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"Fast Company" praises women in technologyLast year, the business magazine Fast Company compiled a list of the top women working on the web. It turned into, in their own words, "a firestorm." Commenters on the magazine's web site became "graphic, sexist, and nasty." The magazine took action and had to remove several users from the site, but it didn't stop them from doing another list this year. The article, "The Most Influential Women in Tech," is prefaced with the fact that women are at the top of the field: The fact is, women who have succeeded in technology deserve recognition; they are an inspiration for everyone, male or female, demonstrating what can be achieved through creativity and hard work.
The list is separated into Executives, Brainiacs, Entrepreneurs, Gamers, Bloggers, Activists and Evangelists. Included on the bloggers list is out lesbian Gina Trapani, who runs the tech site Lifehacker: She went from writing code to writing one of the highest-trafficked (25 million monthly visitors) technology blogs ever. The go-to online manual for geeks, Lifehacker is now a book, subtitled 88 Tech Tricks to Turbo-charge Your Day.
Also on the list are Jill Tarter, who was the inspiration for Jodie Foster's role in Contact, and Morgan Romine, the captain of the all-girl professional gaming team Frag Dolls.
Check out the entire list at FastCompany.com. Do you think they missed anyone? Submitted by on January 23, 2009 - 10:30am. |
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Sarah
Good news
This magazine arrives at my house every month and I've never even glanced inside. (My partner is a business consultant/coach and reads it faithfully.) After this post, I may just check it out. It's always good news when women are highlighted.
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LIFEHACKER!
as if i needed another reason to love it...
All right, then, I'll go to hell. ~mark twain
Fast Company makes me
Fast Company makes me happy. i'm a closeted business geek (theatre person in the light of....stagelights) and my stepmom used to have a subscription and i would read it cover to cover. it just struck me as very well-rounded and objective.
i actually kinda miss reading it, but i is too poor to get a subscription...
Awesome
Cool!
I also have a subscription to Fast Company (OK, so technically it's Lori's subscription) but often don't get around to reading it, just b/c there's not enough time in the day. But I'm definitely going to read this edition!
BTW does anyone else miss the now-defunct Business 2.0 magazine? It had such an excellently snarky take on the world of internet business. I miss that.
Business 2.0 was great
I totally loved the sporking they handed out to all kinds of half-baked notions. There's certainly a gap without that kind of perspective around. All this web 2.0, technology-driven rah-rah-ness drives me up the wall frequently.
(I love what the web has done for information dissemination and our lives, but it's really not the holy grail!)
This should have been called "women in technology *media*"
I was excited about this topic, thinking it would be about women making or enhancing the technology. No, other than the 6 "brainacs", it's mostly about gamers, bloggers and company directors. While I'm pleased that women are gaining prominence in any field, and that it's now being demonstrated we're not afraid of using technology, that article just highlighted to me how few women are the technology makers.
I work in IT, and we're lucky to represent 5-10% of the workers in this industry. Go to a hackers' conference or TechEd, and you'll be lucky to spot 10 other women, that is, ones who aren't staffing the vendor stands. It's depressing as hell.
And I'm afraid this article depressed me as well. :-(