I rarely quote another blog's entry in its entirety, but this one
needed to appear whole. It's from Dorothea Salo, reacting to Edd
Dumbill's report, on XML.com, about something I said in my Tuesday
keynote:
...
Gender Genie12/30/2003 01:26 AM Interesting... This neat little program claims it
can guess the author's sex by the distribution of words in text. At
least it guessed my sex correctly, but it did make the grave mistake
of thinking that one of the people on my blogroll (right) is a male,
even though I'm pretty sure she's a lady :).
Gender Mindbender02/03/2004 05:19 PM Why aren't there more women in the corner office?
Gender Confusion
Gender Confusion04/22/2004 10:43 PM I really wish spammers would get their story straight. Hey, I just
wanted to share with you the experiences I've had in the past...
Gender pay gap wider than thought
Gender pay gap wider than thought06/01/2004 06:01 AM The gap between men and women's pay in the UK is wider than official
figures show, a report says.
employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/arth200/gender.html track this
site | 2 links
Links to gender discussions
Links to gender discussions12/24/2004 01:06 PM Culture Cat has a list of blog entries that talk about gender issues
in the blogosphere....
Bluetooth, Gender Roles, Something About How Men Are Awesome
Bluetooth, Gender Roles, Something About How Men Are Awesome04/26/2004 12:59 PM Zero Sum/Guerilla Research has some interesting bluetooth statistics
(Wait! Come back!) from a survey of 1500 individuals in one of
London's central business districts:68% of personalised devices were
given 'male' names, with only 20% allocated a 'female' name. Although
mobile phone ownership is higher for men than women in the...
Gender correction for Saudi girls
Gender correction for Saudi girls06/17/2004 03:23 AM Five sisters in strictly conservative Saudi Arabia undergo operations
to become men.
"I feel like I'm at a Microsoft monastery here," wrote Rory Blyth from
the most recent Professional Developers Conference. "I think I've seen
about 2.5 females ... it's like they're an endangered species." The
observation holds equally true for open source conferences.
...
If we expect social software to help rewrite the productivity
equation, social skills and protocols become critical parts of the
game. How can social software succeed if, in its development, half the
population is so poorly represented? [Full story at
InfoWorld.com]
This column touches on two third-rail issues: personality and gender.
The Wired
article on Asperger's syndrome cited in the column was incorrectly
dated, by the way. My error: it was of course published in 2001, not
1991. That slipped past me and my editors, but my friend Larry Welkowitz, a
psychologist and AS specialist, caught it.
...
Italy, Spain Have Big Gender Gap Online
Italy, Spain Have Big Gender Gap Online01/17/2004 10:53 PM A UCLA study says Italy and Spain have the largest gap between men and
women who are online, while Chinese users are most likely to credit
the Internet for connecting them politically.
Italy, Spain Have Big Gender Gap Online (AP)
Italy, Spain Have Big Gender Gap Online (AP)01/17/2004 11:02 PM AP - Italy and Spain have the largest gap between men and women who
are online, while Chinese users are most likely to credit the Internet
for connecting them with the politically like-minded, according to a
worldwide study coordinated by UCLA.
Is Gender-Based Pricing Fair? (Reuters)03/17/2005 03:16 AM Reuters - Most women, accustomed to paying more
than men for goods and services like clothes and hair cuts,
simply shrug it off as part of life, but an Ontario legislator
hopes to end all that.
Mobile usage shows gender split
Mobile usage shows gender split06/02/2004 02:32 AM Men prefer mobile games while women are downloading ringtones to their
phones, research has found.
Falling in Love -- a Gender-Bending Experience (Reuters)
Leader, Muddled by Gender, Bans TV Make-Up (Reuters)
Leader, Muddled by Gender, Bans TV Make-Up (Reuters)08/12/2004 09:24 AM Reuters - Turkmenistan's authoritarian
president, whose recent decrees have included banning gold
teeth, has told television presenters to stop wearing make-up
because he had difficulty telling the men from the women.
Gender gap plagues Arab online growth: report (AFP)
Gender gap plagues Arab online growth: report (AFP)02/19/2004 03:38 PM AFP - Fewer than a quarter of viewers of general portal websites in
the Middle East are women, the Arab Advisors Group found in a study,
linking the phenomenon to poor advertising revenues.
