The Authentic Eccentric

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of celebration and blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology so that tomorrow’s women in technology have visible and celebrated female role models in math and science.
Choosing just one woman to spotlight was a challenge – there are many women in technology who have inspired [...]

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I’m taking the holiday off to recharge, relax and eat tasty food, but I wanted to leave you with some good articles to dive into when you feel the need to escape:
Terry Heaton explains why survival isn’t a strategy and asks “What if the old model is gone for good and it doesn’t come back?” [...]

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Laura at Pistachio Consulting is asking her readers and Twitter followers to help her save 35,000 children between now and Christmas by donating $2.00 to the CharityWater.org clean water campaign. Every day, 4,500 children die because they lack access to clean drinking water.
She’s lined up some generous sponsors to match up to $10,000 of [...]

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Menu for Hope is an annual fundraising campaign hosted by Pim Techamuanvivit and a revolving cast of food bloggers around the world.
Five years ago, the devastating tsunami in Southeast Asia inspired her to find a way to help, and the very first Menu for Hope was born. The campaign has since become a [...]

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Hanging ‘Round the Water Cooler
Originally uploaded by foundphotoslj .

Every Tuesday I can be found at the NTEN Watercooler dispensing helpful advice on printing, Wordpress, blogging, twitter and general communications issues , but this week , I’ll be there from 2:30 – 4:00 pm providing free assistance to anyone who wants to upgrade to the [...]

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Sixty years ago, the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) set about their task of enumerating the rights all humans were entitled to as citizens of the world. Led by the visionary Eleanor Roosevelt, they drew upon a host of sources – from philosophers to revolutionaries to religious leaders and from every [...]

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As part of their 10th anniversary celebration, Google has just announced its Project 10 to the 100th, a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. They’re backing this up with $10m in funding, resources and support to the top five ideas that will help the most number of [...]

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As with Gustav, the online community has come together to provide timely news, information, resources, site widgets and support as Ike blows into Texas via the Hurricane Information Center.
If you want to be able to pitch in and help as needed, please consider joining us there!

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I’m delighted to pass along an internship opportunity here in the Richmond, VA market. This looks like an excellent opportunity to learn some leading edge technology, too:
ColorTree Inc. of VA is a leader in the custom envelope industry. For over 20 years our commitment to deliver outstanding service and quality to our customers keeps [...]

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Ethan Zuckerman has a great post up on Visualizing Social Networks via Excel, and shares some interesting behavioral patterns for Usenet technical support via Microsoft Research.
The findings identified some key behavioral patterns in participants:
Rather than analyzing the content of these newsgroups (hard to do, as they’re huge), Smith and his team looked at structures. [...]

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