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Category Archives: Culture and Society
Online Communities, Women, and Misogyny
I’ve posted already about the hateful way Kathy Sierra was treated by other bloggers. The reaction has been interesting. Yesterday Chris Locke and Kathy each posted, collaboratively, their takes on the specific incidents, and the larger issue of hate speech … Continue reading
Death Threats are Not OK
Blogger and UI expert, Kathy Sierra, had to cancel her talk at the Etech conference, because of really really nasty death threats, and threats of sexual assault. You can read about it here. There are fairly well-known “A-list” bloggers skirting … Continue reading
On Building a User Community
Kathy Sierra, one of the Head First authors, has an extremely useful and thoughtful post on Building a User Community. This is a post from someone who gets community, and the importance of sharing with, rather than feeding from, a … Continue reading
Please Help: Tsunami and Quake Relief
As best I can determine, any money you donate will go entirely to quake/tsumani relief. If you’d rather, you can donate to the Red Cross/Red Crescent via Amazon with a single click. The British Red Cross page, with a direct … Continue reading
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Micropayments
Kip Manley points to an article by Clay Shirky in which Shirky still argues that micropayments will ultimately fail because users won’t pay for content in a sea of free content. Shirky’s wrong. Users (think readers and listeners and viewers) … Continue reading
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