Just a quick note of announcement here (especially for you RSS people that never come to the site, haha): I’ve updated the design of dz.com to reflect a little more “practice what I preach.” Why yes, look at that fancy new sidebar, with my lifestream, where else you can find me online… oh, and is that a tag cloud? Yay. Tag clouds are just about my favorite thing in web 2.0. Also, ye RSS peeps: you’ll find now that there’s two feeds to choose from: one with just my blog posts (same ol’, same ol’), and one that will give you my lifestream (blog posts plus twitter, digg activity, what-have-you).
In addition to being a little bit more practical and up-to-date, this will also serve as some public documentation of my upcoming month in Berlin and other parts of Germany, so stay tuned for news and enjoy!
Via Awesome — a note from someone’s mom:
When you don’t post something to your blog for a few days I get worried but then when you write some of the things you do i am really worried Love you anyways.Mom
UPDATE: Go see the whole “postcards from yo momma site“. Utter and complete hilarity. Made my day.
While we’re having a laugh, an awesome lolcat from this week:
see more crazy cat pics
I was interviewed for an article about the Internet and the campaign season for LinuxInsider:
“A lot of little folks are being empowered with tools and communications in ways that were previously unavailable,” Zandt told LinuxInsider.
This, she said, is “a huge paradigm shift, from a small number of people controlling communications to everyone having the power to communicate with everyone else.”
I feel so hardcore!
A discussion on the WIPT (Women in Progressive Technology) list earlier prompted me to start a little informal survey of two categories of nonprofit workers: tech folk, and communications people. It’s so hard to figure out what reasonable salaries or rates are to ask for these days, especially when many of our for-profit counterparts are jumping onboard to ride the next wave of tech speculation and investment, haha. So, in the comments, please let us know anonymously:
1. if you’re a techie or a communicator
2. your job title
3. your city/locale
4. your responsibilities
5. your compensation. include if you get killer benefits and stuff like that, too.
The comments ask you to leave a name and email address. It’s just for moderation purposes; if you put a name in, that’ll show up, but your email address won’t. The URL will hyperlink the name you enter. None of the info you give will be shared with anyone for anything. A bunch of us are just dead-curious as to what’s happening out there.
Quick hit: for the folks who are looking for PDFs of the presentation I made here at WAM!, here’s links to the files for yas:
Also, here’s the link to the resource list: http://del.icio.us/tag/wamweb2.0
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…
I’m much too undercaffeinated to go into much detail, but in the wee hours last night, we relaunched Room Eight, a scoopy-insider-snark-scoop blog on New York politics. I was the designer and CSS tweaker on this one; much thanks to Doug Green of CivicActions for doing the heavy-lifting (and creative problem-solving) of coding. Happy relaunch, Room Eight!
