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There are so many technology blogs that I don't know about.I found some interesting ones by exploring the BlogHer Technology Blogrolls.
Beachwalks with Rox is a daily walk along the beach with Roxanne Darling and her dog Lexi. She reflects on various topics as she walks. Sometimes the topic is technology, sometimes not. She often takes a spiritual approach to a problem or topic and might be considered as inspirational as she is technological. These beach walks are filmed by a secret camera person and can be subscribed to by RSS or on iTunes.
Here's a sample beach walk on the topic of multitasking.
Beach Walks with Rox #523 - Multitask to a New Brain
Diane's Space belongs to blogger Diane Curtis. She writes about technology and women in computing. She speaks and computing conferences, so you may have caught her presenting somewhere. Here are some resources she posted from her talk at MidWIC:
Hilary [Hillary Pike, from Microsoft, a frequent co-presenter with Diane. Ed.] and I really enjoyed presenting at the Midwest Women in Computing Conference today. We had a great audience and really enjoyed the insights and questions brought up in the discussion. We presented about taking initiative, finding a good mentor and building a network. As promised, I’m posting the resources we suggested here. :-)
General Resources for Women in Computing
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing http://www.gracehopper.org/
Systers mailing list http://www.systers.org/
The Ada Project http://women.cs.cmu.edu/ada/Word on the Street (is that these books rock!)
Be your own Mentor by Wellington, Spence
Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time
Women Don't Ask by Linda Babcock
Our Separate Ways by J. Edmondson Bell, Steela M. Nkomo
First Break All the Rules by Buckingham, Coffman
Diane was a live blogger at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. You can subscribe to her blog by category. This is a very nice blog feature that lets you pick and choose the new posts you want to be notified about.
After a Microsoft centric blogger, it's only fair to take a look at a Sun centric blogger: XMLgrrl Eve Maler, who blogs at Pushing String. She talks about XML, web standards, Open IDs, and other techy topics.
XMLgrrls is also a knitter. Her post SOA enabled Knitting gives you some insight into the way the mind of a true geek works even when doing some recreational string pushing:
In trying to learn more about modular knitting, I stumbled on this account by the Girl from Auntie of its origins, which explains that — gasp — a woman named Virginia Woods Bellamy patented the basic technique under the name number knitting (U.S. Patent No. 2,435,068). The GfA’s explanation of how this patent might have come to be granted applies just as much to the expansive software patent world (and is equally unsatisfying as an explanation). What’s really crazy is the long list of patents that cite this one. I couldn’t find any discussion of patent licensing terms that might have been offered by Bellamy while it was still in force, and can only hope she didn’t sic any lawyers on any knitters.
The GfA seems to be an accomplished knitter and writer, most of whose writings don’t seem to be online anymore — a shame. She apparently used to offer an essay on copyright for knitters, which along with her knitting patent thoughts would have made a great addition to Lauren’s commentary on the subject, but it doesn’t seem to be available now. I did poke around a bit and found this hilarious pattern of hers, which starts out with:
AGREEMENT RELATING TO A RAGLAN PULLOVER
This RAGLAN PULLOVER KNITTING PATTERN dated this 22nd day of December, 2006 (hereinafter referred to as the “Pattern”) being designed by the girl from auntie (the “Designer”) and entered into by you, an individual knitter (the “Knitter”).
RECITALS
WHEREAS Knitter is currently in possession of, or intends to acquire, approximately eight hundred (800) yards of bulky weight yarn;
…Now that’s a knitting contract.
The number of new blogs that get registered at BlogHer in the Technology area is very small compared with the other categories. If you are a technology blogger and haven't listed you blog in the BlogHer
