Celebrating Women in Tech with the awesome #WITBragDay meme
My favourite meme at the moment is the awesome #WITBragDay meme on Twitter that celebrates women in tech. It seems to have been started by Alice Goldfuss with h...
Category: Policy issues
The James Damore memo can’t negate talented women or their work
What I find disturbing about the James Damore memo about men’s and women’s comparative capabilities (aside from the memo itself) is that its publication seems t...
AltPlatform and a conversation about the Open Web
I’ve been a big believer in the Open Web for some time and I was pretty excited to discover that Richard MacManus and a few other writers have launched AltPlatf...
The surreal result of the UN Security Council resolution against Israel
The recent UN Security Council resolution against Israel led to a particularly surreal result: even Trump sounded reasonable. Hopefully this insanity will pass ...
Credibility, journalism in the Trump era and other news
The Content Strategist has a news roundup that is worth reading. It is somewhat political. At the same time, it includes a number of articles gathered from vari...
When Google gave up, the Internet Archive kept going
The Internet Archive has been quietly preserving our digital heritage for 20 years and it is difficult to understate it's contribution to Humanity.
#WOCinTechChat – Promoting diversity in tech through stock photos
#WOCinTech Chat has launched a really smart initiative that leverages CC licensed stock photos to promote diversity in tech. It really appeals to me on so many ...
The fundamental problem with @Twitter
The fundamental problem with Twitter is that it doesn't give victims of abuse effective tools to fight the trolls.