Reposted, with revisions, from Cyber Chocolate.
I spent a couple of hours tonight, in between playing Pet Society and Frontierville on Facebook and watching the season premiere of Dexter (well done!), comparing my Bloglines subs with my Google Reader subs. I'd copied over my subs in the spring, but I've made changes, but not the same ones. to both accounts since then and didn't want to lose something I wanted and end up adding back a dead link.
I'm not sure what I'll do about blogrolls on my blogs. Bloglines disappears on October 1, supposedly. I might manually add some into a template widget for my specialized blogs, but it's easier to make changes in the reader and have that move over to all relevant places on my blogs. I do have a small list here, so this blog will probably stay as is, though as time permits, I'll try to make sure the links still work.
Ah well. At least I've got my reading straightened out.
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Ines Sainz and the NY Jets
I need to establish a few things upfront.
There was nothing wrong with her attire, based on the photos I saw, which mostly showed her from the rear. Her jeans were tight. With her shape, I'll bet she can't find any that don't fit her like that. In fact, I read that when asked about her jeans, she said they were her size. Is she supposed to go to a plus sizes store and get jeans too big for her... to cover her shape? And given she was at a practice and in the locker room, a suit would have been overdressing. Geez. It's not like she wore a bikini to the place. And there's a big difference between looking at someone in admiration and acting like children. That means no ogling, no comments, no throwing things. It would be nice if grownups could act like grownups.
As for the "if you want to be treated as a professional, act like one," that is so subjective. Everyone has their own idea what that means today. And that still does not excuse boorish, childish behavior. The players and coaches involved should've known better and their behavior was deplorable. And kinda stupid in an age of viral media that takes everything that happens in front of anyone and throws it on the web for 24/7 viewing and commentary. Given how they played last night, they certainly need to get their act together, in games and off the field.
I'd just like to see pictures of all the other reporters and see how they dress before I judge how she's dressed. It's not about how she's dressed as much as it's about fair and equal treatment. And personally, from the pictures I saw of her, she didn't dress for attention, not based on the photos of her off the job. Women run into this idea of what's appropriate to wear far more often than men do and I have to wonder whose standards we're talking about.
I've been very disappointed by how many people have said she dressed unprofessionally, that she obviously was dressing for attention, etc. Even if that's true, so what? Why should anyone be disrespected for their clothes? And she said she didn't hear anything sexual. They were tossing the ball at her. They were acting rude, not lewd. This wasn't really about one woman's ass-hugging jeans. This was about women in the locker room of a pro sports team. And for so many people, especially women, to write letters to the editor that pointed out her outfit rather than to complain about the behavior of the players tells me that women still have a long way to go for equal treatment.
There are two interesting pieces in the New York Daily News about this. Bob Raissman discussed the lack of coverage of this during the Jets game, which is telling re: attitudes. And Joanna Molloy admits that Sainz is not on TV Azteca for her reporting skills, but also reviews how women sportswriters have been treated over the years and how it has to stop.
All the talk about how Sainz is dressed takes the attention away from the
real issue: the Jets behaved like pigs. Their behavior was inexcusable and to bring up how Sainz was dressed is beside the point. Those guys would probably act the same at the bathing suit competition at a beauty contest and it would be just as boorish. And if they wouldn't do it there, then what they did to her in the locker room becomes harassment. Pure and simple.
Unless there's a dress code for reporters in locker rooms, then what is "professional" is purely subjective in this case. There was nothing inappropriate about her attire. And if she'd worn a burlap sack to hide her curves, I'll bet some of those guys would've been just as rude and crude. All this talk about her attire detracts from the issue and trivializes it. And until people realize that, women still have a long way to go.
In an article in the Daily News, 9/15/10, Kevin Armstrong reports that defensive tackle Kris Jenkins shouted at Sainz and another woman reporter that "This is our locker room." There was no mention of the other woman's attire. Jenkins suffered a season-ending injury in the first game of the season on Monday. Talk about karma!
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- I think many women dress to attract attention. I also think a number of men do, too.
- There is a difference between admiring glances and getting in someone's face. There is a difference between admiring glances and staring. There's a difference between admiring glances and catcalls, whistles, lewd comments, and rude and crude behavior. It comes down to the difference between being a mature adult and acting like a boor or a child.
- Unless there's an established dress code, what is considered "professional attire" is fairly subjective.
- How a woman is dressed, or a man for that matter, is never an excuse for someone to treat her disrespectfully.
There was nothing wrong with her attire, based on the photos I saw, which mostly showed her from the rear. Her jeans were tight. With her shape, I'll bet she can't find any that don't fit her like that. In fact, I read that when asked about her jeans, she said they were her size. Is she supposed to go to a plus sizes store and get jeans too big for her... to cover her shape? And given she was at a practice and in the locker room, a suit would have been overdressing. Geez. It's not like she wore a bikini to the place. And there's a big difference between looking at someone in admiration and acting like children. That means no ogling, no comments, no throwing things. It would be nice if grownups could act like grownups.
As for the "if you want to be treated as a professional, act like one," that is so subjective. Everyone has their own idea what that means today. And that still does not excuse boorish, childish behavior. The players and coaches involved should've known better and their behavior was deplorable. And kinda stupid in an age of viral media that takes everything that happens in front of anyone and throws it on the web for 24/7 viewing and commentary. Given how they played last night, they certainly need to get their act together, in games and off the field.
I'd just like to see pictures of all the other reporters and see how they dress before I judge how she's dressed. It's not about how she's dressed as much as it's about fair and equal treatment. And personally, from the pictures I saw of her, she didn't dress for attention, not based on the photos of her off the job. Women run into this idea of what's appropriate to wear far more often than men do and I have to wonder whose standards we're talking about.
