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Geek Girl Blogger - Lisa Brewster

This weeks Geek Girl is well known internet personality Lisa Brewster. She has answered my interview questions below.

Geek Girl Profile - LisaBrewster

Name: Lisa Brewster
Screen Name: Adora
Personal Blog: http://www.sophistechate.com
Other Blogs: http://www.technarium.com, http://www.barcampsd.org, http://www.startupschwag.com
Social Networks: Twitter, qik, MyBlogLog, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr,
Tumblr, Technorati, DailyLit, Last.fm, 1up, Pownce, Notemine.
Current Employment: Systems Engineer for Cardinal Health, and Product Manager for Startup Schwag
Location: San Diego, USA

What is your motivation for blogging?

First and foremost I blog to communicate ideas.  My first audience was myself when I started at Livejournal years and years ago, and my scope has grown larger and larger based on what projects I'm involved with.  I've tried blogging for money before (paid position, not like Pay Per Post), and as passionate as I was about the topic, I never felt very comfortable (I don't blog well under a deadline).  But my biggest motivation is that I have a bad memory...I'll forget my thought processes and troubles and successes all too easily, so blogging is a way for me to document what's in my head so I can have an opportunity to go back and reflect on those experiences.

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Geek Girl Blogger - Damana

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Name: Damana Madden
Screen Name/'s: Damana + Mana + Geek Diva
Personal Blogs:
Geek Diva - http://geekdamana.blogspot.com
Personal - http://damana.blogspot.com
Girl Geek Dinners Sydney - http://girlgeekdinnerssydney.blogspot.com
Other Blogs She Contributes To:
Sydney Nrrd Grrls - http://sydneynerdgirls.blogspot.com
Girly Geekdom Blog - http://girlygeekdom.blogspot.com
Guy Geekdom - http://guygeekdom.blogspot.com

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Geek Girl Blogger - mandyvan

Hey there Geek Girl Blogger readers. This week we are featuring mandyvan as our Geek Girl Blogger.

Geek Girl Profile - mandyvan

Name: Mandy Van Cleave
Screen Name: mandyvan
Personal Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/mandyvan
Social Networks: MySpace, Twitter, Ning, Pownce.
Other websites she is active in at times: Youtube, Digg, blog.tv.
Current Employment: Job Searching!
Location: America

What is your motivation for blogging?

I blog to stay sane. In grade school, we journaled so much and I began to miss that.  Sharing a journal with the rest of the world sounds like a pretty neat concept to me, so you can gear what you are writing about to interest others but still be random and personal.  Even though blogging is a release, I think there's also that underlying possibility of being "discovered" with blogging, whether its someone wanting you to blog more because they like your writing style, or finding a job where your brand of creativity would be appreciated.

I found many geek t-shirts in my closet, so that encouraged me to pick up blogging.  I have a corresponding G33k shirTz album on MySpace.

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Geek Girl Blogger - AllisonR

This week we are featuring for the first time a profile of one of our Geek Girl Bloggers.
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Name: Allison Reynolds
Screen Name/s: Allison - AllisonR - Gramyre
Personal blog/s: http://allisonreynolds.com/blog/ and  http://www.netxperiment.com/wordpress
Social Networks: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Seesmic, Flickr, UStream, friendfeed.
Other websites she is active in at times: deviantART, JustinTV.
Current Employment: A manager for a large multinational IT company.
Location: Australia

What is your motivation for blogging?

"I blog for several reasons - To make my online and offline projects public so I am accountable for their results, people seem to love watching other people "do" things. I blog because I have Multiple Sclerosis and writing keeps the neural pathways developing (use it or lose it!). And I blog because I like expressing myself in the medium, kind of like modern story telling, but making the truth sound interesting so that the people who read my blog get something out of it."

What is it that you find yourself blogging about, mostly the same things or does it vary?