Knight News Challenge: 1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]Scale the private listserv I...
1. What do you propose to do? [20 words]
Scale the private listserv I run for female leaders in technology/media into an open network of and for women.
2. Is anyone doing something like this now and how is your project different? [30 words]
No. This segment is vastly underserved. There are…
The Truant Muse: The Great Thoughtful (Remaining) New York City Bookstores
The death of George Whitman, the proprietor of bookshop/kibbutz Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, should give every bibliophile (or even anyone who reads) pause to think about what makes a great bookstore - and, in a time when they keep closing down, where we can even find one.
Somewhere, in…
Sweeping the Clouds Away
Children’s TV has changed so much that a preschool classic on DVD now carries a warning.
It’s Not Gender Warfare… It’s Math.
(A shorter version of this piece appears in today’s Washington Post. Photo of Google executive and engineer Marissa Mayer via. Headline via.)
Let’s say I was designing a new piece of software to make my life as a writer a little easier. First, I’d program it count how many characters I’d typed out and in what amount of time, in order to document my productivity on any given day. Then I’d ask it to compare words, phrases, sentences and entire paragraphs from one draft to the next, in order to calculate how much of what I’d written had changed…or stayed the same.
Fabien Cousteau swimming with a female Humpback Whale. Photo courtesy of Carrie Vonderhaar/Ocean Futures Society
(Source: oceanfutures.org)
