Hi, my name is Kimberly Blessing. I'm a computer scientist, Web developer, standards evangelist, feminist, and geek. This is where I write about life, the Web, technology, women's issues, and whatever else comes to mind.
Last week’s links
- Ongoing Echoes from the Women of the Long House A brief history of the influence of the Haudensosaunee (Iroquois) women on early American feminists.
- The XX Factor : For Women, Good Jobs Depend on Good Contraception … and Yet … “Let’s be real: Most women couldn’t be 21st-century workers without contraception.”
- Acing a job interview with deliberate practice The Influencer Blog uses Ben Franklin’s self-improvement process as inspiration for preparing someone for a job interview. The technique, which I’ve used, works.
- Jo Ellen Parker ’75 to lead Sweet Briar College Fellow Bryn Mawr grad (and dean when I was a student) will take over in July.
- The Angry Grammarian: Verbed nouns, and the people who hate them. On "unfriending" and more.
- Stephen Ibaraki interviews Dame Wendy Hall A broad spectrum of questions are asked and answered in this audio interview.
- Lone male student rooms at Bryn Mawr In my day, there were around 10 men rooming on campus each year. Now there's just one, the first in 10 years? Seems odd.
