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It's true, there aren't very many, but I know you've heard of these.<br><br>How about company (co-)founders: Ann Winblad/HummerWinblad, Heidi Roizen/TMaker, Mary Hodder/Dabble, Caterina Fake/flickr, Jessica Hardwick/SwapThing...<br><br>If you really want to talk with women who are world-class tech leaders, you can (and should) find them.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_02:19:21", "killed": false, "user_key": "051ec670f8fbe8db4beb2a072592d878", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651971": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Love your Naked book...<br><br>Am not a geek, but do have a blog for 13 million+ people in the business of network marketing - 80% of whom are women - to show them that they CAN use the Internet to do neat stuff.<br><br>I get a kick out of helping them feel like they know almost as much as their children, especially their boys, about enjoying their life and business more because of what they can learn from folks like you on the Internet.<br><br>The stories you wrote about your Mom were big hits and made many women feel like maybe, they could, too.<br><br>And now they do.  They're online, reading good stuff to make their day and get their businesses off the ground.<br><br>Kim Klaver", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_02:36:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "4aa430e7a269255e049f5f7527ee0eeb", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651972": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I wondered, if I applied to a Victoria Secret store would they hire me? I doubt it. They would think I'm just a pervert.<br><br>thing is, why do woman buy this type of underwear?.... (I'll wait for the brain to catch up)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_02:45:24", "killed": false, "user_key": "56e6e61e34e34cbedafc3d4f64202353", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651973": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yea, what Orbit said. In this day in age why does it matter what the race or gender of a person is that runs a company?  Do people really believe that women are DELIBERATELY being kept out of the tech industry?  I hardly believe that.  That would be like saying heterosexuals are deliberately being kept out of the clothing business.  Or that heterosexual women are deliberately being kept out of the WNBA.  Or that men are deliberately being made a minority in the elementary education field.  Or that whites are being prevented from driving cabs in New York City. Or that non-Koreans are being kept from owning convenience stores in urban areas. Have I generalized enough for you?  Certain careers and industries simply attract more of one gender or race or lifestyle than another.  It is what it is. Ask women why more of them don't go into the field or don't aspire to be CEO's.  I think you will find the answers eye-opening.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_01:59:40", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651974": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Zoli, how many of the speakers applied, and how many were specifically invited? How many of those 52 men went through the application process, and how many were recommended by other people, or approached directly?<br><br>How publicized was this conference out to a more general populace?<br><br>But no worries, few women at this conference. Should be just about right for you. Then you can have your manly echo chamber, and when you come out of the conference with all your bright ideas, we can all smile and nod knowingly when they all fail because you all didn't bother to even try to attract participation from a significant segment of your target audience.<br><br>James, I actually wanted to speak as Shelley the activist at the BlogHer. The conference organizers asked me to teach a tech tutorial.<br><br>As for the Geek Divas thing: I don't really care for segregation. Separate but equal has never worked in the past. I believe that Robert Scoble will find women that will meet his 'geek' criteria.<br><br>geek geek geek, Robert.<br><br>That's it for me on this thread. I'm afraid we've moved away from the original topic. Anyone have anything to say to me directly, you know where to find me. Anyone wants to email me, it's <a href=\"mailto:shelleyp@burningbird.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">shelleyp@burningbird.net</a>.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_00:20:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dce66e3f7dfc4d7ce134b92b797327f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651975": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shelley, Ismael's <a href=\"http://workerbeesblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/conference-organizers-make-my-head.html#115714339739396485\" rel=\"nofollow\">comment here</a> answers most of your questions.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_01:14:04", "killed": false, "user_key": "zolierdos", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651976": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "hey Scoble, why should we care if HP,Dell,Apple,etc aren't runned by woman? I don't see any real difference if its runned by a man or woman. this post makes me think. who mostly use msft products? A woman did run a major corporation once. It was called the HP and Compaq merger and look what that did. that was a waste of money and thats why she was fired. unless your argument is woman are more business savvy than man. no one is trying to stop woman from creating her own company and running it.?? thats how Dell,Gateway,HP,Google started.<br><br>so to make it clear, what is the real reason that woman should run companies?. plz don't use the \"equal \" arguement.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_01:22:11", "killed": false, "user_key": "56e6e61e34e34cbedafc3d4f64202353", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651977": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shelley conveniently forgets the fact that speakers were mostly not invited, they could <a href=\"http://www.office20con.com/speakers_registration.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">openly apply here.</a>&nbsp; I'll take the liberty of finishing Tara's title: <a href=\"http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/08/okayrather-than-just-complain.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Okay...rather than just complain.</a>.. apply!<br><br>I know for a fact Ismael would like to have more female speakers...&nbsp;<br><br>But ... gee .. .how do I invite you now, Robert?&nbsp; Will you dress up as woman for us?&nbsp; :-)<br><br>Joke apart, sending email in a minute... and hope to see you there.<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br><br>  &nbsp;", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_23:51:34", "killed": false, "user_key": "zolierdos", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651978": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I don't fall into the pure category of geek that Robert seeks but I just hate it when folks start talking women and men in a professional topic. I work hard to be an expert at what I do and expect respect for what I do, not my boobies. sheesh. This is not to say I haven't had my share of battles to gain respect.<br><br>Just continue on the path of diversity Robert. The diversity I find on this blog is what brings me back.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_22:05:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "5c12ef67b41f0f3eed314f883ca2ab5d", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651979": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jeffrey, I didn't know that Arrington was a coder, and with an Office 2.0 application to boot. Well, color me surprised.<br><br>Yes it would be a shame if conference organizers were forced to consider issues of diversity. I live in the south, a lot of towns here abouts thought the same of the blacks.<br><br>David, thank you for the note on the baby elephant. A smaller aperture leads to a greater depth of field. I believed I used f/10, but I'd have to check the photo's metadata to know for sure. And yes my site has no about page. They're new sites and I'm re-organizing.<br><br>However, just to clarify: I didn't bring up this issue because I wanted to be speaker. I don't bring these up because I want more visibility for myself. Having this turn into a discussion of my visibility is nothing more than sidetracking from the more serious issues.<br><br>So yes, Robert, I forgot about Search champs. However, I don't really consider that a conference. But yes, I was invited to four things in six years, two of which would have paid my way. I think, though, this really isn't germaine to either this particular discussion or the issue generally. Is it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_22:13:26", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dce66e3f7dfc4d7ce134b92b797327f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651980": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I'm glad you made this post and are hanging on for the rough ride it creates.  Your post, and the comments to it, brought up a lot of good points I have no answers for, but think about quite a bit.<br><br>Maybe one of your video shows can be you in drag at a tech interview or gathering as Roberta.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_23:26:23", "killed": false, "user_key": "7c570ee2f42ea737fa096a5fdfab4930", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651981": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Did I name anyone specific? But hey - if the cap fits then wear it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-04_20:27:37", "killed": false, "user_key": "dahowlett", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651982": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Jeffrey, I just went through several speakers: you sure you want to stick with your criteria?<br><br>And when did diversity become a burden?<br><br>You know what's funny is the organizers naive pleasure in how the conference was set and speakers found even before a press release was published. See that actually works against diversity, because it reflects only that group of people initially involved in the earlier discussion of the conference. Now, should more women have been reading the Office 2.0 weblog? Perhaps. Perhaps the Office 2.0 weblogger should have been reading more women.<br><br>Even with all of this, the most important point lost in the discussion is that whatever comes out of the conference is hopelessly flawed. Why? Half the target audience was not represented. Unless someone wants to convince me Office 2.0 is meant to be used my men only, nothing that comes out of this can be accepted with any credibility.<br><br>Diversity isn't a burden; diversity is an opportunity.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_22:25:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dce66e3f7dfc4d7ce134b92b797327f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651983": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maybe it's just me, but the idea of \"Digital Divas\" makes me a little uncomfortable. Rather than integrating interesting techie women into the show alongside the men, it marginalizes them into their own segment: it suggests that they're interesting not for what they *do* but for what they *are*.<br><br>FWIW, I seem to remember reading Shelley saying she declined the BlogHer invite because she wanted to speak as Shelley Powers, technologist, rather than Burningbird, activist -- that is to say, as a professional who happens to be a woman rather than a woman who happens to be a professional.<br><br>Can't find it now, though, so I may be remembering wrong.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_22:32:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "e766eaedc84efdee249ca931a682d70f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651984": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "@58 True I haven't heard you speak. My opinion can only be based from what I read on your blog. Which I read for entertainment purposes only. ;-)<br><br>As for your briefing with Gates, I still gotta believe tht neither he nor Sinofsky were exactly clueless on the the technology before you supposedly informed them. Neither of them got where they are by relying on low level employees not dirctly within their reporting structure to keep them abreast of technology already being used by some.  Particulary someone like Sinofsky, who is legend is correct, made MS aware of potential of the internet well before it was being widely used by anyone outside of some higher education institutions. My guess is they were simply getting another viewpoint. Nothing wrong with that. I'm sure appreciated you confirming for them what they already knew.<br><br>As for comment 57.. well it's true.  Your continuous need to remind the blogging world of your \"accomplishments\" tends to expose some apparent deep seated insecurity you seem to have about yourself. Your continued defensiveness when \"attacked\" belies that as well.  When the majority of your readers only get exposed to you via your writing it's difficult to not draw any other conclusions than that you yourself have issues with your own credibility. I know of very few people that have to periodically remind people of what the accomplished when no one asked.  You often sound like that guy that used to write the BEST blog on the internet...\"The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs\" when he would say \"I invented the iPod..perhaps you heard of it?\".  Your version is: \"I walked around and interviewed a lot of people actually doing working within MS (unlike me)..perhaps you've seen them?\".  No one cares what you did in the past. People only care what you ARE doing or WILL be doing.  But getting you to react is like shooting fish in a barrel. It's way too easy.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-03_11:39:44", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651985": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>John Welch, yes I was surprised. I look at my post and these comments, and other than a flare of irritation at Zoli, I do not see where something like \u2018castration crew\u2019 came from.</i><br><br>Shelley, that's ridiculous. Your style is to bludgeon people with your opinion and your wisdom, such as it is, and then you act all surprised when people don't react with kittens and rainbows. I'm not complaining about the style, it's similar to my own, but come on. You hit people with a brick, don't act all shocked when they fling it back at you.<br><br><i>This particular \u2019shit\u2019 you\u2019re discussing is about a professional conference that covers a topic of interest to both men and women, yet had one woman and 52 men as presenters. What surprises me more than \u2018castration crew\u2019 is the fact that there are so few of us questioning such. Yet here in this post, I\u2019ve had to defend not our criticism of this conference, but diversity itself. How is it possible that we\u2019ve become so caught up in marketing and making money that we now consider diversity a \u2018roadblock\u2019 in the path to prosperity. </i><br><br>Did it ever occur to you that maybe a lot of women with technical backgrounds just don't care? I mean, have you SEEN the explosion in small conferences about blogging, \"Web 2.0\" and now this crap? Maybe it's that they're picking their conferences carefully? WTF *is* Office 2.0? I read the site description, and it sounds like yet another \"IN THE FUTURE, EVERYTHING WILL BE PERFECT, WE'LL LIVE IN GIANT ZEPPELINS, AND OUR FOOD WILL ALL BE PILLS\"<br><br>Pfah, who's got time for that crap. Maybe you do, but most of us don't. I've a friend who only speaks at Macworld/Photoshop world - related stuff, and she's busy as hell with just that.<br><br>No, no, it must be that the organizers don't want women. Oy.<br><br><i>But diversity is core to what we say we value.</i><br><br>Diversity in encouraging really smart people to participate, regardless of genetic makeup, or diversity so that you feel happier about the male/female ratios? There's a difference you know.<br><br><i>I am surprised that diversity is sneered at, equated with loss of quality, and generally seen as more of an irritant than a goal. It doesn\u2019t say much for any future with a 2.0 in it to see such, do you think?</i><br><br>When it comes across as \"You must have n women speaking if you have x men speaking\" then yes, it is sneered at, and properly so. Sticking women on stage just so you can have more estrogen than thou is not diversity, it's bullshit, and should be properly called out as such.<br><br><i>I am also suprised there aren\u2019t more women questioning statements such as those about \u2018not selecting based on gender\u2019 and \u2018wanting quality\u2019 \u2014 with the implication being that women are not quality. I\u2019m also surprised there aren\u2019t members of other groups not represented at these events that aren\u2019t also questioning much of this.</i><br><br>Oh please. Go sing this song to someone who'll take it at face value. Me? No, I'm not going to insist on a certain number of female, black, gay, asian, etc. faces, just so we can all feel good about out commitment to diversity. Are the speakers qualified to speak on their topic? Do they want to be there? Yes? then it's all good. That's all that matters. If you don't like that, then why aren't you signing up to speak at every damned conference on the planet. Macworld Expo 2007's call for papers just ended, and I know that there are more than a few people who would love to hear from a javascript expert such as yourself. I know Dori's there, and she's damned sharp too, but everyone has their own way of approaching the same topic. So of course, you submitted a session, right? I mean, it's one of the bigger conferences out there, how could you not?<br><br><i>Stirring up shit. What would you have rather seen, John? That this conference proceed as it was, 53+ men and one women, making decisions about software to be used by both sexes? Not very effective or efficient, would you say.</i><br><br>Effective at what? Should they be required to get n women for every man just to fill in a checkbox? Is that somehow a good idea? Try again. Unless you're saying that it's simply impossible for a man to talk about software to women. Of course, that creates an interesting situation with the opposite. If only women can talk to women about things techincal, then why should any man go to a session with a woman speaker. OBVIOUSLY, she'll be COMPLETELY unable to say anything in a way he'll understand. Because, as we all know, women and men are completely different species, with different languages and are really incapable of communicating to each other.<br><br><i>Or would you rather I had admonished women for not having signed up? Most of the speakers were invited based on recommendations or being known by the conference originator. This conference has not been publicized, nor has there been any effort at outreach.</i><br><br>I have, in my speaking career only ever been specifically invited to speak at one conference. The last Comdex Chicago. It was, shall we say, a waste of time. Every other time, I've submitted sessions in accordance to the rules of the conference. What, is that a male only thing? Is there a separate set of rules for women? As far as the publicity for the conference, or lack thereof, that's a TOTAL strawman to the issue of \"Why aren't there more women speaking\". So they have crappy PR, what's that have to do with anything? What, Crappy PR = TEH SEXISM in your world?<br><br><i>I have heard from people that our criticism of Ismael was wrong, but few have come up with anything remotely reasonable or workable or effective as a solution.</i><br><br>You do understand that no, every criticism of you does not in fact, have to come up with a different solution to be valid. You can in fact say \"I do believe you're full of crap\", and have that be a valid opinion and criticism on its own. You may not like this, but your opinion doesn't change much here.<br><br><i>Fine.<br>Will I continue stirring up shit? Maybe. Maybe not.</i><br><br>I don't really care. Writing on the web is something I do for fun, and occaisionally money. But if you're going to stir up shit, then stop whining about the reaction you get. Shit-stirring does not, as a rule, create a calm, reflective, affirming reaction. If that is the reaction you want, then stop working so damned hard to get the opposite one.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-03_12:33:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651986": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "As for your Women leaders in tech \"challenge\"  How about<br><br>Meg Whitman - eBay<br>Clare Brabowski - Radio Shack<br>Patricial Gallup - PC Connection<br>Anne Mulcahy- Xerox<br>Patricia Russo - Lucent<br>Gail Deegan - Board of Directors EMC<br>Safra Catz - President, CFO - Oracle<br>Judith Sim - SVP Marketing - Oracle<br>(of course these are probably women Ellison is dating)<br>Nancy Cooper - CFO - CA<br><br>I'm sure I could go on...<br><br>and let's look in your former back yard<br>Lisa Brummel - VP HR - Microsoft<br>Debra Chrapaty - Corp VP MSN Ops<br>Suzan Delbene - Corp VP Moble Embedded Devices<br>Gerri Elliot- Corp VP - Public Sector<br>Kathleen Hogan - Corp VP - WW Support<br>Julie Larson-Green - Corp VP Windows Experience<br>Mitch Matthews - Sr VP Central Marketing<br>Lori Moore - Corp VP Service and Support<br>Mindy Mount - Corp VP CFO Entertainment<br>Tami Reller - Corp VP Business Solutions<br>Mary Snapp  - Corp VP Deputy General Counsel<br>Allison Watson - Corp VP - Partner Group<br><br>Look at all those women in Tech you could have interviewed!!!  now, careful not to be sexist in your repsonse.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-03_12:18:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651987": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LayZ: I only talk when I know what I'm talking about.<br><br>I haven't accepted the invitation to speak at Office 2.0 yet, have I?<br><br>But, have you ever heard me speak? How do you know I don't know what I'm talking about then?<br><br>Linda Stone rocks, by the way! And her dinners are legendary.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-03_02:06:41", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651988": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br>A couple of bits that I think need a little light<br><br>\"that's just who's running the tech industry\"<br>If you just look for the head on a stick, you can make that argument, however, if you think about this for a moment, the number of people who 'support' those heads is much larger, and as a bunch of folks are pointing out, many of them are women.<br><br>\"I don\u2019t want to devalue the accomplishments of women\"<br>well if you don't look for them, it is hard to devalue them. This is one of those arguments that if you don't acknowledge them, then you don't have to value them at all.<br><br>The last thing regarding your \"Digital Divas\". Back in 1997 there were a group of women who has come together as the Digital Divas, who are still active.<br><br>You were still selling stereos then.<br><br> I bring this up as these women were able to mount and win a grass roots challenge to Microsoft, your former  employer when MS tried marketing a 'Digital Diva' which culminated in MS abandoning that Idea.<br><br>Here a couple of links to get you started<br><a href=\"http://news.com.com/2100-1017-246732.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://news.com.com/2100-1017-246732.html</a><br><a href=\"http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/bas1/memberships_advocacy_1.htm#digitaldivas\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/bas1/memberships...</a><br><a href=\"http://home.fullmoonwebs.com/minimouse/index.cfm/NewsItem?ID=23103&amp;From=Home\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://home.fullmoonwebs.com/minimouse/index.cf...</a><br>I would be very careful using Digital Divas without performing a little bit of due diligence.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-03_10:50:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "f783e1e9491466b6faa1144bcd4a2944", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651989": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My response to @42...\"Hey, how 'bout that!\"  Yawn.  And this gets  you a VP title at a no name startup?  Woo hoo.  I have hard time believing you were the first to inform Gates and Sinofsky of the need for useless wiki and blog tools.  Neither of them strike me as being that out of touch that a level 59 needed to keep them up to date on the latest technology (it's amazing what you can learn about MS from reading mini-microsoft).  But if you need to believe that, and you need to keep reminding yourself and others that don't really care, about your unimportant speaker scores from the ancient past to feel good about yourself, you go ahead.  Talk about a delusions of grandeur!  Sheesh!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_23:34:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651990": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Hi Robert,<br><br>Here are a few suggestions:<br><br>Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products, User Experience, Google - see a <a href=\"http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/msande472/060517-msande472-300.asx\" rel=\"nofollow\">video</a> of a talk she recently did at Stanford.<br><br>Tina Seelig, Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program - I have a link to a talk she recently gave here:  <a href=\"http://www.elise.com/weblog/archives/001952tina_seelig_what_i_wish_i_knew_when_i_was_20.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.elise.com/weblog/archives/001952tina_seelig_what_i_wish_i_knew_when_i_was_20.php</a>  Tina also recently helped host the Always On Tech conference with Tony Perkins, so if you go through the archives of that conference, you'll see her.  She's a professor at Stanford, a serial entrepreneur, and has a PhD in neurology from Stanford Medical School.<br><br>Sarah Allen, former engineering VP at Macromedia, now at Laszlo Systems - she's an <a href=\"http://www.ultrasaurus.com/about/sarah.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">uber-geek</a>, quite brilliant, and I would bet a great speaker as well.<br><br>Janice Fraser, CEO of Adaptive Path<br><br>There's a start.  If I think of others, I'll let you know.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_23:12:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "1d7ebeaa04451a7be727868f4d4629ee", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651991": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shelley, are the Office 2.0 organinzers supposed to be clairvoyant.  Please list women...hell, African Americans, or let's get really diverse: African American Women.. or better still, African American women that are lesbian and handicapped..I mean if diversity is our goal, as opposed to information sharing, let's go all the way with diversity.... that are making an impact in the Office 2.0 space?  You can see how silly your point is.  Doesn't knowledge trump diversity?  I'd rather hear from someone that knows what they are talking about (which baffles me why Scoble gets such supposedly high scores.  And he should have said he's not qualified to be a speaker at Office 2.0) than a gender for the sake of gender.<br><br>The only one saying there is a problem appears to be you and anyone you can get to listen to you.  Frankly I don't think an audience really cares about the gender, race, color, or religion of a speaker.  Only that they are getting quality information and insight. I don't think women are being ignored, they just aren't making themselves more visible.<br><br>I'm sure Linda Stone would welcome an invite, for example. Or Jessica Lipnak. Or Johna Till Johnson.  But again, I would listen to them not because they are women, but because of what they have to say!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_23:56:38", "killed": false, "user_key": "26493d7270fb206c1e08599674e51e5a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651992": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John Welch, yes I was surprised. I look at my post and these comments, and other than a flare of irritation at Zoli, I do not see where something like 'castration crew' came from.<br><br>This particular 'shit' you're discussing is about a professional conference that covers a topic of interest to both men and women, yet had one woman and 52 men as presenters. What surprises me more than 'castration crew' is the fact that there are so few of us questioning such. Yet here in this post, I've had to defend not our criticism of this conference, but diversity itself. How is it possible that we've become so caught up in marketing and making money that we now consider diversity a 'roadblock' in the path to prosperity. But diversity is core to what we say we value.<br><br>I am surprised that diversity is sneered at, equated with loss of quality, and generally seen as more of an irritant than a goal. It doesn't say much for any future with a 2.0 in it to see such, do you think?<br><br>I am also suprised there aren't more women questioning statements such as those about 'not selecting based on gender' and 'wanting quality' -- with the implication being that women are not quality. I'm also surprised there aren't members of other groups not represented at these events that aren't also questioning much of this.<br><br>Stirring up shit. What would you have rather seen, John? That this conference proceed as it was, 53+ men and one women, making decisions about software to be used by both sexes? Not very effective or efficient, would you say.<br><br>Or would you rather I had admonished women for not having signed up? Most of the speakers were invited based on recommendations or being known by the conference originator. This conference has not been publicized, nor has there been any effort at outreach.<br><br>I have heard from people that our criticism of Ismael was wrong, but few have come up with anything remotely reasonable or workable or effective as a solution.<br><br>Fine.<br><br>Will I continue stirring up shit? Maybe. Maybe not.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_22:10:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dce66e3f7dfc4d7ce134b92b797327f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651993": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kinda off topic, but my sister-in-law just started blogging.  More of a personal blog right now, but it gives her a place to write.<br><br><a href=\"http://rows-reality.redleif.com/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://rows-reality.redleif.com/</a><br><br>I am sure some of the \"mommy bloggers\" can related to some of what she writes about.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_21:06:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "55bccfcf9a1f808a01d74d5fd9663ff3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651994": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "<i>John, we who are not white, male, straight (and Californian) thank you for equating diversity with loss of quality. DO you want us to shine your shoes and bake that cake for you now.</i><br><br>Of course, when someone disagrees with your agenda, they're instantly a chauvanist. Even worse, you accuse me of being from Cali, when that's literally as far from the truth as possible, (try Miami). By raising that strawman, it VERY conveniently allows you to ignore my point, which was that adding women just to jack the estrogen levels is *precisely* as stupid as ignoring them to jack the testosterone levels. But no, that would require you to stop crusading and start listening. How silly of me to think that making sure you had qualified speakers first, and then within that, doing what you can to jack the female/other minority count is the way to go.<br><br>Nope, quality of speaker, knowledge of topic, none of that matters. All that counts is making sure that there's females in the proper proportion. Get lucid Shelley, i'm not in the \"FEAR SHELLEY\" club, so if you think you're going to confuse me with strident declarations and strawmen, think again.<br><br><i>I happen to believe that a more diverse conference is a better conference; that organizers who don\u2019t see this as a goal are lazy, shallow, money makers who care less about quality and more about sponging off the desperate last days of a bubble even more nebulous than the last.</i><br><br>However, when your SOLE definition of \"good\" is \"number of women\" then you don't really give a rat's ass about the quality of the conference, just your agenda. Of course, reconciling this with your heresay - based criticism of Blogher is amusing, since, by your sole criteria, it was the perfect conference.<br><br>Make up your mind Shelley, but until you do, stop bitching about everyone and everything, because after a while it starts to sound like \"not enough kissing Shelley's ass\" is the real problem.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-05_19:14:22", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651995": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Whether male or female, I've always found that geeks (which to me means computer science nerds) will be geeks and shy away from roles that will focus a spotlight on them; they'd rather sit in their cubicle and write code, and there's nothing wrong with that.<br><br>What no one's yet pointed out is that Robert's looking at who's running tech companies and leading their projects. In all of my experiences, I've always found these folks to be primarily business people -- not hard-core computer scientists. So is that the main issue, that there aren't enough women making it up the rungs of the technology corporate ladder?<br><br>My take on that question would be yes. Being a geek that made the transition to management, I know that there aren't enough women there, and it's a damn difficult leap to make.<br><br>So my suggestion, Robert, is to dig a little deeper. You're not going to always find women running the show or leading the project -- sometimes they're behind the scenes actually making shit happen!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_19:44:01", "killed": false, "user_key": "8aa94c1bbc910c6bf2090e1cab393482", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651996": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Tracy: we'll have a segment where we can mix diverse geeks together in an interesting way: a dinner party.<br><br>Thanks for your comments and appreciate what you do!", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_16:13:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651997": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Sadly to say Robert, when you engage the castration crowd, you ain't never gonna win an argument. Not even come close.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_17:17:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "dahowlett", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": false, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651998": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, yeah, and I used to be one of the highest ranked speakers at Ken North's old XML series -- should we pull out our reviews and toss scores at each other at 20 paces.<br><br>To clarify: I was responding to Zoli's link to Ismael's post. I thought Ismael's post was clueless. I still do.<br><br>I will say in his favor: between yesterday and today Ismael added three new women speakers. Three extremely impressive women speakers, in fact. A thumbs up for that action.  Now, 10 or so more like the four ladies already speaking, and this conference might even be worth the bucks.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_17:23:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dce66e3f7dfc4d7ce134b92b797327f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651999": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br><br>Where I don't qualify as a hard-core geek, I do as a female CEO of a company using tech in interesting ways. After all, you were one of the first to try us out, and to be a featured guest! [thanks again for that - we really had fun with you and Shel]<br><br>Attending a plethora of geek-centric events in San Francisco and Silicon Valley over the past months, I can attest that on a list of 400++ people I am often the only, if not one of very few, female CEOs.<br><br>However, I concur with Gene. We are out there. It's just a matter of digging a little deeper. I think even more interesting than \"Digital Divas\" would be to mix it up a little...a panel (or series of interviews) of smart, innovative and driven men and women brain jamming. Kind of like we do in the 'hallway discussions' at un/conferences and at tech/networking parties.<br><br>Belated congrats on your successes, and the move. Hope you're enjoying California.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_16:11:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "b264c80371157aa9d9ef75a34ef1ed73", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652000": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Kimberly,<br><br>&gt;You\u2019re not going to always find women running the show or leading the project \u2014 sometimes they\u2019re behind the scenes actually making shit happen!<br><br>I'd love to find more people who are behind the scenes. They always turn out to be the best interviews. Male or female.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-03_02:20:03", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652001": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Elise: I love Tina. She was over at PodTech just the other night. I had dinner a while back with Janice Frasier. She rocks too. I'll definitely have both of them on the show. Thanks for reminding me about Sarah. As for Marissa, I got the feeling she didn't like me last time I talked with her, but I'd be honored to have her on. Hope I misread her.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-03_02:16:12", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652002": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"Sadly to say Robert, when you engage the castration crowd, you ain\u2019t never gonna win an argument. Not even come close.\"<br><br>What an abysmally stupid thing to say.<br><br>I came looking for adults, and I find boys in the later stages of arrested development.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_17:52:02", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dce66e3f7dfc4d7ce134b92b797327f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652003": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "LayZ? Ancient past? The Google talk was from less than a year ago. So was the LIFT talk. So where most of my other talks.<br><br>As far as my letting Microsoft's execs know, well, Bill Gates had me and two other people in his office to brief him on RSS (and later on Flock). Steven Sinofsky sent me a very long response to my email about the social software world that was happening without Microsoft's involvement (since then they added RSS and Wikis and Blogs to Sharepoint, by the way).<br><br>But, this is the disconnect. If I stand up for myself against attacks that I'm not a good speaker or I'm not good enough to speak about Office 2.0 then I'm an arrogant jerk. See #57. Whatever.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-03_02:13:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652004": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shelley, considering the general tenor of your posts and comments, I'm almost surprised at comment 47.<br><br>You like stirring shit up. You're good at it. But please, don't even start to act surprised when it spatters wrong. It's silly. You get precisely the results you knew you'd both find and create, stop pretending to be surprised.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_18:14:29", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652005": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dori: Maryam said she already invited you and you already accepted a few days ago on her blog, but maybe I misunderstood that. You're definitely invited. When would you like to do it? My calendar is online. Any open spots on both of our calendars that are aligning? <a href=\"http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=robert%40podtech.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=robert%40podtech.net</a><br><br>I'll talk with you offline on email. Sigh, more email. Heheh.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:34:20", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652006": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "This is an important issue. Check out the WM_IN show on Channel 9 to meet some of the leading women at Microsoft and the industry.<br><br><a href=\"http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/wm_in\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/wm_in</a><br><br>C", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:45:07", "killed": false, "user_key": "acd257eec0c300b925f29fef01f7a45e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652007": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PXLated: &gt;&gt;Sounds like you\u2019re getting confused and trying to make it a gender issue.<br><br>diversity is about all sorts of things. Am I getting a complete range of voices on my show? Am I presenting the tech industry fairly and completely? Am I encouraging new voices? And, yes, do I have my own biases that I need to overcome and learn from?<br><br>Why have diverse voices on a show? Cause we learn more if we don't hear from just the same old set of people. I get bored hearing from the same set too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:43:53", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652008": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Dori, good point. I have a segment of my show called \"Photowalking\" where we talk with a talented photographer and follow him or her around.<br><br>Heather might say she's not very technical, but I heard her speak at BlogHer and she's definitely a geek. She takes a geeky approach to her photos and she works for an interesting photosharing company. So, I'd love to have her on.<br><br>I'm honored that you'll be on cause you're definitely a geek. Geeks don't have to be employed. I'd love to have Shelley on cause she wrote an interesting JavaScript book and she's also an awesome photographer and we go at each other enough to know that she'd be an interesting interview.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:14:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652009": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"There simply aren\u2019t enough Mena Trotts to go around\"... Maybe that's the natural order right now...you sound like you're going to try to deviate from that. And I'm not being gender biased or anti feminist.<br>\"But partly cause I just haven\u2019t focused on making sure my show has diverse voices.\"... Diverse voices is one thing and non-gender. Sounds like you're getting confused and trying to make it a gender issue.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:09:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "f97e8f2de92a83c4b479f2ba1692d474", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652010": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shelley: I thought you were invited to MSN Search Champs too and they definitely pay your way.<br><br>I notice you didn't answer my question. Which geeks would you like to see on a video show? Male or female?<br><br>And, I pointed out at least two women who DO meet my definition of \"interesting geeks\" (Deborah Kurata, who I hired, and Heather Champ (who I'm hoping to have on my show).<br><br>So, YOU are the one who is reading too much into what I wrote and making this a devisive issue instead of helping me find great geeks to have on my show. But maybe that's the role you want to play instead of helping improve the situation.<br><br>Me? I'm just looking to have the most interesting tech geeks on my show. I'd love to have you on, because you wrote an interesting Java Script book, but I can't get outside of California this month. Maybe next.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:37:06", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652011": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "When you can get to San Antonio, let me know - I can introduce you to some really cool, and really smart tech woman - hey, Esther Dyson started here (Datapoint), and she's done pretty well!<br><br>Rob", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:16:25", "killed": false, "user_key": "8d5bac396c79513d3c14008928936c1a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652012": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "My visibility is not the point, Robert, and you're making this into a personal issue is rather disengenious. I have been invited to a total of three events in six years, only one of which offered to cover my expenses (Blogher).<br><br>I had no idea that there were so few women in technology in Silicon Valley and California, that you have to import people like me from St. Louis just to have some female representation.<br><br>Hello Robert Scoble's readers: is this true? Are there no women geeks in California?<br><br>If you're having trouble finding people, I would say you're probably not trying hard enough. However, after implying that you have a choice between women and 'interesting geeks', I would say you might have some problems connecting with women technologists int he future.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:23:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dce66e3f7dfc4d7ce134b92b797327f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652013": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"I\u2019m honored that you\u2019ll be on\"...<br><br>Is that an invitation? Shelley isn't the only one with <a href=\"http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Sixth-Visual-QuickStart-Guide/dp/0321430328/\" rel=\"nofollow\">a JavaScript book to flog</a> (and despite what Amazon says, I've got a printed book on my desk, so I know it's shipping).<br><br>...\"cause you\u2019re definitely a geek.\"<br><br>Given that <a href=\"http://www.dori.com/miata.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">I've labeled myself with it</a>, I figure I might as well live up to it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:32:48", "killed": false, "user_key": "af2f96893bcc5126e9b1662904c521e6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652014": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert - I love your description of diversity! Much of the world has way too narrow a vision of what this means...<br><br>Shelley - From your link on your comment I visited your blog for the first time just now. I don't see a bio, I don't know what you do and there is no e-mail address. If I were a conference organizer, please tell me just how I'd get the idea that you would be interested in being a speaker and what type of topic you'd speak about???<br><br>I'm currently interested in being a speaker, writing even more than I am and joining an A+ orgranization that is intensely customer focused. All of that information is clearly posted on my blog - I have Robert and Shel to thank for that, it has led to me meeting some amazing people so far and I'm making steps towards my goals every day.<br><br>P.S. You take real nice pictures of baby elephants, this I can tell for sure, how did you manage to keep the baby elephant in focus without the closer one becoming blurry?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:15:39", "killed": false, "user_key": "b145c79380d49a8c0b8b05ebb1fab234", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652015": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"So, I want geeks and/or execs in the tech industry\"<br>So take it as it comes...some will be women, some will be men. A lot don't seek to be stars (like Mena) so you may have to dig for both men and women. Too many focus on the stars, the self promoters, the samo-samo. The ones I've been most impressed with in my career have not been the self-promoters, just doers.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:07:17", "killed": false, "user_key": "f97e8f2de92a83c4b479f2ba1692d474", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652016": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Vandana: thank you. How come you don't use your real name and identify who you really are?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:53:54", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652018": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Search Champs started out very unbalanced in the early days. If I remember right the latest ones were about 30% female.<br><br>As to my show? It's a tech/geek show. NOT a blogger show. So, I want geeks and/or execs in the tech industry.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:00:05", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652019": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "PXLated: yeah. That's my goal. Geeks geeks geeks.<br><br>I was walking around Flock the other day and noticed that a few of the engineers (almost all of whom were male) were just very quiet and reserved. They don't get the spotlight, unfortunately. Hopefully I can help change that.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:10:51", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652020": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt;&gt;&gt;Why only Geeks ?? ain\u2019t there female bloggers out there doin just interesting stuff ???<br><br>Isn't this a tech/geek blog. There are way too many blogs out there all other sorts of interesting stuff.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:08:35", "killed": false, "user_key": "491ae3b478aeae5bd69773d8fea4797a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652021": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shelley: there are women geeks in California. However, there are darn few *employed* women geeks. And because Robert's qualifications appear to include an employer, people like me don't make the cut.<br><br>Robert: given that <a href=\"http://www.hchamp.com/other/archives/000798.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Heather describes herself</a> as \"not that technical,\"  I'd be interested to know how you define \"geek\".<br><br>Dori (Bay area female geek)", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:08:00", "killed": false, "user_key": "af2f96893bcc5126e9b1662904c521e6", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652022": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "&gt;&gt;&gt;A good share of the Execs I\u2019ve worked with over 30 years have been female. Each and every one could hold their own and rose to the cream level without any false \u201cdiversity\u201d claims. They were just good and stood out.<br><br>I hope more people come to this conclusion. I had the same experience and never had to think they were females.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:11:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "491ae3b478aeae5bd69773d8fea4797a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652023": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I like to see just the geeks on your show. If someone is on your show because of their gender, I prefer not to see it. I think that is what you are trying to say here.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_20:05:18", "killed": false, "user_key": "491ae3b478aeae5bd69773d8fea4797a", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652024": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "By the way, Maryam (my wife)\u00a0-- a few days ago, before this issue erupted again -- <a href=\"http://maryamie.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9592F3DEF41537A3!2121.entry\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted \"women who inspire me.\" </a>She also revealed that we're working on a segment called \"Digital Divas\" which we planned BEFORE this all erupted. So, Shelley, you can see we're thinking of this issue even before you reminded us again of its importance. Why don't you help those of us out who are TRYING to make this issue better?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:52:56", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652025": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert,<br>Your posts are getting really obnoxious.  Your reply to Shelley just proved it.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:50:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "abcb83baf81dfc56e3acff6613611b3e", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652026": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "\"So, if you\u2019re an interesting geek, or know of an interesting geek, who is doing something interesting, or running an interesting company (especially one that is using tech in an interesting way) please let me know. Male or female\"<br><br>Why only Geeks ?? ain't there female bloggers out there doin just interesting stuff ???<br><br>Oh boy the \"MSN Search Champs \" was not Tara C also invited and Liz was the only participant ?? so now we know the 3 females who were actually invited at the MSN search champs....hmmmmmmm ok if I remember correctly there were a total of 30 participants in that forum and only 3 females were invited.. and BTW Robert, your organized that event correct ??", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:56:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "e7349a5d9d042d63d2f591cb7042407f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9652027": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yes, I understand that, you're the one that focused on gender. Diversity isn't a gender issue. If you focus on gender, you're getting false or forced diversity.<br>Diversity is good, just don't force it.<br>A good share of the Execs I've worked with over 30 years have been female. Each and every one could hold their own and rose to the cream level without any false \"diversity\" claims. They were just good and stood out.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-01_19:57:46", "killed": false, "user_key": "f97e8f2de92a83c4b479f2ba1692d474", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651954": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Menopause's Secret Phytoestrogen Natural Plant Estrogen Rebalances Women Men Hormones Level Pueraria Mirifica <a href=\"http://www.phuketherb.com/phytoestrogen-natural-plant-estrogen.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Natural Plant Estrogen</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-22_03:37:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "cf8d0aa1eaeefd7e0206c6c26be08531", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651955": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "On your article: Thanks for searching out \"undiscovered\" women tech geeks.  I would love to hear from more of them.<br><br>On the comments following your article: Why engage in such seemingly unprofessional dialogue?  For me, it totally distracts from your position as a thought leader in the tech world.  I'm all for speaking your mind and sharing ideas, but why the useless banter?  My continuing bone with blogging is that it takes to much effort to sort through all the banter to find the golden nuggets.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-10_00:25:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "10d77d4f290f438956d4f026cfab17df", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651956": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Oops... The macro issue of great women being accepted as equals and their equal involvement and participation in the tech community, including conferences and events... Robert, I suggest you step back for a moment in order to re-think and quickly get on the right side of this issue (right side = pro women). Women stuggling for equality and respect (and they have had to struggle) in society has a long history. For example, when did women achieve the right to vote in the USA, UK and Canada?<br><br>I'm an old guy so the phrase \"Digital Divas\" seems to me somewhat more than a little demeaning to women. It also possibly indicates a lack of understanding regarding the issues and problems.<br><br>A number of people commenting made good suggestions with respect to women in technology for your interview initiatives (e.g., Elisa Bauer, Sept. 2nd @ 8:12 pm and LayZ, Sept 3, 9:18).<br><br>The larger issue seems to be basic human dignity including equal opportunities for involvement, participation and contribution. The positions either against or for. Clearly the technological community has some work to do.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-09_02:56:45", "killed": false, "user_key": "4d60901d185ea95874ed7adfa9b905b5", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651957": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "I actually am only writing at this point because I spend the last few days at Barcamp London. Needless to say, one of the few women.<br><br>And I find this discussion interesting, because I am going to Office 2.0 - mainly because I disagree with a lot which is on the table there and am looking forward to interesting discussions which I intend to add my usual European touch.<br><br>So how do i like the idea of getting women up there to have more diverse voices? Not at all if that means the permier reason being them there is \"have a skirt on the stage\".<br><br>We had this conversation over and over again. There is a side which is the organizers job. Which seems not have been done this time and he should have learned out of it. And there is a side for the women to be done also.<br><br>It is not enough to sit on your backs and wait for the organizers to come to you and begging you to do something for them.<br><br>Why don't I go to him and do what i ask here? Because frankly I cant think of something worth presenting up there to the crowd for this topic. But I am sure that a pre conference podcast will have something valuable added to the conference and it is something I not only like to do but is also received well by the audience.<br><br>Very often, when those accusations are made, it is all blamed on the guys. In part very correctly. But in part also very snobbish.<br><br>If women cannot come to such a conference because they don't have the babysitter at home, complain about it. And make it clear that this is the reason why you are not coming.<br><br>If you are not coming because you find the ratio of guys coming to be intimidating, mail this and mark that you find the marketing of such an event to be lacking.<br><br>And so many more reasons. This is a game of two parties, not just one. And if you want to score in the game, then you need to actually play it.<br><br>You will not be given points for free just for being a women.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-05_09:58:13", "killed": false, "user_key": "57a14292f76b4221ca85cfdb9937fc1f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651959": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shelley: regarding \"speaker standards,\" maybe you haven't heard. Out of about 40 speakers who spoke at Google's first Zeitgeist conference (including CEOs from Yahoo, AOL, Google, and other places and some women) I was the second highest ranked speaker (according to the audience) second only to Malcolm Gladwell.<br><br>At LIFT in Europe, I was the second highest ranked speaker (if I remember right) second only to Cory Doctorow. Out of dozens of speakers, including a famous author and a famous model.<br><br>And, there aren't many people alive who've interviewed the Office Live team as well as the Google Calendar team as well as the guy who runs the company that makes Open Office.<br><br>I also have a pretty deep resume\u00a0of speaking engagements, including to executives from Boeing, Microsoft, Target, Nestle, Amazon, and other places.\u00a0<br><br>Just to stick up for Zolli's standards. If you have someone who is a better speaker, please feel free to recommend him or her. I'm sure Zolli would appreciate that.<br><br>Also, I don't need to be a speaker there. I could run a panel discussion or do something else like interview someone like Meg Whitman or Mena Trott.<br><br>As to my Office 2.0 bonafides? I was one of the first people to email Bill Gates and Steven Sinofsky (execs in charge of Office at Microsoft) telling them that they should make a suite of apps, including a wiki, a blog tool, and a few other things. That was back before Flickr was purchased by Yahoo.<br><br>Do you know of someone else who saw this industry back then and has an email to prove it?", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_14:35:42", "killed": false, "user_key": "3553f5e0db0fd1ec4e40a932a2d8f5b3", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651960": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Robert, reading within the tapesty of this conversation, the tone and general tenor -- Oh Man, you have hecka of a challenge - on digging deep looking for \" geekettes\" :)-<br><br>Along with this challenge comes also an opportunity for you and your company. I think you have the vision and can make the difference. After all you perecive that they an;t a enough \"mena trotts\" - but is that a fact ?? A hrd factorid or just an assumption Because you cant digg deep enough ??<br><br>If you 're-build they will come\" :)-", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-03_09:09:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "e7349a5d9d042d63d2f591cb7042407f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651961": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Yo, talk to Vanessa Fox of Google's Sitemaps team. She's done great stuff, like a radio show episode with Danny Sullivan called \"Everything I needed to learn about SEO, I learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.\" Rooting around.. um.. link here:<br><a href=\"http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/08/listen-in-matt-cutts-and-vanessa-fox.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006...</a>", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_13:45:15", "killed": false, "user_key": "8f1dc8d0613be097f161d62bf5488744", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651962": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "What about Diane Greene, founder and CEO of VMware. Now that it's been bought by EMC she has another title but still runs this recognizable tech company.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-05_13:33:09", "killed": false, "user_key": "200796299ac5f1062fdc5357a899c28c", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651963": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Well, if you need someone interesting who can talk about large scale Mac OS X deployments or Directory Services issues, I know someone who'd be outstanding.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_12:07:36", "killed": false, "user_key": "422187df3c45655b0dc2ae5de0710b27", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651964": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Maybe promote some European and Asian voices too.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_11:24:10", "killed": false, "user_key": "6b76da357e510aa8f5eb0c132e6c41c9", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651965": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Zoli after reading that post, I was less surprised there was one woman presenting and more suprised that 52 men actually agreed. No accounting for standards.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-02_08:45:52", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dce66e3f7dfc4d7ce134b92b797327f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651966": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "John, we who are not white, male, straight (and Californian)  thank you for equating diversity with loss of quality. DO you want us to shine your shoes and bake that cake for you now.<br><br>I happen to believe that a more diverse conference is a better conference; that organizers who don't see this as a goal are lazy, shallow, money makers who care less about quality and more about sponging off the desperate last days of a bubble even more nebulous than the last.<br><br>Real reason I am commenting one last time:<br><br>Dennis, oh we're sorry, when you were talking about \"castration crowd\" did you mean Christopher Coulter?<br><br>Putz.", "is_last_child": false, "can_reply": false, "down_voted": false, "real_date": "2006-09-05_09:10:50", "killed": false, "user_key": "1dce66e3f7dfc4d7ce134b92b797327f", "has_been_anonymized": false, "edited": false, "author_is_moderator": false, "from_request_user": null, "votable": true, "date": "3 years ago", "approved": true, "num_replies": 0, "is_first_child": false, "email": "", "parent_post_id": null, "depth": 0, "points": 0, "author_is_creator": false, "is_realtime": false}, "9651967": {"up_voted": false, "ip": "", "has_replies": false, "message": "Shelley, do you know a woman who has developed an Office 2.0 site? If the answer is yes, then why don't you suggest that that woman speak at the conference, as Ismael Ghamini suggested you do? If the answer is no, then why are you blaming a conference organizer for a much larger social problem that he has very little control over?<br><br>Look at the keynote speaker list for Oracle Open World 2006. All men. Did you decry Larry Ellison on your blog? If not, why not? Don't you feel some sense of entitlement to speak at Oracle Open World as well? Oracle Open World needs more women speakers, darn it, whether they know anything about Oracle or not.<br><br>When my five-year-old daughter grows up and becomes an Oracle sysadmin (fingers crossed!), it'll be because I started teaching her how to write stored procedures in the womb, not because some conference organizer was pressured into using his conference to \"promote diversity\". 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		}
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s comment'
				: '%(num)s comments'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_LIKES = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s like'
				: '%(num)s likes'
			), {num:num});
	};