Gender Gap - What were the real reasons behind David Reimer's suicide? By John Colapinto
If
you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that I'm
opposed to unregulated 'free' trade, very worried about the
extraterritoriality of the WTO, NAFTA, Davos and other corporatist
captives, strongly opposed to domestic corporations 'offshoring' jobs,
using influence with the Bush regime and other right-wing governments
to circumvent social and environmental laws and responsibilities, and
a
great believer in taking the pledge to buy local, and in community
self-sufficiency.
At the same time, I'm a strong supporter of the UN and other
multi-lateral NGOs, and I believe that we each have a responsibility
for the well-being of all the people and creatures of this world. Some
readers have said this view is inconsistent, and I wasn't quite sure
how to respond to such charges. Fortunately, Peter Singer, in his
recent book on global ethics, One World: The Ethics of
Globalization,
has come to my rescue. Singer sees no inconsistency between strong
local autonomy, community, and self-sufficient economies on the one
hand, and global responsibility on the other. The book is based on the
Dwight Terry lectures at Yale in 2000, but has been updated to
incorporate reflection on the events of 9/11 and the appalling Bush
social, environmental and economic record.
I'll have more to say next week about Bush's fraudulent and despicable
Earth Day media blitz, and the major media's shameless lack of
critical
evaluation of the utter nonsense that his propaganda machine has been
churning out this week on the environment -- newspeak of Orwellian
proportions. The first part of Singer's book deals with environmental
responsibility, and his prescription for increasing it -- immediate
ratification of Kyoto by the US and other holdout countries, and
introduction of an emissions trading mechanism to make the realization
of Kyoto feasible (subject to the need for some oversight on the
disposition of the proceeds of such trading when it involves
autocratic
governments).
The second part of the book deals with the global economy, and Singer
adroitly tears apart the Economist's (and other neocons') naive
assertion that economic globalization somehow benefits both rich and
poor countries. He then goes on to prescribe a substantial reform of
the WTO and the GATT, which could actually lead to more equitable
distribution of wealth and more efficient production of economic
goods,
while safeguarding human rights, labour and the environment.
Unfortunately, the multi-national corporations and corporatists who
hold sway in the WTO would never tolerate Singer's prescription, since
it would entirely divert the benefits of economic globalization from
their pockets to those of the world's poor.
The third part of the book deals with international law, and Singer
lashes out at Bush for his unconscionable refusal to ratify the
International Court of Justice, and for the UN's continued hesitancy
to
accept a duty (not a right) to intervene in situations of genocide and
other humanitarian crises, even within a single nation. Singer is
sanguine about the limitations and dangers of 'global government', but
supports strengthening the UN to enable it to act as a 'protector of
last resort', and including in its mandate the responsibility to
supervise elections in all
member nations.
The fourth and final part goes back to ethical principles and proposes
that countries must, in this world where national boundaries no longer
have any logistic meaning, set aside national interest and embrace,
once and for all, global interest, impartially. That does not mean
cultural homogenization, but imposes a responsibility for the
reduction
of inequality, both of economic resources and personal rights and
freedoms.
Always the pragmatist, Singer concludes by worrying out loud about how
the responsibility for a global ethic could be managed:
It
is widely believed that a world government would be, at best, an
unchecked bureaucratic behemoth that would make the bureaucracy of the
EU look lean and efficient. At worst, it would become a global
tyranny,
unchecked and unchallengeable. These thoughts have to be taken
seriously. How to prevent global bodies becoming either dangerous
tyrannies or self-aggrandizing bureaucracies, and instead make them
effective and responsive to the people whose lives they affect? It is
a
challenge that should not be beyond the best minds in the fields of
political science and public administration.
I'd like to believe that this was possible, because if it isn't, we're
in serious trouble. We cannot expect national governments to set aside
parochial interests, especially when this entails accepting a
responsibility that would, for the richer nations, inevitably lead to
a
drastic redistribution of wealth to poorer nations and hence a sudden
and sharp reduction in, at least, economic living standards (if not
necessarily well-being). But as John Ralston Saul has so eloquently
argued, larger organizations and institutions, whether public or
private, are almost always, and inherently, less efficient, less
agile,
more resistant to change, more hierarchic, and less transparent than
smaller organizations. So the challenge is to achieve the best of both
worlds, having organizations of global scope and authority and
responsibility, but broken up into sufficiently small, autonomous and
dynamic units that they are sensitive, resilient, responsible and
responsive to the people and communities they serve. We can only hope
that "the best minds in the fields of political science and public
administration", wherever they are, are up to the task.