I've been very disappointed by how many people have said she dressed unprofessionally, that she obviously was dressing for attention, etc. Even if that's true, so what? Why should anyone be disrespected for their clothes? And she said she didn't hear anything sexual. They were tossing the ball at her. They were acting rude, not lewd. This wasn't really about one woman's ass-hugging jeans. This was about women in the locker room of a pro sports team. And for so many people, especially women, to write letters to the editor that pointed out her outfit rather than to complain about the behavior of the players tells me that women still have a long way to go for equal treatment.
There are two interesting pieces in the New York Daily News about this. Bob Raissman discussed the lack of coverage of this during the Jets game, which is telling re: attitudes. And Joanna Molloy admits that Sainz is not on TV Azteca for her reporting skills, but also reviews how women sportswriters have been treated over the years and how it has to stop.
All the talk about how Sainz is dressed takes the attention away from the
real issue: the Jets behaved like pigs. Their behavior was inexcusable and to bring up how Sainz was dressed is beside the point. Those guys would probably act the same at the bathing suit competition at a beauty contest and it would be just as boorish. And if they wouldn't do it there, then what they did to her in the locker room becomes harassment. Pure and simple.
Unless there's a dress code for reporters in locker rooms, then what is "professional" is purely subjective in this case. There was nothing inappropriate about her attire. And if she'd worn a burlap sack to hide her curves, I'll bet some of those guys would've been just as rude and crude. All this talk about her attire detracts from the issue and trivializes it. And until people realize that, women still have a long way to go.
In an article in the Daily News, 9/15/10, Kevin Armstrong reports that defensive tackle Kris Jenkins shouted at Sainz and another woman reporter that "This is our locker room." There was no mention of the other woman's attire. Jenkins suffered a season-ending injury in the first game of the season on Monday. Talk about karma!
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
Bloglines RIP
I'm probably the last to know, but Bloglines is being shut down on October 1. Now, I'll admit, I haven't used it much in recent months, but not because I didn't value its service. I simply got annoyed that they had added capchas for every time you log in. I can't leave myself logged into websites on my work PC and therefore, needed to deal with this annoyance every day, even to read the blogs I follow for work (library blogs). But it still does rss feed reading better than anyone for free, and that includes Google Reader, which is what I've mainly been using because of its integration with iGoogle and other Google services.
From Ask.com's blog:
As for Facebook, I have an account and I do follow many agencies and services there and do see posts containing blog entry links from my friends, but that's a small percentage of what I follow through a feed reader. With a feed reader, I can follow hundreds at a time without clogging up my screen. I can go into a folder on Bloglines or Google Reader and pick the new blog post I want to read. When I want to read it. To do that in Facebook is much harder and would require a more complicated group structure than I want there. I don't want to contemplate trying to do that with lists in Twitter. And with a feed reader, I have the nifty option of marking "all read."
As long as Google maintains its Reader, I'll be fine, although I'll miss Bloglines' nice package tracking options. I haven't discovered a way to do that with Google Reader. What will become a problem is that most of my blogrolls on my blogs comes from Bloglines. I will either have to see if I can import them from Google Reader, instead, or enter them into an RSS gadget, which will take a lot of work and time. Or I'll end up losing the blogrolls. I'm not really happy about this consequence of losing Bloglines.
I've used Bloglines for almost as long as I've been blogging, something like 5 or 6 years. I'll miss it.
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From Ask.com's blog:
"A little perspective: when we originally acquired Bloglines in 2005, RSS was in its infancy. The concept of “push” versus “search” around information consumption had become very real, and we were bullish about the opportunity Bloglines presented for our users. Flash forward to 2010. The Internet has undergone a major evolution. The real-time information RSS was so astute at delivering (primarily, blog feeds) is now gained through conversations, and consuming this information has become a social experience. As Steve Gillmor pointed out in TechCrunch last year , being locked in an RSS reader makes less and less sense to people as Twitter and Facebook dominate real-time information flow. Today RSS is the enabling technology – the infrastructure, the delivery system. RSS is a means to an end, not a consumer experience in and of itself. As a result, RSS aggregator usage has slowed significantly, and Bloglines isn’t the only service to feel the impact.. The writing is on the wall. "While I can appreciate this, I'm also saddened by it. I don't want to read blogs in real time. While I have a Twitter account, I don't follow it religiously. I check it now and then. I miss a lot and I certainly don't follow blog feeds there.
As for Facebook, I have an account and I do follow many agencies and services there and do see posts containing blog entry links from my friends, but that's a small percentage of what I follow through a feed reader. With a feed reader, I can follow hundreds at a time without clogging up my screen. I can go into a folder on Bloglines or Google Reader and pick the new blog post I want to read. When I want to read it. To do that in Facebook is much harder and would require a more complicated group structure than I want there. I don't want to contemplate trying to do that with lists in Twitter. And with a feed reader, I have the nifty option of marking "all read."
As long as Google maintains its Reader, I'll be fine, although I'll miss Bloglines' nice package tracking options. I haven't discovered a way to do that with Google Reader. What will become a problem is that most of my blogrolls on my blogs comes from Bloglines. I will either have to see if I can import them from Google Reader, instead, or enter them into an RSS gadget, which will take a lot of work and time. Or I'll end up losing the blogrolls. I'm not really happy about this consequence of losing Bloglines.
I've used Bloglines for almost as long as I've been blogging, something like 5 or 6 years. I'll miss it.
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