Laura Scott

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  1. Is Choice Enough? AmericansElect.org and the Accountability Question

    8/26/11 11:09am by Laura Scott
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    I voted button

    Americans Elect is an interesting new political venture. Americans Elect is the first-ever open nominating process. We're using the Internet to give every single voter—Democrat, Republican or independent—the power to nominate a presidential ticket in 2012. The people will choose the issues. The people will choose the candidates. And in a secure, online convention next June, the people will make history by putting their choice on the ballot in every state.  Read more >

  2. Our Virtual Team Toolbox

    7/21/11 11:22am by Laura Scott
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    Blue Angels

    Everyone does virtual differently. Having worked in bricks-and-mortar previously, setting up a virtual work system as been something of a mix of experimentation with solutions recommended by others. Here are some of the ways we manage as a virtual company.  Read more >

  3. Who Should Decide What is Sold in iTunes?

    12/3/10 5:06pm by Laura Scott
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    Apps

    But just as Amazon did not have to keep Wikileaks on its servers, Apple does not have to host and sell any apps it chooses not to. I'm free not to use any apps in iTunes I don't like. And if Manhattan Declaration ever gets reinstated in the store, I'm free not to use it, either. However I feel about any of these apps, it really is Apple's decision, in my view.  Read more >

  4. Trust For Sale! Media, Money and the Fragility of Brand

    10/8/10 9:00am by Laura Scott
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    Forbes

    Forbes is about money. Markets, investment, moguls, industries. As a serious publication, it's also about trust. There are publications whose editorial leanings you may agree with or disagree with, but in general you can at least trust that their editorial leanings are their own. At least that's what we're led to believe.  Read more >

  5. Malcolm Gladwell, Bill Maher: We Don't Care What Bloggers Have to Say

    10/4/10 5:30pm by Laura Scott
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    Bill Maher

    For years now, we've seen people entrenched in, married to, paid by or validated by old media attack new media, "those bloggers," Twitter, Facebook … the Internet in general. It's been fading lately as publishers especially have started to embrace and integrate new media into their publishing strategies. But there are still holdouts, many of whom seem not just ignorant but willfully ignorant.  Read more >

  6. Is Google Taking Us Back to High School?

    4/5/10 8:20am by Laura Scott
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    Google

    I remember high school. The socialites — the "soshes" or soc's or however you would spell the nickname (I never learned) — were the in crowd. The cheerleaders, the football players, the glamorous crowd who looked down on the rest of us. Something like Heathers, only moreso and without the violence. When it came to who mattered in school, they were the arbiters.  Read more >

  7. The Women of Drupal: an Ada Lovelace Day Appreciation

    3/24/10 2:05pm by Laura Scott
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    Drupalchix

    On this Ada Lovelace Day, I wracked my brain for someone to write about, and came up blank — not because I couldn't think of anyone, but because I can't pick out the one woman in technology or science who's exceptional in some way, because there are so many. So I'm writing about a group of women who who mostly don't know each other but are united by a project that's dear to them, and to me: Drupal. Meet the Drupalchix  Read more >

  8. The iPad Competes Against ... Nothing. And I Think It Will Do Well.

    2/19/10 10:00am by Laura Scott
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    Once I got over the ridiculous name —- and thank you, HuffPo, for sharing the Mad TV sketch that long predates the iPad announcement —- I started to see how the new Apple iPad fits in the current market. It doesn't. That's right, it doesn't. And I predict it's going to be a pretty big success, too.  Read more >

  9. From iPhone to Droid, Part 1: Top Free Droid Apps to Ease the Transition

    1/19/10 11:00am by Laura Scott
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    I did it. After months of bitching out loud to my friends and colleagues, tweeting about it and blogging it, I dropped AT&T (and thus the iPhone) and got back on Verizon with the Motorola Droid. I thought it would be a rough transition, but it turned out to be not so bad. In fact, the Droid is a pretty slick device. But, like any "smart" tech these days, it's not truly yours until you've customized it, put your mark on it. And on the Droid, like the iPhone, that starts with the apps.  Read more >

  10. Say Hello to the Open Source Decade

    12/27/09 6:05pm by Laura Scott
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    Open Source has been around for quite some time, but odds are most people you ask won't know what "open source" is. This isn't because open source is obscure, but rather it has slipped into the mainstream, and unless you're already in the know, there's no real reason you will have noticed it. But open source is here, and it's growing. Linux maximus  Read more >

Laura Scott

Full Name
Laura Scott
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December 2005
About Me: 

I'm a designer with a geeky tech compusion. I'm Creative Director and Co-Founder of PINGV Creative, which specializes in creative strategy and interaction design for Drupal websites. I blog there, as well as on rare pattern. My photoblog, scattered sunshine, has long been neglected. I Twitter as lauras. I have been a Tech Blogger at BlogHer since 2006, in at at-large kind of status of late. Once upon a time I built the first BlogHer community site for Lisa, Elisa and Jory.

 

I am a Blogher Contributing Editor.

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