Comments on: You Go Girl! On Anne 2.0 and being “brainist”

By: Anne Zelenka

Anne Zelenka — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:55:14 +0000

I like those planetary metaphors. Nice. I used to have a recording of Holst’s The Planets, but I don’t know how I came by it and I never knew it was actually derived from astrology (found that out from Google).

Now I need to go read up on Wittgenstein. I can’t remember anything about that guy.

By: james governor

james governor — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:22:08 +0000

http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/001226.html

By: james governor

james governor — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 21:21:39 +0000

hey anne- here is another planetary metaphor that i think ties to your own

By: Anne Zelenka

Anne Zelenka — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:34:35 +0000

Wow. Thanks. I was thinking my Copernicus reference and the comment about the toothpick went unnoticed! I finished the post and thought, “god that was pedantic.”

“Cooking with gas.” I love that. Might have to print this out and frame it next to my first tech.memeorandum mention.

As for more male than female geeks, probably so. But one thing that might be obscuring the reality is that women are less likely to portray themselves as such… like the woman you talked to about the mobile phone. Clearly she was geeky but she claimed not to be.

When I first started blogging on Anne 2.0, I wrote about WordPress and how geeks loved it. A woman commented saying “I’m not a geek but I use WordPress” then talked about how she wanted to design a new look for her WP blog and customize its behavior, etc. etc. She was a geek but she didn’t think of herself that way.

I’m so glad to be in conversation with you, James.