18 Aug 2011, 13:13 p.m.

Friends Who Make Things

Leonard's been just amazingly interesting lately. He's analyzing board game catalogs, movie reviews, and cooler ways to mash up and generate text. Our pal Beth Lerman has a painting blog. Want to see Princess Leia …

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14 Aug 2011, 22:42 p.m.

The Touch of a Vanished Hand

Before going to Wikimania, I printed out a bunch of stuff: my registration confirmation email, an FAQ about the conference, a list of other colleagues who were attending, my flight itinerary, and so on. I …

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11 Aug 2011, 16:58 p.m.

From Rush To Hush

I have been travelling so much in the past month that my nap today included a travel anxiety dream where I accidentally got on a plane back home in the middle of a conference and …

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23 Jul 2011, 1:31 a.m.

CLS/OSCON

I'm in Portland, Oregon, for Community Leadership Summit and OSCON. If you are here, too, you will be able to recognize me because I will be the one who's very tired.

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18 Jul 2011, 11:31 a.m.

An (NCSA) Mosaic Of Colorful Little Bits

I looked at my past, like, eight blog entries and saw that they were pretty thinky pieces. When did my blog turn into Crooked Timber? So, a little miscellany. Saturday I went to the beach! …

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17 Jul 2011, 10:53 a.m.

Intra- and Interpersonal Expectations In Open Source And the Tech Industry

That theme emerges in the three articles I've written for Geek Feminism this year. January: "On competence, confidence, pernicious socialization, recursion, and tricking yourself" (previously mentioned in Cogito, Ergo Sumana). I have to remind myself …

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11 Jul 2011, 11:11 a.m.

Kyriarchy & Mr. Rogers

In late June, Kjerstin Johnson interviewed me for Bitch Media (makers of Bitch Magazine) about Wikimedia, feminism in open source, and related topics. You can listen to the half-hour interview via download from the Internet …

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10 Jul 2011, 1:22 a.m.

"Learn Tech Management" Essay/Notes

Final notes, including an audio recording and an edited & annotated transcript, for my standing-room-only talk "Learn Tech Management in 45 Minutes" from this year's Open Source Bridge. And I wanna also tell you that …

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08 Jul 2011, 19:56 p.m.

"Skilletron 2.0"

Leonard is funding a different Kickstarter project every day this month, to celebrate his birthday. I'll try to pick projects you'll find interesting because I really like the Kickstarter model and my goal is to …

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29 Jun 2011, 19:01 p.m.

Open Source Bridge 2011

I had a wonderful time at this year's Open Source Bridge conference. Last year at OSBridge, I presented "The Second Step: HOWTO encourage open source work at for-profits" and had a great time. So this …

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