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Calls to Boycott Amazon over Wikileaks: #amazonfail 2.0?

Dec 2, 2010

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in political, social sciences, Tales from the Net

Heading into the busiest shopping time of the year, Amazon is suddenly facing threats of a boycott over censoring Wikileaks.Â Â Seems like a good time to dust off the #amazonfail hashtag. It started last week, after a hacker took one of Wikileaks’ sites down with a relatively weak attack.Â Wikileaks moved their online base to…

A #diversitywin as an opportunity: Women talking with women (and a few guys too) at the #wwt TeleSummit (UPDATED)

Sep 15, 2010

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jon

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Slides from the TeleSummit are available on Slideshare The speaker list for today’s sold-out Women Who Tech TeleSummit is amazing, amazing, amazing …Â @jillfoster, @digitalsista, @blogdiva, @missrogue, @randomdeanna, @conniereece along with TeleSummit organizer Allyson Kapin of Rad Campaigns (aka @WomenWhoTech), and that’s just the first hour! There are some guys speaking as well at this…

Emoware: What does “emotional software” feel like?

Sep 11, 2010

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jon

in Tales from the Net, Uncategorized

I was intrigued. So I checked it out, and talked with Cindy, experience design goddess Oonie Chase and superhero Giovanna Mingarelli. Now I’m even more intrigued — and very impressed.

My new bio-in-progress, 2.0

Mar 26, 2008

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jon

in Personal, Professional, social computing

It’s amusingly difficult for me to write professional biographies, especially for print publications. Not only do I have a hard time reducing my career to the paragraph you’re usually allowed, at some level it feels like it forces me to reify my identity. Nonetheless, it has to be done; right now, I’m on the hook…

Announcing …

Jan 1, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social computing

Tales from the Net. Stay tuned!

What’s up with me

Dec 29, 2007

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jon

in Personal, Professional, social sciences, Tales from the Net

The two months since I left Microsoft have been low-key recharge-and-relax time: catching up on sleep, visiting my mom, reconnecting with friends, doing some writing (blogging, poetry, the fictional The anomaly and the goddesses), and hanging out with Deborah. It’s been great. My friends consistently tell me how relaxed I look and sound (my Facebook…

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