So I was reading through my twitter feeds and came across one of Craig Burton’s ones asking why there was no rss feed on the O’Reilly women in technology site… More interestingly the site hasn’t been updated for almost a year. Does this mean that the women at O’Reilly got bored of blogging, they were contracted to write for it and contracts weren’t renewed or that they are no longer interested in women and IT. (BTW I know the latter isn’t true, they got in touch last month about Girl Geek Dinners and doing more in the arena… ) Or is it that they haven’t had any new female tech hires in almost 12 months. I’d love to know the story behind this one…
So the big question is why!? Why did it stop, what was the cause… who stopped it. The content was interesting… so it wasn’t that… So who knows… I’m wondering if I’ll hear a response.
Other interesting posts and news articles from today on Women in tech on a more positive note that have been brought to my attention today: (Thanks to Imran Ali)
So it’s not all doom and gloom! 
I wait with interest to find out what the outcome of the O’Reilly site is… Who knows maybe they just forgot about it and it will suddenly revive itself.
Updates: 
It doesn’t matter.
‘didn’t generate enough traffic’. well there you have it ladies, women in tech don’t produce enough traffic. Something to do with there not being enough women in tech, and constantly being overlooked?… So rather than a dismissive ‘this isn’t interesting topic’, i would argue it IS an interesting topic, just not one considered ‘deserving’ of attention. Thank goodness for GirlGeekdom
Agree with others – a useful post.
Also we should think about how more women or men who think a bit out of the box can change O’Reilly. For example, on this site we have women working on code (which is very O’R) as well as those working on the impact of tech (e.g. Maz on SNS which is not yet O’R).
Point is this is not women v men but how including both improve knowledge.
Come O’Reilly be a bit less blokey and ladies get in there
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‘d love it if O’Reilly got this back on track and started more of a community based approach to Women in Tech.
I fully agree with skud and think that O’Reilly should develop a group blog.
Open Source gals like Angie Byron are doing awesome things like winning the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award 2008 for best contributor.
Yours isn’t the first post I’ve seen on this topic lately. Another one namechecked me recently (as a speaker at an O’Reilly conf) and said that though it was great that O’Reilly had these women speakers etc, it was sad that their WiT page was so lame, especially as it ranks so high in google for the phrase “women in technology”.
*digs around*
Ah, here’s the link: http://dotfiveone.com/?p=158
I’d love to see O’Reilly’s page turn into a group blog by women involved in O’Reilly books/events/etc. There were 26 female speakers (just over 8%) at OSCON last week; I’m sure about half of them would’ve been prepared to write something about what they’re doing/presenting. Especially since 3 of the talks I attended touched on the topic of women in open source, how many there are(n’t), and/or whether/how to encourage them.
Just came across this blog since it talked about a common interest (innovation and tech)
With regards to “Women + Technology”, I would go with Richard Bach’s Jonathan Livingstone Sea gull — people are limited by their own self (and by the society).
So, if you were to say that in Men Vs Women in technology, the winners would be Men — i would say it’s neither because the match is already fixed through our own society.