Mid-Week Reads: Marketing and Other Stuff

Marketing

How to pitch a blogger.

Should traffic ever trump taste? (The answer, if you're wondering, is no.)

Build your personal brand.

Other Things

I loved this report of the Slutwalk in Delhi.

This is beautiful. Read it all, especially 3.7, 3.9, 3.13, 3.14 and 4. This isn't just about women in Linux, but a "how to treat women in general." Also check out the male programmer privilege checklist.

I loved this piece on dressing for office and what expectations of "professional wear" mean. And this statement sums up my own feelings on the matter: "This is one of those things I’d change in a perfect world; in the meantime, though, we all have to keep going to work and feeling the effects of it."

Embroidery is the only craft I dabble in, so I'm awestruck at this.

Don't touch a stranger's hair.