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“Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programmes for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software.” (Finding Ada)

Ada Lovelace Day (March 24) is an international day of blogging (of all types) to about the achievements of women in technology and science.

So I am going to blog about Rebecca Blood. Rebecca was one of the early adopters of blogs and has been blogging since April 1999. I met her at Blog Talk Down Under in 2005 where I gave a paper with Lyn Boddington who died recently (Lyn you are missed). Rebecca is one vibrant, funny, enthusiastic, intelligent woman, so be prepared to be kept on your toes if you ever meet her.

Her blog provides a bio:

A respected thought-leader on the Internet’s impact on business, media and society, Rebecca Blood is an internationally known speaker and one of the world’s most cited authorities on blogging. She is the author of The Weblog Handbook, which has been called “the Strunk & White of blogging books”. It was chosen by Amazon as one of the 10 best books on digital culture in 2002, and has been translated into 5 languages. Her weblog, Rebecca’s Pocket, is consistently ranked as one of the world’s top blogs. She has been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, Fast Company, the BBC, and National Public Radio and profiled by Time magazine. She lives in San Francisco.

In addition to her book, Ms. Blood has written a number of critically important essays on the theory and practice of weblogs and the intersection between blogging and journalism. Her work has been used in university courses around the world. She has been invited to write for the prestigious academic journals the Nieman Reports and Communications of the ACM. Ms. Blood has spoken for diverse groups, ranging from digerati and journalists to academics and Fortune 250 executives. In 2003, the UK’s Web User named her one of the Web’s “Hot Faces” (right between Beck and Bowie), and Sweden’s Internet World ranked her as one of the world’s Top Ten Bloggers. She was once Goth Babe of the Week.”

Here are some of her books on Amazon