11 Aug 2011, 16:58 p.m.

From Rush To Hush

I have been travelling so much in the past month that my nap today included a travel anxiety dream where I accidentally got on a plane back home in the middle of a conference and …

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23 Jul 2011, 1:31 a.m.

CLS/OSCON

I'm in Portland, Oregon, for Community Leadership Summit and OSCON. If you are here, too, you will be able to recognize me because I will be the one who's very tired.

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18 Jul 2011, 11:31 a.m.

An (NCSA) Mosaic Of Colorful Little Bits

I looked at my past, like, eight blog entries and saw that they were pretty thinky pieces. When did my blog turn into Crooked Timber? So, a little miscellany. Saturday I went to the beach! …

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17 Jul 2011, 10:53 a.m.

Intra- and Interpersonal Expectations In Open Source And the Tech Industry

That theme emerges in the three articles I've written for Geek Feminism this year. January: "On competence, confidence, pernicious socialization, recursion, and tricking yourself" (previously mentioned in Cogito, Ergo Sumana). I have to remind myself …

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11 Jul 2011, 11:11 a.m.

Kyriarchy & Mr. Rogers

In late June, Kjerstin Johnson interviewed me for Bitch Media (makers of Bitch Magazine) about Wikimedia, feminism in open source, and related topics. You can listen to the half-hour interview via download from the Internet …

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10 Jul 2011, 1:22 a.m.

"Learn Tech Management" Essay/Notes

Final notes, including an audio recording and an edited & annotated transcript, for my standing-room-only talk "Learn Tech Management in 45 Minutes" from this year's Open Source Bridge. And I wanna also tell you that …

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08 Jul 2011, 19:56 p.m.

"Skilletron 2.0"

Leonard is funding a different Kickstarter project every day this month, to celebrate his birthday. I'll try to pick projects you'll find interesting because I really like the Kickstarter model and my goal is to …

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29 Jun 2011, 19:01 p.m.

Open Source Bridge 2011

I had a wonderful time at this year's Open Source Bridge conference. Last year at OSBridge, I presented "The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits" and had a great time. So this …

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29 Jun 2011, 15:00 p.m.

On The Usefulness Of Writing

About this time there was a cry among the people for more paper money, only fifteen thousand pounds being extant in the province, and that soon to be sunk. The wealthy inhabitants oppos'd any addition, …

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23 Jun 2011, 10:12 a.m.

Learn Tech Management In Probably Fewer Than 45 Minutes

I've put up slides and pretty rough notes from the talk I gave yesterday at Open Source Bridge, Learn Tech Management in 45 Minutes. I quote Langdon Winner and then Marx & Engels, summarize the …

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