I was seriously sick last night and I was doing the insomniac-in-front-of-the-monitor thing when I read this article in the Washington Post. Dr. Helen (the InstaWife of great renown) has a write-up of the article on her blog. This is a point she brings up fairly regularly, including this horrifying policy she brought up. So, does this have an application in the association world? Now, I'm no wannabe victim, but I sometimes think that I'm very much in a female-dominated profession; and I have had some negative experiences that had me scratching my head figuring out whether the issue was really about gender. Of course, I only experience what I experience, but would be open to convo about it.
So, I've been spending some time with Glenn Reynold's book (Glenn being of course the seminal and highly influential Instapundit ), and I must say that it gives me lots of language I can use to talk about phenomena that are easily observable right now. I think you could say that Glenn Reynolds has done for technology what Virginia Postrel did with design topics . Which is to say, they beat the drum and say, hey, look at what this democratization of knowledge can do for you! In that vein, the book is really pretty visionary, pointing out the magic of the internet age. And I for one see it as magical. You know how Laura Ingalls Wilder's Pa in Little Town on the Prairie said to Laura that it was an amazing time to be alive (that was in the 1890s)? I've been actively thinking that to myself for the past few years, and An Army of Davids gives me ample evidence to back that up with its talk of citizen empowerment and the "comfy chair revolution." The theme of ...