links for 2007-09-24

daily_links

• Guardian CiF: Bebo boomers make a stand [real social organisation on virtual social networking sites… who’d have thunk]
  “However, within hours of hearing that 22 of their schools could be closed down, Sarah, who enjoys “Sittin with my friends gettin drunk again on wine … ,” had set up the Bebo group Save Edinburgh Schools”
  (tags: socialnetworking education bebo uk)
• washingtonpost.com - Salary, Gender and the Social Cost of Haggling - By Shankar Vedantam
  An article presenting a study supporting the thesis that other reasons in addition to having children hold back women in the workplace. “[M]en were always less willing to work with a woman who had attempted to negotiate than with a woman who did not…”
  (tags: feminism gender career women work psychology)

chris @ September 24, 2007