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links for 2007-02-26

  • Startupping – A Community for Entrepreneurs
    Really interesting interview, asking start-up founders what their best and worst decisions were.
    (tags: interesting startups entrepeneurship business work industry leadership)
  • Jonathan Schwartz’s Weblog : Weblog
    One of the things that surely marks a great tech executive is the ability to explain quite complicated concepts in simple language. Jonathan Schwartz has that ability. So does Simon Willison. Hmmm…
    (tags: sun virtualization explanations language hardware processing speed networking)
  • SlashChick.com » Here’s how to become rich: Deliver value. Change the world.
    “I feel strongly that the removal of people from any industry leads it down a path that we as a society don’t want to go down — that the more we dehumanize services, the more that we forget that we are, indeed, creating and distributing these services for other human beings.”
    (tags: business quotes inspiration webhosting hosting utilitycomputing speed performance)
  • The Twelve (or so) Step Program for Conference Speakers and Organisers. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
    Absolutely AMAZING post from Suw Charman. Insightful, smart and just so so right. EVERYONE should read this. Now.
    (tags: conferences diversity gender genderpolitics geeks technology representation speakers)
  • Adactio: Journal – The diversity division
    “Even if we sell every ticket, even if everybody blogs about having a great time, if the line-up consists of a bunch of white male speakers (“A-list” or otherwise), I will consider the conference a failure.”
    (tags: diversity adactio jeremykeith women gender speakers conferences geeks)
  • game girl advance: Money for Nothing
    “Don’t let your first post in the group simply be a request. Don’t ask for help without first offering yours.”
    (tags: community politics polite relationships mailinglists etiquette)
  • dog or higher: Diversity redux redux
    “40%+ of our attendees are women. If we aren’t getting at least significantly close to this number in terms speakers, then frankly, I happen to think that is discriminatory.”
    (tags: conferences diversity women gender genderpolitics speakers selection equality WDN johnallsoppistheman)
  • Diverse means a lot of things | A Whole Lotta Nothing
    “It’s about expanding your vision, hearing from voices you haven’t before, and learning something new. That’s not just happy hippie rainbow talk either, it makes perfect business sense to go after the market you don’t have”
    (tags: diversity thinking interesting gender genderpolitics conferences speakers)
  • Ben Ward » FAO: RDF
    “Summoning Jon Hicks to our — Dan Cederholm produced — green-squared alter for the ritual sacrifice in fire of all the fluffy animals on earth would not rescue a broken technology. Microformats are not broken; the limits are designed.”
    (tags: barcamp barcamplondon2 microformats semantics RDF thinking semanticweb eRDF comments)
  • Caterina.net: From “The Soul of Money” by Lynne Twist
    “Infinite choice is its own kind of misery, just as having no choice at all.”
    (tags: quotes caterinafake psychology life choices family worklifebalance work business entrepeneurship)
Posted by delicious @ 9:21 PM on February 26, 2007
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