	this.NUMBER_OF_POINTS = function(num) {
		return Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
			(num == 1
				? '%(num)s point'
				: '%(num)s points'
			), {num:num});
	};
};
// Dsq.FmtStrings





Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN = 'a2d140c59df8cd4ce27a20e0829cacd8';
Dsq.COMMENTS_RE = /(<li.*?id="?dsq-comment-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/li>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_RE = /(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-header-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*?)(<\/div>)\s*(<div.*?class="?dsq-comment-body"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
Dsq.POST_BODY_RE = /\s*(<div.*?id="?dsq-comment-message-(\d+)"?.*?>)((?:.|\s)*)(<\/div>)/gim;
// HACK: Safari ends with "-->" while other browsers end with "--&gt;" as expected.
Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE = /&lt;!--\[(.*?)\]--(?:>|&gt;)/gim;



var FragmentPacket = function(reader, writer, writer_url, is_child, receiveCallback) {
	var that = this;
	this.reader = reader;
	this.writer = writer;
	this.writer_url = writer_url;

	this.is_child = is_child || false;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;

	this._lastHash = null;

	this._accumMsg = '';

	this._lastSeqno = 0;

	this.MAX_DATA_LEN	= 1024;

	this.WAIT_TIME		= 10;

	this.READY		= 0x1;
	this.WRITING	= 0x2;
	this.FIN		= 0x4;
	this.ACK		= 0x8;

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;
	var listener = function() {
		that.recv();
	};
	return window.setInterval(listener, 10);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.log = function(msg) {



};

FragmentPacket.prototype.recv = function() {
	var hash;
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {

		hash = this.reader.name;
	} else {

		var hashIndex = this.reader.location.href.indexOf('#');
		if (hashIndex == -1) {
			return;
		}
		hash = this.reader.location.href.substring(hashIndex+1);
	}
	var flags = parseInt(hash.substring(0, 4), 10);
	var seqno = parseInt(hash.substring(4, 24), 10);
	var data  = hash.substring(24);

	if (this._lastHash !== hash) {
		this._lastHash = hash;
		this.log('recv: ' + hash);

		this.log(' flags: ' + flags);
		this.log(' seqno: ' + seqno + ' len: ' + hash.substring(4, 24).length + ' (' + hash.substring(4, 24) + ')');
		this.log(' data: ' + data + ' len: ' + data.length);

		this._lastSeqno = seqno;

		if (flags & this.WRITING) {
			this._accumMsg += data;
			this.sendFlag(this.ACK, seqno);
			if (flags & this.FIN) {
				this.log('recv finished: ' + decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));
				this.receiveCallback(decodeURIComponent(this._accumMsg));

				this._accumMsg = '';

				this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
			}
		}
	}

	return {
		flags: flags,
		seqno: seqno,
		data: data
	};
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendRawPacket = function(packet) {
	if (/MSIE/.test(navigator.userAgent)) {
		this.writer.name = packet;
	} else {

		this.writer.location.href = this.writer_url + '#' + packet;
	}

};

FragmentPacket.prototype.sendFlag = function(flag, seqno) {
	this.sendRawPacket(this._zerofill(flag, 4) + this._zerofill(seqno, 20));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {
	this._send(0, encodeURIComponent(msg));
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._send = function(packetNum, msg) {
	var that = this;
	var recvBuf = this.recv();

	if (packetNum === 0) {

		if (!(recvBuf.flags & this.READY)) {
			this.log('client is not ready, waiting...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		}
	} else {

		if (!( (recvBuf.flags & this.ACK) && (recvBuf.seqno === this._lastSeqno) )) {
			this.log('waiting for ack from client...');
			window.setTimeout(function() { that._send(packetNum, msg); }, this.WAIT_TIME);
			return;
		} else {
			this.log('received ack: ' + this._lastSeqno + ' ' + recvBuf.seqno);
		}
	}

	var flags = this.WRITING;
	var num_packets = Math.ceil(msg.length / this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	this.log('num_packets: ' + num_packets);

	if (num_packets === packetNum) {

		this.log('message successfully sent!');
		this.sendFlag(this.READY | this.ACK, this._lastSeqno);
		return true;
	}

	this._lastSeqno++;

	if (packetNum == num_packets-1) {
		flags |= this.FIN;
	}

	var data = msg.substring(packetNum * this.MAX_DATA_LEN, (packetNum+1) * this.MAX_DATA_LEN);
	var packet = this._zerofill(flags, 4) + this._zerofill(this._lastSeqno, 20) + data;

	this.log('sending raw packet: ' + packet);
	this.sendRawPacket(packet);

	return this._send(packetNum + 1, msg);
};

FragmentPacket.prototype._zerofill = function(num, width) {
	var retval = num.toString();
	var retval_len = retval.length;
	for (var i = 0; i < width - retval_len; i++) {
		retval = '0' + retval;
	}
	return retval;
};

var PostMessagePacket = function(receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId) {
	var that = this;
	this.receiver = receiver;
	this.receiveCallback = receiveCallback;
	this.id = id;


	this.receiverId = receiverId;
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.createListener = function() {
	var that = this;

	var listener = function(e) {

		if (!that.id) {
			that.id = e.data;
			return;
		}


		var id = e.data.split(';')[0];
		if (id !== that.id) {
			return;
		}
		var data = e.data.substring(e.data.indexOf(';') + 1);

		that.receiveCallback(data);
	};

	if (typeof window.attachEvent == 'function') {
		window.attachEvent('onmessage', listener);
	} else if (typeof window.addEventListener == 'function') {
		window.addEventListener('message', listener, false);
	} else {
		throw new Error('No method found to create event listener for PostMessagePacket.');
	}
};

PostMessagePacket.prototype.send = function(msg) {



	var needs_reget = false;
	try {
		if (typeof this.receiver.id == 'undefined' || typeof this.receiver.postMessage == 'undefined') {
			needs_reget = true;
		}
	} catch(e) {


	}
	if (needs_reget && typeof this.receiverId != 'undefined') {
		this.receiver = document.getElementById(this.receiverId).contentWindow;
	}

	var packet;
	if (!msg) {

		packet = this.id;
	} else {
		packet = this.id + ';' + msg;
	}
	this.receiver.postMessage(packet, '*');
};

PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = null;
PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id = function() {
	var id = (new Date()).getTime();
	if (id == PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id) {
		id++;
	}
	PostMessagePacket._last_unique_id = id;
	return id.toString();
};

var JsonRpc = function() {

	this.ids = {};

	this.objectToJSON = function(obj) {
		var json = '';
		var results = [];

		if (obj === undefined || obj === null) {
			return 'null';
		}

		switch (obj.constructor) {
			case Object:
				for (var property in obj) {
					if (obj.hasOwnProperty(property)) {
						results.push(this.objectToJSON(property) + ': ' + this.objectToJSON(obj[property]));
					}
				}
				json = '{' + results.join(', ') + '}';
				break;
			case Array:
				for (var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++) {
					results.push(this.objectToJSON(obj[i]));
				}
				json = '[' + results.join(', ') + ']';
				break;
			case Number:
			case Boolean:
				json = obj.toString();
				break;
			case String:

				var specialChars = {'\b': '\\b', '\t': '\\t', '\n': '\\n', '\f': '\\f', '\r': '\\r', '\\': '\\\\'};

				json = obj.replace(/[\x00-\x1f\\]/g, function(match) {
					var ch = specialChars[match];
					return ch ? ch : '\\u00' + match.charCodeAt().toPaddedString(2, 16);
				});

				json = '"' + json.replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';
				break;
			default:

				json = 'null';
				break;
		}

		return json;
	};

	this.createHandler = function(send_func, registered_funcs) {
		var that = this;
		var handler = function(message) {

			try {
				var rpc = eval('(' + message + ')');
			} catch(e) {
				alert('bad JSON: ' + message);
				return;
			}
			if (rpc.method) {

				if (!registered_funcs[rpc.method]) {
					return;
				}

				var retval = registered_funcs[rpc.method].apply(null, rpc.params);
				if (rpc.id) {
					var response = {
						result: retval,
						error: null,	// TODO
						id: rpc.id
					};
					send_func(that.objectToJSON(response));
				}
			} else if(rpc.result) {

				if (!that.ids[rpc.id]) {
					return;
				}

				that.ids[rpc.id](rpc.result);
				delete that.ids[rpc.id];
			}
		};
		return handler;
	};

	this.execute = function(send_func, method, params, response_callback) {
		response_callback = response_callback || null;
		var id = (response_callback) ? (new Date()).getTime() : null;

		var request = {
			method: method,
			params: params,
			id: id
		};

		send_func(this.objectToJSON(request));

		if (id) {
			this.ids[id] = response_callback;
		}
	};
};
JsonRpc = new JsonRpc();

var ParentMessenger = function(childUrl, receiverUrl, container, receiveCallback) {


	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Safari') >= 0 && parseInt(navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Version/') + 8), 10) == 3) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	} else if (window.opera) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}



	if (!receiverUrl &&
		navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Gecko') >= 0 &&
		parseFloat(navigator.userAgent.slice(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 3, navigator.userAgent.indexOf('rv:') + 6)) < 1.9) {
		throw new Error("unsupported.");
	}


	if (/msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent)) {


		if (document.domain == window.location.hostname) {
			receiverUrl = '';
		}
	}

	var that = this;
	this.childUrl = childUrl;
	this.receiverUrl = receiverUrl;
	this.container = container || document.body;

	this.packetHandler = null;


	this._ready = false;
	this._error = false;


	var _createReceiverForFragmentPacket = function() {

		that.receiver = document.createElement('iframe');
		that.receiver.src = receiverUrl;
		that.receiver.id = 'receiver_' + (new Date()).getTime();
		that.receiver.name = that.receiver.id;

		that.receiver.frameBorder = '0';
		that.receiver.frameSpacing = '0';
		that.receiver.style.borderStyle = 'none';

		var receiver_onload = function() {
			var receiver = document.getElementById(that.receiver.id).contentWindow;

			try {
				receiver.document.body.innerHTML = '';
			} catch(e) {

				that._error = true;
			}
			receiver.document.body.style.padding = '0px';
			receiver.document.body.style.margin = '0px';

			var child = receiver.document.createElement('iframe');
			child.id = 'child';
			child.name = 'child';
			child.src = that.childUrl;

			child.frameBorder = '0';
			child.frameSpacing = '0';
			child.style.borderStyle = 'none';
			child.style.width = '100%';
			child.style.height = '100%';
			receiver.document.body.appendChild(child);

			that.child = receiver.document.getElementById('child').contentWindow;
			that.receiver = receiver;

			that.packetHandler = new FragmentPacket(that.receiver, that.child, that.childUrl, false, receiveCallback);

			that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();

			that.packetHandler.sendFlag(that.packetHandler.READY, 0);

			that._ready = true;
		};

		that.receiver.onreadystatechange = function() {
			if (this.readyState == 'complete') {
				receiver_onload();
			}
		};

		that.receiver.onload = receiver_onload;







		if (Dsq.Utils.ie) {
			if (that.container.clientWidth === 0) {

				var _waitForWidth = function() {
					if (that.container.clientWidth > 0) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					} else {
						window.setTimeout(_waitForWidth, 100);
					}
				};
				_waitForWidth();

				that._once = false;
				that.receiver.onresize = function() {
					if (!that._once) {
						Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(that.container.id);
					}
					that._once = true;
				};
			}
		}

		that.container.appendChild(that.receiver);
	};


	var _createReceiverForPostMessage = function() {

		var receiver_onload = function() {

			that.packetHandler.send();
			that._ready = true;
		};

		var id = PostMessagePacket._get_unique_id();
		var receiverId = 'child_' + id;


