August 2011
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Programming is Easy (part 1)
jumpthru:
Check out this great call to programming for women, minorities, and everyone by one of our esteemed Hamptons Hackers, Marianne Bellotti @fspublishing.
Recipe for discussion about diversity in Tech: take one historically disenfranchised group, pull statistics on number of CS or engineer majors for said group, season to taste with calls for 1) more money 2) more formal education 3)...
July 2011
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What's in a name, a handle, a rose by any other...
I changed both my Twitter handle & Tumblr account name to JiEunJamie today. I am going to be myself on the interwebs. Ji Eun is my government name and Jamie is the name I gave myself. Here’s a story about my name(s). I’ll be blogging on the Wordpress site more often and browsing here for the occasional giggle fest.
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Programming for Humanity: Hamptons Hackathon for... →
Izzy is awesome. Follow @izzy_johnston Check out #gdihhh
izzycjohnston:
During what may have been the first all-female* hackathon in NY, fifteen people banded together to use technology to take on the global problem of human trafficking. We were programmers, designers, writers and researchers. We came from a variety of backgrounds. We had an array of skills. And we…
June 2011
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JumpThru: 2011 Trafficking in Persons Report &... →
jumpthru:
On Monday, I had the honor of attending the 2011 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report rollout event with Secretary Clinton as a guest of Christina Arnold, founder and CEO of non-profit Prevent Human Trafficking.
2011 Trafficing in Persons Report
Here’s what Wikipedia has to say…
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Quirky self, examined.
Self-absorved people mull constantly over themselves. I mull over me.
In elementary school, I had a wild imagination and wondered whether everyone except me had super powers I didn’t know about. A secret world of that I could not see. Two decades later, I now believe most people are as wracked, unsure, and half-blind as I am at times. Other times, I am under the illusion that I am as...
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“When a prominent dissident was arrested in China, we would write a front-page...”
– “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide”
-Nicholas D. Kristof & Sheryl WuDunn
And today the NYT front-page news is Weinergate (who cares? ::rolls eyes::). Why isn’t there an ethics investigation on the lower-than-scum politicians who buy...
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“A few days after our IPO date was set, I called my first meeting of the entire...”
– Levi Asher, The Memoir
May 2011
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aatombomb: Anybody want a job? →
aatombomb:
The lovely ladies at JumpThru need a video wizard type to help them film an event at the Time Warner Center. Anybody interested should make contact here.
We are hosting a breakfast event on Wednesday, May 18th at Time Warner Center, and I am looking for a video person to
1) shoot the 2 hour…
Or write me directly! Thanks!
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“Technology evolves rapidly, and each successive generation seems to be ‘smarter’...”
– This article encapsulates so many things we here at JumpThru believe in. We are big fans of the idea of thanking moms for all they do by sharing some technology wisdom, tips and how-tos, not just on Sunday but everyday.
Last Christmas, my two sisters and I bought my mother an iPad. Before the...
April 2011
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JumpThru: Startup Ninja as Voracious as a... →
jumpthru:
As JumpThru’s community manager and business administrator, I constantly learn new things and apply what I’ve learned to help foster a community around JumpThru’s mission.
Our mission is to help women better understand social media and to help them implement new Internet technologies into their…
Other software and online services I’ve learned so far (in no particular...
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Napping-puppies tetris, with twitchy butts. →
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““I think most people live in a fiction. I’m no exception. Think of...”
– Sputnik Sweetheart, by Haruki Murakami
Monstrous discrepancies that are so true, so damn... →
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“These women, being the first to enter this new territory, were the first to...”
– http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/business/08bartik.html?_r=1
Can Women Be a Catalyst for Japan's Renewal? →
The country can no longer afford massive gender inequality if it wants to recover from the devastating earthquake
A-woman to that! Thanks for the forward aatombomb!
