiting Yahoo! ...