		ParentMessenger['_receiver_onload_' + receiverId] = receiver_onload;

		that.container.innerHTML += '<iframe ' +
			'src="' + childUrl + '" ' +
			'id="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'name="' + receiverId + '" ' +
			'onload="ParentMessenger._receiver_onload_' + receiverId +'();" ' +
			'></iframe>';

		that.receiver = document.getElementById(receiverId).contentWindow;
		that.packetHandler = new PostMessagePacket(that.receiver, receiveCallback, id, receiverId);
		that._listener = that.packetHandler.createListener();
	};

	if (typeof window.postMessage == 'function') {
		_createReceiverForPostMessage();
	} else {
		_createReceiverForFragmentPacket();
	}

};

ParentMessenger.prototype.sendMessage = function(message) {
	var that = this;
	if (!this._ready) {

		window.setTimeout(function() { that.sendMessage(message); }, 10);
		return;
	}
	this.packetHandler.send(message);
	return true;
};

Dsq.NewFrames = function(url) {
	this.url = url;
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype.init = function(onFailure) {
	var that = this;

	try {
		this.messenger = new ParentMessenger(this.url, Dsq.jsonData.integration.receiver_url, this.container, this.receive_callback);
	} catch(e) {
		if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
			onFailure();
		}
	}

	if (typeof onFailure == 'function') {
		var iId = window.setInterval(function() {
			if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				return;
			}
			if (that.messenger._ready) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
			} else if (that.messenger._error) {
				window.clearInterval(iId);
				onFailure();
			}
		}, 10);
	}
};

Dsq.NewFrames.prototype._execute = function(method, args, callback) {
	var that = this;
	if (typeof that.messenger == 'undefined') {
		return false;
	}
	JsonRpc.execute(
		function(msg) { that.messenger.sendMessage(msg); },
		method,
		args || [],
		callback);
	return true;
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame = function(container, parent_post_id) {
	var that = this;
	this.container = container;
	this.parent_post_id = parent_post_id;

	var sendFunc = function(msg) {

		Dsq.Debug.log('Dsq.ReplyFrame.sendFunc');
		that.messenger.sendMessage(msg);
	};


	var postComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		Dsq.jsonData.posts[response.message.id] = response.message.post_meta;
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key]) {
			Dsq.jsonData.users[response.message.post_meta.user_key] = response.message.user_meta;
		}


		var reply_position = (typeof(disqus_insert_wrt_sort) == 'undefined' 
			? (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reply_position ? -1 : null) 
			: (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? null : -1));
		
		if (response.message.post_meta.approved) {
			Dsq.Post.insert(response.message.post_meta.parent_post_id || reply_position, response.message.id, response.message.post_meta.message);
		}

		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onSuccess(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var postComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(response.message, 'Error');
		Dsq.Templates.postComment_onFailure(response, parent_post_id, response.message.id);
	};

	var editComment_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);
		
		message.innerHTML = response.message;
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
	
	var editComment_onFailure = function(response) {
		var post_id = parent_post_id;
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('Sorry, there was an error editing this comment.', 'Edit Error');
		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	var getUserByEmail_onSuccess = function(response) {
		var msg = response.message;
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(parent_post_id);

		if (msg.username) {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'login', {
				'username': msg.username,
				'display_name': msg.display_name,
				'avatar_url': msg.avatar_url,
				'verified': msg.verified,
				'email': fields.email.value
			});
		} else {

			Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(parent_post_id, 'register');
		}
	};

	var validateAuth_onSuccess = function(response, auth_choice) {
		Dsq.Templates.postComment(parent_post_id, null, true, auth_choice);
	};

	var validateAuth_onFailure = function(response, auth_choice) {
		var pid = parent_post_id ? '-' + parent_post_id : '';
		var msg = response.message;

		if (auth_choice == 'register') {
			var fields = ['email', 'username', 'password'];

			for (var i = 0; i < fields.length; i++) {
				var field = fields[i];
				var errorDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-' + field + '-errors' + pid);

				if (msg[field]) {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = msg[field];
				} else {
					errorDiv.innerHTML = '';
				}
			}
		} else if (auth_choice == 'login') {
			Dsq.$('dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid).innerHTML = '<p>We couldn\'t log you in. Please verify your login.</p>';
		}
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.receive_callback = JsonRpc.createHandler(sendFunc, {
		'postComment.onSuccess': postComment_onSuccess,
		'postComment.onFailure': postComment_onFailure,
		'editComment.onSuccess': editComment_onSuccess,
		'editComment.onFailure': editComment_onFailure,		
		'getUserByEmail.onSuccess': getUserByEmail_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onSuccess': validateAuth_onSuccess,
		'validateAuth.onFailure': validateAuth_onFailure,
		'reload': function() { window.location.reload(); }
	});

	this.url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY +
		'?' + (new Date()).getTime() +
		'&f=scobleizer' +
		'&t=listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech' +
		'&ff=' + Dsq.Thread.ff +
		'&default_text=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_default_text) +
		'&ifrs=' + encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css);
	if (this.parent_post_id) {
		this.url += '&parent_post=' + this.parent_post_id;
	}
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype = new Dsq.NewFrames(Dsq.ReplyFrame.url);

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.post = function(author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe) {
	this._execute('postComment', [author_name, author_email, author_url, authenticate, sharing_services, subscribe]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.edit = function(post_id, message) {
	this._execute('editComment', [post_id, message]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.setState = function(parent_post_id, depth) {
	this._execute('setState', [parent_post_id, depth]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.getUserByEmail = function(email) {
	this._execute('getUserByEmail', [email]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.validateAuth = function(auth_choice, email, username, password) {
	this._execute('validateAuth', [auth_choice, email, username, password]);
};

Dsq.ReplyFrame.prototype.authenticateFacebook = function(session, forum_url) {
	this._execute('authenticateFacebook', [session, forum_url]);
};

	Dsq.Facebook = function() {
	var that = this;

	var handleSessionData = function(session) {

		var forum_url = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;




		if (typeof disqus_facebook_forum != 'undefined') {
			forum_url = disqus_facebook_forum;
		}
		Dsq.frames.reply_0.authenticateFacebook(session, forum_url);
	};

	var onLogin = function() {
		FB.Connect.getSignedPublicSessionData(handleSessionData);
	};

	this.login = function() {
		FB.Connect.requireSession(onLogin, true);
	};
};
Dsq.Facebook = new Dsq.Facebook();


	






Dsq.Themes = {};

Dsq.Themes.narcissus = new function() {
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-form-area';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-textarea-wrapper';



	
	this.header = function() {
		var comments_count, total_posts, num_posts;
		var html = '';
		var missing_perm_tmpl;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.missing_perm) {
			missing_perm_tmpl = Dsq.Templates.missingPermissions();
			if (missing_perm_tmpl) {
				html += '<div class="dsq-missing-permissions">' + missing_perm_tmpl + '</div>';
			}
		}

		total_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.total_posts;
		num_posts = Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_posts;

		if (total_posts) {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_FULL(total_posts, num_posts);
		} else {
			comments_count = Dsq.FmtStrings.SHOWING_COMMENTS_WITHOUT_PAGINATION(num_posts);
		}

		html += ' \
		<div id="dsq-comments-title"> \
			<h3>' + comments_count + '</h3> \
		</div> \
		';

		html += ' \
		<div class="dsq-options"> \
			<span class="dsq-item-sort">'
				+ Dsq.Strings.SORT_BY + ' \
				<select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);"> \
					<option value="hot" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 4 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.POPULAR_NOW + '</option> \
					<option value="best" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 3 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.BEST_RATING + '</option> \
					<option value="newest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 2 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.NEWEST_FIRST + '</option> \
					<option value="oldest" ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sort == 1 ? 'selected="selected"' : '') + '>' + Dsq.Strings.OLDEST_FIRST + '</option> \
				</select> \
				&nbsp; \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<span id="dsq-subscribe">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.subscribed
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.UNSUBSCRIBE + '</a>'
						: '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_EMAIL + '</a>')
				+ '</span> \
			</span> \
			<span class="dsq-subscribe-rss" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle"> \
				<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png" alt="" /> \
				<a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech/latest.rss">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_BY_RSS + '</a> \
			</span> \
		</div> \
		';

		
		

		return html;

	};
	
	this.footer = function() {
		var html = '';

		html += Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
		
			html += Dsq.Templates.realtime();
			html += Dsq.Templates.showThreadSettings();
			html += Dsq.Templates.postBox();

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		


		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) {
 			html += ' \
				<div class="dsq-global-moderator-extras">'
					+ '<strong>shortname:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url
					+ '<strong>thread id:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.id
					+ '<strong>thread slug:</strong> ' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.slug
				+ '</div> \
			';
		}

		return html;
	};
	
	this.realtime = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			html += '<div id="dsq-realtime-options" class="dsq-options">'
					 + Dsq.Strings.REALTIME_UPDATING_IS + ' <strong id="dsq-realtime-status" style="text-transform: lowercase">' + Dsq.Strings.ENABLED + '</strong>. \
					 <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-toggle" style="text-transform: capitalize"></a> \
					</div>';
		}

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
			html += ' \
				<div style="display: none" id="dsq-realtime-alert" class="dsq-realtime-alert"><span id="dsq-realtime-queued"></span> <a href="#" id="dsq-realtime-show"></a></div> \
			';
		}
		
		return html;
	};

	this.showThreadSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '<div id="dsq-thread-settings" class="dsq-thread-settings">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATOR_OPTIONS;
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showSettings(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.SETTINGS + '</a>';
		html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.showModeratorActions(); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>';
		if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled && Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			html += '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.reportMissingReactions(); return false;">'
						+ Dsq.Strings.REPORT_MISSING_REACTIONS
						+ '</a>';
		}
		html +='</div>';

		return html;
	};

	this.postBox = function(post_id, use_fallback_iframe) {


		var html;
		var display_sharing_options = Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated;

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post) {
			return '';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.hasOwnProperty(Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain)) {
				display_sharing_options = false;
			}
		}
		
		if (post_id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];				
		}
		
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		var _requestUserInfo = function() {
			var html;



			var user_has_email = false;

			html = '<div class="dsq-request-user-info"> <!-- // If authenticated --> \
				<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT + '?ctkn=' + Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN + '" class="dsq-request-user-logout">' + Dsq.Strings.LOGOUT + '</a> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td rowspan="2">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '')
								+ '<img src="' + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR + '" width="48" height="48" class="dsq-request-user-avatar">'
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-name">'
								+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
									 ? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '">' + Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain + '</span>'
									 : (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_verified
											? '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span>'
											: '<span class="dsq-badge-small dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span>'))
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE + '">' : '') 
								+ Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username 
							+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '</a>' : '')
							+  (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && user_has_email ? ' <small>(<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.remoteAccountSettings(); return false;">change settings</a>)</small>' : '')
							+  (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? ' <small>(<a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/info/" target="_blank">change name</a> or <a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/avatar/" target="_blank">picture</a>)</small>' : '')
						+ '</td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-request-user-stats"> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.comments_count == 1 ? 'comment' : 'comments') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.likes_count == 1 ? 'like' : 'likes') + '</span> \
							<span><big>' + Dsq.jsonData.request.points + '</big> ' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.points == 1 ? 'point' : 'points') + '</span> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		var _loginOptions = function() {
			var html;
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-authenticate"> \
				<p class="dsq-autheneticate-copy">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
					? Dsq.Strings.YOU_ARE_COMMENTING_AS_A + ' <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. ' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.LOGIN_BELOW + '.'
					: Dsq.Strings.REQUIRED + ': ' + Dsq.Strings.PLEASE_LOGIN_BELOW_TO_COMMENT + '.')
				+ '</p> \
				<ul class="dsq-login-buttons">'
					+ (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-disqus.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Facebook.login(); return false;"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-facebook.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-twitter.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL(); return false" ><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-openid.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_yahoo ? '<li class="dsq-login-button"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Yahoo.startYahooConnect(); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/login-yahoo.gif" /></a></li>' : '')
				+ '</ul> \
			</div> \
			';
			return html;
		};

		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {


			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {



				return '<div id="dsq-form-area" style="display:none"><div id="dsq-textarea-wrapper"></div></div>' + _loginOptions();
			} else {
				return '';
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<div id="' + (post_id 
			? 'dsq-reply-post-' + post_id
			: 'dsq-new-post')
		 	+ '" class="dsq-post-area"> \
			<div class="dsq-dc-logo"> \
				<a href="http://disqus.com/comments" target="_blank"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/disqus-logo.png"></a> \
			</div>'
			+ (post_id 
				? '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.REPLYING_TO + ' ' + userData.display_name + '</h3>'
				: '<h3>' + Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT + '</h3>')
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated 
				? _requestUserInfo()
				: _loginOptions() )
			+ '<div id="dsq-form-area' + pid + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-textarea"> \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper" id="dsq-textarea-wrapper' + pid + '"></div> \
			</div>'
			+ (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated
			? ' \
			<div class="dsq-post-fields"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-name' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_name ? disqus_def_name : (Dsq.jsonData.session.name ? Dsq.jsonData.session.name : Dsq.Strings.NAME + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'name\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-website' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (Dsq.jsonData.session.url ? Dsq.jsonData.session.url : Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')" class="dsq-placeholder') + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'website\')" /></div></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-left"><div class="dsq-input-wrapper"><input id="dsq-field-email' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (disqus_def_email ? disqus_def_email : (Dsq.jsonData.session.email ? Dsq.jsonData.session.email : Dsq.Strings.EMAIL + '" class="dsq-placeholder')) + '" onfocus="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" onblur="Dsq.Templates.handlePlaceholder(event, this, \'email\')" /></div></td> \
						<td class="dsq-post-fields-right"> \
							<div class="dsq-subscribe"> \
								<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.chooseSubscribe(' + post_id + '); return false" class="dsq-subscribe-menu"><span id="dsq-subscribe-select' + pid + '">' + (Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post ? Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL : Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS) + '</span> <small>&#9660;</small></a> \
								<ul class="dsq-panel" id="dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid + '"> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(2, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.SUBSCRIBE_TO_ALL_COMMENTS_BY_EMAIL + '</a></li> \
									<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.setSubscribe(0, this, ' + post_id + '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.DO_NOT_SUBSCRIBE_TO_COMMENTS + '</a></li> \
								</ul> \
								<input id="dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid + '" type="hidden" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.request.subscribe_on_post + '" /> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div>'
			: '')
			+ '<div class="dsq-post-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-sharing-options" ' + (!display_sharing_options ? 'style="display:none;"' : '') + '> \
					<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onfocus="document.getElementById(\'dsq-post-button' + pid + '\').focus();"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.SHARING_OPTIONS + ' <small>&#9660;</small></span></button> \
					<div class="dsq-panel"> '
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '"'
								  + (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.twitter.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-twitter' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Twitter</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook
								&& (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.enabled === true ||
										(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote && Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'facebook'))
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.facebook.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-facebook' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Facebook</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.yahoo.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-yahoo' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Yahoo!</label> \
								</div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.tumblr.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-tumblr' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Tumblr</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress !== undefined
								&& Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.wordpress.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-wordpress' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Wordpress</label> \
								 </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.movabletype.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
									<label for="dsq-sharing-movabletype' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' Movable Type</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad !== undefined
							  && Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.enabled === true
							? '<div><input type="checkbox" id="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '"'
									+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.sharing.typepad.auto === true ? 'checked=true' : '') + '/> \
								  <label for="dsq-sharing-typepad' + pid + '">' + Dsq.Strings.SHARE_ON + ' TypePad</label> \
							   </div>'
							: '')
						+ '<div><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections/" target="_blank" class="dsq-configure-options">' + Dsq.Strings.CONFIGURE_OPTIONS + '</a></div>'
					+ '</div> \
				</div>'
				+ '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-post-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, false)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.POST_AS + ' '
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					? Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username
					: Dsq.Strings.GUEST)
				+ '</span></button>'
				+ (post_id
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button" id="dsq-cancel-button' + pid + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"><span>' + Dsq.Strings.CANCEL + '</span></button>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
			+ '</div>' // end dsq-form-area
		+ '</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};




	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-append-post-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		html = ' \
		<table> \
			<tr> \
				<td id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-avatar" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
					<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
					? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
					: '')
				+ '</a> \
				</td> \
				<td class="dsq-comment-header-meta"> \
		';

		
		return html;
	};
	
	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var html;
		var parent_display_name = '';
		
		if(_meta.parent_post_id) {

			var _parent_meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[_meta.parent_post_id];

			if (_parent_meta) {
				var parentUserData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_parent_meta.user_key];
				parent_display_name = parentUserData.display_name;
			}
		}

		html = ' \
		<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/themes/narcissus/moderator.png" class="dsq-moderator-star" title="Moderator" /> \
		<span class="dsq-comment-header-time"><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')" title="Permalink">' + (_meta.is_realtime ? Dsq.Strings.JUST_NOW : _meta.date) + '</a></span> '
		+ (_meta.parent_post_id && parent_display_name
			? '<a href="#comment-' + _meta.parent_post_id + '" title="Jump to comment">in reply to ' + parent_display_name + '</a>'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		<td id="dsq-like-pts-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-comment-header-likes">'
		+ (_meta.points
			? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.'
			: '')
		+ '</td> \
		</tr> \
		</table> \
		';
		return html;
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		var html = '';
		return html;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		var html;
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed || !_meta.approved) { return ''; }
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left">'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
					? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.moderateOptions(' + post_id+ '); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.MODERATE + '</a>'
					: '')
				+ '<a href="#" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG + '</a> \
			</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right">'
				+ (_meta.votable 
					? '<span id="dsq-like-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-like">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1)" >Like</button>'
						: 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;')
					+ '</span>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-post-edit" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + ')" >' + Dsq.Strings.EDIT + '</button>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<span class="dsq-comment-footer-reply" id="dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(' + post_id +', this)"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-comment-footer-reply-tab">' + Dsq.Strings.REPLY + '</button><span></span> \
					</span>'
					: '')
			+ '</div> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		return html;
	};



	
	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		var item = '<li class="dsq-comment dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-header"> \
			<table> \
			<tr> \
			<td class="dsq-header-avatar"> \
			';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'" class="dsq-avatar">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {

			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar92.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== ''
				? '</a>'
				: '')
			+ '</td>'
			+ '<td><cite class="dsq-comment-cite">' + reaction.author_name + '</cite> <span class="dsq-comment-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</span></td>'
			+ '<td class="dsq-comment-header-likes"></td>'
			+ '</tr></table></div>' // end dsq-comment-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header" \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-reaction-header-left">'
							+ '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png" />'
							+ ' From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
							+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
						+ '</td>'
						+ '<td class="dsq-reaction-header-right">';

			if(reaction.retweets) {
				var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
				if (num_retweets > 0) {
					if (num_retweets == 1) {
						item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
					} else {
						item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');
						item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
						var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 3) ? 3 : num_retweets;
						item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);
						if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
							item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
								+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
						}
					}
				}
			}	
			item += '</td></tr> \
			</table> \
			</div>' // end dsq-reaction-header
			+ '<div class="dsq-comment-body"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '</div> \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer"> \
				<div class="dsq-comment-footer-left"> \
				</div>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator 
					? ' \
					<div class="dsq-comment-footer-right"> \
						<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-hide-reaction" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + ')">Hide</button> \
					</div>'
					: '')
			+ '</div>'
		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions" class="dsq-show-more-reactions"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</button></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 id="dsq-reactions-title" class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-container"> \
			<table> \
				<tbody> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-tl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-tr"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-body"> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
								<div class="dsq-popup-title"> \
									<button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" style="float:right" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)">Close</button>'
									+ content['header'] 
								+ '</div>'
								+ content['body']
							+ '</div> \
							<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
						</td> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-b"></td> \
					</tr> \
					<tr> \
						<td class="dsq-popup-bl"></td><td class="dsq-popup-b"></td><td class="dsq-popup-br"></td> \
					</tr> \
				</tbody> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
	};



	
	this.chooseSubscribe = function(post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		menu.style.display = menu.style.display == 'block' ? 'none' : 'block';
		
	};
	
	this.setSubscribe = function(value, el, post_id) {

		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var input = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + pid);
		var select = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-select' + pid);
		var menu = Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-menu' + pid);
		
		select.innerHTML = el.innerHTML;
		input.value = value;
		this.chooseSubscribe(post_id);
	};
	
	this.getFormFields = function(post_id) {

		var fields = {};
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var name = Dsq.$('dsq-field-name' + pid);
		var email = Dsq.$('dsq-field-email' + pid);
		var website = Dsq.$('dsq-field-website' + pid);
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid);
		var password = Dsq.$('dsq-field-password' + pid);

		fields = {
			'name': name,
			'email': email,
			'website': website,
			'username': username,
			'password': password
		}
		
		return fields;
	}
	
	this.validateFields = function(post_id) {
		
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) { return true; }
		
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		
		var nameField = fields.name;
		var websiteField = fields.website;
		var emailField = fields.email;
		
		websiteField.value = (websiteField.value == Dsq.Templates.placeholder['website']) ? '' : websiteField.value;
		
		var v = [{

			validator: Dsq.Validators.name,
			value: nameField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.email,
			value: emailField.value
		}, {

			validator: Dsq.Validators.url,
			value: websiteField.value
		}];
		
		return Dsq.Validators.validate(v, function(e) { Dsq.Popup.popModal(e, 'Oops...') } );
	};
	
	this.checkExistingUser = function(post_id) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);		
		Dsq.Popup.loading(post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].getUserByEmail(fields.email.value);
		}
	};

	this.validateAuth = function(el_clicked, post_id, auth_choice) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		var email = fields.email ? fields.email.value : '';
		var username = fields.username ? fields.username.value : '';
		var password = fields.password ? fields.password.value : '';
		
		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		
		if (post_id) {
			Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		} else {
			Dsq.frames['reply_0'].validateAuth(auth_choice, email, username, password);
		}
	};

	this.lightboxUpdateEmail = function(post_id, new_email) {
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		fields.email.value = new_email;
	};

	this.lightboxAuthenticate = function(post_id, auth_choice, auth_data) {
		var title, body;
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';

		if(typeof(auth_data) == 'undefined') {
			var auth_data = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);
		}

		d = auth_data;

		switch(auth_choice) {
			case 'register':
				var suggestedUsername = d.name.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9-]/g,'').toLowerCase();
			
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Register a <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';

				body = ' \
				<ul class="dsq-lightbox-register-reasons"> \
				<li>Verify your comments</li> \
				<li>Edit and delete comments</li> \
				<li>Manage comments and replies</li> \
				</ul> \
				';

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Email</td> \
							<td><input type="text" value="' + d.email.value + '" onchange="Dsq.Templates.lightboxUpdateEmail(' + post_id + ', this.value)" /><div id="dsq-email-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + suggestedUsername + '"/><div id="dsq-username-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /><div id="dsq-password-errors' + pid + '"></div></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'login\'); return false">Login instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Register and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			case 'login':
				title = Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post ? 'Optional:' : 'Required:';
				title += ' Login to your <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-profile.png" alt=Disqus Profile" />';
				body = '';
				
				if(d.avatar_url) {
					body += '<div class="dsq-lightbox-recognized"><table><tr>';
					body += '<td><img src="' + d.avatar_url + '" alt="" /></td>';
					body += '<td><span class="dsq-badge ' + (d.verified ? 'dsq-badge-verified' : 'dsq-badge-registered') + '">' + (d.verified ? 'Verified' : 'Registered') + '</span></td>';
					body += '<td>Hey <strong>' + d.display_name + '</strong>, is that you? Login below to claim this comment.';
					body += '</tr></table></div>';
				}

				body += ' \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-fields"> \
					<table> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Username or Email</td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-username' + pid + '" type="text" value="' + (d.avatar_url ? d.username : '') + '" /></td> \
						</tr> \
						<tr> \
							<td>Password <a href="http://disqus.com/forgot" target="_blank">(cannot log in?)</a></td> \
							<td><input id="dsq-field-password' + pid + '" type="password" /></td> \
						</tr> \
					</table> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-switch-auth"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Templates.lightboxAuthenticate(' + post_id + ',\'register\'); return false">Register instead</a></div> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-lightbox-errors' + pid + '" class="dsq-lightbox-errors"></div> \
				<div class="dsq-lightbox-submit"> \
					<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-post"><button type="button" class="dsq-button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.validateAuth(this, ' + post_id + ',\'' + auth_choice + '\')">Login and Post comment</button></div>'
					+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
						? '<div class="dsq-lightbox-auth-skip"><button type="button" class="dsq-button-small" onclick="Dsq.Templates.postComment(' + post_id + ', this, true)">Just post as a Guest</button></div>'
						: '')
				+ '</div> \
				';
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
		Dsq.$('dsq-field-username' + pid).focus();
	};
	
	this.buttonsToRestore = [];
	this.setLoadingButton = function(btn, post_id) {
		var pid = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		if (btn) {

			var loadingBtn = document.createElement('button');
			loadingBtn.id = btn.id + '-loading';
			loadingBtn.innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-lite.gif" alt="" /> ' + Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
			loadingBtn.className = btn.className + ' dsq-post-loading';
			btn.parentNode.appendChild(loadingBtn);
			btn.style.display = 'none';
			var cancelBtn = Dsq.$('dsq-cancel-button' + pid);
			if(cancelBtn) { cancelBtn.style.display = 'none'; this.buttonsToRestore.push(cancelBtn); }
			this.buttonsToRestore.push(btn);
		} else {

			var buttons = this.buttonsToRestore;
			for(var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
				buttons[i].style.display = 'inline';
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$(buttons[i].id + '-loading'));
			}
		}
		
	};

	this.postComment = function(post_id, el_clicked, force, auth_choice) {
		var append_id = post_id ? '-' + post_id : '';
		var fields = Dsq.Templates.getFormFields(post_id);

		if (Dsq.Templates.validateFields(post_id)) {

			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && !force &&
				((!Dsq.Utils.readCookie('skipped_auth') && !disqus_skip_auth && !Dsq.jsonData.forum.disqus_auth_disabled) || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post)) {
				Dsq.Templates.checkExistingUser(post_id);
				return false;
			}
			var params = [];
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
				params.push(fields.name.value,
					fields.email.value,
					fields.website.value);

				if (auth_choice == 'login' || auth_choice == 'register') {
					params.push({
						auth_choice: auth_choice,
						username: fields.username.value,
						password: fields.password.value,
						email: fields.email.value
					});
				} else {
					params.push(null);
				}

				params.push(null /* sharing options */, Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe-on-post' + append_id).value);
			} else {
				var service_checked = function(name) {
					var el = Dsq.$('dsq-sharing-' + name + append_id);
					return (el !== null && el.checked === true) ? '1' : '0';
				};
				params.push(null, null, null, null, {
					tw: service_checked('twitter'),
					fb: service_checked('facebook'),
					tr: service_checked('tumblr'),
					wp: service_checked('wordpress'),
					mt: service_checked('movabletype'),
					tp: service_checked('typepad'),
					yh: service_checked('yahoo')
				});
			}

			var frame = Dsq.frames['reply_' + (post_id ? post_id : 0)];
			frame.post.apply(frame, params);

			if (el_clicked) {
				Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
			}
			
			if (force) {
				Dsq.Utils.createCookie('skipped_auth', true);	
			}
			
		} else {
			return false;
		}
	};

	this.editComment = function(el_clicked, post_id) {
		var edited_message = Dsq.$('dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id).value;

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked, post_id);
		Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].edit(post_id, edited_message);
	};

	this.toggleEdit = function(post_id) {
		var body = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-body-' + post_id);
		var message = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + post_id);

		if (!Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id]) {


			message.style.display = 'none';
			if (Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {

				var edit_area = document.createElement('div');
				edit_area.id = 'dsq-edit-' + post_id;
				edit_area.className = 'dsq-edit dsq-textarea';
				edit_area.innerHTML = ' \
				<div class="dsq-textarea-wrapper"> \
					<textarea class="dsq-edit-textarea" id="dsq-edit-textarea-' + post_id + '">' + message.innerHTML + '</textarea> \
				</div> \
				<div class="dsq-save-edit"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Templates.editComment(this, ' + post_id + ')" class="dsq-button-small">Save Edit</button> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id + '" style="display: none"></div> \
				';

				body.appendChild(edit_area);

				if (!Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-edit-iframe-' + post_id), post_id);
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].init();
					Dsq.frames['edit_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
		} else {

			message.style.display = 'block';
			Dsq.$('dsq-edit-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id] = !Dsq.Post.stateEditToggled[post_id];
	};
	
	this.edit = function(el, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.toggleEdit(post_id);
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(post_id, button) {
		
		if(!this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

			if (Dsq.$('dsq-reply-post-' + post_id)) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'block';
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id);
				var container = Dsq.$('dsq-textarea-wrapper-' + post_id);
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] && container) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(container, post_id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].init(function() {

						Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.postBox(post_id, true);
						Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id).innerHTML = '';

						var theme = (typeof disqus_frame_theme == 'undefined') ? 'default' : disqus_frame_theme;
						Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-form-area-' + post_id), post_id, {theme: theme});

					});
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + post_id].setState(post_id, _meta.depth);
				}
			}
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-append-post';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply-active';
			
		} else {

			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.$('dsq-append-post-' + post_id).className = '';
			Dsq.$('dsq-comment-footer-reply-' + post_id).className = 'dsq-comment-footer-reply';
		}
		
		this.stateReplyToggled[post_id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[post_id];

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie && this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]) {

		}

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: post_id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[post_id]
		});
	};
	
	this.moderateOptions = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		
		if(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator) { return false; }

		var html;
		
		html = ' \
		<div class="dsq-moderate-options"> \
		<table>'
		+ (_meta.email ? '<tr><td>Email</td><td>' + _meta.email + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ (_meta.ip ? '<tr><td>IP address</td><td>' + _meta.ip + '</td></tr>' : '')
		+ '<tr> \
			<td>Actions</td> \
			<td><ul>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
				? '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
				: '')
			+ '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Delete Comment</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li> \
			</ul></td> \
			</table> \
		</div> \
		';
		
		html += '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
		
		return Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Moderate Options', post_id);
	};
	
	this.placeholder = {
		'class': 'dsq-placeholder',
		'name': Dsq.Strings.NAME,
		'email': Dsq.Strings.EMAIL,
		'website': Dsq.Strings.WEBSITE + ' (' + Dsq.Strings.OPTIONAL.toLowerCase() + ')'
	};
	
	this.handlePlaceholder = function(evt, el, key) {
		var placeholder = Dsq.Templates.placeholder[key];
		var className = Dsq.Templates.placeholder['class'];
		
		switch(evt.type) {
			case 'focus':
				if(el.value == placeholder) {
					el.value = '';
					el.className = '';
				}
				break;

			case 'blur':
				if(el.value == '') {
					el.value = placeholder;
					el.className = className;
				}
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}
	};
	
	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked) {

		var extra_params = '';

		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(el_clicked);
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};
	
	
	this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {


		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
			}
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
				+ '?post_id='    + id
				+ '&vote='        + vote);
		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login('To rate, please log in');
		}
	};

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {

		Dsq.$('dsq-like-pts-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this.';

		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-like-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.&nbsp;&nbsp;';
		}
	};




	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {
		var approved = response.message.post_meta.approved;

		if (parent_post_id) {
			Dsq.Post.toggleReply(parent_post_id);
		}

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
		
		if (approved) {
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		} else {			
			var unapproved_msg = 'Thanks for posting!\
	 Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.\
			';
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(unapproved_msg, 'Comment awaiting approval', post_id);
		}

		var sharing_results = response.message.sharing_results;
		var sharing_errors = '';
		for (var service in sharing_results) {
			if (sharing_results.hasOwnProperty(service) === true) {
				if (sharing_results[service].error === true) {
					sharing_errors += service + ', ';
				}
			}
		}

		if (sharing_results.facebook && sharing_results.facebook.callback) {
			FB.ensureInit(function() {
				FB.Connect.streamPublish('', sharing_results.facebook.attachment);
			});
		}

		if (sharing_errors !== '') {
			var message = 'Your comment was posted, but there were errors sharing with the following connections: ';
			message += sharing_errors.replace(/,\s$/, '');
			message += '<p><a href="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/profile/connections" target="_blank">Configure your connections here</a></p>'
			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sharing options');
		}

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};

	this.postComment_onFailure = function(response, parent_post_id, post_id) {

		Dsq.Templates.setLoadingButton(false);
	};
};




// TODO: It might be faster to use string methods to find all <li (...) </li> blocks and pass to Dsq.PostHandler manually.
Dsq.CommentsHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_post = Dsq.Templates.prependPost(post_id);
	var append_post = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(post_id);

	content = content.replace(Dsq.POST_RE, Dsq.PostHandler);
	Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter++;
	head = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContainer(post_id, head);
	return prepend_post + head + content + tail + append_post;
};

Dsq.PostHandler = function(str, h_head, post_id, h_content, h_tail, b_head, b_content, b_tail, offset, s) {
	var prepend_header = Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader(post_id);
	var append_header = Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader(post_id);
	var prepend_body = Dsq.Templates.preBody(post_id);
	var append_body = Dsq.Templates.postBody(post_id);
	var append_footer = Dsq.Templates.postFooter(post_id);

	b_content = b_content.replace(Dsq.POST_BODY_RE, Dsq.PostBodyHandler);
	return h_head + prepend_header + h_content + append_header + h_tail + b_head + prepend_body + b_content + append_body + b_tail + append_footer;
};

Dsq.PostBodyHandler = function(str, head, post_id, content, tail, offset, s) {
	content = Dsq.Templates.Filters.commentContent(post_id, content);
	return head + content + tail;
};

Dsq.MediaPostHandler = function(str, args, offset, s) {
	args = args.split(' ');
	if(args[0] == 'seesmic') {
		return '<br />' + Dsq.Templates.mediaSeesmic(args[1], args[2]);
	}
	return '';
};


/**
 * Shorcuts
 */
Dsq.$ = function(element) { return document.getElementById(element); };
Dsq.$b = document.body || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];


/**
 * Dsq.Debug: Logging functions.
 */

Dsq.Debug = new function() {this.log=function(s){};this.profile=function(f){if(typeof f == 'function')return f();else return eval(f);};};


/**
 * Dsq.Urls: URL paths
 */
Dsq.Urls = new function() {
	this.LOGIN = '/profile/login/';
	this.LOGOUT = '/logout/';
	this.REPLY = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech/reply.html';
	this.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE = '/AnonymousUser/';
	this.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR = 'http://media.disqus.com/images/noavatar92.png';
};
// Dsq.Urls

/**
 * Dsq.Validators: Validation for form fields
 */
Dsq.Validators = new function() {
	this.VALID_EMAIL_RE = /^[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*\@(([a-z0-9\-\_\+]+(\.[a-z0-9\-\_\+]+)*)+\.[a-z]{2,}|([0-9]+\.){3}[0-9]+)$/i;
	this.name = function(name) {
		var error = false;

		if(typeof Dsq.Templates.placeholder !== 'undefined' &&
		   name == Dsq.Templates.placeholder.name) {
			error = true;
		}
		if(name.length <= 1) {
			error = true;
		}

		if(error) {
			return "Please enter a name to comment.";
		} else {
			return true;
		}
	};
	this.email = function(addr) {
		if(Dsq.Validators.VALID_EMAIL_RE.test(addr)) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please enter a valid email to comment.";
		}
	};
	this.url = function(addr) {
		if(!addr || addr.indexOf('.') != -1) {
			return true;
		} else {
			return "Please check your website URL (this field is optional).";
		}
	};

	this.validate = function(bulk_validation, failure_callback) {
		failure_callback = failure_callback || function(e){ alert(e); };

		for(var i = 0; i < bulk_validation.length; i++) {
			v = bulk_validation[i];
			ret = v.validator(v.value);
			if(ret !== true) {
				failure_callback(ret);
				return false;
			}
		}
		return true;
	};
};

/**
 * Dsq.Utils: Generic utility functions.
 */
Dsq.Utils = new function() {
	this.ie = /msie/i.test(navigator.userAgent) && !/opera/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
	this.ie7 = (document.all && !window.opera && window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true : false;
	this.ie6 = (!window.XMLHttpRequest) ? true: false;
	this.webkit = navigator.userAgent.indexOf('AppleWebKit/') >= 0;
	this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache = {};
	this._styleSheet = null;

	this.gebiFromElement = function(el, id, tag) {
		// This only method only helps IE.
		if(!this.ie) {
			return Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var cacheKey = el.id + '-' + tag;
			tag = tag || 'div';
			if(typeof this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] != 'undefined') {
				collection = this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey];
			} else {
				collection = el.getElementsByTagName(tag);
				this.gebiFromElementCollectionCache[cacheKey] = collection;
			}

			for(var i = 0; i < collection.length; i++) {
				if(collection[i].id == id) {
					return collection[i];
				}
			}
			return null;
		}
	};

	this.execOnReady = function(func) {
		var node = document.createElement('document:ready');
		try {
			node.doScroll('left');
			func();
			node = null;
		} catch(err) {
			setTimeout(function() { Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(func); }, 10);
		}
	};


	// Courtesy of http://www.quirksmode.org/js/cookies.html
	this.createCookie = function(name,value,days) {
		if (days) {
			var date = new Date();
			date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days*24*60*60*1000));
			var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString();
		}
		else var expires = "";
		document.cookie = name+"="+value+expires+"; path=/";
	};

	this.readCookie = function(name) {
		var nameEQ = name + "=";
		var ca = document.cookie.split(';');
		for(var i=0;i < ca.length;i++) {
			var c = ca[i];
			while (c.charAt(0)==' ') c = c.substring(1,c.length);
			if (c.indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c.substring(nameEQ.length,c.length);
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.eraseCookie = function(name) {
		Dsq.Utils.createCookie(name,"",-1);
	};

	this.deleteNode = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			this.deleteChildren(node);
			if(typeof node.outerHTML != 'undefined') { node.outerHTML = ''; }
			else if(node.parentNode) { node.parentNode.removeChild(node); }
			delete node;
		}
	};

	this.deleteChildren = function(node) {
		if(node) {
			for(var x = node.childNodes.length-1; x >= 0; x--) {
				var childNode = node.childNodes[x];
				if(childNode.hasChildNodes()) { this.deleteChildren(childNode); }
				if(typeof childNode.outerHTML != 'undefined') { childNode.outerHTML = ''; }
				else node.removeChild(childNode);
				delete childNode;
			}
		}
	};

	this.findPos = function(obj) {
		var curleft = 0;
		var curtop = 0;
		if (obj.offsetParent) {
			do {
				curleft += obj.offsetLeft;
				curtop += obj.offsetTop;
			} while (obj = obj.offsetParent);
		}
		return [curleft,curtop];
	};

	this.getWindowSize = function() {
		var windowWidth = -1;
		var windowHeight = -1;

		if(typeof(window.innerWidth) == 'number') { //Non-IE
			windowWidth = window.innerWidth;
			windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
		} else if(document.documentElement) { // IE 6+ in 'standards compliant mode'
			windowWidth = document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth;
			windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight;
		}

		return [windowWidth, windowHeight];
	}

	this.getScrollPos = function() {
		var scrollWidth, scrollTop;

		if(document.documentElement && (document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.documentElement.scrollWidth)) {
			scrollWidth = document.documentElement.scrollWidth;
			// IE is weird here.  If no doctype is provided, document.body.scrollTop is 0,
			// otherwise document.documentElement.scrollTop is 0.
			scrollTop = document.documentElement.scrollTop || document.body.scrollTop;
		} else if(document.body.scrollTop && document.body.scrollWidth) {
			scrollWidth = document.body.scrollWidth;
			scrollTop = document.body.scrollTop;
		}

		return [scrollWidth, scrollTop];
	}

	this.addEventListener = function(instance, eventName, listener) {
		var listenerFn = listener;
		if (instance.addEventListener) {
			instance.addEventListener(eventName, listenerFn, false);
		} else if (instance.attachEvent) {
			listenerFn = function() {
				listener(window.event);
			};
			instance.attachEvent("on" + eventName, listenerFn);
		} else {
			throw new Error("Event registration not supported");
		}
		return {
			instance: instance,
			name: eventName,
			listener: listenerFn
		};
	};

	this.removeEventListener = function(event) {
		var instance = event.instance;
		if (instance.removeEventListener) {
			instance.removeEventListener(event.name, event.listener, false);
		} else if (instance.detachEvent) {
			instance.detachEvent("on" + event.name, event.listener);
		}
	};

	this.fixIframesIE = function(id) {
		var disqusThread = Dsq.$(disqus_container_id);
		var iframes = disqusThread.getElementsByTagName('iframe');

		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$(id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-content');
		}

		for(i = 0; i < iframes.length; i++) {
			if (container) {
				iframes[i].style.width = container.offsetWidth;
			}
		}
	};

	this.getElementsByClassName = function(oElm, strTagName, strClassName) {
	/* Credit: Jonathan Snook [http://www.snook.ca/jonathan], Robert Nyman [http://www.robertnyman.com] */
		var arrElements = (strTagName == "*" && oElm.all)? oElm.all : oElm.getElementsByTagName(strTagName);
		var arrReturnElements = new Array();
		strClassName = strClassName.replace(/\-/g, "\\-");
		var oRegExp = new RegExp("(^|\\s)" + strClassName + "(\\s|$)");
		var oElement;
		for(var i = 0; i < arrElements.length; i++) {
			oElement = arrElements[i];
			if(oRegExp.test(oElement.className)) {
				arrReturnElements.push(oElement);
			}
		}
		return (arrReturnElements);
	};

	this.postToUrl = function(url, post_data, opt_redirect) {
		var form = document.createElement('form');
		var iframe_container = document.createElement('div');
		var id = 'dsq-temp-iframe-' + (new Date()).getTime();

		form.method = 'POST';
		form.action = url;
		if (!opt_redirect) {
			form.target = id;
		}
		iframe_container.innerHTML = '<iframe style="display:none" name="' + id + '" id="' + id + '"></iframe>';

		for(var key in post_data) {
			if(post_data.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var input = document.createElement('input');
				input.name = key;
				input.type = 'hidden';
				input.value = post_data[key];

				form.appendChild(input);
			}
		}

		Dsq.$b.appendChild(iframe_container);
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(form);
		form.submit();
	};

	// Strips integer id from id of element in the form ('some-id-###')
	this.extractId = function(e) {
		var chunks = e.id.split('-');
		if(chunks.length <= 1) {
			return 0;
		} else {
			var retval = parseInt(chunks[chunks.length-1]);
			return !isNaN(retval) ? retval : null;
		}
	};

	this.getStyle = function(el, styleProp) {
		if(el.currentStyle) {
			var y = el.currentStyle[styleProp];
		} else if(window.getComputedStyle) {
			var y = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null).getPropertyValue(styleProp);
		}

		if(y == 'transparent' || y == '') {
			this.getStyle(el.parentNode, styleProp);
		} else {
			return y;
		}
	};

	this.execScript = function(url, append_qs, container) {
		var script = document.createElement('script');
		append_qs = typeof append_qs == 'undefined' ? true : append_qs;
		container = container || Dsq.container;

		if(append_qs) {
			var j = (url.indexOf('?') >= 0) ? '&' : '?';
			url += j + (new Date()).getTime();
		}
		script.type = 'text/javascript';
		script.charset = 'UTF-8';
		script.src = url;
		container.appendChild(script);
		return script;
	};

	this.pluralize = function(num, singular, plural) {
		return (num != 1) ? plural || 's' : singular || '';
	};

	this.getRequestParams = function(queryString /* optional */) {
		var pairs, tuple;
		var params = {};

		queryString = queryString || window.location.search.substring(1);
		pairs = queryString.split('&');

		for (var i = 0, pair; pair = pairs[i]; i++) {
			tuple = pair.split('=');
			params[tuple[0]] = (tuple[1] || true);
		}

		return params;
	};

	this.addCssRule = function(selector, styleText, index) {
		var stylesheet;
		index = index || 0;

		if(!this._styleSheet) {
			var styleEl = document.createElement('style');
			document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(styleEl);
			this._styleSheet = styleEl.sheet;
			if(!this._styleSheet) {
				// IE does not like our newly created stylesheet.
				this._styleSheet = document.styleSheets[document.styleSheets.length-1];
			}
		}
		stylesheet = this._styleSheet;

		if(stylesheet.insertRule) {
			var ruleText = selector + ' { ' + styleText + ' }';
			if(index == -1) {
				index = stylesheet.cssRules.length;
			}
			stylesheet.insertRule(ruleText, index);
		} else if(stylesheet.addRule) {
			stylesheet.addRule(selector, styleText, index);
		}
	};

	this.forEachIn = function(obj, callback) {
		for(var key in obj) {
			if(obj.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				callback(key, obj[key]);
			}
		}
	};

	this._interpolateGlobalContext = {
		// values that get used a lot and are global to the request
		'profile_url': Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE,

		'disqus_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url,
		'media_url': Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url,
		'request_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.username,
		'request_display_username': Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username,
		'forum_name': Dsq.jsonData.forum.name
	};

	this.renderFromContextStack = function(key, contexts) {
		// Returns the first instance of `key` in the array of objects `contexts` or else ''
		for (var i=0; i<contexts.length; i++) {
			if (contexts[i][key] !== undefined) {
				return String(contexts[i][key]);
			}
		}
		throw new Error('key ' + key + ' not found in context');
	};

	var that = this;
	this.interpolate = function(fmt, opt_localContext) {
		// Interpolate `fmt` named-format string with an assumed global context.
		// Based on `interpolate` in django.views.i18n
		var contextStack = [opt_localContext || {}, that._interpolateGlobalContext];
		return fmt.replace(/%\(\w+\)s/g, function(match){
			return that.renderFromContextStack(match.slice(2,-2), contextStack);
		});
	};

	this.stripTags = function(s) {
		// Removes HTML tags from `s`
		return s.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/g,"");

	};

	this.assert = function(b) {
		if (!b) {
			throw new Error('Assertion error.');
		}
	};

};
// Dsq.Utils

/**
 * Dsq.Popup: Popup helper functions.
 */
Dsq.Popup = new function() {
	this.timeHide = new Array();
	this.timeShow = new Array();
	this.activePopup = {};
	this.profileCache = {};
	this.statusCache = {};

	this.showTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the hide timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeHide[post_id]);

		// start the timer
		if(!Dsq.Popup.profileIsOn && !Dsq.Thread.adminIsOn) {
			this.timeShow[post_id] = setTimeout("Dsq.Popup.popProfile(\"" + post_id + "\")", 400);
		}
	};

	this.hideTimer = function(post_id) {
		// clear the show timer
		clearTimeout(this.timeShow[post_id]);
	};

	this.updateProfile = function(username) {
		// Callback from /embed/profile.js
		if (this.statusCache[username]) {
			var statusEl = Dsq.$('dsq-profile-status-' + username);
			statusEl.innerHTML = this.statusCache[username];
			statusEl.style.display = 'block';
		}

		if (this.profileCache[username]) {
			var _cache = this.profileCache[username];

			var _genhtml = function(text) { return '<span><big>' + text + '</big></span>'; };
			var _no_comments = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_COMMENTS(_cache.comments_count));
			var _no_likes = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_LIKES(_cache.likes_count));
			var _no_points = _genhtml(Dsq.FmtStrings.NUMBER_OF_POINTS(_cache.points));

			var statsEl = Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + username);
			statsEl.innerHTML = '';

			if (Dsq.jsonData.users[username].registered) {
				statsEl.innerHTML = _no_comments + _no_likes;
			}
			statsEl.innerHTML += _no_points;

			var activeSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.active_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.active_sites[i];
				activeSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (activeSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = activeSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + username).innerHTML = 'This site.';
			}

			var moderatedSites = '';
			for (var i = 0; i < _cache.moderated_sites.length; i++) {
				var site = _cache.moderated_sites[i];
				moderatedSites += '<li><a href="' + site.url + '"> \
					<img src="' + site.favicon + '"/ width="16" height="16"/></a>\
					<a href="' + site.url + '">' + site.name + '</a></li>';
			}
			if (moderatedSites !== '') {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + username).innerHTML = moderatedSites;
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + username).innerHTML = '';
			}
		}

		// Reposition popup after full HTML is rendered
		if(Dsq.Popup.activePopup && Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el) {
			Dsq.Popup.initPopup(Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id, Dsq.Popup.activePopup.type);
		}

	};

	this.showCookieMsgs = function() {
		var title = '';
		var message = '';
		var numAlerts = 0;

		Dsq.Utils.forEachIn(Dsq.jsonData.cookie_messages, function(k, v) {
			if (!v) return;

			switch(k) {
				// Cookie: Twitter
				case 'post_twitter':
					if (v === 'error') {
						title = 'Twitter Error!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-error">Oops, we couldn\'t tweet this comment. Please check your <a href="http://disqus.com/account/services">account settings</a>.</li>';
					} else {
						var _msg = v.split(':');
						title = 'Tweeted!';
						message += '<li id="dsq-msg-twitter-success">Your comment was successfully tweeted. <a href="http://twitter.com/' + _msg[0] + '/status/' + _msg[1] + '">Click here to view the tweet</a>.</li>';
					}
					break;
				// Cookie: Unapproved Post
				case 'post_not_approved':
					title = 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-not-approved">Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.</li>';
					break;
				// Cookie: Profile Found
				case 'post_has_profile':
					title = 'Use your existing commenter profile';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-post-has-profile">You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a></li>';
					break;
				case 'user_created':
					var _data = v.split(':');
					title = 'Profile created!';
					message += '<li id="dsq-msg-user-created">You have just created a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, the best way to claim, manage, and track your comments all over the web. \
					<br /><br />A confirmation is being sent to <strong>' + _data[1] + '</strong>. Please check for this email in order to verify your profile. \
					<ul class="dsq-list-tick"> \
						<li>Your username is <strong>' + _data[0] +'</strong>. <a href="http://disqus.com/people/' + _data[0] + '/" target="_blank">Click here to view your public profile</a>.</li> \
						<li>Be sure to set your profile picture, as well as connect your <span class="dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> and <span class="dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> accounts. <a href="http://disqus.com/account/" target="_blank">Click here for account settings</a>.</li> \
					</ul> \
					</li>'
					break;
				default:
					break;
			}
			numAlerts++;
		});

		if(numAlerts > 1) {
			message = '<ul class="dsq-list-bluebullet">' + message;
			message += '</ul>';
			title = 'Thanks for posting!';
		}
		if(numAlerts > 0) {
			if(typeof(disqus_cookie_msgs) == 'function') {
				disqus_cookie_msgs(message, title);
			} else {
				Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
			}
		}
	};

	this.helpBadges = function(post_id) {
		var html = ' \
			<ul class="dsq-popup-help"> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile with a confirmed email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> has a <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> Profile, but has not yet confirmed his or her email address.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span> is not logged in with any account and has not claimed his or her comments.</li> \
				<li class="dsq-help-otheraccts">Other accounts</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-facebook">Facebook</span> is using his or her Facebook profile via Facebook Connect.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-twitter">Twitter</span> is using his or her Twitter profile via Twitter Sign-in.</li> \
				<li><span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-openid">OpenID</span> is using his or her OpenID.</li> \
			</ul> \
		';

		this.popModal(html, 'Help: Types of Commenters', post_id);
		return;
	};

	this.permalink = function(post_id) {
		var header = 'Link to this comment';
		var body = '<strong>You are anchored to</strong>:<br />' + document.location.protocol + '//' + document.location.host + document.location.pathname + document.location.search + '#comment-' + post_id;

		this.popModal(body, header, post_id);
	};

	this.login = function(header, body) {
		var h = header || 'Login or Register';
		var b = body || '';
		b += Dsq.Templates.frameLogin({id: 'dsq-popup-login'});
		b += '</iframe>'; // HACK: Sometimes there is something funky with the IFRAME SRC that causes no end tag
		this.popModal(b, h, null, true, 'dsq-popup-login');
	};

	this.blacklist = function(id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		var title = 'Add to Blacklist';
		var message = ' \
		Adding this person to the blacklist will block him or her from commenting on this site. Check the following types that you would like to add to the blacklist:'
		+ (userData['registered'] ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-username" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-username"><strong>Username</strong>: ' + userData['username'] + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ (_meta.email ?
			'<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
				<input id="dsq-blacklist-email" type="checkbox" checked> \
				<label for="dsq-blacklist-email"><strong>Email address</strong>: ' + _meta.email + '</label> \
			</div>'
			: '')
		+ '<div class="dsq-blacklist-option"> \
			<input id="dsq-blacklist-ip" type="checkbox" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-blacklist-ip-warning\').style.display=\'block\'"> \
			<label for="dsq-blacklist-ip"><strong>IP address</strong>: ' + _meta.ip + '</label> \
		</div> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p id="dsq-blacklist-ip-warning" style="display:none">	\
				Note: Blocking this person\'s IP address may also unintentionally prevent others, who share his/her IP address, from commenting on this site. \
				This may include people who are sharing the same computer, living in the same house, or using the same Internet provider. Only block an IP address as a last resort. \
			</p> \
		';

		message += ' \
			<p style="text-align:center"><button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.blockUser(' + id + '); this.disabled=true; this.innerHTML=\'Just one moment...\'">Add to Blacklist</button></p> \
		';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
	};

	this.remoteAccountSettings = function() {
		var body = '';
		// Set up IFrame.
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/_auth/embed/remote_settings/';
		var attributes = {id: 'dsq-popup-account-settings'};
		if (typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}

		body = Dsq.Templates._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
		this.popModal(body, 'Account Settings', null, true, 'dsq-popup-account-settings');
	};

	this.popModal = function(message, title, post_id, use_listener, extra_classes) {
		var container = document.createElement('div');
		var header, body;

		Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);

		if(typeof(title) == 'undefined') { title = ''; }
		if(typeof(use_listener) == 'undefined') { use_listener = true; }

		if(post_id) {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message-' + post_id;
		} else {
			container.id = 'dsq-popup-message';
		}

		header = title;
		body = message;

		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupModal(header, body);
		Dsq.Popup.initPopup(container, post_id, 'message', extra_classes);
		if(use_listener) {
			Dsq.Popup.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', Dsq.Popup._closePopup);
		}
	};

	this.popAlert = this.popModal;

	this.loading = function(post_id) {
		var title = Dsq.Strings.JUST_A_MOMENT;
		var body = '<div style="text-align:center; padding: 5px 0 10px 0"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif" alt="" /></div>'
		Dsq.Popup.lightbox(body, title, post_id);
	};

	this.lightbox = function(message, title, post_id) {
		// Wraps Dsq.Popup.popModal

		var overlay = document.createElement('div');
		overlay.id = 'dsq-overlay';
		overlay.className = 'dsq-overlay';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(overlay);
		
		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, post_id, false, 'dsq-lightbox');
	};

	this.popProfile = function(post_id, userKey) {
		var post = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id];
		if (post && post.has_been_anonymized) {
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('This message was anonymized by its previous owner.', 'Anonymized', post_id);
			return;
		}

		if(post_id) {
			userKey = Dsq.jsonData['posts'][post_id].user_key;	
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][userKey];
		var elId = 'dsq-popup-profile-' + userKey;
		var container = document.createElement('div');

		if(this.activePopup.el) {
			this._closePopup(null, true);
			if(this.activePopup.linkClicked) {
				this.activePopup.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		container.id = elId;
		container.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.popupProfile(userKey);

		this.initPopup(container, post_id, 'profile');
		this.popupListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._closePopup);

		if(!this.profileCache[userKey]) {
			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/embed/profile.js'
				+ '?username=' + userKey
				+ '&anon=' + (userData['registered'] ? 0 : 1)
				+ '&f=' + Dsq.jsonData['request'].forum);
		} else {
			this.updateProfile(userKey);
		}
	};

	this._closePopup = function(e, force) {
		var activePopup = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.el;
		var id = Dsq.Popup.activePopup.id;
		var link = 'dsq-avatar-' + id; // HACK: Specific to profile toggle target

		// HACK: This event should be gone if there is no active popup.
		if(!activePopup) {
			return;
		}
		if(force || !Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, activePopup.id)) {
			// TODO: This is breaking iE?
			if(Dsq.Popup.popupListener) {
				Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Popup.popupListener);
			}
			
			// Kill overlay
			var overlay = Dsq.$('dsq-overlay');
			if(overlay) { Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(overlay); }
			
			try {
				Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(activePopup);
			} catch(e) {
				// HACK: IE6 throws an error when using deleteNode() with a node containing a <table> in the html.
				activePopup.parentNode.removeChild(activePopup);
			}
			Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {};
		}

		if(!force && Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Popup.activePopup.linkClicked = true;
		}

	};

	this.initPopup = function(popup, post_id, type, extra_classes) {
		popup.className = 'dsq-popup dsq-popup-' + type + ' ' + (extra_classes ? extra_classes : '');
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6 || Dsq.Utils.ie7) {
			// HACK: We can't modify the body before it's ready, so we need
			//       to use an IE-safe "DOMReady" workaround before loading
			//       our popup.
			Dsq.Utils.execOnReady(function() {Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup); });
		} else {
			Dsq.$b.appendChild(popup);
		}

		popup.style.display = 'block';

		var xPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[0] - popup.offsetWidth) / 2;
		var yPos = (Dsq.Utils.getWindowSize()[1] - popup.offsetHeight) / 2;

