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Personally I think it's smart. I'm sure she gets more page views because of it as well. First time reading the blog and I thought it was interesting enough.
by TheBranca18 16y ago
Personally I think it's smart. I'm sure she gets more page views because of it as well. First time reading the blog and I thought it was interesting enough.
I don't see how she's intentionally fooling you. The URL is girldeveloper, she has a picture plastered on the right (like a ton of other blogs I might add). I guess I'm confused by your reaction.
- enneff 16y agoIf all she wants to do is get page views, then she's succeeding. By positioning herself as a "girl", I think of her as a girl first, and a developer second. What qualities do I associate with girls? Not the qualities I look for in a programming blogger. Is that prejudice? I guess so. I clicked the link because it had a catchy title, not because it was from a site "girldeveloper". That I'm not even thinking about the content of the post anymore speaks volumes.
- Carlfish 16y agoSpeak for yourself. Women are a significant minority in software development. This in itself means that a woman's experience of the field I work in every day must be different to mine. You're more likely to learn something new from someone looking at the same things you do from a different perspective than you are from someone who shares your POV and is more likely to just tell you things you already know. The blog still has to be interesting, but "girldeveloper" is as good a hook as any.
- enneff 16y ago"Speak for yourself." I did: "I think" "I associate" "I look" "I clicked" "I'm not"
- Dunbar 16y agoIt does speak volumes, but not about her site or her blog post.
- enneff 16y agoThat's my point.