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The Ada Initiative: census and Q&A

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I am in the process of co-founding a non-profit called the Ada Initiative, which is seeking funding to undertake advocacy for women. The Ada Initiative is focused on women in open technology and culture generally, which includes online activists, members of fandom, remixers, open source hackers and many others If you are interested, take our census or ask questions here.

Were you online in ’95-ish?

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Sadly, the unsung programmer who created Trumpet Winsock, Tasmanian Peter Tattam, didn’t get paid for most of those copies; millions of free give-aways that saw hardly a brass razoo come back to him.

Seminaring

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I am spending most of this week in a room like this, so the last thing I want to do when I get home is spend *more* time on the ‘puter. Which makes posting tricksie.

So, in no particular order:

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How I minimise the online abuse I receive

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So here is an assortment of technical tips & tricks whereby bloggers can cut down the volume and the repetition coming from this cyberbullying cadre of keyboard jockeys, making the harassment little more than a tiny hiss of background noise instead of an overwhelming flood of spite.