Thoughts? I have a couple of conferences coming up; I always think my bio is cheesy. All bios are cheesy.
Amanda is the Technical Director of Gotham Gazette, a news and policy website in New York City, and a member of the steering committee of the Non-profit Open Source Initiative. She occasionally writes about software freedom and the role of proprietary software in movement-building organizations. Through the Welfare Law Center’s LINC project she spent three years working closely with grassroots economic justice organizations that wanted help making better use of information and technology tools, and collaborated with a group of fellow New Yorkers to develop a content management system that facilitated much of the organizing of protests and actions around the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City. Amanda is part of the InterActivist Network an activist technology infrastructure and skills sharing project housed at ABC no Rio. She’s secretly more interested in greywater and urban ecological sustainability than in internet technology.
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It’s not unreasonably cheesy. You hit a bunch of good topics, i think, and will give the readers of the bio a bunch of things to think about. Do you not want to link to some of your writing about the intersection of software freedom and movement-building orgs? I like your writings, and think they should be more widely read.
some stupid copy editing remarks:
NOSI’s name should have caps in it.
“movement building organizations” probably wants to be “movement-building organizations”, unless there are actual buildings involved.
You’ve got two “she’s” in the last sentence.
Yeh, a few sentences in a row start with “she” towards the end. Otherwise you sound important and interesting.
Also: Um, hello, I RAN INTO YOUR PARENTS. It was crazy, we got off a train in a small seaside town on the Italian Riviera and they were, like, right there. Life is so weird that way…
wow.
I’m kind of speechless, even though, yeah. They were in Italy, you were in Italy, Italy isn’t that big … (yes it is.) They always run into my friends on the street when they visit NYC, too. They have strong running-into magnetism.
Does that mean they met Sam and TJ?
NOSI, check.
movement-building, check.
she’s secretly she’s, check
and i fixed some sentences.
I’m still speechless, w.r.t. italy.
I KNOW, right? Riiiiiight?
Needs more early life info, so people who have a habit of randomly googling people that they went to high school with, when avoiding their jobs will know if they were successful.
Cute. You could always just ask.
You take all the fun out of stalking
I thought Friendster took all the fun out of stalking a long time ago. Whatever was leftover, Facebook thoroughly swallowed.
Actually, I have a half finished cyberstalker blog post wherein I point out the things I know about people I was friends with once, a long time ago. Who is at Johns Hopkins, who’s a realtor now, who is teaching at DVC. It is strange sometimes. Stranger yet to realize that I’m vastly more web-searchable than most of my childhood friends.
Steve Kameny’s sister ruined friendster for me.
I only blog about how much I hate blogging, and how few people read my blog.