Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

Belated Ada Lovelace Day

March 25th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
 
So I'm going with being fashionably late on this one (yes, fashionable, not dreadfully disorganised and forgetful at all!) yesterday was Ada Lovelace Day; an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. The Finding Ada site explains better than I could: Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech consultants. The list of tech-related careers is endless. Recent research by psychologist Penelope Lockwood discovered that women need to see female...
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RIP Olive Riley – World’s Oldest Blogger

July 16th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
 
I was sad to discover today that Olive Riley, the woman thought to be the World's Oldest Blogger, died last week, aged 108. Olive's blog 'The Life of Riley' chronicled her life growing up in the Outback, raising kids, and working as a bartender and farm cook in New South Wales, Australia. Her friends Mike Rubbo and Eric Shackle, who helped her maintain the blog, have written touching tributes on both her site and the temporary World's Oldest Blogger blog and its a testament to her popularity that her main blog is currently experiencing technical difficulties after having been overwhelmed by...
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