Thoughts on NYT coverage of Silicon Valley sexual politics and men creating the internet

June 5, 2012 in ForbesWoman, Girls in Tech, Publications, Rants

I wrote a piece on ForbesWoman yesterday that comments on what I see as the real issue behind this weekend’s debate over a New York Times article titled “Lawsuit Shakes Foundation
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An interesting – and sleazy & calculated – tactic on Twitter

July 11, 2011 in new media, Rants

If you’re like me, you may monitor the folks who unfollow you on Twitter (I use a service called Twunfollow).  This is helpful to me to see what types of
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Gladwell and the Laziness of Digital Activism Discourse

October 2, 2010 in Digital Activism, Rants

Image via Wikipedia By now, I can’t really keep up with the conversation happening around Malcolm Gladwell’s post on digital activism from Monday (“Small Change: Why the revolution will not
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Wikileaks, Transparency, Responsibility, and Constructive Action

July 30, 2010 in DigiActive, Digital Activism, International, Media, new media, Publications, Rants, Thoughts

We’ve been having a really great conversation about the recent WikiLeaks incident on an informal Fletcherite group list, and I wanted to get some of the thoughts up that have
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Doing Business in Boston: Why it’s good and why we should move on

July 27, 2010 in Entrepreneurship, Rants, Thoughts

On Monday, Henry McCance wrote about why he moved his firm from Boston to Silicon Valley, and why Boston isn’t a good place to start a company. Well, I found
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Hasty Use of Social Media and Responsibilities as Users

July 19, 2010 in new media, Rants

I listened to Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson’s FIR podcast (#555, 12 July…yes, I’m a little behind on podcast listening) on my way to work today, and they had a
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A small note on Personal Brands, Transparency & Digital Technologies

December 16, 2009 in Rants, Thoughts

There’s no escaping the recent headlines of big names having something “private” being discovered, and having their brand tarnished – sometimes severely.  And there’s also no lack of backlash by
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