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Susan Mernit’s Blog: She’s Geeky: I’m going–how about you?
I SOOOO wish I could go to this! “A gathering for women who self-identify as geeky (as in tech geeks) and/or work in technology; the first afternoon will be workshops and panels; the full day will be an unconference.” Mtn View, CA, Oct 22-23 (tags: events women gender technology culture)

The Bamboo Project Blog: After Three Weeks of Ning Communities, I’m Learning a Few Things
“It’s a lot easier to start a community when you have a group that’s formed for some other reason. …I can’t imagine just throwing up a community and hoping that people stop by.” (tags: community mycoverage AmyGahran blogging processes management)

Hey Nielsen: Influence the Ratings through Social Networking
New online community from the Nielsen Company (the ratings folks) “allows users to share opinions on movies, music, TV, internet, and personalities – the same things Nielsen currently produces reports on.” (tags: media social+media community ratings business)

EFF: DeepLinks
“UH is requiring film students to sign a lengthy agreement assigning copyright in their student works to the university. If students won’t sign, they are kicked out of their film production classes.” (tags: copyright law video film education students content-rights controversy)

Techy-Feely » Finding the time to blog….yes, it can be done
“I have noticed that I have added the “Oh, I should blog this” thought to my process of developing training materials, finding useful resources and just generally thinking about stuff as I go through life.” (tags: blogging processes writing productivity)

EdTechTESOL - Discussion and Exploration into Technology and Language Learning » Blogging Hare vs Blogging Tortoise
“I think I will focus more on sharing ideas, less on polishing them. The learning is in the discussion, not the editing. It is better to put up raw ideas and discuss them than to leave them both unpublished and ignored…” (tags: blogging writing processes productivity mycoverage AmyGahran)

23 Community Reactions to the New Digg: Outlook Not Good » techipedia | tamar weinberg
“1. By trying to make Digg more social, it really became less social. (Michael via Twitter) 2. [Today is] the day that Digg died. (Lyndon). 3. I also can’t see if I have Dugg a story until I open it. (webcure)” — is it just resistance to change? (tags: social+media tools change community problems)

Scott Rosenberg’s Wordyard » Blog Archive » How hard is a simple web app?
“Read the whole thing, and then recall it the next time someone tells you how simple it is to throw up a Web 2.0 site.” (tags: technology development problems solutions management programming projects)

Whats the Future of the Music Industry? A Freakonomics Quorum - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog
“What really happened to the music industry, and what will it look like in 5-10 years? That’s the question we put to 5 smart people in our latest Freakonomics Quorum. I found their answers incredibly interesting, full of real info & clear thinking.” (tags: music business media+evolution)

Newsome.Org
“Amy Gahran is checking out Jott. I got bashed a couple of months ago for saying Jott is more useful than Twitter. I still feel that way. {Ducking}” (tags: mycoverage AmyGahran tools productivity)