By John Gruber
WorkOS launches auth.md — an open protocol for agent registration.
Linked List: February 24, 2007
Saturday, 24 February 2007
- Smart Like Streetcar on My Steven Levy Criticism ★
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Smart Like Streetcar:
Instead of castrating Steven Levy, Mac pundits should be celebrating him.
Mac blogs should have analyzed the questions (blockquote below) he asked Gates before accusing him of mollycoddling. How can they say he was ineffective? He’s constantly pressing Gates, pumping him for info, pissing him off, but never making Microsoft’s founder so angry that he shuts him down. It’s the razor’s edge, a thing of beauty.
No argument from me that it was a great interview overall; Gates gave dozens of interviews during the Vista launch, and Levy’s was by far the most engaging. That doesn’t mean he shouldn’t have asked Gates for a source for his security claim.
- Zeldman on Web Conference Gender Diversity ★
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Zeldman, in a comment on Eric Meyer’s weblog:
I don’t share Eric’s view; I’m not neutral. I work with brilliant women at Happy Cog. Our Event Apart planning and production team is all female. I make an effort to recruit great female speakers.
For reasons I don’t pretend to understand, you find more women in visible leadership roles in editorial work, information architecture, usability, accessibility, and entrepreneurship. You find fewer women in leadership roles in the CSS/design niche that’s the core of our show.
- Eric Meyer: ‘Diverse It Gets’ ★
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Eric Meyer — co-organizer of An Event Apart — has written a very thoughtful post regarding web conference diversity:
Look at the authors of the best-selling books in the field. Look at the folks behind the most widely followed web sites. Look at the names that come up whenever someone asks who are the most respected and influential people in web design and development. How many are female?
A few. Not many. (And most of them spoke in Vancouver.) So is the gender imbalance in the eye of the organizers, or is it in the very fabric of the industry?