<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.9.2" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>hilarymason.com - Hilary Mason</title>
	<link>http://www.hilarymason.com</link>
	<description>I&#039;m a computer science professor, data scientist, and web geek.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:02:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>A quick twitter bot, @bc_l</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Several months ago, on a whim inspired by an off-hand comment from Chris, I created a bot to bring the wonders of the Unix bc language to twitter.
bc is a command-line calculator that&#8217;s fast and has the capacity to do some fairly complex math.
Try it out on the command line:

echo '100 / 10' &#124; bc [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/a-quick-twitter-bot-bc_l/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Conference: Web2 Expo SF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I gave a talk called A Data-driven Look at the Realtime Web Ecosystem at the Web2Expo SF conference in May in San Francisco. I attempted to highlight some of the interesting facets of the bit.ly data set, and it appeared to be well-received (showing up on TechCrunch, ZDNet, and a few other places).
I attended the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/conference-web2-expo-sf/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>E-mail automation, questions and answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome! I&#8217;ve gotten several hundred e-mails about my e-mail management code. I do want to share it as soon as possible. Here are the answers to the most common questions.
Why separate scripts?
My philosophy is based on the unix command-line tool model; Each script should be simple and useful alone, but when combined together they become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/e-mail-automation-questions-and-answers/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Stop talking, start coding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley in the NYTimes today, which explores how and why women are under-repesented in tech startups. From the number of retweets I saw and the clicks through bit.ly links (12,579 at the time of this posting), it&#8217;s been getting a lot of attention.
There are some very strong, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/stop-talking-start-coding/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Art and Technology: Seven on Seven</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m honored and excited to be participating in Rhizome&#8217;s new conference Seven on Seven, where technologists and artists are paired up to create a completely new project in 24-hours.
The formal description:
Seven on Seven will pair seven leading artists with seven game-changing technologists in teams of two, and challenge them to develop something new &#8211;be it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/art-and-technology-seven-on-seven/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Conference: Search and Social Media 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[







I recently attended the Third Annual Workshop on Search and Social Media, an academic workshop with very strong industry participation. The workshop was packed, and had some of the most informative and interesting panel discussions I&#8217;ve seen (not counting the one I spoke on!).
Daniel Tunkelang did a great job of writing up the specific presentations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/conference-search-and-social-media-2010/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>SMS to e-mail gateway: The SMS doorbell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at NYC Resistor, it was getting cold, and we needed a doorbell so visitors wouldn&#8217;t be stranded outside when the building was locked. A standard wireless model didn&#8217;t work reliably (the space is on the fifth floor, just out of range), so various members generally resorted to writing their phone numbers on a sign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/sms-to-e-mail-gateway-the-sms-doorbell/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>IgniteNYC: The video!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The video of my IgniteNYC presentation is up, and has gotten a great response!

I&#8217;m working on removing the me-specific bits from the code and I&#8217;ll be posting it as open-source very soon!
]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/ignitenyc-the-video/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>IgniteNYC: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I recently gave a talk at IgniteNYC on How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script.
The Ignite events are a fun blend of performance, technology, and speaking skill. Each presenter gives a five minute talk with twenty slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds.
The title of my talk is a classic geek reference [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/ignitenyc-how-to-replace-yourself-with-a-very-small-shell-script/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>My code is on TV (and so am I)!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FoxNY did a piece featuring me and Diana as hackers who use our technical powers for good, not evil.

There are way too few female technologists on television, and I&#8217;m happy to do what I can to show that women kick ass with code! Look for my mischievous I&#8217;m-writing-infinite-nested-loops grin in the clip where I&#8217;m programming.
If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.hilarymason.com/blog/my-code-is-on-tv-and-so-am-i/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
