Following Selena’s Lead
August 16th, 2007 | Published in Community, Emerging Technology, Friends, Humor | 1 Comment
My friend Selena pointed out that we had both written about the Clay Shirky article that I referenced earlier this week. She was kind not to point out that she wrote about the article two weeks earlier. This is simply the latest in a series of times where Selena was ahead of me on discovering valuable things.
In college, Selena was running a Linux box, talking about open source software, and working on quality of service routing before these topics were mainstream. At the time, I didn’t understand why she was so excited about them.
When we bumped into each other a few years ago, she convinced me to give social bookmarking, tagging and similar technologies a second look. Now I can’t imagine living without my delicious bookmarks.
Essentially, Selena is one of the smartest people I know. I’ve been rediscovering trails she already had blazed for as long as I’ve known her.
Given these facts, I’ll declare a small victory that this time I was only two weeks behind her. :-)
September 4th, 2007 at 9:57 pm (#)
[…] So I’m very pleased that Selena is also going to be writing an article in the Women in Technology series for OReilly. For that reason alone, it is worth reading. As I mentioned previously, Selena is very, very smart. […]