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
			yPos += Dsq.Utils.getScrollPos()[1];
		}

		popup.style.left = xPos + 'px';
		popup.style.top = yPos + 'px';

		Dsq.Popup.activePopup = {
			'el' : popup,
			'id' : post_id,
			'type': type,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};
	};

	this.isClicked = function(e, id) {
		var t = e.target || e.srcElement;
		while(t && t.parentNode) {
			if(t.id == id) {
				return true;
			}

			t = t.parentNode;
		}
		return false;
	};
};
// Dsq.Popup

/**
 * Dsq.Templates
 */
Dsq.Templates = new function() {
	/*
	 * Counter keeping track of the number of posts iterated over.
	 */
	this.postLoopCounter = 0;
	this.filters = {};
	this.addPostContainer = 'dsq-post-add';
	this.textareaContainer = 'dsq-post-add';

	this.registerTemplate = function(name, func) {
		this['$$_' + name] = func;

		if(typeof DsqLocal.Filters != 'undefined'
		&& typeof DsqLocal.Filters[name] == 'function') {
			// Push filters to this.filters to unify code.
			this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
			this.filters[name].push(DsqLocal.Filters[name]);
		}

		this[name] = function() {
			var ret;

			if(typeof DsqLocal.Templates != 'undefined'
			&& typeof DsqLocal.Templates[name] == 'function') {
				ret = DsqLocal.Templates[name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(ret === undefined) {
				ret = this['$$_' + name].apply(this, arguments);
			}

			if(this.filters[name]) {
				var args = [ret];

				args.push.apply(args, arguments);
				for(var i = 0; i < this.filters[name].length; i++) {
					ret = this.filters[name][i].apply(this, args);
				}
			}

			return ret;
		};
	};

	this.registerFilter = function(name, func) {
		this.filters[name] = this.filters[name] || [];
		this.filters[name].push(func);
	};

	/**
	 * Dsq.Templates.Filters
	 */
	this.Filters = new function() {
		this.commentContainer = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			var classes = [];
			if(Dsq.jsonData.request.page > 1) {
				classes.push('dsq-append');
			}

			//
			// Extra classes used for custom themes
			//

			if(_meta.depth) {
				classes.push('dsq-comment-child', 'dsq-depth-' + _meta.depth, 'dsq-parent-is-' + _meta.parent_post_id);
			}


			//

			if(_meta.author_is_creator) {
				// TODO: We need to deprecate the "special" class since it is not properly prefixed.
				classes.push('special', 'dsq-special');
			}
			if(_meta.author_is_moderator) {
				classes.push('dsq-moderator');
			}
			classes.push(['dsq-odd', 'dsq-even'][Dsq.Templates.postLoopCounter % 2]);

			s = s.substring(0, s.lastIndexOf('>'));
			return s + ' class="dsq-comment ' + classes.join(' ') + '" style="margin-left:' + _meta.depth*30 + 'px">';
		};

		this.commentContent = function(post_id, s) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
			if (_meta.killed) {
				return '<em>Comment removed.</em>';
			} else if (!_meta.approved) {
				return '<em>This comment was flagged for review.</em>';
			}

			s = s.replace(Dsq.MEDIA_POST_RE, Dsq.MediaPostHandler);
			return s;
		};
	};

	//
	// Thread
	//
	// TODO: These need to be stripped of all Django template tags.

	this.authPost = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.context.show_reply) {
			return '';
		}
		var result = [];
		result = result.concat([
				'<div id="dsq-auth"',
						Dsq.jsonData.integration.reply_position ? 'class="dsq-auth-bottom"' : '',
						'>',
					'<div class="dsq-by">',
						'<a href="http://disqus.com" target="_blank">',
							(Dsq.jsonData.integration.disqus_logo ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/by-disqus.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">') :
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img src="%(media_url)s/images/embed/dsq-button-120x19.png" alt="discussion by DISQUS">')
							),
						'</a>',
					'</div>',
					'<div class="dsq-auth-header">',
						'<h3 id="dsq-add-new-comment" class="dsq-h3-addcomment">',
								Dsq.Strings.ADD_NEW_COMMENT,
						'</h3>',
						'<div id="dsq-login">',
						(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated && Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post
								? '<p class="dsq-login-message" id="dsq-login-message">You are commenting as a <a class="dsq-help" title="Click for more information" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Guest</a>. You may select one to log into:</p>'
								: '')
		]);
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			result = result.concat([
							Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
								'<a id="dsq-login-toggle" href="%(disqus_url)s%(login_url)s?next=article:%(thread_id)s" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false"><img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsq-profile-btn.png" title="%(log_into)s" alt="%(log_into)s"/></a>',
								{login_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGIN, thread_id: Dsq.jsonData.thread.id, log_into: Dsq.Strings.LOG_INTO_DISQUS}
								),
							'&nbsp; ',
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ?
								'<div id="dsq-fbc-login" onlogin="DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin()" size="medium" background="light" length="short" style="display:inline; margin-right:7px"></div>' :
								''
							),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-twitter-login" class="dsq-twitter-login" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect();" style="display:inline; cursor: pointer"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/twitter-signin-short.png" style="margin-right:7px" /></div>', {}) : ''),
							(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ?
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate(
									'<div id="dsq-openid-login" class="dsq-openid-login" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.requestURL();" style="display:inline; cursor:pointer;"><img src="%(media_url)s/images/openid-login-button.png"/></div>', {}
								) : '')
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
						'</div>', // dsq-login
					'</div>', // dsq-auth-header
					'<div id="dsq-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated" ',
						Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated ? 'style="display:block"' : '',
						'>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-pic">',
								Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">' +
																			'<img class="dsq-post-avatar" src="%(avatar_url)s" alt="" /></a>',
																			{avatar_url: Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_AVATAR,
																			url: (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
																					 ? Dsq.jsonData.request.url
																					 : Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + Dsq.Urls.REQUEST_USER_PROFILE) }),
						'</div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>', {url:Dsq.jsonData.request.url})
										  )
										: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(
												Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(profile_url)s" title="%(request_display_username)s">%(request_display_username)s</a>')
											)
									),
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">',
									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="%(media_url)s/images/dsqicon12.png" alt="%(logged_in_as)s"/>&nbsp',
											{logged_in_as: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGGED_IN_AS(Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username)})
										: ''),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote
										? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="%(logout_from_disqus)s">',
											{logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN, logout_from_disqus: Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('DISQUS')})
										: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'twitter')
												? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using Twitter (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
												 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
												: ((Dsq.jsonData.request.remote_domain == 'openid')
													 ? Dsq.Utils.interpolate('using OpenID (<a href="%(disqus_url)s%(logout_url)s?ctkn=%(csrf_token)s" title="Logout">Logout</a>)',
													 {logout_url: Dsq.Urls.LOGOUT, csrf_token: Dsq.CSRF_TOKEN})
													 : ''
													)
											)
									),

									(!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_remote ? Dsq.FmtStrings.LOGOUT_FROM('<span class="logo-disqus">DISQUS</span>') : ''),
									'</a>',
								'</li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
		]);
		if (Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect) {
			result = result.concat([
					'<div id="dsq-fbc-authenticated" class="dsq-authenticated">',
						'<div id="dsq-fbc-profilepic" class="dsq-authenticated-pic" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.ProfilePic" size="square" facebook-logo="true"></div>',
						'<div class="dsq-authenticated-info">',
							'<ul>',
								'<li>',
									'Logged in as <span id="dsq-fbc-name" uid="loggedinuser" type="FB.XFBML.Name" linked="true" useyou="false"></span>',
								'</li>',
								'<li class="logout">using Facebook Connect <a href="#" onclick="javascript:DisqusFbcParentController.logout();return false;">(Logout)</a></li>',
							'</ul>',
						'</div>',
					'</div>'
			]);
		}
		result = result.concat([
				'</div>', // dsq-auth
				'<div id="dsq-toolbar-items">',
				'</div>'
		]);
		result = result.concat([
					//
					//
					//
				((!Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_post && !Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) ?
					// Needs to be translated:
					('<p id="dsq-no-anon-msg">Required: Please log into <span class="logo-disqus">Disqus</span> ' +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_fb_connect ? 'or connect with Facebook ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_twitter_signin ? 'or sign in with Twitter ' : '') +
					(Dsq.jsonData.context.use_openid ? 'or sign in using OpenID ' : '') +
					Dsq.Utils.interpolate('to comment on <strong>%(forum_name)s</strong>.</p>')) :
					''
				),
				'<div id="dsq-post-add"></div>',
				'<div style="margin:10px 0">',
				((Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media) ?
						'<a href="#" id="dsq-media-link" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, false, \'media\'); return false">' + Dsq.Strings.USE_MEDIA + ' <small>&#9660;</small></a>' :
						''),
				'</div>'
		]);
		return result.join('');
	};


	this.header = function() {

		var html = '\<h3 id="dsq-comments-count" class="dsq-h3-commentcount">\
	 <span id="dsq-num-posts">71</span> Comments\
	 &nbsp;\
	 <span class="dsq-item-feed">\
	 <a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech/latest.rss"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/bullet-feed.png"></a>\
	 </span>\
	 </h3>\
	 <div id="dsq-options" style="margin:15px 0">\
	 <span class="dsq-item-sort">\
	 Sort by\
	 <select id="dsq-sort-select" onchange="Dsq.Thread.sortBy(this.value);">\
	 <option value="hot" selected="selected">Popular now</option>\
	 <option value="best" >Best Rating</option>\
	 <option value="newest" >Newest first</option>\
	 <option value="oldest" >Oldest first</option>\
	 </select>\
	 &nbsp;\
	 </span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-cp"><a href="http://scobleizer.disqus.com/listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech/">Community Page</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>\
	 <span class="dsq-item-subscribe">\
	 <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/email.png" style="width:12px;height:12px;vertical-align:middle">\
	 <span id="dsq-subscribe">\
	 <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a>\
	 </span>\
	 </span>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-alerts">\
	 <p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\
	 </div>\
		';

		

		
		if (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) { 
			html = ' \
			<div class="dsq-alert-message dsq-upgrade-message"> \
				<strong>Disqus upgrade available.</strong> Hi ' + Dsq.jsonData.request.display_username + ', this message is being displayed to you because you are a moderator of this site. <a href="#" onclick="Dsq.$(\'dsq-upgrade-message\').style.display=\'block\';this.style.display=\'none\';return false">Click here for details.</a> \
				<div style="display:none; margin-top:10px;" id="dsq-upgrade-message"> \
					A new theme is available with added features. <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/settings/' + Dsq.jsonData.forum.url + '/?p=customize">To change your theme, click here</a> and choose the theme Narcissus. \
					If you do not upgrade, you are missing out on features such as: real-time commenting, new sign-in integrations, and an upgrade interface. \
					<strong>This message will automatically go away in one week.</strong> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			' + html; 
		}
		return html;
	};

	this.footer = function() {
		var html = Dsq.Templates.pagination();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.authPost();
		

		html += Dsq.Templates.reactions();

		
			html += Dsq.Templates.trackbacks();
		

		return html;
	};

	this.pagination = function() {
		var html = '';
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) { Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = ''; }
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.thread.paginate) { return ''; }

		//
		// TODO: num_paginator still uses the template tag for pagination, 
		// 		while append_paginator does it all in JavaScript.
		//		This should all be in JavaScript.
		//

		if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages > 1 && Dsq.jsonData.request.page < Dsq.jsonData.thread.num_pages) {
			html = ' \<a class="dsq-paginate-append-text" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this); return false">Show more comments...</a>\
	 <button type="button" class="dsq-button-small dsq-paginate-append-button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.paginate(Dsq.jsonData.request.page + 1, this);">Load more comments</button>\
			';
		}
		
		if (Dsq.$('dsq-pagination')) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML = html;
			return '';
		} else {
			return '<div id="dsq-pagination" class="dsq-pagination">' + html + '</div>';
		}
	};

	this.trackbacks = function() {
		var html = '';

		if(typeof DsqLocal != 'undefined' && DsqLocal.trackback_url && DsqLocal.trackbacks) {
			var trackbacks = DsqLocal.trackbacks;
			var trackback_url = DsqLocal.trackback_url;
		} else {
			var trackbacks = [
			
			
			];
			var trackback_url = 'http://scobleizer.disqus.com/listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech/trackback/';
		}

		html += '<div class="dsq-item-trackback">Trackback URL&nbsp;&nbsp;<input class="dsq-trackback-url" onclick="this.select()" readonly="true" value="' + trackback_url + '"></div>';

		if(trackbacks.length) {
			html += '<ul id="dsq-references">'
			for(var i = 0; i < trackbacks.length; i++) {
				var trackback = trackbacks[i];
				html += '<li><cite><a href="' + trackback.author_url + '" rel="nofollow">' + trackback.author_name + '</a></cite> \
						<p class="dsq-meta">' + trackback.date + '</p> \
						<p class="dsq-content">' + trackback.excerpt + '</p></li>';
			}
			html += '</ul>';
			html = '<h3 class="dsq-h3-trackbacks">Trackbacks</h3>' + html;
		}

		return html;
	}

	this.showRetweets = function(id, limit, element_id /* Optional */) {
		var source, html = '';

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			if (reaction.id === id) {
				source = reaction.retweets;
			}
		}

		if (source) {
			if (limit === 0) {
				limit = source.length;
			}

			for (var j = 0; j < limit; j++) {
				var rt = source[j];
				html += '<a href="' + rt.url + '">' + rt.author_name + '</a>'	+ ((j === (limit - 1)) ? '.' : ', ');
			}
		}

		if (element_id === undefined) {
			return html;
		}

		var element = document.getElementById(element_id);
		element.innerHTML = html;
		return element;
	};

	this.showMoreReactions = function(reactions, has_more, start, limit) {
		var link = document.getElementById('dsq-show-more-reactions');
		var container = link.parentNode;
		container.removeChild(link);

		for (var i = 0, reaction; reaction = reactions[i]; i++) {
			var el = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (el) {
				container.innerHTML += el;
			}
		}

		if (has_more) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = start;
			var l = limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			container.innerHTML += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}
	};

	this.generateReactionHTML = function(reaction) {
		if (reaction.body === null || reaction.body == '') {
			return;
		}

		if (reaction.author_name === '') {
			reaction.author_name = '&nbsp;';
		}

		if (reaction.url === '') {
			reaction.url = reaction.get_service_url;
		}

		/* Reaction HTML begins */
		var item = '<li class="dsq-reaction" id="dsq-reaction-' + reaction.id + '">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-header">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-header-avatar">';

		if (reaction.author_url && reaction.author_url !== '') {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="' + reaction.author_url +'">';
		} else {
			item += '<a target="_blank" href="#" onclick="return false;">';
		}

		if (reaction.avatar_url && reaction.avatar_url !== '') {
			item += '<img src="' + reaction.avatar_url + '"/>';
		} else {
			item += '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/noavatar32.png"/>';
		}

		var service_icon = (reaction.get_service_name == 'trackback' || reaction.get_service_name == 'pingback' ? 'rss' : reaction.get_service_name.replace(' ', ''));
		item += '<img class="dsq-service-icon" src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/reactions/services/' + service_icon + '.png"/>'
			+ '</a></div>'
			+ '<cite><span>' + reaction.author_name + '</span></cite>'
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"><a class="dsq-header-time">' + reaction.date_created + '</a></span>'
			+ '</div><div class="dsq-reaction-body">'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-message">' + reaction.body + '</div>'
			+ '<div class="dsq-reaction-footer">From <a class="dsq-service-name" target="_blank" href="' + reaction.url + '">' + reaction.get_service_name + '</a> '
			+ 'via <a href="' + reaction.source_url + '">' + (reaction.source == 'backtype' ? 'BackType' : 'UberVU') + '</a>'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator ? '&nbsp;&bull;&nbsp;<a class="dsq-hide-reaction" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Reaction.hide(' + reaction.id + '); return false;">Hide</a>' : '') + '</div></div>';

		if(reaction.retweets) {
			var num_retweets = reaction.retweets.length;
			if (num_retweets > 0) {
				item += '<div class="dsq-reaction-retweets">';
				if (num_retweets == 1) {
					item += 'One more retweet from <a href="' + reaction.retweets[0].url + '">'  + reaction.retweets[0].author_name + '</a>';
				} else {
					item += (num_retweets + ' more retweets from ');

					item += '<span id="dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '">';
					var n_tweets = (num_retweets > 15) ? 15 : num_retweets;
					item += Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(reaction.id, n_tweets);

					if (n_tweets != num_retweets) {
						item += '</span> <a onclick="Dsq.Templates.showRetweets(' + reaction.id + ', 0, \'dsq-reaction-retweets-' + reaction.id + '\');'
							+ 'this.parentNode.removeChild(this); return false;" href="#">Show all</a>';
					}
				}
				item += '</div>';
			}
		}

		item += '</li>'; /* Reaction HTML ends */
		return item;
	};

	this.reactions = function() {
		var html, reaction;

		if (Dsq.jsonData.reactions === undefined || Dsq.jsonData.reactions.length === 0) {
			return '';
		}

		html = '';
		for (var i = 0; reaction = Dsq.jsonData.reactions[i]; i++) {
			var item = Dsq.Templates.generateReactionHTML(reaction);
			if (item) {
				html += item;
			}
		}

		if (Dsq.jsonData.has_more_reactions) {
			var d = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url;
			var f = Dsq.jsonData.forum.url;
			var t = Dsq.jsonData.thread.id;
			var s = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_start;
			var l = Dsq.jsonData.reactions_limit;

			var handler = 'Dsq.Utils.execScript(\'' + d + '/forums/' + f + '/more_reactions.js?t=' + t + '&s=' + s + '&l=' + l + '\', true); return false;';
			html += '<li id="dsq-show-more-reactions"><a href="#" onclick="' + handler + '">Show more reactions</a></li>';
		}

		return '<h3 class="dsq-h3-reactions">Reactions</h3><ul id="dsq-reactions" class="dsq-reactions">' + html + '</ul>';
	};
	
	this.missingPermissions = function() {
		return '	<p>Comments for this page are closed.</p>\n';
	};

	//
	// Post
	//

	this.prependPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="comment-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.appendPost = function(post_id) {
		var html = '<div id="dsq-comment-reply-' + post_id + '"></div>';
		return html;
	};

	this.postPrependHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-header-avatar" id="dsq-header-avatar-' + post_id + '" onmouseover="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')"> \
				<a id="dsq-avatar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-avatar" href="' + userData.url + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">'
			+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.show_avatar
				? '<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key].avatar + '" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '</a>'
			+ '</div> \
		';
	};

	this.postAppendHeader = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];

		return ''
			+ (_meta.author_is_moderator
				? '<img class="dsq-mod-star" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/bullet-star.png" title="Moderator" alt="" />'
				: '')
			+ '<span class="dsq-header-meta"> \
				<a id="dsq-time-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-header-time" href="#comment-' + post_id + '" title="Permalink">' + _meta.date + '</a> \
			</span>';
	};

	this.preBody = function(post_id) {
		return '';
	}

	this.postBody = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Deprecate flagging conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		return ''
			+ (_meta.edited
				? '<p class="dsq-editedtxt">(Edited by a moderator)</p>'
				: '')
			;
	};

	this.postFooter = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: Use media should be conditional
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		if(_meta.killed) { return ''; }

		return ' \
			<div class="dsq-comment-footer" id="dsq-comment-footer-' + post_id + '"> \
				<div id="dsq-points-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-likedtxt">'
				+ (_meta.points
					? _meta.points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(_meta.points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.'
					: '')
				+ '</div>'
				+ '<ul class="dsq-comment-options dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.votable
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first dsq-rate" id="dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id + '">'
					+ (!_meta.up_voted
						? '<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.rate(this, ' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Like</a>'
						: 'You liked this.') + '</li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-report' + (!_meta.votable ? ' dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-post-report-' + post_id + '"><a href="#" class="dsq-post-report" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + post_id + ', false); return false;">Report</a></li> \
				</ul> \
				<ul class="dsq-list-style">'
				+ (_meta.can_reply
					? '<li class="dsq-list-first"><a href="#" id="dsq-reply-link-' + post_id +'" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleReply(this, ' + post_id +'); return false;">Reply</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ (_meta.can_reply && !_meta.has_replies && _meta.from_request_user
					? '<li id="dsq-edit-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-edit-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit</a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="' + (!_meta.can_reply ? 'dsq-list-first' : '') + '" id="dsq-more-el-' + post_id + '"><a id="dsq-more-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'more\'); return false">More <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
				+ (Dsq.jsonData.forum.use_media
					? '<li id="dsq-media-el-' + post_id +'" style="display:none"><a id="dsq-media-link-' + post_id + '" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.showMenu(this, ' + post_id + ', \'media\'); return false">Use Media <small>&#9660;</small></a></li>'
					: '')
				+ '</ul>'
				+ '<div id="dsq-reply-bar-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar" style="display:none"> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-items-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-items"> \
						</div> \
						<div id="dsq-reply-bar-auth-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-reply-bar-auth"> \
							 \
								 \
								 	<a href="#" class="dsq-help dsq-reply-req-opt" title="You are commenting as a Guest. You may choose to log into an existing DISQUS Profile, your Facebook, Twitter or OpenID account to comment on Scobleizer" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges(); return false">Optional:</a> \
								 \
								<img class="dsq-login-icon" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/dsq-favicon-16x16.png" alt="" /> \
								<a id="dsq-reply-login-' + post_id + '" href="http://disqus.com/profile/login/?next=article:18367193" onclick="Dsq.Popup.login(); return false">Login</a> \
								 \
									&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img class="fb_login_image" src="http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/fbconnect/login-buttons/connect_light_small_short.gif" alt="Facebook Connect"/> \
									<a href="#" onclick="FB.Connect.requireSession(DisqusFbcParentController.onLogin); return false;">Connect</a> \
								 \
								&nbsp;or&nbsp; \
									<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/twitter-signin-icon.png" alt="" /> \
									<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Twitter.startTwitterConnect(); return false">Sign-in</a> \
								 \
								 \
							 \
						</div> \
					</div> \
					<div id="dsq-reply-' + post_id + '"></div> \
			</div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Iframes
	//

	this._makeAttributes = function(attributes) {
		// Makes a tag attributes string out of an object.
		// Caller is responsible for making sure nothing needs to be escaped.
		var result = [];
		for (key in attributes) {
			result.push(' ' + key + '="' + attributes[key] + '"');
		}
		result = result.join('');
		return result;
	};

	this._frameGeneric = function(base_url, params, attributes) {
		if(typeof(disqus_callback_params) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_callback_params = '';
		}

		var default_params = {
			// TODO: These should be moved to Dsq.jsonData.
			'f'				: 'scobleizer',
			't'				: 'listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech',
			// Do we need encodeURIComponent here?
			'ifrs'			: encodeURIComponent(disqus_iframe_css),
			'to_redirect'	: encodeURIComponent(window.location),
			'cbp'			: disqus_callback_params,
			'ff'			: Dsq.Thread.ff,
			'fc'			: Dsq.Thread.fc,
			'ac'			: Dsq.Thread.ac,
			'default_text'	: disqus_default_text
		};

		base_url += '?' + (new Date()).getTime();
		// Add params to default_params.
		if(params) {
			for(var key in params) {
				if(params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					default_params[key] = encodeURIComponent(params[key]);
				}
			}
		}
		// Build querystring.
		for(var key in default_params) {
			if(default_params[key] && default_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				base_url += '&' + key + '=' + default_params[key];
			}
		}

		return [
			'<iframe marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" frameborder="0"',
			(' allowtransparency="true" src="' + base_url + '"'),
			this._makeAttributes(attributes),
			'</iframe>'].join('');
	};

	this.frameLogin = function(opt_attributes) {
		var params = {};
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/login.html';
		var attributes = opt_attributes || {};
		attributes['class'] = 'dsq-post-login';

		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameReply = function(post_id, extra_params, attributes) {
		// Returns the HTML for a reply iframe. Called by Dsq.Iframes.setReplyIframeToContainer
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = Dsq.Urls.REPLY;
		var params = {
			'def_email'		: disqus_def_email,
			'def_name'		: disqus_def_name
		};
		if(extra_params) {
			for(var key in extra_params) {
				if(extra_params.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
					params[key] = extra_params[key];
				}
			}
		}
		if(_meta) {
			params['parent_post'] = post_id;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined') {
			params['per_page'] = disqus_per_page;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_frame_theme != 'undefined') {
			params['theme'] = disqus_frame_theme;
		}
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated) {
			attributes['class'] += '-authenticated';
		}
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, attributes);
	};

	this.frameEdit = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = (typeof post_id != 'undefined') ? Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] : false;
		var base_url = 'http://disqus.com/embed/edit.html';
		var params = {
			'p' : post_id
		};
		return this._frameGeneric(base_url, params, {'class': 'dsq-post-edit', 'name': 'dsq-edit_' + post_id + '-frame'});
	};

	//
	// Menus
	//

	this.menuMore = function(post_id) {
		// TODO: "Remove post" button should hide menu.
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#comment-' + post_id + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.permalink(' + post_id + ')">Link</a></li> \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Profile</a></li>'
	+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || Dsq.jsonData.request.is_global_moderator
		? '	<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>' + (_meta.email ? '<li class="dsq-admin-email">' + _meta.email + '</li>' : '')
		+ '	<li class="dsq-admin-ip">' + _meta.ip + '</li> \
			<li class="dsq-menu-sep"></li>'
		+ (Dsq.jsonData.request.moderator_can_edit
			? ' <li class="dsq-admin-edit"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.edit(this, ' + post_id + '); return false;">Edit Comment</a></li>'
			: '')
		+ ' <li class="dsq-remove"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.removePost(' + post_id + ', 1); return false;">Remove Comment</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-report-spam"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.reportSpam(' + post_id + '); return false;">Mark Spam</a></li> \
			<li class="dsq-block-user"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.blacklist(' + post_id + '); return false">Block User</a></li>'
		: '');
	};

	this.menuMedia = function(post_id) {
		return ' \
			<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(this, ' + post_id + ', \'seesmic\'); return false;">Record video</a></li> \
		';
	};

	this.dropProfile = function(post_id) {
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id];
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][_meta.user_key];

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(null, post_id);
			var html = '';
			var hiddenThreshold = 3; // Define # of services to show before stuffing them in hidden div

			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == hiddenThreshold
					? '<li id="dsq-drop-hidden-' + post_id +'" class="dsq-drop-hidden"><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li class="dsq-drop-services"> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank"> \
						<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>';
			}

			if(i >= hiddenThreshold) {
				html += '</ul></li> \
				<li id="dsq-drop-more-' + post_id + '" class="dsq-drop-more"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Post.dropProfileMore(this, '+ post_id + '); return false"><small>&#9660;</small></a></li> \
				';
			}
			return html;
		};


		var menu = '<li class="dsq-drop-showlnk"><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup.popProfile(' + post_id + '); return false;">Expand &#8663;</a></li>';
		var pointsMessage = '';
		if (userData['registered']) {
			pointsMessage = 'with ' + userData['points'] + ' points (more points are better).';
		}

		if (userData['is_remote']) {
			var domain = userData['remote_domain_name'];
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' is a ' + domain + ' user ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
			menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-' + domain.toLowerCase() + '">' + domain + '</span></li>';
		} else if (userData['registered']) {
			if (userData['verified']) {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a verified commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-verified">Verified</span></li>';
			} else {
				menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has a registered, but unverified, commenter profile ' + pointsMessage + '" onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()">';
				menu += '<span class="dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span></li>';
			}
		} else {
			menu += '<li class="dsq-drop-badge" title="' + userData['display_name'] + ' has not claimed this commenter profile." onclick="Dsq.Popup.helpBadges()"><span class="dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span></li>';
		}

		menu += _includeServices();
		return menu;
	};

