Sandlander

Danah Boyd has some thoughts here on this topic, well worth reading.

Who is Dana? "My name is Danah Boyd and I'm a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I live in Boston.

Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking."

A lady, in other words, to be listened to.

Update: More on this from another woman of influence, Emily Bell of the Guardian, here.