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that technology (as an industry) is overwhelmingly white and male?  i'm not sure from your title.

have you seen the minor meme on Black tech bloggers?  it's an interesting convo over on BoingBoing and BBG...but basically a tempest in a teapot.  i just mentioned it because when i thought about it, you talk about tech in here on a pretty regular basis but i often describe your site as a political/cultural filter site.

 just thinking out loud... 

that technology (as an industry) is overwhelmingly white and male?  i'm not sure from your title.

Well, I'm actually saying the stress this woman felt is felt by women outside of technical marketing too.

you talk about tech in here on a pretty regular basis but i often describe your site as a political/cultural filter site.

I think you're right. I don't really talk programming here, it's more the tech that I think will have a social impact. Or it's something I want the way you can only want something truly unnecessary.

I didn't notice the Black tech blogger discussion on BoingBoing. Maybe I'll look for it...did they name anyone but Dare Obasanjo?

here's the permalink: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/03/14/where-are-the-black.html

in brief, Joel Johnson posted a list of the panelists (this occurred at SXSW) - apparently, CNulan was sposed to be a panelist but couldn't make it - and Lynne d Johnson's longer list.  Lynne's list included Dare Obasanjo, Tiffany Brown, and about a dozen or so others.  

I wasn't actually thinking of programming (or hardware) when i thought of you as a tech blogger.  When you do talk about technology and society, you highlight the political implications of surveillance tech, mortgage instruments, and other technological artifacts that affect our lives in strange ways.  This is an important aspect of tech criticism - the implications of technology as belief system and social reality - and it's the same type of criticism that Lewis Mumford, Langdon Winner, Jacques Ellul, and others have done.  

That was my issue with Black tech bloggers - they focus on the material affordances of technology, which is important but it's not all that we need to know.  Blacks have been caught up on the wrong side of tech for a long time - even when we manage to make it work for us -  and we need to be reflective on that relationship and how it affects us culturally, economically, and even spiritually.   

Thanks for the link. This shit is hilarious.

I too expected Black Tech to be a reference to something cool like #2 thought, vs another clueless race thingy.

Although honestly I'd like to see more Indian tech blogs...feather not dot.