There are quite a few interesting media articles floating about - here are a few of interest:
Inside the Video Game Industry HERE
"Seven years ago," he says, "videogames were played mostly by teenage boys, usually in the basement or the bedroom. No longer. Today, videogames are mainstream entertainment: they're played by people of all ages; they're played by people of all tastes; and they've become as important a part of our culture as television and movies. . . . They're in the center of the home, they're on the Internet, they're in movies, they're in schools, they're on cell phones; they're on PDAs and airplanes; and they're even in medical research labs. In short, videogames are everywhere."Untangled by the Web HERE
"Web sites, search engines and e-mail have changed the way veterans stay in touch and have helped them to locate long-lost friends. Today's technology offers tools and resources previous generations did not have, which can help make Veterans Day, observed today, an even more poignant occasion."Girls get their hands on technology HERE
"Girls Inc. of the Greater Capital Region participated in the four-hour interactive session, with women scientists and engineers from the General Electric Women's Network."Minority women who make a difference in the workplace HERE
"Minority women in male-saturated professions like technology report frequent instances of subtle discrimination. "Microinequities" is what Allwood calls the small slights and blithe biases that alienate women like her: the inside jokes, the averted eyes, the overlooked suggestions. "They're the very small things that can make a person feel included or excluded in the work environment"CEO Mom balances tech trends and family HERE
"I think women are already starting to set technology trends. (There is a) different level of confidence in the generation after me. Those women, those girls are going to do anything they want to do. If that means they're going to lead technology companies, then they're going to lead technology companies.
Women are also setting technology trends, and that is going to result in them leading the charge moving forward. The example I was talking about is with backup software. Women are historians of the family. Right now these women are driving technology decisions (with their) digital lifestyle.
They no longer just have their budgets on their computer. Now women have baby's first steps on their computer, they have kindergarten graduation (digital photographs) on their computer. They don't have it documented anywhere else besides their computer. If you lose your budget, it's one thing. It's a hassle to re-enter it, but if you lose your baby's first steps, they're gone and you're going to be devastated. So I think women are going to demand to have really excellent backup capabilities, that's easy to use."
posted by Netwoman @ 5:09 PM
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