Posted by digitalsista on October 21st, 2008 in Blogging, Broadband, Community Media, Community Technology, Computing, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Digital Transitions, Diversity, Feminism, Mobile Computing, Net Neutrality, Netroots, Old vs New Technologies, Social Media, Tech Industry, Tech and Telcom Policies, Technology, Women in Tech, web 2.0
BarCampDC2 was held on Oct. 18, I realize that is was also the day LifeTime aired their movie Living Proof. (I went to the screening but I will post that later). On a day that LifeTime airs a movie about a scientist testing for a breast cancer gene to attack a disease that [...]
Posted by digitalsista on September 25th, 2008 in Broadband, Community Media, Community Technology, Computing, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Digital Transitions, Diversity, Media Justice, Mobile Computing, Net Neutrality, Netroots, Old vs New Technologies, Social Media, Tech Industry, Tech and Telcom Policies, Technology, Women in Tech, eGovernment, poverty
The Digital Divide discussion arose in a digital transition session at the Congressional Black Caucus week. The session was called It Takes a Village to Stay Connected in the New Digital Era.
The focus of the discussion was about the DTV coupons. These are coupons for converter boxes to assist people to transition from analog [...]
Posted by digitalsista on August 13th, 2008 in Blogging, Community Media, Community Technology, Diversity, Media Justice, Old vs New Technologies, Social Media, Technology, politics, web 2.0
A huge Media House has decided to follow (us) bloggers, twitters, podcasters and others to the conventions. C-Span has finally joined the social media community in a big way. They will be creating hubs for the Democratic and Republican conventions. Bloggers (Citizen Journalists) will have access to videos for embedding and a place to link [...]
Posted by digitalsista on August 7th, 2008 in Community Technology, Mobile Computing, Old vs New Technologies, Social Media, Teens and Technology, web 2.0
I was attending the BlogHer ‘08 conference in San Francisco and came across a display for T-Mobile. They were asking people to fill out a “teens and cell phones survey”. I told the representative that I was very interested in the results of the survey. The results were sent to me via email along with [...]
Posted by digitalsista on July 9th, 2008 in Blogging, Community Media, Community Technology, Cyber Security, Bullying & Tech Safety, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Diversity, Feminism, Media Justice, Mobile Computing, Nonprofit, Old vs New Technologies, Social Media, Technology, Women in Tech, politics, web 2.0
This Utterz had to be taken down. This was an issue about controlling the message. One of the people participating in this conversation didn’t want this to go live because they needed to cross check the message with their organization. I will do a follow up post on this but this is why it is [...]
Posted by digitalsista on June 27th, 2008 in Broadband, Computing, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Digital Transitions, Feminism, Identity Theft, Media Justice, Mobile Computing, Netroots, Old vs New Technologies, Tech Industry, Technology, Teens and Technology, Uncategorized, Video Gaming, Women in Tech
Conferences and the shallow end of the gene pool
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As Nerdettes, Geekettes, techies and other women in field this is an ongoing challenge faced. As a fellow Tech, Deanna does a good job of summing up the problem. Many of us have talked about it. It need to move to action, not commentary.
Posted by digitalsista on June 25th, 2008 in Community Technology, Computing, Digital Divide/Inclusion, Diversity, Mobile Computing, Old vs New Technologies, Social Media, Tech Industry, Technology, Uncategorized, Women in Tech, web 2.0
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