Category Archives: womenFor me the session on Agile Methodologies led my Desi McAdam of Hashrocket was one of the highlights of January’s She’s Geeky unconference. It was one of those occasions when I felt several disparate pieces of context clicking into place and starting to make sense.
NOTE: This is part of a series based on my live [...]
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 [...]
Image by vanderwal via Flickr
I’ve written before about how the culture of traditional journalism tends to be rather insular, self-referential and — increasingly — toxic. This is especially true of the events that journalists typically attend, and the communities with which they typically mix.
Journalists mainly go to conferences specifically about journalism or specifically for journalists. [...]
Generally I try not to get caught up in memes, where a bunch of people try to do similar posts on the same day. (I’m not entirely opposed to memes, it just doesn’t suit the way I personally write or work.)
But yesterday I saw a particularly compelling video post by Wine 2.0 founder Gary Vaynerchuk: [...]
Holly’s Corner
Many blogs, like this one, have posted the full W-list with links. Is that really a good thing?
Lately there’s been a meme going around called the “W list” — a lengthy list of links to high-quality blogs published by women.
As far as I’ve traced it back, the kernel of this movement began with [...]
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