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a blog by daniela barbosa an information consultant fascinated by trends in information delivery and helping customers achieve successful information delivery strategies for enterprise users

Where All the She Geeks Will Gather Together on January 30-31: She's Geeky (un)conferenceYesterday

Last year i was not able to attend the first She's Geeky conference event but remember reading and hearing about how great the sessions and the event was so when Kaliya Hamlin reached out to me this year and asked me if i would be interested in helping with organize the event i jumped at the chance.

A couple months ago a couple of us who wanted to help organize the event got together to start working on logistics (Kaliya and Laurie Ray are doing all the heavy lifting) and as we were introducing ourselves i explained my interest in the She's Geeky event as follows:

When i first moved to the bay area i wanted to be involved in the tech scene - but was certainly intimidated not only is it very male dominated they are also programmers and hard core geeks - something that i got over by just diving in using the will power and skills i have learned in being in male dominated corporate environments over the last 15 years. But while i think i have managed to make the best of the fact that i am not a programmer and not male by establishing myself in various communities it might not be as easy for othe

Demand That the Services You Use On the Web Give You Data Portability in a Secure WayJanuary 5

Lots of chatter today about Twitter's Monday Morning Madness via Techmeme because over the last 78 hours multiple Twitter users were compromised multiple times, first with a Phishing scam and then an actual compromise of some high profile accounts (including Obama's twitter account).

Elias Bizannes a fellow colleague in the DataPortability Project has written a very well thought out and detailed post over on the official DataPortability Blog titled "Time To Criminalize The Password Anti-pattern" that i recommend you read to understand the issue and the recommended solutions that Twitter among many other sites you are probably using should follow.

Once you give a site your password to make your data portable from one site to another, that site now has your password forever and it's valid until you change it- even if the site claims they don't keep the password once they pull the data that you have 'authorized'- somewhere in some log file the password associated with our username is recorded and if someone wanted to get to it that p

Historical Note: 40th Anniversary of "Mother of all demos"January 4

Going through my thousands of unread items in my Google Reader lead me to this gem via a post in early December on CNET's Matter/Anti-Matter Blog titled the 40th Anniversary of "Mother of all demos" which points to Doug Engelbart's presentation to the Fall Joint Computer Conference in San Francisco on December 9, 1968 that i had not seen before. Called the 'Mother of all Demos' because in the 100 minute presentation Engelbart and his team show, in working form, for the very first time all of the following technologies:

* This was the public debut of the computer mouse
* Graphical user interface with point and click and menus
* Intermingling of text and graphics within a document, styling of text in a document
* Hypertext and linking between documents
* Remote collaboration plus videoconferencing

Hosted by the Science and Technology in the Making (STIM), project supported by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation you can see the original video on this site in two versions, one that has been edited into 35

Who gives a F? Florida, Facebook and 'Friends'January 3

This holiday season we headed down to Florida to spend some time with the families both on the west and east coast of Florida. So we managed a couple of days on each coast which is usually just enough for me (i admit i am not a big fan of Florida often citing this great Bugs Bunny clip to compliment my feelings).

Happy Holidays! How About Some Chocolate Pistachio Cookies ?December 22 2008

A small gift from me to you- Still looking for a last minute present for your family, friends or holiday guests? These Chocolate Pistachio Cookies are a favorite of mine to make and give as gifts in unique boxes. I found the recipe originally in the 2006 Martha Stewart Holiday cookie magazine and make them often when a delicious 'rich' dessert is needed to close out a good meal.

Just like a good truffle- 3 to 5 per box does the trick. Fairly easy to make these are very rich and certainly my favorite!

Happy Holidays~~~