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My She’s Geeky Tweets: Series Index

February 6, 2009 – 2:32 pm

Last weekend, I attended She’s Geeky at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. This unconference, organized by Kaliya Hamlin, is “for all women who are interested in technology” — although it touched on several other types of geekiness as well.
I live-tweeted the sessions I attended, and here is the index to my tweetstreams [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in culture, events, women | Comments (2)

New geeky shirt just arrived

November 21, 2008 – 9:51 am

It totally suits my current mental state. Want one? Get it from Cafepress.

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Amy's Adventures, fun stuff, psychology | Comments (2)

Dangerous concentration of geeks in Boulder

November 11, 2008 – 11:11 am

Yesterday, there was a minor afterparty to Denver’s Thin Air Summit. At Boulder’s lovely Dushanbe Teahouse, we had a tweetup of over 30 local coding and media geeks. TAS keynoter Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research shot this video so we could put faces to names — that is, the really important kind of name for [...]

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Working with Journalists: What’s in It for Geeks?

October 31, 2008 – 2:59 pm

NOTE: This post originally appeared on Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits, and there are some comments over there. I’m reposting this here because, frankly, this site poses fewer hurdles to commenters, and I’d like to get some diverse discussion happening.

Earlier this week I wrote about the internal and external obstacles journalism schools face when trying to achieve [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Net Effects on Society, civic, collaboration, culture, journalism, mindset, networking, questions, skills, social networks, software, solutions | Comments (2)