Style One
Style One06/25/2004 06:54 AM More self-improvement mumbo-jumbo. Whether this is accurate or not...
Well. I'll let you be the judges of that :-)
Style One has a chief characteristic of trying to make everything
better. When they are healthy, they are morally heroic, making
sacrifices for the greater good, balanced in their judgments,
uncompromising in their principles. They are concerned about what is
right in morals, sometimes in esthetics, and sometimes in other things
like literary or movie criticism or even manners. They are objective
in their judgments and utterly clear about what is right and wrong.
They are prophets and reformers.
If they become unhealthy, the vision narrows and their concerns
diminish. They begin to moralize, they can get picky about little
rules and they always go by the book regardless of consequence or
circumstance. They develop either/or thinking and pay little attention
to anyone's emotions.
Ones you may know: Judge Judy on TV, Laura Schlesinger (Dr. Laura on
talk radio), Hilary Clinton, Ross Perot, Ralph Nadar, St Paul, Martin
Luther, Harrison Ford, Tom Brokaw, Pope John Paul II, The Lone Ranger,
Martha Stewart and Miss Manners.
Sex and Style and Wow03/06/2004 01:55 AM Comparing members of the iPod family, Stephen Williams writes in
Newsday, “The difference in price is $50; the trade-off — sex and
style and wow, for more data storage in the more expensive large ’Pod
— is your choice to make. Of course, I’ll choose the Mini. For cachet,
it’s without peer, the Louis Vuitton of portable audio. Sonically,
it’s a match for anything else MP3-ish on the market.” [Mar 1]
Style XP v2.0 Beta 312/03/2003 01:49 AM Style XP is not a skinning engine. It uses Microsoft's built-in visual
style engine, but enhances it by providing many useful tools. Style XP
can import, select, rotate, and manage themes, visual styles,
wallpapers, and logons. Future versions may support sounds, cursors,
screensavers, and packages of all the above. Instead of lines and
gradients, the XP user interface natively supports the use of skinned
bitmap controls (a visual style). This is Microsoft's own innovation.
Style XP includes its own visual styles. [Shareware $19.95 8.12 MB]
Server Style
Server Style01/17/2004 10:45 PM Always dream of running your own server? Now is a great time with free
offers and free content management software!
All style and no substance03/14/2005 05:27 PM Bloggers block prevents me from writing anything sensible. Which means
I'm going to let my bloggers block do it's work, and refrain from
posting filler content. Read why.
Checkout the Napkin
L&F (look
and feel) for Java. Interesting although the best way to use
hand-drawn graphics
is in contrasting combination with smooth lines and anti-aliased
text. They
have to be rougher too.
Artistic Style
Artistic Style05/24/2004 03:16 AM Upcoming Astyle 1.17.0 under LGPL
Summatime Style!
Summatime Style!06/22/2005 02:45 AM Teen Girl Squad Issue 9 .. Summatime
Style!
Netflix Bluffs A Price Increase04/19/2004 04:13 AM Netflix, a DVD rent by mail firm, has raised their prices in the face
of fierce price competition. If you're a Netflix customer, you can
call their bluff and get an even lower price than what you're
currently paying.
North leads house price increase05/10/2004 07:08 PM House prices in the north of England and Wales rose at more than twice
the rate of the Southeast, the Land Registry say.
Hearing on Price Increase for AIDS Drug04/13/2004 10:21 PM Mounting controversy over Abbott Laboratories recent decision to
quintuple the price of its AIDS drug Norvir will be aired today in a
federal hearing.
DSL's stealthy price increase plays tricks on subscribers
DSL's stealthy price increase plays tricks on subscribers04/09/2004 04:13 PM DSL companies are adding new itemized fees to their service in order
to pay their share into the Federal Universal Service Fund, but the
fees being assessed aren't new.
Apple denies price increase for iTunes Music Store
Apple denies price increase for iTunes Music Store05/07/2004 01:36 PM Apple on Friday denied a report in the New York Post that it plans to
raise the prices of some tracks on its iTunes Music Store to US$1.25 a
song...
