{"id":343,"date":"2010-03-24T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/blog\/?p=343"},"modified":"2010-03-24T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T18:40:10","slug":"happy-ada-day-and-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/misc\/343\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Ada Day, and thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today being <a href=\"http:\/\/findingada.com\">Ada Lovelace Day<\/a> (though I&#8217;d like to see <a href=\"http:\/\/gracehopper.org\/2010\/\">Grace Hopper<\/a> day too), it seems a good time to say thank you to three women without whom I wouldn&#8217;t be doing what I do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/stacyhorn.com\/stacy_main2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"111\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/stacyhorn.com\/\">Stacy Horn<\/a>, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/\">Echo Communications<\/a>. Echo was a successful online community before anyone had heard about social media, thanks to Stacy. Stacy literally changed the direction of my life one day by asking if I&#8217;d ever thought about going to grad school. \u00c2\u00a0Then she told me about ITP, and that maybe I should apply. That was the best advice I ever got.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/image.php?width=265&amp;image=\/people_pics\/flash\/burns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"148\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/people\/people.php?id=89&amp;group=Faculty\">Red Burns<\/a>, chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\">Interactive Telecommunications Program<\/a>. No one I know has done more to teach both women and men that they can and should have a voice in how technologies are used. The word that usually comes to my mind when I think of her is <em>empowerment<\/em>. She has a way of making you realize that you have the power to change anything you want to. \u00c2\u00a0You could say that she&#8217;s done a lot for getting more women involved in technology, but Red is more inclusive than that. She&#8217;s passionate about seeing to that <em>everyone<\/em> whose life is affected by tech has a voice in its use. \u00c2\u00a0What I admire about Red is that she has no fear, nor any hesitation about telling you what she thinks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/image.php?width=265&amp;image=\/people_pics\/flash\/petit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"148\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariannepetit.com\/\">Marianne Petit<\/a>, my colleague, thesis advisor, and friend. One of the things I love about Marianne is that she&#8217;s gifted at using a whole range of technologies, and focuses on none. \u00c2\u00a0Many of the people I know talk about how technology is just a tool to achieve greater ends. Marianne actually lives her life that way. She makes things that are personal, often funny, usually dark, and oddly happy; things that make you think that people are really messed up, but you feel good about them at the same time. A lot of artists make digital technology-driven art that never escapes the tools. Marianne just makes art, and happens to use digital technology in the process sometimes. She&#8217;s also involved in countless efforts aimed at making people&#8217;s lives better through the tools we work with. \u00c2\u00a0And she apparently never sleeps. \u00c2\u00a0She&#8217;s got a set of ideals that I greatly admire and try to live up to.<\/p>\n<p>Stacy, Red, Marianne: thank you. \u00c2\u00a0I wouldn&#8217;t be doing what I&#8217;m doing without you. And I wouldn&#8217;t be as happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today being Ada Lovelace Day (though I&#8217;d like to see Grace Hopper day too), it seems a good time to say thank you to three&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/misc\/343\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Ada Day, and thanks<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,73],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","tag-ada-loveless-day","tag-thanks","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}