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Geek Girl Blogger - Silvia Pfeiffer

Geek Girl Profile -

Name: Silvia Pfeiffer
Screen Name/’s: ginger, nessy
Personal Blog: http://blog.gingertech.net/
Social Networks: Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, ZaaBiz, GeekSpeakr.
Current Employment: CEO & Co-Founder Vquence Pty Ltd, Startup in Video Metrics
silviaLocation: Sydney, Australia

What is your motivation for blogging?

I have been inventing and developing new digital audio/video software and technology for more than 15 years, first at the University of Mannheim, Germany, later at the CSIRO, Australia, and now in my start-up Vquence. I got involved with open source software and open standards in 2000 and have since been contributing to MPEG, IETF, Xiph.Org, and more recently the W3C. I'm also active in the local open source community. I believe I have some interesting things to share and I hope there are people interested in reading about these things.

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Back to Basics - RSS

It’s been a while since Tim has asked me to write an article for Back to Basics. Lately I’ve been more focused on our Geek Girl Blogger series, putting together their surveys and what not. Anyway, Back to Basics!

RSS_iconRSS! You may ask: “RS whaty whaty?” Or, “I’ve heard of that, what is it?”… or what I personally said was “I use RSS to read stuff at my work, but I’ve got no clue what it is exactly or how it works! What is it?” haha.

So I started researching it. When writing articles for Back to Basics I often don’t know much about whatever I’ve been asked to write about, and so I have to learn it myself and then write about that experience!

Not long after starting my research on RSS, literally I’d only clicked my mouse about four or five times! I came across a video from the commoncraft show called “RSS In Plain English” – wow! There’s my understanding and content for my RSS article! All in one little video. If you want to learn how RSS can benefit you… this video is well worth your time!
RSS In Plain English…. I owe my understanding and content to the guys who explained RSS in that video.

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Geek Girl Blogger - sarahintampa

Sarah Perez is our GGB for this week, her survey is below. Sarah is a Microsoft Channel 10 Personality.

Geek Girl Profile -

Name: Sarah Perez
Screen Name: sarahintampa
Personal Blog: www.sarahintampa.com
Sarah_Perez Professional Blogs: www.readwriteweb.com, www.on10.net
Blog Network: www.grandeffect.com
Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Friendfeed, last.fm,
hype machine, ma.gnolia, flickr, goodreads, stumbleupon, digg, mixx.
Current Employment: ReadWriteWeb, Microsoft's Channel 10
Location: Tampa, Florida USA

What is your motivation for blogging?

Today, I blog both professionally and personally, and the motivations for each blog I write for are different. On ReadWriteWeb, for example, I'm surrounded by really talented bloggers who inspire me to be a better writer, to learn, and to grow. To be blogging alongside these rockstars is truly amazing - and sometimes even a little intimidating. It's really an honor to be a part of a site that produces such a consistent flow of great writing and great content.

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Geek Girl Blogger - Mona

This weeks GGB is Rebellious Arab Girl, Mona. Her survey is below.

Geek Girl Profile -

MonaName: Mona
Screen Name: RebelliousArabGirl
Personal Blog: http://www.rebelliousarabgirl.net
Social Networks: Twitter, MyBlogLog, Mashable.
Current Employment: Sr. Multimedia Programmer
Location: Canada

What is your motivation for blogging?

I had too many reasons to say NO! to everything wrong that I saw in my life and needed to be addressed and questioned.