Author Archives: Anne Z

links for 2008-05-13

Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism | Brandeis University
“When the consultant was a ‘mother,’ she was rated as less competent, less committed, less suitable for hiring, promotion, or training, and was offered a lower starting salary than the other three.”
(tags: motherhood gender career research sociology parenting)

» WP Contact Manager | Design Intellection
(tags: wordpress themes cms contacts […]

My Plan: Mommyblogging, Local Blogging, Tech Blogging, Thought Blogging

Here’s my plan for my various online activities:

The Everyday Cafe will be expanded beyond its focus on cooking to include all aspects of family life. I miss momblogging but don’t want to create a new blog for it and don’t want to do it here, since this site has typically been more professionally oriented.
I am […]

links for 2008-05-05

Drupal Hosting Review: AN Hosting
(tags: drupal hosting reviews)

Official Google Docs Blog: Want your docs to be stylin’?
finally!
(tags: google docs styling css)

links for 2008-05-02

The Power of Niche Social Network Sites - Bokardo
“PatientsLikeMe, Ravelry, and Dogster demonstrate the power of niche communities. It’s not just improved communication, it’s improved action.”
(tags: social-networks socialsoftware social design)

links for 2008-05-01

High Performance Web Sites :: High Performance Web Sites, Part 2
(tags: performance webdev websites architecture)

Men Explain Things to Me | Reproductive Justice and Gender | AlterNet
“… the out-and-out confrontational confidence of the totally ignorant is, in my experience, gendered. Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they’re talking […]

links for 2008-04-29

Coding Horror: Programmers Don’t Read Books — But You Should
(tags: books programming)

On backwards compatibility: the drop is always moving | drupal.org
(tags: drupal philosophy software-development)

Designing for the Social Web: the Book - Bokardo
(tags: books tobuy design social-software social)

Ryan in Seattle: Email organization in GMail (Aka the Zen of Gmail)
become a master of email using Gmail
(tags: gmail […]

links for 2008-04-28

Clinton and Obama XSS Battle Develops - Netcraft
(tags: xss security politics webdev clinton obama)

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody
“someone working alone, with really cheap tools, has a reasonable hope of carving out enough of the cognitive surplus… to create a resource you couldn’t have imagined existing even five years ago.”
(tags: cognitive-surplus shirky […]

links for 2008-04-25

Techdirt: The Open Source Model Is About Organization, Not Who Signs Your Paycheck
“What makes the open source model unique isn’t who (if anyone) signs the contributors’ paychecks. Rather, what matters is the way open source projects are organized internally.”
(tags: open-source business-models)

Think Positive, and You Will Get Smarter
“According to studies carried out by Stanford University psychology […]

links for 2008-04-24

Clay Shirky on growing the Drupal community | Acquia - Commercially Supported Drupal
On growing a community: create lots of lightweight little tasks so people can participate easily.
(tags: drupal community contributions participation)

links for 2008-04-21

A simple shell command for drupal cvs checkouts | ZivTech
I am loving Jody’s Drupal tips.
(tags: cvs development drupal textmate)

Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Blog Archive » Here Comes Clay Shirky
libertarian meets webitarian, could be interesting
(tags: podcast tolisten)

Be Good
“If you start from successful startups, you find they often behaved like nonprofits. And if you […]