Today, in case you hadn't noticed yet, is Ada Lovelace Day, a day designed to celebrate women in technology. I'll quote Suw here, since what she said rang several bells with me:

It has become clear that many of my female friends in tech really do feel disempowered. They feel invisible, lacking in confidence, and unsure how to compete for attention ( Read more... )

Chris Heathcote has posted his Pirates & Scalpels slideshow, as mentioned here, so you can get even greater context.

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There's a PaperCamp heading to a city near you. If that city happens to be New York, anyway. One in San Francisco is being mooted, with maybe more to come elsewhere. You could always set one up yourself… Yes, you.

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Hello, blog. It's the first post of the year, and what have you got to say for yourself? Or rather, what have I got to say for myself that I can post so that you have a nice, timely front page?

Well, it's been a quiet couple of weeks, after that somewhat crazy week of events and parties. I had a birthday. That was exceedingly quiet, because I didn ( Read more... )

It was okay. I don't really have much to say about it. Except, the following points:

The venue. There really wasn't enough space in the Match Bar to comfortably mingle, causing everyone to either bottleneck uncomfortably in the middle of one long section, or else to get stuck 'round tables in The Bridge area (that's what they call it), where there ( Read more... )

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On Wednesday evening, I went to the Prince Charles to a free screening of Us Now, courtesy of the lovely NESTA Connect people. It was pretty interesting; a snapshot of the last few years and the rise of media being used towards positive social change. There were some interesting case studies, such as Slice The Pie, a site where bands can go ( Read more... )

I've been quite the social party animal this past week. 'Tis the season and all, except that most of the events weren't actually related Christmas. It's all been a bit mad, so be prepared for a series of long posts.

On Tuesday night I went to the Webby Night at the ICA, which was quite fun. The nice Webbies people provided us with free booze, ( Read more... )

If you happen to be on JPGMag, these pictures of mine are active for voting. I can win a subscription to the magazine, and in the case of the “Shoot From The Hip” theme, a camera, too.

edit to add: but not on Livejournal, apparently, as it's automatically stripped out the javascript. So go here instead.

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This session was, for me, the least successful or useful. I think partly it was the timing; it was, perhaps, too serious a subject for the time of day. I’m not saying we shouldn’t discuss serious subjects in the evening, but coming after the fun of playing silly games, a quite amusing overview of the first two sessions and a period of mingling over ( Read more... )