Thought I’d finally sit down while I have three seconds to breathe and jot dot a couple of things I wanted to let folks know about:
- I went to SWSXi, and was largely unimpressed. There wasn’t a the sense of forward-thinking that I expected, nor the ground-breaking innovations. The parties were so-so. I had the best time hanging out with grrls from the feminist blogosphere, and with my Hightower co-worker, Laura. Oh, and note to anyone organizing a conference for thousands of geeks: please make sure the wifi actually works at the convention.
- I’m speaking at two conferences coming up here in the near future: Facing Race, here in NYC on Friday; then Women Action Media up in Boston on March 31 & April 1. Guess what I’ll be talking about? That’s right, politics and technology, focusing on social media. YUM.
- Er, I feel like there was more than this. Hrm. I seem to have lost all eight trains of thought. More when I get them back…
For anyone who was in LA listening to me gab at 9 o’clock in the morning, here’s my presentation, and a little glossary I put together:
[If you weren't in LA, you might find it interesting, but my disclaimer is that this isn't in any way an end-all be-all on "the Web 2.0." It's a primer for media folk who wanted to be brought up to speed, and avoids geek-speak as much as possible. :-) ]
I’m here at the Personal Democracy Forum Conference, and just some quick observations… while there’s way more women here that there was last year, the crowd is still overwhelmingly white. I mean… like, REALLY white. Nothin’ against white people or anything (many of my friends are white, HAHA)… it’s just that it’s sort of frustrating to hear people yak about the digital revolution when it’s essentially middle to upper class white people talking to each other.
On the upshot, I finally got to meet Jill from Feministe, who is one of my biggest online heroines. I got all flustered. (Warning, mutual blog-crushing happening.)
