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It's all been testing up until now, but it should start working properly today. Add &quot;bartsf&quot; as a friend on Twitter and you should get updates about delays to the BART system." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:17:50 GMT"/>			<outline text="The BART system seems to be pretty switched on to technology - they provide &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bart.gov/dhtmlTest.asp?path=/stations/status/advisories.asp&quot;&gt;a pretty decent website&lt;/a&gt; and an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bart.gov/stations/status/advisories.xml&quot;&gt;RSS feed&lt;/a&gt;. If only a few other cities could provide XML feeds, it'd make it easier for this kind of thing to happen. Much as I like Python, I really don't like having to do loads of BeautifulSoup." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:19:07 GMT"/>			<outline text="Tags: &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/bart&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;bart&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/twitter&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/tube&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;tube&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/metro&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;metro&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/rail&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;rail&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/public+transport&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;public transport&lt;/a&gt; " created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:42:51 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/takeBartTwitterIt89775/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('takeBartTwitterIt89775');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/takeBartTwitterIt89775/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('takeBartTwitterIt89775'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Diversity and BarCamp" created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:44:56 GMT">			<outline text="I've been reading the &lt;a href=&quot;http://adactio.com/journal/1264&quot;&gt;debate&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/02/23/diverse-it-gets/&quot;&gt;over&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://just.shelleypowers.com/diversity/diversity-isnt-importantand-neither-is-standards-nor-accessibility/&quot;&gt;diversity&lt;/a&gt; at conferences, and it reminds me why I far prefer going to BarCamps than the dull conferences that go on most of the time." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:45:06 GMT"/>			<outline text="I think that there ought to be more women at conferences, because I tend to learn a lot from women speakers, and I find it terribly oppressive to be in a room of men without any women. It's more pleasant for everybody if there are women at events. &quot;Men only&quot; is for changing rooms and gay bars, not web conferences. Even at gay bars, you've got drag queens. And I'd rather have drag queens speaking at web conferences than the utterly dull business casual brigade mouthing &quot;social media&quot; and &quot;Web 2.0&quot;." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:50:25 GMT"/>			<outline text="I heard recently that at a Ruby on Rails conference there were &quot;Rails Girls&quot; - basically, 'booth babes' wearing tight fit t-shirts with the Rails logo on the front and handing out leaflets about Rails. Tacky or wot? The thing is that it &lt;i&gt;wouldn't&lt;/i&gt; be out of place at a tech business event - geeks probably dislike this kind of tackiness far more than their suited counterparts." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 22:56:18 GMT"/>			<outline text="Getting more female speakers at conferences is just a part of improving conferences, which are in general terrible. BarCamp is the antidote to this." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:02:49 GMT"/>			<outline text="My blog is currently number one if you search for &lt;i&gt;crap conferences&lt;/i&gt; on Google (without quotes; with quotes, I'm number two). I have a funny feeling that I'll be featuring crap conferences a lot more. Here's an idea of a not-crap conference. A development focused one day BarCamp where it's women speakers only. I'd go along. And I bet I'd enjoy every minute." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:18:32 GMT"/>			<outline text="Diversity at conferences is a problem, but the conferences themselves is a far bigger problem. Let's solve both." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:26:31 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/diversityAndBarcamp80527/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('diversityAndBarcamp80527');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/diversityAndBarcamp80527/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('diversityAndBarcamp80527'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		<outline text="Conference planning" created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:43:10 GMT">			<outline text="I've got this great idea for a conference" created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:43:14 GMT"/>			<outline text="First, it'd have a session called &quot;Pop Culture and Democracy&quot; which would discuss whether the Internet culture's of remixing popular culture helps in democratic participation and related areas. Just over an hour long." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:43:21 GMT"/>			<outline text="Then I'd have a panel of tech people talking about microformats, spam, Creative Commons and anything else that seems interesting or relevant." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:44:18 GMT"/>			<outline text="After that a short discussion from a researcher talking about the Semantic Web." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:45:26 GMT"/>			<outline text="Next, a half hour session or so on Python programming." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:45:46 GMT"/>			<outline text="Then just under fifty minutes of Cory Doctorow doing all the usual Cory things - copyright, DRM, evil Microsoft etc." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:46:39 GMT"/>			<outline text="A discussion of the role of developers, then an hour on the One Laptop Per Child project." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:48:33 GMT"/>			<outline text="Sound like a cool conference? That's good. It's a list of the podcasts I'm going to listen to. Podcasts are what conferences have become." created="Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:54:42 GMT"/>			<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/comments/tommorris/conferencePlanning23443/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCount('conferencePlanning23443');&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haloscan.com/tb/tommorris/conferencePlanning23443/&quot;&gt;&lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt;postCountTB('conferencePlanning23443'); &lt;/script&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>