"blog-network" Articles & Blogs:
The Social Network: Actually Sexist, or an Unwelcome Reflection of Our Times?
| In terms of digital cocktail conversation about success, gender, and the way we live now, The Social Network is the gift that just keeps on giving. Aaron Sorkin finally felt compelled to emerge from the lonely screenwriter’s citadel (his office) and res...[Read on] |
An Annotated Guide to Every Harvard Crimson Article Mentioned in The Social Network
| Photo by Elaine Chan and Priscilla Chan.The Social Network, Aaron Sorkin’s romp through the infancy of Facebook, did quite well at the box office this weekend, taking in $23 million and handily beating its prime competition, a film about owls whose titl...[Read on] |
Upcoming Event: Brooklyn Blogfest
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For anyone in the NYC area mark down May 7th in your calendar for the annual Brooklyn Blogfest. The theme is:
Insight. Advice. Inspiration. Resources.
The main program is: WHY WE BLOG is a panel discussion moderated by BCAT’s Megan Donis and featuri...[Read on] |
What Happened to Oxygen?
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Or I guess the better question is why did Oxygen never happen?
When Oxygen was born in 1998 I was psyched. The founders were stellar: Geraldine Laybourne, Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, Caryn Mandabach as well as Oprah. What could be better?
Well I have t...[Read on] |
Choosing Sides in the Fox-Cablevision Controversy
| The standoff between media conglomerate News Corporation and cable provider Cablevision continues: For the third day in a row, millions of would-be television watchers in New York City and its suburbs were without access to the Fox network, which is owned...[Read on] |
Saving Grace to end its run next summer
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Saving Grace is ending its run after after only three seasons. Honestly, I am surprised. From what I read, TNT still wanted the show but its production company FOX TV studios declined the pickup based on money.
Strange. Canceling a show with an Emm...[Read on] |
Have cable’s women screwed the networks?
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Here’s a thought. Do you think that the networks are going to be able to keep up with cable in regards to women led shows? Think about it. The women who lead the cable shows like Damages, In Plain Sight, The Closer, Weeds, Nurse Jackie and Saving ...[Read on] |
Sarah Palin’s Alaska Is Avowedly Apolitical
| Last night, in New York City’s Time Warner Center, TLC feted the forthcoming premiere of Sarah Palin’s Alaska. Based on a preview of the show’s social media campaign, it was evident that the network-approved narrative surrounding the series has alre...[Read on] |
Happy National Girls and Women in Sports Day!
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Today, I’m celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day by actually playing. I’ve got a rec game scheduled for tonight at 7pm, and play with a community of women who live in NYC and have played competitive basketball at some point in their lives...[Read on] |
Female Athletes: Here comes everybody
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Clay Shirkey's book: Here Comes Everybody. Photo credit: Aworkinglibrary.com
This blog post is part of my ongoing weekly series discussing the role of social media and female athletics. My latest reading is Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirkey. This...[Read on] |
Best of ‘09: Forming a community, WomenTalkSports.com
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This post is the start of a series this week in the WomenTalkSports.com network titled “Best of ‘09.” Throughout this week, our community will be posting about their favorite moments in women’s sports in 2009.
There’s no doubt, 2009 was an exci...[Read on] |
Tipsy Tuesday: Best Drink I Ever Had
| The Food Network is a glorious channel. Mostly consisting of hours of reruns and a not very searchable website (I has pet peeves), they do churn out some gems. I mean, it’s a long list! The newest one is Best I Ever Drank — although it’s just an epi...[Read on] |
Girls and the Social Network
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Remember that moment in your Facebook life when Dad joined up? (I know you’re on there, Frank Magee, but I’m not ready to talk about it.) What about your 14-year-old cousin (when did she start wearing eye...[Read on] |
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is Rooney Mara
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Here she is folks, here she is world, here’s Lisbeth (borrowing from Sondheim’s Rose’s Turn)
Don’t know anything about her except that she’s the sister of Kate Mara (who’s an actress too), grew up in a family that owned the Pittsburgh Ste...[Read on] |
WomenTalkSports.com welcomes you to the “Twitter Lounge”
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Women Talk Sports Twitter Lounge
As many of you know, I am one of the co-founders of WomenTalkSports.com, so I am a bit biased when I write this post. However, our site has grown tremendously, and our new Twitter Lounge resource is so good that I felt ...[Read on] |
Don’t Forget- Tomorrow is SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day
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Tomorrow, March 27, is third SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) day across the country and the world. It’s really easy to participate in your community.
Here’s why the day was created:
SWAN Day/Support Women Artists Now Day is a new international h...[Read on] |
Will women’s boxing be included in the 2012 Olympic Games?
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Read an interesting article on BBC this morning about a new possibility to include women’s boxing in the 2012 London Olympic Games.
The story broke in Europe today after hearing International Olympic Committee president Jacque Rogge publicly back its i...[Read on] |
Our Bodies Our Health Heroes
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You may have already seen information about the Our Bodies Our Health Heroes Contest, but I thought that it was great enough to post again for those who haven’t seen it yet, or for those who have a hero but need that extra reminder to submit (god kn...[Read on] |
GOP Women Take a Page from Palin's Facebook
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TAMPA, Fla. (WOMENSENEWS)--Since resigning as governor of Alaska in July, Sarah Palin has avoided the legacy (newspapers and network news) media. But she's managed to remain front-page news through Facebook, the social networking site she used to associat...[Read on] |
Senate Confirms Sotomayor
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Awesome.
Sotomayor would not have been my first pick for a Supreme Court justice for a lot of reasons — chief among them her disturbing deference to law enforcement and her lack of regard for privacy rights. But she is undoubtedly a highly-quali...[Read on] |
Happy Ada Lovelace Day
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Today is Ada Lovelace Day - an international celebration of women in technology.
Who was Ada? The daughter of poet Lord Byron and the Countess of Lovelace, Ada Lovelace (b. Dec. 10 1815) is considered the world’s first computer programmer. She was one ...[Read on] |
Wesleyan women’s rights activist shot and killed
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Johanna Justin-Jinich, a Wesleyan student, was shot and killed yesterday by Stephen Morgan, a man who had been harassing and possibly stalking her. He walked into the bookstore where she worked and shot her. He has not yet been apprehended, and may be ta...[Read on] |
Lost, Found: Abby Sunderland, Teenage Sailor
| Photo via Abby's Blog.Good news! A rescue plane made contact with Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old California sailor who set out to complete a nonstop solo trip around the world. (Had she succeeded, she would have been the youngest person to do so.) On Th...[Read on] |
Fall TV lineup brings the funny & the drama
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The cool air is starting to roll in again and our evening activities are starting to move back inside during the evenings. This means that fall TV is making its return and Chickspeak is excited about all the new prime time possibilities available to us.
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No Wonder Woman Reboot Coming
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I was excited over the potential to see a rebooted version of Wonder Women. If Battlestar Galactica, a cheesy show, can be remade into a major league great show, how can we not do some justice to Wonder Woman.
But it looks like I won’t be able ...[Read on] |
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