	//
	// Popups
	//

	this._popupGeneric = function(content) {
		return ' \
		<div class="dsq-popup-content"> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-top"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-body" class="clearfix"> \
				<div class="dsq-popup-body-padding"> \
					<div class="dsq-popup-header"> \
						<a class="dsq-close-link" href="#" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true); return false"><img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/modal-close.png" alt="" /></a>'
						+ content['header']
					+ '</div>'
					+ content['body']
					+ '<div class="powered-by"><a href="http://disqus.com/comments/">Powered by <img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/embed/disqus-logo.png" alt="Disqus Comments" style="margin-bottom:-5px" /></a></div> \
				</div> <!-- padding --> \
			</div> <!-- body --> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-bottom"></div> \
		</div> \
		';
	};

	this.popupProfile = function(user_key) {
		var userServices = Dsq.Post.getUserServices(user_key, null);
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		var _includeServices = function() {
			var html = '';
			for(var i = 0; i < userServices.length; i++) {
				html +=
				(i == 0
					? '<h4>Connections</h4><ul>'
					: '')
				+ '<li> \
					<img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.media_url + '/images/embed/services/' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '.png" alt="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" title="' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" /> \
					<a class="dsq-service-' + userServices[i].name.toLowerCase() + '" href="' + userServices[i].url + '" target="_blank">'
					+ userServices[i].name
					+ '</a> \
				</li>'
				+ (i+1 == userServices.length ? '</ul>' : '');
			}
			return html;
		};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<table> \
				<tr> \
					<td> \
						<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><img class="dsq-popup-profile-avatar" src="' + userData['avatar'] + '" alt="" /></a> \
					</td> \
					<td> \
						<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user"> \
							<h3>' + userData['display_name'] + '</h3> \
							<div class="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats" id="dsq-popup-profile-user-stats-' + user_key + '">Loading...</div> \
						</div> \
					</td> \
				</tr> \
			</table> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-state"> \
				This is a&nbsp;<span class="'
					+ (userData['registered']
						? (userData['verified']
							? ' dsq-badge-verified'
							: (userData['is_remote']
								? ' dsq-badge-' + userData['remote_domain_name'].toLowerCase()
								: ' dsq-badge-registered')
							)
							: ' dsq-badge-guest') + '">'
			+ (userData['registered']
				? (userData['verified']
					? 'Verified'
					: (userData['is_remote']
						 ? userData['remote_domain_name']
						 : 'Registered')
					)
				: 'Guest')
			+ '</span>&nbsp;commenter profile.'
			+ '&nbsp;<a class="dsq-profile-userurl" href="' + userData.url + '"><strong>View more comments </strong></a>'
			+ (!userData['points']
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice">If this is you, <a href="http://disqus.com/profile" target="_blank">claim it now</a> to manage your comments.</p>'
				: '')
			+ ((userData['registered'] && !userData['verified'] && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username && (Dsq.jsonData.request.username == userData['username'])) && !userData['is_remote'])
				? '<p class="dsq-popup-notice"><strong>Alert</strong>: You have not verified this account. <a href="http://disqus.com/verify">Verify it now.</a></p>'
				: '')
			+ '</div> \
			<div id="dsq-profile-status-' + user_key + '" class="dsq-popup-profile-status" style="display:none"></div> \
			<div class="dsq-popup-profile-snapshot"> \
				<table> \
					<tr> \
						<td> \
							<div id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Most active sites</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-active-sites-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
						<td>'
							+ _includeServices()
							+ '<div id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-wrapper-' + user_key + '"> \
								<h4>Moderator of</h4> \
								<ul id="dsq-popup-profile-moderated-' + user_key + '"> \
									<li>Loading...</li> \
								</ul> \
							</div> \
						</td> \
					</tr> \
				</table> \
			</div> \
			';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupReblog = function() {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<cite><span>Reblog this comment</span></cite> \
		';

		bodyHtml = ' \
			<div id="dsq-reblog-form" class="dsq-reblog-form"> \
			</div> \
		';

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.popupModal = function(title, message) {
		var headerHtml = '';
		var bodyHtml = '';
		var content = {};

		headerHtml = ' \
			<h3>' + title + '</h3> \
		';

		bodyHtml = message;

		content = {
			'header': headerHtml,
			'body': bodyHtml
		};

		return this._popupGeneric(content);
	};

	this.alertContent = function(name, post_id) {
		var alert = {
			'post_not_approved': {
				'title': 'Comment awaiting approval by a moderator',
				'message': 'Thanks for posting. Your comment must be approved by a moderator before appearing here.'
			},
			'post_has_profile': {
				'title': 'Use your existing commenter profile',
				'message': 'You have just posted your commment as a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-guest">Guest</span>, but you may already have a <span class="dsq-badge dsq-badge-registered">Registered</span> commenter profile.<br /><br /><a href="http://disqus.com/claim">Log in and claim this comment!</a>'
			}
		};
		return alert[name] || false;
	};

	//
	// Actions
	//

	this.voted = function(post_id, points, vote) {
		// Update number of points
		Dsq.$('dsq-points-' + post_id).innerHTML = points + Dsq.Utils.pluralize(points, ' person', ' people') + ' liked this comment.';

		// Update link text
		if(vote) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + post_id).innerHTML = 'You liked this.';
		}
	};

	this.subscribed = function(status) {
		var title, message;

		if(status) {
			title = 'Subscribed!';
			message = 'You have subscribed to this comment thread. New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox, where you may read and respond by email.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(0); return false">Unsubscribe</a> \
			';
		} else {
			title = 'Unsubscribed';
			message = 'You have unsubscribed to this comment thread. New comments will no longer be sent to your email inbox.';
			Dsq.$('dsq-subscribe').innerHTML = ' \
				<a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1); return false">Subscribe by email</a> \
			';
		}

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);

	};
	
	this.highlighted = function() {
		Dsq.Popup.popModal('This comment has been highlighted.', 'Highlighted comment');
	};

	//
	// Media
	//

	this.mediaSeesmic = function(id, thumb) {
		return ' \
			<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_preview" class="dsq-seesmic-preview"><a href="http://www.seesmic.com/video/' + id + '" target="_blank" class="see_link">&nbsp;</a> \
				<div style="display:block;width:160px; height:120px; border:none; background-image:url(http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/' + thumb + ')"> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_hide" class="seePlayOverlay" style="display:none;"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',false)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/stopOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
					<div id="dsq-seesmic-' + id + '_show" class="seePlayOverlay"><img onclick="see_play_video(\'' + id + '\',true)" src="http://media.disqus.com/images/seesmic/playOverlay.png" width="50" height="50" style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand; border:none; padding-top: 30px; padding-left: 50px" alt="" /></div> \
				</div> \
			</div> \
			<div id="' + id + '_content" style="display:block; width:100%; padding-top:5px"></div> \
		';
	};

	//
	// Callbacks
	//

	this.postComment_onSuccess = function(parent_post_id) {
		// Increment post count
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');
		
		if (num_posts) { 
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) { 
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML) + 1;
		}
	};
};
// Dsq.Templates


/**
 * Dsq.Post
 */
Dsq.Post = new function() {
	this.openedMenu = {};
	this.menuEventListener = null;
	this.stateReplyToggled = {};
	this.stateEditToggled = {};
	this.stateRecordLink = {};

	/**
	 * Inserts a new post into the document.
	 *
	 * @param after_id {Number}	Insert a post before specified id.  If after_id
	 *							evaluates to false, then post in the front.  If
	 *							after_id is -1, post at the end.
	 */
	this.insert = function(after_id, id, message, author) {
		// Skeleton template from thread_posts.html.
		var skeleton = ' \
			<li id="dsq-comment-%(id)s"> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-header-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-header"> \
					<cite id="dsq-cite-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-cite"> \
						<a id="dsq-author-user-%(id)s" href="%(author_url)s" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">%(author_name)s</a> \
					</cite> \
				</div> \
				<div id="dsq-comment-body-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-body"> \
					<div id="dsq-comment-message-%(id)s" class="dsq-comment-message">%(message)s</div> \
				</div> \
			</li> \
		';
		var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
		var _user_meta = Dsq.jsonData.users[_meta.user_key];
		var markup = Dsq.Utils.interpolate(skeleton, {
			id: id,
			message: message,
			author_url: _user_meta.blog,
			author_name: _user_meta.display_name
		});
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		markup = markup.replace(Dsq.COMMENTS_RE, Dsq.CommentsHandler);
		div.innerHTML = markup;

		if (after_id === -1) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').appendChild(div);
		} else if (!after_id) {
			Dsq.$('dsq-comments').insertBefore(div, Dsq.$('dsq-comments').firstChild);
		} else if (Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + after_id)) {
			// Get next node after "after_id", so we can insert before it.
			// If "after_id" is the last comment, the target node is the
			// last node.
			
			// var append_post_id = Dsq.Templates.appendPost(after_id).replace('<div id="','').replace('"></div>', '');
			var append_post_id = 'dsq-append-post-' + after_id;
			var node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			while (node = node.nextSibling) {
				if (!node || node.nodeType == 1) { // 1 == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
					break;
				}
			}
			if (!node) {
				node = Dsq.$(append_post_id);
			}
			node.parentNode.insertBefore(div, node);
		}
	};

	this.incrementPostCount = function() {
		
		var num_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-num-posts');
		var total_posts = Dsq.$('dsq-total-posts');

		if (num_posts) {
			num_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(num_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
		if (total_posts) {
			total_posts.innerHTML = parseInt(total_posts.innerHTML, 10) + 1;
		}
	}
	
	this.outlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className += ' dsq-comment-outline';
		setTimeout("(function () { Dsq.Post.clearOutlineComment(" + post_id + ") })()", 3000);
	};
	
	this.clearOutlineComment = function(post_id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-' + post_id).className.replace('dsq-comment-outline', '');
	};

	this.showMenu = function(el, id, name) {
		var anchorPos = Dsq.Utils.findPos(el);
		var menu = document.createElement('ul');

		if(this.openedMenu) {
			if(this.openedMenu.linkClicked) {
				this.openedMenu.linkClicked = false;
				return;
			}
		}

		switch(name) {
			case 'more':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMore(id);
				break;
			case 'media':
				menu.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.menuMedia(id);
				break;
			default:
				break;
		}

		// Add menu to document body
		menu.id = 'dsq-menu-' + id;
		menu.className = 'dsq-menu';
		Dsq.$b.appendChild(menu);

		// Position and show
		anchorPos[1] += 15;
		menu.style.left = anchorPos[0] + 'px';
		menu.style.top = anchorPos[1] + 'px';
		menu.style.display = 'block';

		// Set global reference
		this.openedMenu = {
			'el' : menu,
			'id' : id,
			'name' : name,
			'linkClicked' : false
		};

		// Set listener
		this.menuEventListener = Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(document, 'mouseup', this._hideMenu);
	};

	this._hideMenu = function(e) {
		var el = e.target || e.srcElement;
		var openedMenu = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el;
		var id = Dsq.Post.openedMenu.id;

		if(!id) {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link';
		} else {
			var link = 'dsq-' + Dsq.Post.openedMenu.name + '-link-' + id;
		}

		if(!openedMenu) {
			return;
		}

		if(!Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, openedMenu.id)) {
			openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
			Dsq.Utils.removeEventListener(Dsq.Post.menuEventListener);
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(openedMenu);

		} else {
			// Hide the menu if a link was clicked inside the menu.  We can't
			// completely remove the menu until the onclick event on the link
			// fires, but the menuEventListener will prevent multiple menus
			// from polluting the DOM.
			if(el && typeof el.href != 'undefined') {
				openedMenu.style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Post.openedMenu.el = null;
			}
		}

		if(Dsq.Popup.isClicked(e, link)) {
 			Dsq.Post.openedMenu.linkClicked = true;
		}
	};


	this.getUserServices = function(user_key, id) {
		if(!user_key && id) {
			var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
			user_key = _meta.user_key;
		}
		var userData = Dsq.jsonData['users'][user_key];
		var userServices = [];

		// Keep a full list of supported services. This is the order they will display in the drop-profile.
		// Each service must have a corresponding case in _buildServiceUrl()
		var supportedServices = ['blog', 'twitter', 'facebook', 'tumblr'];

		function _buildServiceUrl(serviceName) {
			var data = userData[serviceName];
			var services = {
				blog:		function(d) { return d; },
				twitter:	function(d) { return d; },
				facebook:	function(d) { return d; },
				tumblr:		function(d) { return 'http://' + d + '.tumblr.com'; }
			};
			return services[serviceName](data);
		}

		for(var i = 0; i < supportedServices.length; i++) {
			if(userData[supportedServices[i]]) {
				var serviceUrl = _buildServiceUrl(supportedServices[i]);
				userServices.push({'name' : supportedServices[i], 'url' : serviceUrl});
			}
		}
		return userServices;
	}

	this.dropProfile = function(id) {
		var dp = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-profile-' + id);

		// IE6 needs JS to display/hide. All other browsers use CSS.
		if(dp) {
			if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) dp.style.display = (dp.style.display == 'inline') ? 'none' : 'inline';
			return false;
		} else {
			dp = document.createElement('ul');
		}

		dp.id = 'dsq-drop-profile-' + id;
		dp.className = 'dsq-drop-profile';

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) { dp.style.display = 'inline'; }

		var container = Dsq.$('dsq-header-avatar-' + id);
		dp.innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.dropProfile(id);
		container.appendChild(dp);
	};

	this.dropProfileMore = function(el, id) {
		var hiddenItems = Dsq.$('dsq-drop-hidden-' + id);

		hiddenItems.style.display = 'inline';
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
	};

	this._updateReplyLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "reply / cancel" links based on state.
		var displayDict = {};

		if(id) {
			if(this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				el.innerHTML = 'Cancel';
				displayDict['media'] = 'inline';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'none';
			} else {
				el.innerHTML = 'Reply';
				displayDict['media'] = 'none';
				displayDict['edit'] = 'inline';
			}
		}

		for(var key in displayDict) {
			if(displayDict.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
				var	linkEl = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-el-' + id),
					spacer = Dsq.$('dsq-' + key + '-spacer-' + id);

				if(linkEl) {
					linkEl.style.display = displayDict[key];
					if(spacer) spacer.style.display = displayDict[key];
				}
			}
		}
	};

	this._updateMediaLinks = function(el, id) {
		// Update "use media / cancel" links based on state.
		var appendId = (id) ? ('-' + id) : '';
		var link = Dsq.$('dsq-media-link' + appendId);

		if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			link.innerHTML = 'Cancel Media';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.toggleMediaReply(link, id); return false; };
		} else {
			link.innerHTML = 'Use Media <small>&#9660;</small>';
			link.onclick = function() { Dsq.Post.showMenu(link, id, 'media'); return false; };
		}
	};

	this.toggleReply = function(el, id) {
		// Create reply IFrame
		if (window.disqus_use_postmessage) {
			if (!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				// Create IFrame if it doesn't exist.
				if (!Dsq.frames['reply_' + id]) {
					var _meta = Dsq.jsonData.posts[id];
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id] = new Dsq.ReplyFrame(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-frame-' + id), id);
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].init();
					Dsq.frames['reply_' + id].setState(id, _meta.depth);
				}
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
			}
		} else {
			// DEPRECATED
			if(!this.stateReplyToggled[id]) {
				// Reply toolbar
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'block';
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id), id);
			} else {
				Dsq.$('dsq-reply-bar-' + id).style.display = 'none';
				Dsq.Iframes.hideAllInContainer(Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id));
				if(this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
					// HACK: Cancel media before canceling self.
					this.toggleMediaReply(Dsq.$('dsq-media-link-' + id), id);
				}
			}
		}

		this.stateReplyToggled[id] = !this.stateReplyToggled[id];
		this._updateReplyLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-reply-' + id); }

		Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED, {
			postId: id,
			opened: this.stateReplyToggled[id]
		});
	};

	this.toggleMediaReply = function(el, id, xtype) {
		id = id || 0;
		if(id) {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + id);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(!this.stateRecordLink[id]) {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id, {xtype:xtype}, 'dsq-post-video');
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, id);
		}
		this.stateRecordLink[id] = !this.stateRecordLink[id];
		this._updateMediaLinks(el, id);

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};

	this.edit = function(el, id) {
		Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id).innerHTML = Dsq.Templates.frameEdit(id);
		el.parentNode.style.display = 'none';
		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE('dsq-comment-message-' + id); }
	};

    this.rate = function(el, id, vote) {
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || Dsq.jsonData.forum.allow_anon_votes) {
			if(vote == 1) {
                Dsq.$('dsq-rate-cont-' + id).innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
            }

            Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/vote.js'
                + '?post_id='    + id
                + '&vote='        + vote);

		} else {
			Dsq.Popup.login(Dsq.Strings.TO_RATE_PLEASE_LOG_IN);
		}
    };

	this.report = function(id, confirmed) {
		if(confirmed) {
			Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech/post_report/', {'post_id': id});
			Dsq.Popup.popModal('Thank you. This comment has been flagged for moderator attention.', 'Successfully flagged');
			Dsq.Utils.deleteNode(Dsq.$('dsq-post-report-' + id));
		} else {
			var title = Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT;
			var message = Dsq.Strings.ARE_YOU_SURE_YOU_WOULD_LIKE_TO_REPORT_THIS_COMMENT_TO_A_MODERATOR + '? \
			<br /><br /> \
			<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true)"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.NO + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.NEVER_MIND + '</button>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Post.report(' + id + ', true);"><strong>' + Dsq.Strings.YES + '</strong>, ' + Dsq.Strings.FLAG_INAPPROPRIATE_COMMENT + '</button><br /><br />'
			+ Dsq.Strings.THIS_WILL_FLAG_COMMENTS_FOR_MODERATORS_TO_TAKE_ACTION + '. \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title, id);
		}
	};



	this.showAlert = function(id, msg) {
		var msgEl = Dsq.$('dsq-comment-message-' + id);
		var alert = '<div class="dsq-comment-alert">' + msg + '</div>';

		msgEl.innerHTML = alert + msgEl.innerHTML;
	};

};
// Dsq.Post


/**
 * Dsq.Thread
 */
Dsq.Thread = new function() {
	this.fc = null;
	this.ff = null;
	this.ac = null;

	
	this.adminIsOn = false;

	
	
	

	this.hlComment = null;
	this.hlCommentClass = null;

	this.getNextComment = function(el) {
		var start_id = el.id;
		while(el = el.nextSibling) {
			if(el.id && el.id.indexOf('dsq-comment-') != -1 && el.id != start_id) {
				return el;
			}
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.getActiveCommentId = function() {
		if (document.URL.indexOf('#comment-') >= 0) {
			var anchor = document.URL.slice(document.URL.indexOf('#') + 1);
			return anchor.replace('comment-', '');
		}
		return null;
	};

	this.highlightAnchor = function() {
		var i = this.getActiveCommentId();
		if (i == null) return false;
		var id = 'dsq-comment-' + i;
		var hash = window.location.hash;

		// Toggle the hash incase the comment isn't available when the page loads
		// for WebKit-based browsers.
		if (Dsq.Utils.webkit) {
			window.location.hash = '';
			window.location.hash = hash;
		}

		this.hlComment = Dsq.$(id);
		// Adding this conditional guard pending #289
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlCommentClass = this.hlComment.className;
		this.hlComment.className += ' dsq-hl-anchor';

		setTimeout("Dsq.Thread.highlightClear()", 3000);
	};

	this.highlightClear = function() {
		if (!this.hlComment) {
			return;
		}
		this.hlComment.className = this.hlCommentClass;
	};

	this.login = function(toggle) {
		// toggle id is #dsq-reply-login-[id]
		var postId;
		if(toggle.id.indexOf('dsq-reply-login') != -1) {
			postId = toggle.id.slice(16);
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-reply-' + postId);
		} else {
			var container = Dsq.$('dsq-post-add');
		}

		if(toggle) {
			if(toggle.className == 'dsq-login-active') {
				Dsq.Iframes.showReplyIframeInContainerIfAllowed(container, postId);
				toggle.className = '';
			} else {
				Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
				toggle.className = 'dsq-login-active';
			}
		} else {
			Dsq.Iframes.showLoginIframeInContainer(container, postId);
		}

		if(Dsq.Utils.ie) { Dsq.Utils.fixIframesIE(); }
	};


	this.paginate = function(page, el_clicked, per_page) {
		// Use extra_params to pass any override parameters that we need to persist.
		var extra_params = '';

		// "Per page" can either be overriden by providing it as an argument
		// (per-call) or setting the disqus_per_page override variable (global).
		if(typeof per_page == 'undefined') {
			per_page = null;
		}
		if(typeof disqus_per_page != 'undefined' && per_page === null) {
			per_page = disqus_per_page;
		}

		if(typeof disqus_sort != 'undefined') {
			extra_params += '&sort=' + disqus_sort;
		}
		if(per_page !== null) {
			extra_params += '&per_page=' + per_page;
		}

		Dsq.$('dsq-pagination').innerHTML += '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading-small.gif">';
		
		if(el_clicked) {
			el_clicked.style.display = 'none';
		}
		
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech'
			+ '&p='		+ page
			+ extra_params);
	};

	this.sortBy = function(sort) {
		var disqus_script = document.createElement('script');
		var disqus_date = new Date();

		if (location.hash != '') {
			location.hash = '#disqus_thread';
		}

		if(typeof(disqus_url) == 'undefined') {
			disqus_url = disqus_href;
		}
		disqus_script.type = 'text/javascript';
		disqus_script.src = 'http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/thread.js'
			+ '?slug='	+ 'listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech'
			+ '&sort='	+ sort
			+ '&title='
			+ '&'		+ disqus_date.getTime();

		Dsq.$('dsq-comments').innerHTML = '<img src="http://media.disqus.com/images/loading.gif">';
		Dsq.container.appendChild(disqus_script);
	};

	this.subscribe = function(status, email) {
		// `status` is an int -- 1 to subscribe, 0 to unsubscribe
		if(Dsq.jsonData.request.is_authenticated || email) {
			// If authenticated user OR anonymous email provided

			if(email) {
				Dsq.Popup._closePopup(null, true);
			}

			Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/subscribe.js'
				+'?status=' 	+ status
				+ '&slug='		+ 'listening_to_shelley_powers_about_women_in_tech'
				+ '&email=' 	+ encodeURIComponent(email));

		} else if(!email) {
			// If anonymous user and no email has been provided yet, prompt for email

			var title = 'Subscribe to this comment thread';
			var message = ' \
				New comments will be sent directly to your email inbox! \
				<div class="dsq-subscribe-submit"> \
					<p><strong>Enter your email address below.</strong></p> \
					<input type="text" id="dsq-subscribe-email"> \
					<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.subscribe(1, Dsq.$(\'dsq-subscribe-email\').value)">Subscribe</button> \
				</div> \
			';

			Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, title);
		}
	};

	this.showSettings = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
			return;
		}

		/* The form has to be re-designed when more options will come out. */
		var html = 'Automatically close comments after <input size="3" id="dsq-thread-days-alive" value="' + Dsq.jsonData.thread.days_alive + '" type="text" /> days. Existing comments will still be displayed.<br /><br />(Using 0 days will disable this feature)<br /><br />'
								 + '<button type="button" onclick="Dsq.Thread.updateDaysAlive();" class="dsq-button-small"><span>Save</span></button>'
								 + '<span id="dsq-thread-settings-status" class="dsq-options-status"></span>';

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, 'Settings');
	};

  this.showModeratorActions = function() {
      if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator) {
          return;
      }

      var html = '<div class="dsq-moderate-options"><table><tr>' +
                 '<td>' + Dsq.Strings.ACTIONS + '</td><td><ul>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleClosed(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.closed ? Dsq.Strings.OPEN_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.CLOSE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '<li><a href="#" onclick="Dsq.Thread.toggleKilled(); return false;">' +
              (Dsq.jsonData.thread.killed ? Dsq.Strings.RESTORE_THREAD : Dsq.Strings.REMOVE_THREAD) +
              '</a></li>';
      html += '</ul></td></tr></table></div>' +
              '<p>Go to the full <a href="http://disqus.com/comments/moderate-threads/" target="_blank">moderate panel</a> for more options.</p>';
      Dsq.Popup.popModal(html, Dsq.Strings.MODERATE_OPTIONS);
  };

	this.updateDaysAlive = function() {
		  var days = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-days-alive').value;
		  var status = Dsq.$('dsq-thread-settings-status');
		  Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/update_days_alive.js', {days:days,thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
		  status.innerHTML = 'Saved!';
		  window.setTimeout(function() { status.innerHTML = ''; }, 1000);
	};

  this.toggleClosed = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_closed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };

  this.toggleKilled = function() {
      Dsq.Utils.postToUrl('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/toggle_thread_killed.js', {thread:Dsq.jsonData.thread.id});
      window.setTimeout(function() { window.location.reload(); }, 500);
  };
};
// Dsq.Thread

Dsq.Events = function() {
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var handlers = {};
	var getHandlers = function(event) {
		if (handlers[event] === undefined) {
			handlers[event] = [];
		}
		return handlers[event];
	};

	// Public
	// Value keys : postId, node, xtype
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED = 1;
	// Value keys : postId, opened
	obj.REPLY_IFRAME_TOGGLED = 2;
	obj.fire = function(event, opt_value) {
		if (!event) {
			throw new Error('Unknown event');
		}
		var value = opt_value || {};
		for (var i=0; i<getHandlers(event).length; i++) {
			getHandlers(event)[i](value);
		}
	};
	obj.addHandler = function(event, callback) {
		getHandlers(event).push(callback);
	};

	return obj;
}();

/**
 * Dsq.Realtime
 */
Dsq.Realtime = new function() {
	var initialized = false;
	var interval = null;
	var last_checked = Dsq.jsonData.request.timestamp;
	var new_posts = [];
	var ongoing_request = false;
	var prev_script = null;

	function updateNewPostCount() {
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-alert').style.display = new_posts.length ? 'block' : 'none';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-queued').innerHTML = new_posts.length
		+ ' new '
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, 'comment', 'comments')
		+ Dsq.Utils.pluralize(new_posts.length, ' was', ' were')
		+ ' just posted.';

		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.SHOW + ')';
	}

	function insertNewPosts() {
		var post_id = null;
		var after_id = Dsq.$('dsq-sort-select').value === 'oldest' ? -1 : null;

		for (var i=0; i<new_posts.length; i++) {
			post_id = new_posts[i];
			Dsq.Post.insert(after_id, post_id, Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id].message);
			Dsq.Post.incrementPostCount();
			Dsq.Post.outlineComment(post_id);
		}
		new_posts = [];
	}

	this.enableInterval = function() {
		interval = setInterval(Dsq.Realtime.check, Dsq.jsonData.context.realtime_speed);
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.ENABLED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.PAUSE + ')';
	}

	this.disableInterval = function() {
		if (interval) {
			clearInterval(interval);
			interval = null;
		}
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-status').innerHTML = Dsq.Strings.PAUSED;
		Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').innerHTML = '(' + Dsq.Strings.RESUME + ')';
	}

	this.toggleInterval = function() {
		if (!interval) {
			Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
		} else {
			Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
		}
		return false;
	}

	this.initialize = function() {
		if (!initialized) {
			initialized = true;
			Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-toggle').onclick = this.toggleInterval;
			if (!Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				Dsq.$('dsq-realtime-show').onclick = this.show;
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
			if (Dsq.jsonData.thread.realtime_paused) {
				Dsq.Realtime.disableInterval();
			} else {
				Dsq.Realtime.enableInterval();
			}
		}
	}

	this.show = function() {
		insertNewPosts();
		updateNewPostCount();
		return false;
	}

	this.check = function() {
		if (!ongoing_request && Dsq.jsonData.realtime_enabled) {
			if (prev_script) {
				prev_script.parentNode.removeChild(prev_script);
			}
			ongoing_request = true;
			prev_script = Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/18367193/realtime.js?timestamp=' + last_checked);
		}
	};

	this.update = function(timestamp, posts, users) {
		ongoing_request = false;
		last_checked = timestamp;

		if (users) {
			for (var user_id in users) {
				if (users.hasOwnProperty(user_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.users[user_id] = users[user_id];
					}
				}
			}
		}

		if (posts) {
			for (var post_id in posts) {
				if (posts.hasOwnProperty(post_id)) {
					if (!Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id]) {
						Dsq.jsonData.posts[post_id] = posts[post_id];
						new_posts.push(post_id);
					}
				}
			}

			if (Dsq.jsonData.forum.streaming_realtime) {
				insertNewPosts();
			} else {
				updateNewPostCount();
			}
		}
	};

}();

// DEPRECATED
Dsq.Iframes = function() {
	// Different style of object from the above. Hoping to switch to this for some reason.
	var obj = {};

	// Private
	var showIframeInContainer = function(container, id, markup) {
		// Look through container for iframes, hiding them, except show one that matches id
		// If none of them matched id, create a new iframe using markup and insert it.
		// Returns the iframe node if and only if it was newly created.
		var found = false;
		for (var i=0; i<container.childNodes.length; i++) {
			var child = container.childNodes[i];
			if (child.nodeName == 'IFRAME') {
				if (child.id == id) {
					child.style.display = 'block';
					found = true;
				} else {
					child.style.display = 'none';
				}
			}
		}
		if (found) {
			return;
		}
		// The iframe wasn't found, so construct it and add it to the container.
		// Don't use innerHTML because it might reload iframes
		var div = document.createElement('div');
		div.innerHTML = markup;
		var iframe = div.childNodes[0];
		div.removeChild(iframe);
		container.appendChild(iframe);
		return iframe;
	};

