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• 06.23.08
  MicroBell 2: FAIL! Daily, Geek, Tech, Truth, entrepreneurship |

  A current meme in the tech world is as insidious as spam and twice as malicious. It can be summed up in a single word: fail. Last week Firefox released the latest version of its browser, Firefox 3.0. Their goal was to get the most software ever downloaded in a single 24-hour period. The servers crashed with all the folks downloading it. That's when the insults started flying. Suddenly Firefox, the browser many of us techies are using and enjoying for free became an object of scorn, a virtual whipping boy. Technology has long been ...
• 05.28.08
  A Dash of Design Makes All the Difference: The Designer Dishes Attention, Creative, Design, Geek, Personal Branding, Plunge Artist, entrepreneurship |

  Every time I pick up the proverbial hatchet and start hacking away at design and CSS I discover a heap of trouble. It's never as simple as "redesigning" my site. Inevitably some tiny existential crisis emerges from the code-struggle. If I move it 10 pixels left will it better reflect my "balanced" personality? I mean, come ooon, I think to myself. You are so much bigger than a pixel! You can do this! This morning I emerge from the code heap and give you the new design of gwenbell.com: Welcome to it! Paul, my friend and ...
• 05.10.08
  Carolina-Colorado Cross-Pollination + A Contest! Attention, Blog, Creative, Geek, Projects, Tech, Women |

  I've been blogging my brains out, in one form or another, all week. First up, on Tuesday we had a great turnout to the May New Tech Meetup (looking around, I estimate that a record 30-40% of the audience was female--fantastic turnout). The highlight of the night for me was Brightkite's presentation. The presentation itself appeared to be done on the fly, but I liked that about it. The staid and solid 12 page power points bore me...I've seen them done multiple times at NTM. I like to see something fresh and Brightkite has it. I won't ...
• 03.13.08
  Top 8 SxSW Creative, Design, Geek, Remarkable, SXSW, Tech, entrepreneurship |

  Back from Austin and South by Southwest. It's a challenge to say what I loved most about SXSWi 2008, but if I had to narrow it down to the best 8, for me, it would be these: 8) The People of SX The first morning I got to Austin, Laurie from sk*rt let me know I could come meet her and the rest of the girls at Halcyon, where Dooce's very own Heather Armstrong was holding court (alongside Jon, one of my design heroes). I got there to find a line from one end of the cafe to the ...
• 03.04.08
  It’s Like Prom Week. For Geeks. Geek, Tech, TechStars, Upcoming Events, Women, entrepreneurship |

  This morning, all fresh and recovered from last night's TechStars Open House party, I woke up to an email letting me know about the Daily Camera coverage of our efforts to reach out to women for TechStars. The word is getting out. With 27 days left until the deadline (and 12:01, April 1st, according to a 2007 TechStar, is one minute too late), this is good news. You have a little less than a month to get your app in. What are you waiting for? In about thirty minutes I'm heading to a Silicon Flatirons event. ...
• 02.28.08
  Perfecting Your Pitch: Working it for the Women BWET, GTD, Geek, Startup, Tech, TechStars, Truth, Women |

  This Monday we had our third Boulder Women Engaging Tech meetup at The Cup. This week we all came armed with our copies of Getting Things Done. We're doing productivity work together as a team (Goldie covered GTD further on her blog). After thirty minutes or so of talking about contexts and how to delegate, we moved on to discuss a bit about tech evangelism - zealous advocacy of the tech cause. In other words, how to spread the word about your product or service. Technology evangelism is a hot topic around Boulder these days. We ...

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