8 bit Disney Pirates will give you VD →
sdmx:
sixty4k:
SDMX: Kind of a weird historical parallel I just realized. A Piece of Eight, the pirate currency, is literally dividable into eight parts, each part called a ‘bit’.
SDMX: And thus easily making the jump from bits and bytes for us in the tech field.
SDMX: But the bit gets its name as a portmanteau of the phrase ‘binary digit’.
SDMX: Strange that these two revolutionary...
On becoming redundant.
aatombomb:
It’s a terrible mix of emotions to realize that Microsoft Word will do something automatically in one step that you have been doing manually in 5 or 6 for years.
Arguably, machines are smarter than us, and programs are replacing us. Fear-mongers, take heed.
Work Day Dance Party →
Hi sexy people! Kim Burgas and I are hosting another www.workdaydanceparty.com today in less than 45 minutes, because well, why the hell not? Join us. It’s super easy. Just go to www.workdaydanceparty.com at 4PM EST. Make sure your web cam is on, your mic turned off, audio on. Then boogie like it’s 1999. www.workdaydanceparty.com
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“We interrupt, infer, guess, exclaim, ignore. And, at a deeper level, we express...”
– Adam Gopnik, “Get Smart” in April 4th edition of The New Yorker
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lumps of metal.
“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they’re nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could...
My first personal computer →
charlesparra:
I remember paying around $400 for it and spending another $100 or more to get it up to 32K from 4K of RAM. Used to save my BASIC programs on a cassette tape drive. It was such a geek thing back then to own your own personal computer, but oh so cool to be able to write your own programs!
I swear he’s not dating himself on purpose…
Monolake's Polygon Cities →
charlesparra:
One of my favorite albums from Robert Henke. His work on developing his own custom Midi controller, the Monodeck, is what introduced me to Ableton Live. Abelton Live is an amazing DAW software application that takes a fresh approach to UI design and live performance.
Gentlewomen and lovers, I present to you my hot boyfriend on tumblr.
March 2011
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JumpThru: Welcome to JumpThru blog! →
jumpthru:
For now, JumpThru is like an infant. JumpThru is an early stage company that’s only six weeks old but growing fast.
Here are some noteworthy accomplishments so far. We
found and moved into an office space in Park Avenue South. It’s a fun environment with fast-moving hardware and cutting-edge…
The avatar picture is of me. Yay, JumpThru! Yay, me!
Japan update from my good friend Rob in Tokyo.
My dear friend and mentor Rob, an American scholar of Japanese history living in Tokyo, wrote me today with a coherent and detailed first-hand account of the situation in Japan. I had a better sense of the dire situation in Japan after reading his email than from reading the evasive reports from Japanese government officials.
When I asked him if I could post his email in its entirety, he...
4Chan's Moot says Zuckerburg is "totally wrong."
Poole argued that anonymity allows users to reveal themselves in a “completely unvarnished, unfiltered, raw way.” One of the things that’s lost when you carry the same identity everywhere is “the innocence of youth.” (“Innocence” isn’t the first word that would come to mind when I think of 4chan, but okay, I’ll go with him here.) In other words, when everyone knows everything you’ve done...
aatombomb: Japan Hit by Second Earthquake, Nuclear... →
Although Japan has been facing a series of powerful aftershocks, the country’s meteorological agency is reporting another earthquake in the Nagano and Niigata prefectures. The U.S. Geological Survey says this latest event is a 6.2-magnitude quake. Nagano police have not yet had any reports of…
Bill Keller, I aggregate thee.
But the orgy of self-reference is so indiscriminate, so trivializing.
New York Times Magazine
Richard J. Tofel: Someday, the sun will set on SEO... →
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Instead of advertising, content businesses, if they are to be successful at all online, will need to recover the cost of content creation increasingly from readers. (This is why the entire publishing world is about to hold its collective breath as The New York Times rolls out its metered pay plan.) And for the cost to be recovered from readers, the readers will have to be...
