Anne Zelenka

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  1. Getting to Know Your Inner Luddite

    3/20/06 3:05pm by Anne Zelenka
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    Julie Meloni of No Fancy Name is one of my favorite authors, and not only because I scored a copy of her intuitive Blogging in a Snap book in a BlogHer contest. She's also a techie-type person who's willing to admit to a less-than-full commitment to the electronic lifestyle: Despite my laptop being on and connected to the Internet nearly 24/7, I really own no other gadgetry (save for a fairly normal cellphone and an iPod Nano). My sticky notes are really and truly sticky notes, stuck on my laptop and scribbled on by hand.  Read more >

  2. Are You Paying Attention?

    3/14/06 2:39pm by Anne Zelenka
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    monkeynotions reports a funny IM conversation she had with a friend about eTech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference held last week in San Diego: me: i spoke to a friend who just came back from eTech me: he said almost everyone in the room had their laptop open me: and no one was paying attention me: he said there were even two guys who spent all their time on their laptop in the lobby me: heh my friend: wasn't this year's theme in eTech Attention Trust? me: yah me: hahah me: which makes it even more ironic  Read more >

  3. Women Playing Games

    3/6/06 3:40pm by Anne Zelenka
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    Camilla of Popgadget responds to Wired magazine's simplistic classification of women gamers: Wired published an article about women and games, reporting how once again women who like playing games tend to be placed into two distinct categories, the casual gamers and the "rough" gamers. I still have quite a hard time trying to understand why someone even bothers to analyze the women's gamer market so scrupulously if the end result is so utterly lame.  Read more >

  4. Tech & Web Acronym of the Week: OPML

    2/27/06 3:29pm by Anne Zelenka
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    I'm sure you know what HTML is. But what about OPML? BlogHer Hobbies editor Debra Roby says it makes her think of Oompa Loompas. It reminds me of my two-year-old's request for "opa-meal" at breakfast time. OPML stands for Outline Processor Markup Language, a human-readable text format for managing hierarchical, ordered lists. It's most commonly used to manage lists of RSS feed subscriptions, but it could easily be used for other applications, like to do list management or saving a playlist of music. If you export subscriptions from the Web-based news reader Bloglines, you'll get an OPML file. OPML is big these days because people who read lots of blogs are looking for better ways to manage the information overload that often results from subscribing to too many feeds. OPML is a foundational technology for addressing that.  Read more >

  5. Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Readers

    2/20/06 1:20pm by Anne Zelenka
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    If you're not already reading writer and programmer Kathy Sierra's blog Creating Passionate Users, you might want to check it out even if you normally avoid techie talk. Kathy has done time as a game developer and a Java programmer; now she focuses on writing books for the bestselling Head First technology series she co-created. Kathy is especially interested in how the brain works and how to help it learn better. Reading her essays, you can't help but get excited about learning.  Read more >

  6. Inspired by Lindsey Kildow To Work Harder for Women in Tech

    2/17/06 3:26pm by Anne Zelenka
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    Watching Lindsey Kildow's courageous Olympic performance after her horrific crashduring a downhill training run this week, I felt inspired. She skied through her pain even though her doctor thought she wouldn't be able to race. When some physical or emotional annoyance gets in between me and my goals as I blog in the male-dominated technology arena, I remind myself of Lindsey, who skied despite the pain.  Read more >

  7. Our Online Selves

    2/14/06 12:12pm by Anne Zelenka
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    Digital identity is one of the hottest and most complex topics in web tech these days. How do we ensure people are who they purport to be? How do we balance the need for privacy against the benefits that can be gained from authenticating identity? How do we ensure that human rights are protected in a world where online activities are increasingly accessible to online scrutiny?  Read more >

  8. iPods and iTunes Everywhere

    2/5/06 6:21pm by Anne Zelenka
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    Join me on a Sunday stroll 'round the BlogHer technology blogroll to see who's been talking about iPods and iTunes recently, ending with BlogHer Elisa Camahort's practical analysis of Apple's approach to digital rights management and my favorite music single to blog by.  Read more >

  9. Two Women Added to RSS Advisory Board

    2/1/06 11:05am by Anne Zelenka
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    On Monday, the RSS Advisory Board announced its eight new members, two of which were women. Previously, all the members were men. Meg Hourihan, cofounder of Pyra Labs, the company that created Blogger, and Jenny Levine, The Shifted Librarian, join other new members Loac Le Meur, Eric Lunt, Ross Mayfield, Randy Charles Morin, Greg Reinacker and Dave Sifry. Rogers Cadenhead, a previous board member, will serve as chairman.  Read more >

  10. Blogroll syndication feed doesn't give direct link to blogs anymore

    1/31/06 10:32am by Anne Zelenka in BlogHer Beginners Comments (4)
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    For a few days, the blogroll syndication feed I was subscribed to gave me links directly to the blogs of interest. Now it's gone back to how it originally worked, just listing the BlogHer description of the blog.  Read more >

Anne Zelenka

Full Name
Anne Zelenka
Member Since
January 2006
About Me: 
I'm a web technologist and mother of three living in Maui. I blog at Anne 2.0 about technology and The Barely Attentive Mother about parenting. I'm also a BlogHer contributing editor for Technology & Web.
 

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