By Colleen, on February 23rd, 2009%
My daughter claimed that the original “Be Helpful” toon unfairly targeted men as the perpetrators of unconscious assumptions about who would have geek mojo worth paying attention to and and who would obviously not, based on gender. Nope, not really. The perp in the first toon happened to be a guy, but just as often it’s a woman. You’d think that female professionals might be more sensitive to other professional women, but nope. See how the girl geek gets treated like an inconsequential piece of fluff. Anyway, recasting the perp as a female allowed me to have a little fun with the ending. Maybe if the geek girl dressed a bit more pompously she would get some respect. We’ll have to do that test some time.
Continue reading Be Helpful Toonlet Take 2: Gender Bender
By Colleen, on July 14th, 2008%
If your blog is 100% nutritious lean tech protein, it seems as dry and flavorless as a digital camera manual. Besides, any cook knows that the flavor is in the fat. Not useful but people like it better. That’s the lesson I have been learning lately but I hadn’t taken any action yet. Even so, for some unknown reason Hot Dorkage seems to lighting up the boards with social action this week. First I get reviewed, then I get tagged. This social stuff is all new to me as a participant. Like most geeks I just used Google to search for technical info. When I hit paydirt I said thank you and I stumbled it or dugg it if I really found it useful. But never social memes until today.
Continue reading Free link juice in a blogalicious flavor
By Colleen, on July 11th, 2008%
Woot! Social action!!! Hot Dorkage got reviewed on pisiosplugs. and on Today’s Blog Reviews I won’t quote the reviews, that’s what links are for. I will say that I think Pisio is spot-on with his review, and so is Shen. I’m very happy to be reviewed. If truth be told I’d . . . → Read More: Hot Dorkage gets reviewed
By Colleen, on April 17th, 2008%
I nabbed this graphic off a-stat-a-day
Did you know we have a ning site of our very own? So if you visited it before these stats were compiled, your visits were included in these stats. And if not, it’s not too late to . . . → Read More: Ning makes top 20!
