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Today I went to a swanky Yahoo! event at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco. The goal of the event was to preview the new shine.yahoo.com website to women bloggers and relevent people. There were 2 "break-out sessions" -- am I the only one who cringes with anticipated ennui at words like "break-out sessions"? -- where we critiqued the Yahoo! site for

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At SXSW, the ratio was out of wack...which surprised me a lot. Isn't it more about building spaces that attract women? There were actually a good number of sessions at sxsw that were about promoting women in the tech world...and yet I really didn't want to attend. I just don't want to be considered one of those "women".

There was a keynote speaker at sxsw...a female one that admitted that women (cognitively) cannot do the same things as men. In regards to the games we choose to play. Men are naturally attracted toward one-person shooter games and women are attracted to games that are inherently social. Perhaps it's to examine the industries that attract women and develop spaces for them. Just a thought...

There was a great panel by Guy Kawasaki at sxsw that was compromised mostly of women...and that itself was great enough.