Gender, personality, and social software.
"I feel like I'm at a Microsoft monastery here," wrote Rory Blyth from
the most recent Professional Developers Conference. "I think I've seen
about 2.5 females ... it's like they're an endangered species." The
observation holds equally true for open source conferences.
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If we expect social software to help rewrite the
productivity equation, social skills and protocols become critical
parts of the game. How can social software succeed if, in its
development, half the population is so poorly represented? [Full story
at InfoWorld.com]
This column touches on two third-rail issues: personality and gender. The Wired article on Asperger's syndrome
cited in the column was incorrectly dated, by the way. My error: it was
of course published in 2001, not 1991. That slipped past me and my
editors, but my friend Larry Welkowitz, a psychologist and AS specialist, caught it.
... [Jon's Radio]
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