cruel to be kind

Are you a rock star a groupie or a back stage badge holder in this game of social media?

Andraz Tori was one of the cool Slovenian entrepreneurs I met at Webstart in Zagreb the other week. (His company Zemanta won Seedcamp Europe which would be a must have plugin for every blogger if some features where added *g* but it is already quite good)

He currently is in the Valley for SES and asked on twitter – as he should – if anybody would like a beer with him. Just that his follower rate is not that high, so this twitter question might not have …

Yes, it is this time of the year again. More female speakers, etc, but bear with me, there is a new twist to it. And some questions at the bottom plus a suggestion where you actually should start using your ‘consumer power’.

This time brought up by Lena West in “X Chromosome Web 2.0 Rock Stars“. I have made my points clear in “Decisions are made by those who show up” but looking at Lena’s answers something else popped up for me.

Maybe I have been watching too much enjoyable pickup artist reality shows (hei, I really found them amusing!), but …

I recently had this kind of conversation with several men from different directions and thought I would like to get an input from you as well.

It is about women in the workplace not wanting to invest time “after work hours” for their job as well as complaining to their significant others if they do.

I am in the lucky position to now do what my passion is. Which also means that it is possible to work with a client and send her or him a link / text in the middle in the night because it fits the project we are …

I was still in the middle of putting together some texts from the more positive side for Leweb (especially the ones having more suggestions to improving a conference like this as it is worth noting) when i saw that Loic actually has answered some of the topics discussed over the last days.

I suggest – even if you cannot stand the topic anymore – to go through his listed links which are from both side of the spectrum. (It is also worth noting what he leaves out, but that is a different story.)

I have posted my comment over there as it …

NYT reports in “Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service” how Yahoo and Reuters want your material for their news sites. Although the wording is a bit off: If you work for somebody you do get paid.

Starting tomorrow, the photos and videos submitted will be placed throughout Reuters.com and Yahoo News, the most popular news Web site in the United States, according to comScore MediaMetrix. Reuters said that it would also start to distribute some of the submissions next year to the thousands of print, online and broadcast media outlets that subscribe to …

I love West Wing (the Aaron Sorkin episodes) for their dialogues. During a recent reviewing of the first two seasons one quote really hit home with me:

Decisions are made by those who show up:

It fits very good on the ongoing discussions about female speakers on conferences, or even female attendees on tech conferences.

I have made that point before and will do it again in here: I do not want females on a conference just for the sake of them being there. For me “but you have to have women” is not good enough for a reason to get a women …

Well, after being so annoyed with Flickr during my USA trip – I still have not uploaded or edited all my photos and it is more than annoying that the Windows support for adding information or having offline tools is non existent – I wanted to create a group with Flickr for the Podcast Covers which are slowly coming in my inbox.

But I remembered that flickr does not allow non photos (and most of the covers are), so I decided that I am closer anyhow with the European version of flickr called 23. It is not a finished product and …

I should consider registering that domain also because I constantly type crueltobeking.org into other people’s blog comments. :)

You know that I am usually not the bitching woman who asks “and where are the women on the panel” just to see some women there.

But have a look at the speakers of this new panel “Innovate!”:

• Ernst Raue, Member of the Board, Deutsche Messe
• Rudolf Groeger, CEO, O2 Germany
• Hannes Schwaderer, CEO, Intel Germany
• Gregor Bieler, Regional Director, Logitech
• Christoph Wilfert, Business & Marketing Officer, Microsoft Germany
• Timm Kehler, Vice President Marketing Predevelopment, Innovation Projects, BMW Group
• Moderator: Axel Burkert, Editor-in-chief, CHIP Online

I know that many women are not that much into modern technology just for itself but hey – this is really offending for …

Jeremy Wright on support:

“Teach a man to fix and he’ll keep coming back for the rest of your life asking for advice. Kick him in the gonads and he’ll never bother you again.”

I’ve yet to stumble upon an opportunity to use this gem, though, so you guys get to enjoy it ;-)

Well … Tech support, mainly Excel and stuff, is part of my work. And in general I do like to help people, but …

People do get help from me, but the more stupid they are and the less clever they where before coming back to me on the same …