	// Public
	obj.makeReplyIframeId = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var id = 'dsq-post-add-iframe';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			id += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			id += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return id;
	};
	obj.makeLoginIframeId = function(opt_postId) {
		if (!opt_postId) {
			return 'dsq-login-iframe';
		}
		return 'dsq-login-iframe-' + opt_postId;
	};
	obj.makeReplyIframeName = function(opt_postId, opt_xtype) {
		var name = 'dsq-reply-frame';
		if (opt_xtype) {
			name += '-' + opt_xtype;
		}
		if (opt_postId) {
			name += '-' + opt_postId;
		}
		return name;
	};
	obj.showReplyIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId, opt_extraParams, opt_className) {
		// Construct the id so we can check if it's already present.
		// Hide any other iframes we find, and show this one if it's found.
		var params = opt_extraParams || {};
		// use xtype in the id and name so we can distinguish media replies from text replies:
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeId(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var name = Dsq.Iframes.makeReplyIframeName(opt_postId, params.xtype);
		var attributes = {
			'id': id,
			'name': name,
			'class': opt_className || 'dsq-post-reply'
			};
		var markup = Dsq.Templates.frameReply(opt_postId, opt_extraParams, attributes);
		var iframe = showIframeInContainer(container, id, markup);
		// It was newly created
		if (iframe) {
			Dsq.Events.fire(Dsq.Events.REPLY_IFRAME_CREATED, {
				postId: opt_postId,
				node: iframe,
				xtype: params.xtype
			});
		}
	};
	obj.showLoginIframeInContainer = function(container, opt_postId) {
		var id = Dsq.Iframes.makeLoginIframeId(opt_postId);
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			obj.showReplyIframeInContainer(container, opt_postId);
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			obj.hideAllInContainer(container);
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	this.startTwitterConnect = function() {
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		that._twitterInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeTwitterConnect, 1000);
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	this.completeTwitterConnect = function() {
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			window.clearInterval(that._twitterInterval);
			window.location.reload();
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};

Dsq.Yahoo = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.startYahooConnect = function() {
		var popupParams = 'location=0,status=0,width=800,height=400';
		that._yahooWindow = window.open(Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + '/_ax/yahoo/begin/', 'yahooWindow', popupParams);
		that._yahooInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeYahooConnect, 1000);
	};

	this.completeYahooConnect = function() {
		if (that._yahooWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._yahooInterval);
			window.location.reload();
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};

Dsq.OpenID = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.requestURL = function() {
		var message = '<table class="dsq-openid-form"><tr><td style="vertical-align:top;" rowspan="2"><img src="' + Dsq.jsonData.settings.media_url + '/images/openid-icon-100x100.png" /></td>';
		message += '<td><label for="dsq-openid-url">OpenID URL:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-url" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td><label for="dsq-openid-username">Display name:</label></td><td><input type="text" id="dsq-openid-username" /></td></tr>';
		message += '<tr><td class="dsq-openid-submit" colspan="3"><input type="button" value="Sign in" onclick="Dsq.OpenID.startConnect();" /></td></tr>';
		message += "</table>";

		Dsq.Popup.popModal(message, 'Sign in using OpenID');
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	this.startConnect = function() {
		var isblank = function(str) {
			return /^\s*$/.test(str);
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		var openid_url = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-url').value;
		var username = Dsq.$('dsq-openid-username').value;

		if (isblank(openid_url)) {
			return;
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		that._openidInterval = window.setInterval(that.completeConnect, 1000);
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		if (that._openidWindow.closed) {
			window.clearInterval(that._openidInterval);
			window.location.reload();
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};

Dsq.Reaction = new function() {
	var that = this;

	this.hide = function(id) {
		Dsq.Utils.execScript('http://disqus.com/forums/scobleizer/hidereaction.js?' + 'reaction_id=' + id);
	};

	this.reportMissingReactions = function() {
		if (!Dsq.jsonData.request.is_moderator || !Dsq.jsonData.forum.reactions_enabled) {
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												 'Reported missing reactions');
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Dsq.CNN = function() {
	var obj = {};

	obj.authenticate = function() {
		var url = Dsq.jsonData.settings.disqus_url + "/saml/cnn/try/";
		Dsq.Utils.postToUrl(url, {'target': document.location}, true);
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if(Dsq.Utils.ie6) {
	(function() {
		DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE = /<div class="dsq-header-avatar"(.*?)>/gim;
		Dsq.Templates.registerFilter('postPrependHeader', function(html, post_id) {
			// Add "onmouseout" for dsq-header-avatar for dropProfile
			// functionality since IE6 cannot use :hover.
			function _headerAvatarReplace(content, inner, _unused, html) {
				return '<div class="dsq-header-avatar" '
					+ inner
					+ ' onmouseout="Dsq.Post.dropProfile(' + post_id + ')">';
			}
			html = html.replace(DSQ_HEADER_AVATAR_RE, _headerAvatarReplace);
			return html;
		});
	})();
}





	// TODO: Move Seesmic code outside of the main script.  Don't let this script clobber the global namespace.
	if(typeof seesmic == 'undefined') { var seesmic = {}; }
	seesmic.widget = new function () {
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			playerVersion = data.disqusplayer;
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	};

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://seesmic.com/version.js?callback=seesmic.widget.callback');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	
	var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('type', 'text/javascript');
	scriptEl.setAttribute('src', 'http://media.disqus.com/javascript/library/swfobject.js');
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptEl);

	function see_play_video(_videoUri, _add) {
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		flashcontentDiv = Dsq.$(_videoUri + '_content');
		previewDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_preview');
		hideDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_hide');
		showDiv = Dsq.$('dsq-seesmic-' + _videoUri + '_show');
		if(_add) {
			// push flash widget
			var so = new SWFObject(swf, 'sotester', '300', '270', '9', '#000000');
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			so.addParam('allowScriptAccess','always');
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			previewDiv.style.display = 'block';
			hideDiv.style.display = 'none';
			showDiv.style.display = 'block';
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(function() {
	//
	// Load theme.  This overrides the base templates with template functions
	// from the respective themes.
	//
	if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
		var theme = 'narcissus';
		// HACK: Set variable on window to use post message.
		window.disqus_use_postmessage = true;

