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Examing Conversations in the Blogosphere - Addendum
The paper that I gave at the recent AoIR talked about how the comments that women and men leave in blogs is gendered.

Here's an interesting case study of how comment-conversations can escalate into an ugly virtual text war. 37Signals suggests that software is designed for men, and readers comment.....

"...More men design software. More men use software. Why on earth would one purposefully create software for women, the minority of users? Would you design a parking lot for Ugos? Obviously there are (few) exceptions, but by far the majority of computer users are men."

Let the rant begin...

posted by Netwoman @ 4:43 PM