Fast Company Chimes In

Early last week, I saw this page on the Fast Company website announcing their search for the 100 Most Influential Women in Tech, a feature they have run since 2009. Over the course of the week, they changed the text to include the image above of Chloe Sladden of Twitter, who will be featured on […]

A Few Observations from the “Break Up”

1. It is incredibly interesting how many people cared enough to comment on my personal reading and recommendation habits. Obviously, this speaks to the bigger issue of gender representation in media, but I merely said I was “breaking up” with Wired and why. I didn’t ask Wired to change (although I appreciate that they chose […]

25 (ok, actually 26) SXSWi Panel Recommendations

The SXSW Panel Picker is a brilliant idea. Not only does it provide a partially democratic process for panel selection, but it is an opportunity to get the community excited about potential programming, months in advance of the event. I spent a few hours this morning, shifting through the > 2300 proposals (and that’s just […]

Migration from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

I’ve had a tech blog at cindytech.wordpress.com for a little more than 2 years. A few months ago, I decided to get a souped-up domain with Bluehost at cindyroyal.net to practice some things like Ruby on Rails. It also gave me the opportunity to play around with a self-hosted WordPress installation, so that is how […]