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links for 2006-07-31

  • muti hot
    South African news/links — cool!
    (tags: southafrica africa news web2.0 socialsoftware)
  • ongoing · OSCON Notes
    “I mean, welcoming grass-roots voices is good, but if you want to know where Python is going, you need to listen to Guido …. Which is to say, information transfer from obsessives is a valid sub-function of tribal gatherings.”
    (tags: timbray quotes programming)
  • apophenia: Blogher has begun
    “At the same time, i’m faced with the challenge i always face when in a room full of women. I’ve definitely grown up in a boy’s world, trying to out-boy the boys.”
    I feel like this a lot of the time too — danah’s right, it is very sad
    (tags: blogging community gender genderpolitics)
  • Girl geeks speak from the heart | BlogHer
    “One thing that strikes me is that I’ve heard these stories before in other fields. I ran into similar situations as a lawyer and as a traditional journalist. There are lessons to be learned and solutions to be had there.”
    (tags: blogher gender genderpolitics work business industry)
  • ongoing · OSCON – Open Data
    “I think any online service can call itself “Open” if it makes, and lives up to, this commitment: Any data that you give us, we’ll let you take away again, without withholding anything, or encoding it in a proprietary format, or ….”
    (tags: opensource data opensourcesoftware web2.0 webdevelopment)
  • Joel on Software
    “Not every programmer wants to work in a private office. In fact quite a few would tell you unequivocally that they prefer the camaradarie and easy information sharing of an open space. Don’t fall for it. They also want M&Ms for breakfast and a pony.”
    (tags: office work business productivity)
  • Joel on Software
    “You probably forgot that most of the people that read Inc. are geeks. And we buy insurance. Lots of insurance. Like me. And in fact I used to buy it from you. But not any more.”
    (tags: culture advertising funny geek joelonsoftware rant humour)
  • del.icio.us/settings/import
    This is the most dangerous thing I’ve seen in AGES. I have thousands of bookmarks in my Firefox, largely due to a habit of saving all the tabs I still have open at the end of the day in a “day” folder.
    (tags: delicious links bookmarks firefox)
Posted by delicious @ 7:17 PM on July 31, 2006
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