		
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			if(Dsq.Themes[theme] && Dsq.Themes[theme].hasOwnProperty(prop)) {
				Dsq.Post[prop] = Dsq.Themes[theme][prop];
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	//
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	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('header', Dsq.Templates.header);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('footer', Dsq.Templates.footer);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('trackbacks', Dsq.Templates.trackbacks);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('reactions', Dsq.Templates.reactions);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('prependPost', Dsq.Templates.prependPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('appendPost', Dsq.Templates.appendPost);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postPrependHeader', Dsq.Templates.postPrependHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postAppendHeader', Dsq.Templates.postAppendHeader);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('preBody', Dsq.Templates.preBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBody', Dsq.Templates.postBody);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postFooter', Dsq.Templates.postFooter);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('_popupGeneric', Dsq.Templates._popupGeneric);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('voted', Dsq.Templates.voted);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('popupProfile', Dsq.Templates.popupProfile);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('postBox', Dsq.Templates.postBox);
	Dsq.Templates.registerTemplate('pagination', Dsq.Templates.pagination);
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Dsq.container.className = "clearfix";
Dsq.container.innerHTML = ' \
<ul id="dsq-comments">\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652009">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652009" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652009" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652009" href="http://www.geise.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PXLated</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652009" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652009" class="dsq-comment-message">"There simply aren’t enough Mena Trotts to go around"... Maybe that\'s the natural order right now...you sound like you\'re going to try to deviate from that. And I\'m not being gender biased or anti feminist.<br>"But partly cause I just haven’t focused on making sure my show has diverse voices."... Diverse voices is one thing and non-gender. Sounds like you\'re getting confused and trying to make it a gender issue.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652011">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652011" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652011" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652011" href="http://lagesse.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Rob La Gesse</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652011" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652011" class="dsq-comment-message">When you can get to San Antonio, let me know - I can introduce you to some really cool, and really smart tech woman - hey, Esther Dyson started here (Datapoint), and she\'s done pretty well!<br><br>Rob</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652012">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652012" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652012" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652012" href="http://words.einsteinslock.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shelley</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652012" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652012" class="dsq-comment-message">My visibility is not the point, Robert, and you\'re making this into a personal issue is rather disengenious. I have been invited to a total of three events in six years, only one of which offered to cover my expenses (Blogher).<br><br>I had no idea that there were so few women in technology in Silicon Valley and California, that you have to import people like me from St. Louis just to have some female representation.<br><br>Hello Robert Scoble\'s readers: is this true? Are there no women geeks in California?<br><br>If you\'re having trouble finding people, I would say you\'re probably not trying hard enough. However, after implying that you have a choice between women and \'interesting geeks\', I would say you might have some problems connecting with women technologists int he future.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652010">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652010" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652010" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652010" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652010" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652010" class="dsq-comment-message">Shelley: I thought you were invited to MSN Search Champs too and they definitely pay your way.<br><br>I notice you didn\'t answer my question. Which geeks would you like to see on a video show? Male or female?<br><br>And, I pointed out at least two women who DO meet my definition of "interesting geeks" (Deborah Kurata, who I hired, and Heather Champ (who I\'m hoping to have on my show).<br><br>So, YOU are the one who is reading too much into what I wrote and making this a devisive issue instead of helping me find great geeks to have on my show. But maybe that\'s the role you want to play instead of helping improve the situation.<br><br>Me? I\'m just looking to have the most interesting tech geeks on my show. I\'d love to have you on, because you wrote an interesting Java Script book, but I can\'t get outside of California this month. Maybe next.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652007">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652007" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652007" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652007" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652007" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652007" class="dsq-comment-message">PXLated: &gt;&gt;Sounds like you’re getting confused and trying to make it a gender issue.<br><br>diversity is about all sorts of things. Am I getting a complete range of voices on my show? Am I presenting the tech industry fairly and completely? Am I encouraging new voices? And, yes, do I have my own biases that I need to overcome and learn from?<br><br>Why have diverse voices on a show? Cause we learn more if we don\'t hear from just the same old set of people. I get bored hearing from the same set too.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652006">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652006" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652006" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652006" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">C</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652006" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652006" class="dsq-comment-message">This is an important issue. Check out the WM_IN show on Channel 9 to meet some of the leading women at Microsoft and the industry.<br><br><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/wm_in" rel="nofollow">http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/wm_in</a><br><br>C</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652025">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652025" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652025" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9652025">Vandana</span>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652025" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652025" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br>Your posts are getting really obnoxious.  Your reply to Shelley just proved it.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652024">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652024" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652024" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652024" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652024" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652024" class="dsq-comment-message">By the way, Maryam (my wife) -- a few days ago, before this issue erupted again -- <a href="http://maryamie.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9592F3DEF41537A3!2121.entry" rel="nofollow">posted "women who inspire me." </a>She also revealed that we\'re working on a segment called "Digital Divas" which we planned BEFORE this all erupted. So, Shelley, you can see we\'re thinking of this issue even before you reminded us again of its importance. Why don\'t you help those of us out who are TRYING to make this issue better?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652016">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652016" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652016" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652016" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652016" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652016" class="dsq-comment-message">Vandana: thank you. How come you don\'t use your real name and identify who you really are?</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652026">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652026" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652026" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652026" href="http://peterdawson.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">/pd</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652026" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652026" class="dsq-comment-message">"So, if you’re an interesting geek, or know of an interesting geek, who is doing something interesting, or running an interesting company (especially one that is using tech in an interesting way) please let me know. Male or female"<br><br>Why only Geeks ?? ain\'t there female bloggers out there doin just interesting stuff ???<br><br>Oh boy the "MSN Search Champs " was not Tara C also invited and Liz was the only participant ?? so now we know the 3 females who were actually invited at the MSN search champs....hmmmmmmm ok if I remember correctly there were a total of 30 participants in that forum and only 3 females were invited.. and BTW Robert, your organized that event correct ??</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652027">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652027" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652027" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652027" href="http://www.geise.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PXLated</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652027" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652027" class="dsq-comment-message">Yes, I understand that, you\'re the one that focused on gender. Diversity isn\'t a gender issue. If you focus on gender, you\'re getting false or forced diversity.<br>Diversity is good, just don\'t force it.<br>A good share of the Execs I\'ve worked with over 30 years have been female. Each and every one could hold their own and rose to the cream level without any false "diversity" claims. They were just good and stood out.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652018">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652018" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652018" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652018" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652018" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652018" class="dsq-comment-message">Search Champs started out very unbalanced in the early days. If I remember right the latest ones were about 30% female.<br><br>As to my show? It\'s a tech/geek show. NOT a blogger show. So, I want geeks and/or execs in the tech industry.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652023">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652023" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652023" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652023" href="http://jamespaulp.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jamespaulp</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652023" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652023" class="dsq-comment-message">I like to see just the geeks on your show. If someone is on your show because of their gender, I prefer not to see it. I think that is what you are trying to say here.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652015">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652015" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652015" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652015" href="http://www.geise.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">PXLated</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652015" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652015" class="dsq-comment-message">"So, I want geeks and/or execs in the tech industry"<br>So take it as it comes...some will be women, some will be men. A lot don\'t seek to be stars (like Mena) so you may have to dig for both men and women. Too many focus on the stars, the self promoters, the samo-samo. The ones I\'ve been most impressed with in my career have not been the self-promoters, just doers.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652021">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652021" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652021" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652021" href="http://www.backupbrain.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dori</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652021" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652021" class="dsq-comment-message">Shelley: there are women geeks in California. However, there are darn few *employed* women geeks. And because Robert\'s qualifications appear to include an employer, people like me don\'t make the cut.<br><br>Robert: given that <a href="http://www.hchamp.com/other/archives/000798.html" rel="nofollow">Heather describes herself</a> as "not that technical,"  I\'d be interested to know how you define "geek".<br><br>Dori (Bay area female geek)</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652020">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652020" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652020" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652020" href="http://jamespaulp.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jamespaulp</a>\
	 </cite>\
	 </div>\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652020" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652020" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;&gt;&gt;Why only Geeks ?? ain’t there female bloggers out there doin just interesting stuff ???<br><br>Isn\'t this a tech/geek blog. There are way too many blogs out there all other sorts of interesting stuff.</div>\
	 </div>\
	 </li>\
	 <li id="dsq-comment-9652019">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9652019" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652019" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652019" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652019" class="dsq-comment-message">PXLated: yeah. That\'s my goal. Geeks geeks geeks.<br><br>I was walking around Flock the other day and noticed that a few of the engineers (almost all of whom were male) were just very quiet and reserved. They don\'t get the spotlight, unfortunately. Hopefully I can help change that.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652022" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652022" href="http://jamespaulp.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">jamespaulp</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652022" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652022" class="dsq-comment-message">&gt;&gt;&gt;A good share of the Execs I’ve worked with over 30 years have been female. Each and every one could hold their own and rose to the cream level without any false “diversity” claims. They were just good and stood out.<br><br>I hope more people come to this conclusion. I had the same experience and never had to think they were females.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652008" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652008" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652008" class="dsq-comment-message">Dori, good point. I have a segment of my show called "Photowalking" where we talk with a talented photographer and follow him or her around.<br><br>Heather might say she\'s not very technical, but I heard her speak at BlogHer and she\'s definitely a geek. She takes a geeky approach to her photos and she works for an interesting photosharing company. So, I\'d love to have her on.<br><br>I\'m honored that you\'ll be on cause you\'re definitely a geek. Geeks don\'t have to be employed. I\'d love to have Shelley on cause she wrote an interesting JavaScript book and she\'s also an awesome photographer and we go at each other enough to know that she\'d be an interesting interview.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652014" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652014" href="http://daviddalka.com/createvalue/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">David Dalka</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652014" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert - I love your description of diversity! Much of the world has way too narrow a vision of what this means...<br><br>Shelley - From your link on your comment I visited your blog for the first time just now. I don\'t see a bio, I don\'t know what you do and there is no e-mail address. If I were a conference organizer, please tell me just how I\'d get the idea that you would be interested in being a speaker and what type of topic you\'d speak about???<br><br>I\'m currently interested in being a speaker, writing even more than I am and joining an A+ orgranization that is intensely customer focused. All of that information is clearly posted on my blog - I have Robert and Shel to thank for that, it has led to me meeting some amazing people so far and I\'m making steps towards my goals every day.<br><br>P.S. You take real nice pictures of baby elephants, this I can tell for sure, how did you manage to keep the baby elephant in focus without the closer one becoming blurry?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652013" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652013" href="http://www.backupbrain.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Dori</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9652013" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652013" class="dsq-comment-message">"I’m honored that you’ll be on"...<br><br>Is that an invitation? Shelley isn\'t the only one with <a href="http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Sixth-Visual-QuickStart-Guide/dp/0321430328/" rel="nofollow">a JavaScript book to flog</a> (and despite what Amazon says, I\'ve got a printed book on my desk, so I know it\'s shipping).<br><br>..."cause you’re definitely a geek."<br><br>Given that <a href="http://www.dori.com/miata.html" rel="nofollow">I\'ve labeled myself with it</a>, I figure I might as well live up to it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652005" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652005" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652005" class="dsq-comment-message">Dori: Maryam said she already invited you and you already accepted a few days ago on her blog, but maybe I misunderstood that. You\'re definitely invited. When would you like to do it? My calendar is online. Any open spots on both of our calendars that are aligning? <a href="http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=robert%40podtech.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=robert%40podtech.net</a><br><br>I\'ll talk with you offline on email. Sigh, more email. Heheh.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651967" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651967" href="http://approver.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Jeffrey</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651967" class="dsq-comment-message">Shelley, do you know a woman who has developed an Office 2.0 site? If the answer is yes, then why don\'t you suggest that that woman speak at the conference, as Ismael Ghamini suggested you do? If the answer is no, then why are you blaming a conference organizer for a much larger social problem that he has very little control over?<br><br>Look at the keynote speaker list for Oracle Open World 2006. All men. Did you decry Larry Ellison on your blog? If not, why not? Don\'t you feel some sense of entitlement to speak at Oracle Open World as well? Oracle Open World needs more women speakers, darn it, whether they know anything about Oracle or not.<br><br>When my five-year-old daughter grows up and becomes an Oracle sysadmin (fingers crossed!), it\'ll be because I started teaching her how to write stored procedures in the womb, not because some conference organizer was pressured into using his conference to "promote diversity". Jeez.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651978" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651978" href="http://deannietime.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">deannie</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651978" class="dsq-comment-message">I don\'t fall into the pure category of geek that Robert seeks but I just hate it when folks start talking women and men in a professional topic. I work hard to be an expert at what I do and expect respect for what I do, not my boobies. sheesh. This is not to say I haven\'t had my share of battles to gain respect.<br><br>Just continue on the path of diversity Robert. The diversity I find on this blog is what brings me back.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9651979" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651979" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651979" href="http://words.einsteinslock.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shelley</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651979" class="dsq-comment-message">Jeffrey, I didn\'t know that Arrington was a coder, and with an Office 2.0 application to boot. Well, color me surprised.<br><br>Yes it would be a shame if conference organizers were forced to consider issues of diversity. I live in the south, a lot of towns here abouts thought the same of the blacks.<br><br>David, thank you for the note on the baby elephant. A smaller aperture leads to a greater depth of field. I believed I used f/10, but I\'d have to check the photo\'s metadata to know for sure. And yes my site has no about page. They\'re new sites and I\'m re-organizing.<br><br>However, just to clarify: I didn\'t bring up this issue because I wanted to be speaker. I don\'t bring these up because I want more visibility for myself. Having this turn into a discussion of my visibility is nothing more than sidetracking from the more serious issues.<br><br>So yes, Robert, I forgot about Search champs. However, I don\'t really consider that a conference. But yes, I was invited to four things in six years, two of which would have paid my way. I think, though, this really isn\'t germaine to either this particular discussion or the issue generally. Is it?</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9651982" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651982" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651982" href="http://words.einsteinslock.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shelley</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651982" class="dsq-comment-message">Jeffrey, I just went through several speakers: you sure you want to stick with your criteria?<br><br>And when did diversity become a burden?<br><br>You know what\'s funny is the organizers naive pleasure in how the conference was set and speakers found even before a press release was published. See that actually works against diversity, because it reflects only that group of people initially involved in the earlier discussion of the conference. Now, should more women have been reading the Office 2.0 weblog? Perhaps. Perhaps the Office 2.0 weblogger should have been reading more women.<br><br>Even with all of this, the most important point lost in the discussion is that whatever comes out of the conference is hopelessly flawed. Why? Half the target audience was not represented. Unless someone wants to convince me Office 2.0 is meant to be used my men only, nothing that comes out of this can be accepted with any credibility.<br><br>Diversity isn\'t a burden; diversity is an opportunity.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651983" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651983" href="http://jameskew.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">James Kew</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651983" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe it\'s just me, but the idea of "Digital Divas" makes me a little uncomfortable. Rather than integrating interesting techie women into the show alongside the men, it marginalizes them into their own segment: it suggests that they\'re interesting not for what they *do* but for what they *are*.<br><br>FWIW, I seem to remember reading Shelley saying she declined the BlogHer invite because she wanted to speak as Shelley Powers, technologist, rather than Burningbird, activist -- that is to say, as a professional who happens to be a woman rather than a woman who happens to be a professional.<br><br>Can\'t find it now, though, so I may be remembering wrong.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651980" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651980" href="http://www.rexruff.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dg</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9651980" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651980" class="dsq-comment-message">I\'m glad you made this post and are hanging on for the rough ride it creates.  Your post, and the comments to it, brought up a lot of good points I have no answers for, but think about quite a bit.<br><br>Maybe one of your video shows can be you in drag at a tech interview or gathering as Roberta.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651977" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651977" href="http://www.zoliblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Zoli Erdos</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651977" class="dsq-comment-message">Shelley conveniently forgets the fact that speakers were mostly not invited, they could <a href="http://www.office20con.com/speakers_registration.html" rel="nofollow">openly apply here.</a>&nbsp; I\'ll take the liberty of finishing Tara\'s title: <a href="http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/08/okayrather-than-just-complain.html" rel="nofollow">Okay...rather than just complain.</a>.. apply!<br><br>I know for a fact Ismael would like to have more female speakers...&nbsp;<br><br>But ... gee .. .how do I invite you now, Robert?&nbsp; Will you dress up as woman for us?&nbsp; :-)<br><br>Joke apart, sending email in a minute... and hope to see you there.<br><br>&nbsp;<br><br><br>  &nbsp;</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9651974" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651974" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651974" href="http://words.einsteinslock.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shelley</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9651974" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651974" class="dsq-comment-message">Zoli, how many of the speakers applied, and how many were specifically invited? How many of those 52 men went through the application process, and how many were recommended by other people, or approached directly?<br><br>How publicized was this conference out to a more general populace?<br><br>But no worries, few women at this conference. Should be just about right for you. Then you can have your manly echo chamber, and when you come out of the conference with all your bright ideas, we can all smile and nod knowingly when they all fail because you all didn\'t bother to even try to attract participation from a significant segment of your target audience.<br><br>James, I actually wanted to speak as Shelley the activist at the BlogHer. The conference organizers asked me to teach a tech tutorial.<br><br>As for the Geek Divas thing: I don\'t really care for segregation. Separate but equal has never worked in the past. I believe that Robert Scoble will find women that will meet his \'geek\' criteria.<br><br>geek geek geek, Robert.<br><br>That\'s it for me on this thread. I\'m afraid we\'ve moved away from the original topic. Anyone have anything to say to me directly, you know where to find me. Anyone wants to email me, it\'s <a href="mailto:shelleyp@burningbird.net" rel="nofollow">shelleyp@burningbird.net</a>.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651975" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651975" href="http://www.zoliblog.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Zoli Erdos</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651975" class="dsq-comment-message">Shelley, Ismael\'s <a href="http://workerbeesblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/conference-organizers-make-my-head.html#115714339739396485" rel="nofollow">comment here</a> answers most of your questions.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9651976" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651976" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9651976">Orbit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9651976" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651976" class="dsq-comment-message">hey Scoble, why should we care if HP,Dell,Apple,etc aren\'t runned by woman? I don\'t see any real difference if its runned by a man or woman. this post makes me think. who mostly use msft products? A woman did run a major corporation once. It was called the HP and Compaq merger and look what that did. that was a waste of money and thats why she was fired. unless your argument is woman are more business savvy than man. no one is trying to stop woman from creating her own company and running it.?? thats how Dell,Gateway,HP,Google started.<br><br>so to make it clear, what is the real reason that woman should run companies?. plz don\'t use the "equal " arguement.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651973" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9651973">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651973" class="dsq-comment-message">Yea, what Orbit said. In this day in age why does it matter what the race or gender of a person is that runs a company?  Do people really believe that women are DELIBERATELY being kept out of the tech industry?  I hardly believe that.  That would be like saying heterosexuals are deliberately being kept out of the clothing business.  Or that heterosexual women are deliberately being kept out of the WNBA.  Or that men are deliberately being made a minority in the elementary education field.  Or that whites are being prevented from driving cabs in New York City. Or that non-Koreans are being kept from owning convenience stores in urban areas. Have I generalized enough for you?  Certain careers and industries simply attract more of one gender or race or lifestyle than another.  It is what it is. Ask women why more of them don\'t go into the field or don\'t aspire to be CEO\'s.  I think you will find the answers eye-opening.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651969" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651969" href="http://www.fredshouse.net/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Gene</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9651969" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651969" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert asks: "...can you name a CEO of a recognizeable tech company that’s not male? It’s hard to do."<br><br>Dude, no it\'s not, unless you just aren\'t paying attention.  Meg Whitman/eBay, Anne Mulcahy/Xerox, Carol Bartz/Autodesk, Pat Russo/Lucent, Kim Polese/SpikeSource.  It\'s true, there aren\'t very many, but I know you\'ve heard of these.<br><br>How about company (co-)founders: Ann Winblad/HummerWinblad, Heidi Roizen/TMaker, Mary Hodder/Dabble, Caterina Fake/flickr, Jessica Hardwick/SwapThing...<br><br>If you really want to talk with women who are world-class tech leaders, you can (and should) find them.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9651971" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651971" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651971" href="http://kimklaverblogs.blogspot.com/2006/04/if-i-dont-tell-them-how-great-it-is.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kim Klaver</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9651971" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651971" class="dsq-comment-message">Love your Naked book...<br><br>Am not a geek, but do have a blog for 13 million+ people in the business of network marketing - 80% of whom are women - to show them that they CAN use the Internet to do neat stuff.<br><br>I get a kick out of helping them feel like they know almost as much as their children, especially their boys, about enjoying their life and business more because of what they can learn from folks like you on the Internet.<br><br>The stories you wrote about your Mom were big hits and made many women feel like maybe, they could, too.<br><br>And now they do.  They\'re online, reading good stuff to make their day and get their businesses off the ground.<br><br>Kim Klaver</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9651972" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651972" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9651972">Orbit</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9651972" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651972" class="dsq-comment-message">I wondered, if I applied to a Victoria Secret store would they hire me? I doubt it. They would think I\'m just a pervert.<br><br>thing is, why do woman buy this type of underwear?.... (I\'ll wait for the brain to catch up)</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9651965" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651965" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651965" href="http://words.einsteinslock.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shelley</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651965" class="dsq-comment-message">Zoli after reading that post, I was less surprised there was one woman presenting and more suprised that 52 men actually agreed. No accounting for standards.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651964" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651964" href="http://www.mediangler.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">haydn</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9651964" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651964" class="dsq-comment-message">Maybe promote some European and Asian voices too.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9651963" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651963" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651963" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-body-9651963" class="dsq-comment-body">\
	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651963" class="dsq-comment-message">Well, if you need someone interesting who can talk about large scale Mac OS X deployments or Directory Services issues, I know someone who\'d be outstanding.</div>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-header-9651961" class="dsq-comment-header">\
	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651961" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651961" href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Matt Cutts</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651961" class="dsq-comment-message">Yo, talk to Vanessa Fox of Google\'s Sitemaps team. She\'s done great stuff, like a radio show episode with Danny Sullivan called "Everything I needed to learn about SEO, I learned from Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Rooting around.. um.. link here:<br><a href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006/08/listen-in-matt-cutts-and-vanessa-fox.html" rel="nofollow">http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2006...</a></div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651959" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651959" class="dsq-comment-message">Shelley: regarding "speaker standards," maybe you haven\'t heard. Out of about 40 speakers who spoke at Google\'s first Zeitgeist conference (including CEOs from Yahoo, AOL, Google, and other places and some women) I was the second highest ranked speaker (according to the audience) second only to Malcolm Gladwell.<br><br>At LIFT in Europe, I was the second highest ranked speaker (if I remember right) second only to Cory Doctorow. Out of dozens of speakers, including a famous author and a famous model.<br><br>And, there aren\'t many people alive who\'ve interviewed the Office Live team as well as the Google Calendar team as well as the guy who runs the company that makes Open Office.<br><br>I also have a pretty deep resume of speaking engagements, including to executives from Boeing, Microsoft, Target, Nestle, Amazon, and other places. <br><br>Just to stick up for Zolli\'s standards. If you have someone who is a better speaker, please feel free to recommend him or her. I\'m sure Zolli would appreciate that.<br><br>Also, I don\'t need to be a speaker there. I could run a panel discussion or do something else like interview someone like Meg Whitman or Mena Trott.<br><br>As to my Office 2.0 bonafides? I was one of the first people to email Bill Gates and Steven Sinofsky (execs in charge of Office at Microsoft) telling them that they should make a suite of apps, including a wiki, a blog tool, and a few other things. That was back before Flickr was purchased by Yahoo.<br><br>Do you know of someone else who saw this industry back then and has an email to prove it?</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651999" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651999" href="http://waxxi.us/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Tracy Sheridan</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651999" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br><br>Where I don\'t qualify as a hard-core geek, I do as a female CEO of a company using tech in interesting ways. After all, you were one of the first to try us out, and to be a featured guest! [thanks again for that - we really had fun with you and Shel]<br><br>Attending a plethora of geek-centric events in San Francisco and Silicon Valley over the past months, I can attest that on a list of 400++ people I am often the only, if not one of very few, female CEOs.<br><br>However, I concur with Gene. We are out there. It\'s just a matter of digging a little deeper. I think even more interesting than "Digital Divas" would be to mix it up a little...a panel (or series of interviews) of smart, innovative and driven men and women brain jamming. Kind of like we do in the \'hallway discussions\' at un/conferences and at tech/networking parties.<br><br>Belated congrats on your successes, and the move. Hope you\'re enjoying California.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651996" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651996" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651996" class="dsq-comment-message">Tracy: we\'ll have a segment where we can mix diverse geeks together in an interesting way: a dinner party.<br><br>Thanks for your comments and appreciate what you do!</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651997" href="http://www.dahowlett.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dahowlett</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651997" class="dsq-comment-message">Sadly to say Robert, when you engage the castration crowd, you ain\'t never gonna win an argument. Not even come close.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651998" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651998" href="http://words.einsteinslock.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shelley</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651998" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, yeah, and I used to be one of the highest ranked speakers at Ken North\'s old XML series -- should we pull out our reviews and toss scores at each other at 20 paces.<br><br>To clarify: I was responding to Zoli\'s link to Ismael\'s post. I thought Ismael\'s post was clueless. I still do.<br><br>I will say in his favor: between yesterday and today Ismael added three new women speakers. Three extremely impressive women speakers, in fact. A thumbs up for that action.  Now, 10 or so more like the four ladies already speaking, and this conference might even be worth the bucks.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9652002" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652002" href="http://words.einsteinslock.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shelley</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652002" class="dsq-comment-message">"Sadly to say Robert, when you engage the castration crowd, you ain’t never gonna win an argument. Not even come close."<br><br>What an abysmally stupid thing to say.<br><br>I came looking for adults, and I find boys in the later stages of arrested development.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652004" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652004" class="dsq-comment-message">Shelley, considering the general tenor of your posts and comments, I\'m almost surprised at comment 47.<br><br>You like stirring shit up. You\'re good at it. But please, don\'t even start to act surprised when it spatters wrong. It\'s silly. You get precisely the results you knew you\'d both find and create, stop pretending to be surprised.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651995" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651995" href="http://kimberlyblessing.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Kimberly Blessing</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651995" class="dsq-comment-message">Whether male or female, I\'ve always found that geeks (which to me means computer science nerds) will be geeks and shy away from roles that will focus a spotlight on them; they\'d rather sit in their cubicle and write code, and there\'s nothing wrong with that.<br><br>What no one\'s yet pointed out is that Robert\'s looking at who\'s running tech companies and leading their projects. In all of my experiences, I\'ve always found these folks to be primarily business people -- not hard-core computer scientists. So is that the main issue, that there aren\'t enough women making it up the rungs of the technology corporate ladder?<br><br>My take on that question would be yes. Being a geek that made the transition to management, I know that there aren\'t enough women there, and it\'s a damn difficult leap to make.<br><br>So my suggestion, Robert, is to dig a little deeper. You\'re not going to always find women running the show or leading the project -- sometimes they\'re behind the scenes actually making shit happen!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651993" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651993" href="http://www.brick-labs.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Eric D. Burdo</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651993" class="dsq-comment-message">Kinda off topic, but my sister-in-law just started blogging.  More of a personal blog right now, but it gives her a place to write.<br><br><a href="http://rows-reality.redleif.com/" rel="nofollow">http://rows-reality.redleif.com/</a><br><br>I am sure some of the "mommy bloggers" can related to some of what she writes about.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651992" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651992" href="http://words.einsteinslock.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shelley</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651992" class="dsq-comment-message">John Welch, yes I was surprised. I look at my post and these comments, and other than a flare of irritation at Zoli, I do not see where something like \'castration crew\' came from.<br><br>This particular \'shit\' you\'re discussing is about a professional conference that covers a topic of interest to both men and women, yet had one woman and 52 men as presenters. What surprises me more than \'castration crew\' is the fact that there are so few of us questioning such. Yet here in this post, I\'ve had to defend not our criticism of this conference, but diversity itself. How is it possible that we\'ve become so caught up in marketing and making money that we now consider diversity a \'roadblock\' in the path to prosperity. But diversity is core to what we say we value.<br><br>I am surprised that diversity is sneered at, equated with loss of quality, and generally seen as more of an irritant than a goal. It doesn\'t say much for any future with a 2.0 in it to see such, do you think?<br><br>I am also suprised there aren\'t more women questioning statements such as those about \'not selecting based on gender\' and \'wanting quality\' -- with the implication being that women are not quality. I\'m also surprised there aren\'t members of other groups not represented at these events that aren\'t also questioning much of this.<br><br>Stirring up shit. What would you have rather seen, John? That this conference proceed as it was, 53+ men and one women, making decisions about software to be used by both sexes? Not very effective or efficient, would you say.<br><br>Or would you rather I had admonished women for not having signed up? Most of the speakers were invited based on recommendations or being known by the conference originator. This conference has not been publicized, nor has there been any effort at outreach.<br><br>I have heard from people that our criticism of Ismael was wrong, but few have come up with anything remotely reasonable or workable or effective as a solution.<br><br>Fine.<br><br>Will I continue stirring up shit? Maybe. Maybe not.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651990" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651990" href="http://www.elise.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Elise Bauer</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651990" class="dsq-comment-message">Hi Robert,<br><br>Here are a few suggestions:<br><br>Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products, User Experience, Google - see a <a href="http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/msande472/060517-msande472-300.asx" rel="nofollow">video</a> of a talk she recently did at Stanford.<br><br>Tina Seelig, Executive Director, Stanford Technology Ventures Program - I have a link to a talk she recently gave here:  <a href="http://www.elise.com/weblog/archives/001952tina_seelig_what_i_wish_i_knew_when_i_was_20.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.elise.com/weblog/archives/001952tina_seelig_what_i_wish_i_knew_when_i_was_20.php</a>  Tina also recently helped host the Always On Tech conference with Tony Perkins, so if you go through the archives of that conference, you\'ll see her.  She\'s a professor at Stanford, a serial entrepreneur, and has a PhD in neurology from Stanford Medical School.<br><br>Sarah Allen, former engineering VP at Macromedia, now at Laszlo Systems - she\'s an <a href="http://www.ultrasaurus.com/about/sarah.html" rel="nofollow">uber-geek</a>, quite brilliant, and I would bet a great speaker as well.<br><br>Janice Fraser, CEO of Adaptive Path<br><br>There\'s a start.  If I think of others, I\'ll let you know.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9651989">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651989" class="dsq-comment-message">My response to @42..."Hey, how \'bout that!"  Yawn.  And this gets  you a VP title at a no name startup?  Woo hoo.  I have hard time believing you were the first to inform Gates and Sinofsky of the need for useless wiki and blog tools.  Neither of them strike me as being that out of touch that a level 59 needed to keep them up to date on the latest technology (it\'s amazing what you can learn about MS from reading mini-microsoft).  But if you need to believe that, and you need to keep reminding yourself and others that don\'t really care, about your unimportant speaker scores from the ancient past to feel good about yourself, you go ahead.  Talk about a delusions of grandeur!  Sheesh!</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9651991">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651991" class="dsq-comment-message">Shelley, are the Office 2.0 organinzers supposed to be clairvoyant.  Please list women...hell, African Americans, or let\'s get really diverse: African American Women.. or better still, African American women that are lesbian and handicapped..I mean if diversity is our goal, as opposed to information sharing, let\'s go all the way with diversity.... that are making an impact in the Office 2.0 space?  You can see how silly your point is.  Doesn\'t knowledge trump diversity?  I\'d rather hear from someone that knows what they are talking about (which baffles me why Scoble gets such supposedly high scores.  And he should have said he\'s not qualified to be a speaker at Office 2.0) than a gender for the sake of gender.<br><br>The only one saying there is a problem appears to be you and anyone you can get to listen to you.  Frankly I don\'t think an audience really cares about the gender, race, color, or religion of a speaker.  Only that they are getting quality information and insight. I don\'t think women are being ignored, they just aren\'t making themselves more visible.<br><br>I\'m sure Linda Stone would welcome an invite, for example. Or Jessica Lipnak. Or Johna Till Johnson.  But again, I would listen to them not because they are women, but because of what they have to say!</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651987" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651987" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651987" class="dsq-comment-message">LayZ: I only talk when I know what I\'m talking about.<br><br>I haven\'t accepted the invitation to speak at Office 2.0 yet, have I?<br><br>But, have you ever heard me speak? How do you know I don\'t know what I\'m talking about then?<br><br>Linda Stone rocks, by the way! And her dinners are legendary.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652003" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652003" class="dsq-comment-message">LayZ? Ancient past? The Google talk was from less than a year ago. So was the LIFT talk. So where most of my other talks.<br><br>As far as my letting Microsoft\'s execs know, well, Bill Gates had me and two other people in his office to brief him on RSS (and later on Flock). Steven Sinofsky sent me a very long response to my email about the social software world that was happening without Microsoft\'s involvement (since then they added RSS and Wikis and Blogs to Sharepoint, by the way).<br><br>But, this is the disconnect. If I stand up for myself against attacks that I\'m not a good speaker or I\'m not good enough to speak about Office 2.0 then I\'m an arrogant jerk. See #57. Whatever.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652001" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652001" class="dsq-comment-message">Elise: I love Tina. She was over at PodTech just the other night. I had dinner a while back with Janice Frasier. She rocks too. I\'ll definitely have both of them on the show. Thanks for reminding me about Sarah. As for Marissa, I got the feeling she didn\'t like me last time I talked with her, but I\'d be honored to have her on. Hope I misread her.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9652000" href="http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Robert Scoble</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9652000" class="dsq-comment-message">Kimberly,<br><br>&gt;You’re not going to always find women running the show or leading the project — sometimes they’re behind the scenes actually making shit happen!<br><br>I\'d love to find more people who are behind the scenes. They always turn out to be the best interviews. Male or female.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651960" href="http://peterdawson.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">/pd</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651960" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert, reading within the tapesty of this conversation, the tone and general tenor -- Oh Man, you have hecka of a challenge - on digging deep looking for " geekettes" :)-<br><br>Along with this challenge comes also an opportunity for you and your company. I think you have the vision and can make the difference. After all you perecive that they an;t a enough "mena trotts" - but is that a fact ?? A hrd factorid or just an assumption Because you cant digg deep enough ??<br><br>If you \'re-build they will come" :)-</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651988" href="http://theheadlemur.typepad.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">alan herrell - the head lemur</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651988" class="dsq-comment-message">Robert,<br>A couple of bits that I think need a little light<br><br>"that\'s just who\'s running the tech industry"<br>If you just look for the head on a stick, you can make that argument, however, if you think about this for a moment, the number of people who \'support\' those heads is much larger, and as a bunch of folks are pointing out, many of them are women.<br><br>"I don’t want to devalue the accomplishments of women"<br>well if you don\'t look for them, it is hard to devalue them. This is one of those arguments that if you don\'t acknowledge them, then you don\'t have to value them at all.<br><br>The last thing regarding your "Digital Divas". Back in 1997 there were a group of women who has come together as the Digital Divas, who are still active.<br><br>You were still selling stereos then.<br><br> I bring this up as these women were able to mount and win a grass roots challenge to Microsoft, your former  employer when MS tried marketing a \'Digital Diva\' which culminated in MS abandoning that Idea.<br><br>Here a couple of links to get you started<br><a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1017-246732.html" rel="nofollow">http://news.com.com/2100-1017-246732.html</a><br><a href="http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/bas1/memberships_advocacy_1.htm#digitaldivas" rel="nofollow">http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/bas1/memberships...</a><br><a href="http://home.fullmoonwebs.com/minimouse/index.cfm/NewsItem?ID=23103&amp;From=Home" rel="nofollow">http://home.fullmoonwebs.com/minimouse/index.cf...</a><br>I would be very careful using Digital Divas without performing a little bit of due diligence.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9651984">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651984" class="dsq-comment-message">@58 True I haven\'t heard you speak. My opinion can only be based from what I read on your blog. Which I read for entertainment purposes only. ;-)<br><br>As for your briefing with Gates, I still gotta believe tht neither he nor Sinofsky were exactly clueless on the the technology before you supposedly informed them. Neither of them got where they are by relying on low level employees not dirctly within their reporting structure to keep them abreast of technology already being used by some.  Particulary someone like Sinofsky, who is legend is correct, made MS aware of potential of the internet well before it was being widely used by anyone outside of some higher education institutions. My guess is they were simply getting another viewpoint. Nothing wrong with that. I\'m sure appreciated you confirming for them what they already knew.<br><br>As for comment 57.. well it\'s true.  Your continuous need to remind the blogging world of your "accomplishments" tends to expose some apparent deep seated insecurity you seem to have about yourself. Your continued defensiveness when "attacked" belies that as well.  When the majority of your readers only get exposed to you via your writing it\'s difficult to not draw any other conclusions than that you yourself have issues with your own credibility. I know of very few people that have to periodically remind people of what the accomplished when no one asked.  You often sound like that guy that used to write the BEST blog on the internet..."The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs" when he would say "I invented the iPod..perhaps you heard of it?".  Your version is: "I walked around and interviewed a lot of people actually doing working within MS (unlike me)..perhaps you\'ve seen them?".  No one cares what you did in the past. People only care what you ARE doing or WILL be doing.  But getting you to react is like shooting fish in a barrel. It\'s way too easy.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9651986">LayZ</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651986" class="dsq-comment-message">As for your Women leaders in tech "challenge"  How about<br><br>Meg Whitman - eBay<br>Clare Brabowski - Radio Shack<br>Patricial Gallup - PC Connection<br>Anne Mulcahy- Xerox<br>Patricia Russo - Lucent<br>Gail Deegan - Board of Directors EMC<br>Safra Catz - President, CFO - Oracle<br>Judith Sim - SVP Marketing - Oracle<br>(of course these are probably women Ellison is dating)<br>Nancy Cooper - CFO - CA<br><br>I\'m sure I could go on...<br><br>and let\'s look in your former back yard<br>Lisa Brummel - VP HR - Microsoft<br>Debra Chrapaty - Corp VP MSN Ops<br>Suzan Delbene - Corp VP Moble Embedded Devices<br>Gerri Elliot- Corp VP - Public Sector<br>Kathleen Hogan - Corp VP - WW Support<br>Julie Larson-Green - Corp VP Windows Experience<br>Mitch Matthews - Sr VP Central Marketing<br>Lori Moore - Corp VP Service and Support<br>Mindy Mount - Corp VP CFO Entertainment<br>Tami Reller - Corp VP Business Solutions<br>Mary Snapp  - Corp VP Deputy General Counsel<br>Allison Watson - Corp VP - Partner Group<br><br>Look at all those women in Tech you could have interviewed!!!  now, careful not to be sexist in your repsonse.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651985" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651985" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>John Welch, yes I was surprised. I look at my post and these comments, and other than a flare of irritation at Zoli, I do not see where something like ‘castration crew’ came from.</i><br><br>Shelley, that\'s ridiculous. Your style is to bludgeon people with your opinion and your wisdom, such as it is, and then you act all surprised when people don\'t react with kittens and rainbows. I\'m not complaining about the style, it\'s similar to my own, but come on. You hit people with a brick, don\'t act all shocked when they fling it back at you.<br><br><i>This particular ’shit’ you’re discussing is about a professional conference that covers a topic of interest to both men and women, yet had one woman and 52 men as presenters. What surprises me more than ‘castration crew’ is the fact that there are so few of us questioning such. Yet here in this post, I’ve had to defend not our criticism of this conference, but diversity itself. How is it possible that we’ve become so caught up in marketing and making money that we now consider diversity a ‘roadblock’ in the path to prosperity. </i><br><br>Did it ever occur to you that maybe a lot of women with technical backgrounds just don\'t care? I mean, have you SEEN the explosion in small conferences about blogging, "Web 2.0" and now this crap? Maybe it\'s that they\'re picking their conferences carefully? WTF *is* Office 2.0? I read the site description, and it sounds like yet another "IN THE FUTURE, EVERYTHING WILL BE PERFECT, WE\'LL LIVE IN GIANT ZEPPELINS, AND OUR FOOD WILL ALL BE PILLS"<br><br>Pfah, who\'s got time for that crap. Maybe you do, but most of us don\'t. I\'ve a friend who only speaks at Macworld/Photoshop world - related stuff, and she\'s busy as hell with just that.<br><br>No, no, it must be that the organizers don\'t want women. Oy.<br><br><i>But diversity is core to what we say we value.</i><br><br>Diversity in encouraging really smart people to participate, regardless of genetic makeup, or diversity so that you feel happier about the male/female ratios? There\'s a difference you know.<br><br><i>I am surprised that diversity is sneered at, equated with loss of quality, and generally seen as more of an irritant than a goal. It doesn’t say much for any future with a 2.0 in it to see such, do you think?</i><br><br>When it comes across as "You must have n women speaking if you have x men speaking" then yes, it is sneered at, and properly so. Sticking women on stage just so you can have more estrogen than thou is not diversity, it\'s bullshit, and should be properly called out as such.<br><br><i>I am also suprised there aren’t more women questioning statements such as those about ‘not selecting based on gender’ and ‘wanting quality’ — with the implication being that women are not quality. I’m also surprised there aren’t members of other groups not represented at these events that aren’t also questioning much of this.</i><br><br>Oh please. Go sing this song to someone who\'ll take it at face value. Me? No, I\'m not going to insist on a certain number of female, black, gay, asian, etc. faces, just so we can all feel good about out commitment to diversity. Are the speakers qualified to speak on their topic? Do they want to be there? Yes? then it\'s all good. That\'s all that matters. If you don\'t like that, then why aren\'t you signing up to speak at every damned conference on the planet. Macworld Expo 2007\'s call for papers just ended, and I know that there are more than a few people who would love to hear from a javascript expert such as yourself. I know Dori\'s there, and she\'s damned sharp too, but everyone has their own way of approaching the same topic. So of course, you submitted a session, right? I mean, it\'s one of the bigger conferences out there, how could you not?<br><br><i>Stirring up shit. What would you have rather seen, John? That this conference proceed as it was, 53+ men and one women, making decisions about software to be used by both sexes? Not very effective or efficient, would you say.</i><br><br>Effective at what? Should they be required to get n women for every man just to fill in a checkbox? Is that somehow a good idea? Try again. Unless you\'re saying that it\'s simply impossible for a man to talk about software to women. Of course, that creates an interesting situation with the opposite. If only women can talk to women about things techincal, then why should any man go to a session with a woman speaker. OBVIOUSLY, she\'ll be COMPLETELY unable to say anything in a way he\'ll understand. Because, as we all know, women and men are completely different species, with different languages and are really incapable of communicating to each other.<br><br><i>Or would you rather I had admonished women for not having signed up? Most of the speakers were invited based on recommendations or being known by the conference originator. This conference has not been publicized, nor has there been any effort at outreach.</i><br><br>I have, in my speaking career only ever been specifically invited to speak at one conference. The last Comdex Chicago. It was, shall we say, a waste of time. Every other time, I\'ve submitted sessions in accordance to the rules of the conference. What, is that a male only thing? Is there a separate set of rules for women? As far as the publicity for the conference, or lack thereof, that\'s a TOTAL strawman to the issue of "Why aren\'t there more women speaking". So they have crappy PR, what\'s that have to do with anything? What, Crappy PR = TEH SEXISM in your world?<br><br><i>I have heard from people that our criticism of Ismael was wrong, but few have come up with anything remotely reasonable or workable or effective as a solution.</i><br><br>You do understand that no, every criticism of you does not in fact, have to come up with a different solution to be valid. You can in fact say "I do believe you\'re full of crap", and have that be a valid opinion and criticism on its own. You may not like this, but your opinion doesn\'t change much here.<br><br><i>Fine.<br>Will I continue stirring up shit? Maybe. Maybe not.</i><br><br>I don\'t really care. Writing on the web is something I do for fun, and occaisionally money. But if you\'re going to stir up shit, then stop whining about the reaction you get. Shit-stirring does not, as a rule, create a calm, reflective, affirming reaction. If that is the reaction you want, then stop working so damned hard to get the opposite one.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651981" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651981" href="http://www.dahowlett.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">dahowlett</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651981" class="dsq-comment-message">Did I name anyone specific? But hey - if the cap fits then wear it.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651966" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651966" href="http://words.einsteinslock.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Shelley</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651966" class="dsq-comment-message">John, we who are not white, male, straight (and Californian)  thank you for equating diversity with loss of quality. DO you want us to shine your shoes and bake that cake for you now.<br><br>I happen to believe that a more diverse conference is a better conference; that organizers who don\'t see this as a goal are lazy, shallow, money makers who care less about quality and more about sponging off the desperate last days of a bubble even more nebulous than the last.<br><br>Real reason I am commenting one last time:<br><br>Dennis, oh we\'re sorry, when you were talking about "castration crowd" did you mean Christopher Coulter?<br><br>Putz.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651957" href="http://crueltobekind.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Nicole Simon</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651957" class="dsq-comment-message">I actually am only writing at this point because I spend the last few days at Barcamp London. Needless to say, one of the few women.<br><br>And I find this discussion interesting, because I am going to Office 2.0 - mainly because I disagree with a lot which is on the table there and am looking forward to interesting discussions which I intend to add my usual European touch.<br><br>So how do i like the idea of getting women up there to have more diverse voices? Not at all if that means the permier reason being them there is "have a skirt on the stage".<br><br>We had this conversation over and over again. There is a side which is the organizers job. Which seems not have been done this time and he should have learned out of it. And there is a side for the women to be done also.<br><br>It is not enough to sit on your backs and wait for the organizers to come to you and begging you to do something for them.<br><br>Why don\'t I go to him and do what i ask here? Because frankly I cant think of something worth presenting up there to the crowd for this topic. But I am sure that a pre conference podcast will have something valuable added to the conference and it is something I not only like to do but is also received well by the audience.<br><br>Very often, when those accusations are made, it is all blamed on the guys. In part very correctly. But in part also very snobbish.<br><br>If women cannot come to such a conference because they don\'t have the babysitter at home, complain about it. And make it clear that this is the reason why you are not coming.<br><br>If you are not coming because you find the ratio of guys coming to be intimidating, mail this and mark that you find the marketing of such an event to be lacking.<br><br>And so many more reasons. This is a game of two parties, not just one. And if you want to score in the game, then you need to actually play it.<br><br>You will not be given points for free just for being a women.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9651962">Regine</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651962" class="dsq-comment-message">What about Diane Greene, founder and CEO of VMware. Now that it\'s been bought by EMC she has another title but still runs this recognizable tech company.</div>\
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	 <cite id="dsq-cite-9651994" class="dsq-comment-cite">\
	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651994" href="http://www.bynkii.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">John C. Welch</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651994" class="dsq-comment-message"><i>John, we who are not white, male, straight (and Californian) thank you for equating diversity with loss of quality. DO you want us to shine your shoes and bake that cake for you now.</i><br><br>Of course, when someone disagrees with your agenda, they\'re instantly a chauvanist. Even worse, you accuse me of being from Cali, when that\'s literally as far from the truth as possible, (try Miami). By raising that strawman, it VERY conveniently allows you to ignore my point, which was that adding women just to jack the estrogen levels is *precisely* as stupid as ignoring them to jack the testosterone levels. But no, that would require you to stop crusading and start listening. How silly of me to think that making sure you had qualified speakers first, and then within that, doing what you can to jack the female/other minority count is the way to go.<br><br>Nope, quality of speaker, knowledge of topic, none of that matters. All that counts is making sure that there\'s females in the proper proportion. Get lucid Shelley, i\'m not in the "FEAR SHELLEY" club, so if you think you\'re going to confuse me with strident declarations and strawmen, think again.<br><br><i>I happen to believe that a more diverse conference is a better conference; that organizers who don’t see this as a goal are lazy, shallow, money makers who care less about quality and more about sponging off the desperate last days of a bubble even more nebulous than the last.</i><br><br>However, when your SOLE definition of "good" is "number of women" then you don\'t really give a rat\'s ass about the quality of the conference, just your agenda. Of course, reconciling this with your heresay - based criticism of Blogher is amusing, since, by your sole criteria, it was the perfect conference.<br><br>Make up your mind Shelley, but until you do, stop bitching about everyone and everything, because after a while it starts to sound like "not enough kissing Shelley\'s ass" is the real problem.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651968" href="http://gumption.typepad.com/blog" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Joe McCarthy</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651968" class="dsq-comment-message">If you are looking for interesting women who are playing leading roles in the technology world, might I suggest Kathy Sierra (<a href="http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/%29?" rel="nofollow">http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate...</a>  I\'ve never met her, nor seen her live or on video, but if she is 1/10th of 1 percent as engaging and inspiring in person as she is on her "Creating Passionate Users" blog, she\'d be a fabulous candidate.</div>\
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	 <a id="dsq-author-user-9651956" href="http://www.bigbrook.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sheamus</a>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651956" class="dsq-comment-message">Oops... The macro issue of great women being accepted as equals and their equal involvement and participation in the tech community, including conferences and events... Robert, I suggest you step back for a moment in order to re-think and quickly get on the right side of this issue (right side = pro women). Women stuggling for equality and respect (and they have had to struggle) in society has a long history. For example, when did women achieve the right to vote in the USA, UK and Canada?<br><br>I\'m an old guy so the phrase "Digital Divas" seems to me somewhat more than a little demeaning to women. It also possibly indicates a lack of understanding regarding the issues and problems.<br><br>A number of people commenting made good suggestions with respect to women in technology for your interview initiatives (e.g., Elisa Bauer, Sept. 2nd @ 8:12 pm and LayZ, Sept 3, 9:18).<br><br>The larger issue seems to be basic human dignity including equal opportunities for involvement, participation and contribution. The positions either against or for. Clearly the technological community has some work to do.</div>\
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	 <span id="dsq-author-user-9651955">Kelli</span>\
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	 <div id="dsq-comment-message-9651955" class="dsq-comment-message">On your article: Thanks for searching out "undiscovered" women tech geeks.  I would love to hear from more of them.<br><br>On the comments following your article: Why engage in such seemingly unprofessional dialogue?  For me, it totally distracts from your position as a thought leader in the tech world.  I\'m all for speaking your mind and sharing ideas, but why the useless banter?  My continuing bone with blogging is that it takes to much effort to sort through all the banter to find the golden nuggets.</div>\
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	fbJS.src = "http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php";
	document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(fbJS);

	ExecuteWhen.add(window.fbIsReady,
		function () {
			// HACK: This is a workaround FBC's single domain limitation by
			//		 allowing sites to create multiple forums with different
			//		 Facebook API keys.  This must be used in conjunction with
			//		 disqus_facebook_forum (see authenticateFacebook).
			var facebook_api_key = 'faaf467d0f47abde553c3b8e0e1b3570';
			if (typeof disqus_facebook_api_key != 'undefined') {
				facebook_api_key = disqus_facebook_api_key;
			}

			FB.init(facebook_api_key, window.facebookXdReceiverPath || null,
				{fetchSignedPublicSessionData: true});
		});
}


	


if(typeof(disqus_callback) == 'function') {
	var callback_params = Dsq.Utils.getRequestParams()['dsq_cbp'] || null;

	// We don't care about any errors in third-party code
	try {
		disqus_callback(callback_params);
	} catch (x) {
		if (typeof(console) != 'undefined' && typeof(console.log) == 'function') {
			// But it would be nice to let developers know about them
			console.log(x);
		}
		// pass
	}

	// HACK: We don't know if the callback wraps our container, which may
	// possibly result in a new DOM element.
	Dsq.container = document.getElementById('dsq-content');
}

// Global event handler for narcissus.
if (Dsq.jsonData.integration.theme == 4) {
	var g = Dsq.Utils.ie ? document : window;
	Dsq.Utils.addEventListener(g, 'keydown', function(event) {
		// Handle "enter" key on input for post box.
		if ((event.keyCode || event.which) == 13) {
			var target = Dsq.Utils.ie ? event.srcElement : event.target;
			// For Safari bug, detect text node.
			if (target.nodeType == 3) {
				target = target.parentNode;
			}

			if (target.nodeName == 'INPUT' &&
				target.parentNode.className == 'dsq-input-wrapper') {
				var postId = Dsq.Utils.extractId(target);
				Dsq.Templates.postComment(postId, this, false);
			}
		}
	});
}

})();




