March 2008
5 posts
Correction: Four White Men Exploit Social Media
note: above video has no sound; animation only This is an update to my recent post, Five White Men Talk About Social Media. When last we visited the little drama surrounding our local Chamber of Commerce event with a surprising lack of diversity, I had been invited to be on the panel. The following day the invitation was withdrawn because I’m not a member of the Chamber. (Brenda Thompson,...
Feed Reader Down, Reading Up
A few months ago I did some serious pruning on my Google Reader, which was choked by an overgrowth of blog feeds. I’d been trying to stay around 200-250, but somehow the number kept climbing toward 300. One day I decided I had officially hit Information Overload. I was either spending so much time reading that I had no time to write, or I was feeling guilty for clicking on “mark all as read.”
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Girls and young women are now the most prolific... →
YET while they are becoming the primary consumers and producers of the internet world, young women are not yet translating this dominance into financial gains.
Lena is Tired of my Face (do we need more female... →
Five White Men Talk About Social Media
Although I came of age at the height of the so-called Flower Power and Women’s Lib movements, the extent of my feminist activism was trying to join a men’s intramural snooker team as a freshman at Baylor University. Actually, that wasn’t even my idea; the guys I hung out with in the Student Union wanted to draft me because I frequently beat them. But I was denied permission to join a men’s team,...