WordPress Background I was in Phoenix this past weekend for a beta version of a WordPress conference for bloggers called Press Publish. This is major news. At least 1 in 5 websites in the world, and it is approaching 1 in 4, run on WordPress. Wordpress has had gatherings called WordCamps beginning in 2006. I did […]
Press Publish – 21st C. Paper and Pen
Women’s voices need to be heard. Those of us over the first blush of youth, and the second, and maybe even the third… sigh… are the first generation of women who are writing, podcasting, vlogging our history, the first inclusive history ever written about women. About women, for women, by women. I know it has […]
Labyrinths, Lace, and Limitations
Limits First, let us set the record straight. Constraints can be a very good thing. Many people I have talked to think the terms limitation and constraint are the same thing. They are not. There are both limiting and enabling constraints. And sometimes those limits enable. I suspect that anyone who has parented a toddler […]
Incidental Information
There is an old saying that the Devil is in the details, but a better perspective might be that Goddess is in the details. Mistakes become apparent in details, but so do connections, facts, and patterns. Nuance of color, texture, and reflection of light are details that distinguish simple utilitarian fabric from luxurious brocades. The […]
Her History
I have a thing about old letters, images, tawny browns, and filtered light. They remind me of times gone by and the first stirrings of a history written for women, about women, by women. Women’s domains no matter how they are parsed were, and largely still are, focused on the home, and relationships among family and […]
Googling Gaia
Women and Communication Women have been the indexers and organizers of human life for, literally, ages. Google is attempting to mimic the natural process of organizing and accessing information about what we do, what we want, based on a more natural model that takes social relationships and context into account. Real attempts at tapping the […]