In The Broadband Battle Between Speed And Price, Customers Choose Price
In The Broadband Battle Between Speed And Price, Customers Choose Price12/09/2003 03:39 PM Back in October we noted that DSL and cable providers were trying to
differe
ntiate themselves from each other. The DSL providers were
focusing on being the low cost provider, while the cable guys wanted
to be the high speed providers. At the time, we pointed out that this
was likely to backfire on the cable companies. People like the speed
of broadband, but for most applications there's a "good enough" speed
- and many people want it more for the always on connection than the
speed itself. It's looking like we were right. The latest study
shows that, despite cable's commanding lead in the US, many
more people are signing up for DSL these days because of the lower
price. It's the basic "good enough" argument. What DSL offers is
good enough for what most people want to do with their connections
now. Also, the speed difference is minimal right now. You don't get
that much faster speeds with cable, and there's not much you can
currently do with that extra bandwidth. It used to be that people
would sign up so they could download songs, but the music industry is
cracking down on that enough that it's become less of a draw for many
subscribers as well.
Blockbuster cuts service price again Crude futures drop on oil supply increase GM to offer more earl
More On Steve Jobs06/17/2004 10:10 AM Students of Jobs interviews will note his comments on the iPod's
changing role for Apple (it's not seen as flag-bearer for the whole
Mac OS any mroe) and Jobs' repeated statement of admiration for Sony.
By Neil McIntosh, The Guardian (via MyAppleMenu)
Q&A: Steve Jobs
Q&A: Steve Jobs01/29/2004 12:46 AM In addition to the Business Week cover story, enjoy the Online Extra
Q&A session with Steve Jobs discussing Apple, Pixar and even his
all-time favorite musician. (available to paid subscribers only) [Jan
23]
Steve Jobs at Disney?12/05/2003 11:20 AM A New York Post article about the state of the Disney boardroom
speculates that Steve Jobs is being considered for a seat on Disney's
board. Citing Hollywood rumor, the article states that "As far as the
entertainment industry and Wall Street would be concerned, the most
welcome second-in-charge and nominal successor to Eisner could be none
other than Steven Paul Jobs - head of Apple Computer and Pixar, and
the guy who currently has Disney over one massive barrel." A...
Why Steve Jobs is still important
Why Steve Jobs is still important05/11/2004 01:24 PM After writing off Apple's co-founder way back when, Forrester CEO
George Colony is ready to eat his words.
Steve Jobs on Longhorn
Steve Jobs on Longhorn11/10/2003 11:39 PM I must admit the other day when I was at trade show here in Hawaii I
really took some time...
Steve Jobs: "It Feels Good"01/25/2004 06:25 PM Apple's chief talks about its rapid rise to the top of the digital
music biz, Pixar, and what tunes he's listening to today.
(BusinessWeek via MyAppleMenu)
Steve Jobs Keynote at MWSF?12/17/2003 11:58 AM
ThinkSecret reports that Steve Jobs will be giving the keynote speech
at MacWorld San Francisco 2004.
Astute readers may have noticed that no offic...
Steve Jobs, Apple and Innovation12/23/2003 04:36 PM
FastCompany has posted their most recent magazine article on "Steve
Jobs, Apple and the Limits of Innovation".
The in-depth article covers Apple's ...
BW writer apologizes to Steve Jobs
BW writer apologizes to Steve Jobs08/19/2004 02:22 AM In an unconventional "Byte of the Apple" column this week, Business
WeekÂ’s Alex Salkever writes an apology letter to Apple CEO Steve
Jobs...
Dress-up Steve Jobs at Joy of Tech
Dress-up Steve Jobs at Joy of Tech06/05/2005 10:59 PM Nitrozac and Snaggy kick off next week's WWDC early with a special
episode of the Joy of Tech comic -- a Steve Jobs dress-up...
Steve Jobs back at Apple
Steve Jobs back at Apple09/08/2004 04:14 PM After undergoing successful surgery in July for a rare form of
pancreatic cancer, Apple CEO Steve Jobs is now attending some company
meetings and plans to return to work full-time later this month...
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If
you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that I'm
opposed to unregulated 'free' trade, very worried about the
extraterritoriality of the WTO, NAFTA, Davos and other corporatist
captives, strongly opposed to domestic corporations 'offshoring' jobs,
using influence with the Bush regime and other right-wing governments
to circumvent social and environmental laws and responsibilities, and
a
great believer in taking the pledge to buy local, and in community
self-sufficiency.