Ada's Sisters podcast
by Angela Misri and Eden Spodek
A weekly podcast about technology and digital culture hosted by Angela Misri and Eden Spodek.
Episodes
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The Great Hiatus
Ok, not so great (either emotionally or in terms of size) but the Ada's Sisters are on hiatus while they try to find time to record more episodes!
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Episode 75: Imposter Syndrome, Marvel women in suits, #MeToo, VC Clubs for women
Fascinating article this week in Fast Company identifying women as the canary in the data mine. And we'll talk about the seven ways to fight imposter syndrome. If you don't know what that is, we'll elucidate you. And we'll tell you about a new VC club for women. Plus, Time's people of the year…
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Episode 74: Google's Sentiment Analyzer, Gen-x and Amazon's Future Engineers
We should talk about Google's SENTIMENT analyzer because it thinks being Gay is bad. That's ok, so's being over 40 according to a story in INC.com. What about the mom after our own hearts who fought the biggest social media companies in the world to gain access to her son's accounts? Mamma bears...
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Episode 73: Salary woes and updates, Best Canadian cities to live in and Sidewalk Toronto
Fast Co. says women are making less than men in the creative industries by a whopping 32 per cent! And in The Star's look at the best Canadian cities to live in if you're a woman, Toronto came in… TENTH. This is despite the innovative brains - like the people who came up with Sidewalk Toronto.…
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Episode 72: Google Pixel 2, role models, Time Magazine
We think Laurie Schultz wrote an important piece for the Huffington Post on being a role model to your daughters. She's the CEP of ACL and chair of the board for the BC Tech Association. And TIME put out a whole magazine dedicated to women who are changing the world. They highlighted 46, but we...
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Episode 71: Amazon HQ2, Catalyst, Google Drive, Verrit and BeccaToldMe
Some big changes coming in Google Drive and the newest Apple OS update and Amazon is looking for a new HQ, could a Canadian city provide that spot? Maybe if they haven't heard about the terrible hiring choices Catalyst Canada is making. At least #BeccaToldMe gives us something to be proud of.…
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Episode 70: Facebook and the election, fake partners, Flipd app and Google Maps
Facebook just released some information about inauthentic accounts and their influence on the 2016 US election that we should talk about because things couldn't possibly get weirder on THAT front. Speaking of weird things - there's an app to get students to stop fiddling with… their apps.…
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Episode 69: Amazon Tenmarks, lonely nerds, eclipses, and when women stopped coding
This is our last podcast before school starts, and we want to talk about Amazon's new TenMarks writing coach. And we like the idea of shutting down hate accounts all over the place that's spreading like wildfire in the wake of Charlottesville. We also loved the NY Times article about the dangers…
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Episode 68: Anon-IB, Google madness, twitter smackdown, and #MakeMineMilkshake
We could spend the entire episode talking about that Google document because it's repercussions just keep spilling out. But we also have to talk about the Marvel editor who was getting trolled for basically being a female writer for Marvel. Fortunately, she got lots of support for her online…
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Episode 67: Vimeo promotes Anjali Sud, a whole new Doctor, Airbnb karma and the Roomba
You might remember an AirBnB story we talked about a few months ago where a host cancelled a reservation when he found out his guests were Asian. Happy to tell you about the happy ending to that story - because karma is ALSO Asian. We also want to tell you about X factor Ventures, a new VC fund...
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Episode 66: Retention of women in tech, supporting mom students, bizarre app to pray for women seeking abortion
Last week's #DayofAction kind of went by without much fanfare, but we'll talk about net neutrality because it's an important subject. As is this story in the NY Times about sexual harassment in Silicon Valley and this CBC story about diversity in Canadian tech companies - or lack thereof. We're...
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Episode 65: Tanmay Bakshi, Google pay fail, Wonder Woman and the Nancy Podcast
We're back to regular programming this week, and wow, some stuff happened while we were on our Bob Mob cruise! Like Google announcing that it would be too expensive to actually equalize salaries across genders, and that panel at the Hall of Femme event that was ALL men and mansplained the heck…
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Episode 64: The Bob Mob cruise in Kingston
A special episode of the Ada's Sisters Podcast recorded while Eden, Angela and special guest Connie Crosby drove back to Toronto from Kingston where they had attended the Bob Mob cruise celebrating the life of Bob Goyetche.
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Episode 63: AI, google, Instagram, the value of online communities
Who knew that Instagram was such a competitive social network? Insta-star Sara Melotti in the Daily Mail it turns out. And the Globe and Mail has an interesting story about the online community and if it's even worth saving. The 11 richest self-made women in tech are worth a combined $10.3…
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Episode 62: A Hackathon solution, Wired's tech visionaries, NewCO Shift, and 1000 names
The Dallas Morning News had a pile of tech issues they weren't getting to, so they had a creative solution - they held a hackathon And WIRED released their list of 20 Tech Visionaries You Should Have Heard of by Now. We'll tell you all about them. We like when media puts a focus on female…
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Episode 61: What a surgeon looks like, GAP win, Ladies storm hackathon and a good subreddit
We're all consumers, and one of the benefits of social media is that we get direct access to give feedback to businesses. Just this week I tweeted about battery issues to Apple, and got a solution through tweets. And the CEO of GAP just took a 5-year-old's complaint to "I can do that" in two…
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Episode 60: A mechanical reproductive system, #hackathon, AI research moving to Canada and Kaya Thomas's new app
We have to tell you about this working model of a female reproductive system, her name is Evatar. And it had its first period. We'll get the chocolate and heating blanket, and maybe we'll get it to download this new app by Kaya Thomas that helps you find books written or about people of color?…
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Episode 59: Ashley Jane Lewis, Knitting for math, We-Vibe, Instagram, Mayim Bialik
I say this way too much as I get older, but my mother was right… again… Turns out knitting and crocheting can help you be better at math. We're pretty impressed by Ashley Jane Lewis. And we'll tell you why. We-Vibe was sharing personal information about their customers and they're about to pay a...
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Episode 58: Peanut App, NASA Lego women, Google fortune-telling and comparing Feminism to Cancer
We have to tell you about PEANUT - a new app that connects lonely mothers. And we're so impressed with Lego's career women figurines for women of NASA. We're less impressed by the Wildrose on Campus email comparing feminism to cancer. This year's clever Google Fortune Telling app is something we...
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Episode 57: HonkMobile, Snap Sunglasses, trolls beware and trying to stay anonymous
Do you have a parking spot you don't use? Well, it could be a new source of revenue if you use the new HONKmobile app. It's like an Air BnB for a parking spot — you can rent yours out, or find one to rent. And SnapChat has released new spectacles (sunglasses really) that you TAP once to make a...
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Episode 56: Baycott, DressLikeAWoman, Heartmob and Malala
All kinds of politically motivated boycotts going on this week are being driven over social media. From the #BAYcott over Ivanka Trump's fashion line to Starbucks because the CEO said he was going to hire refugees. Political messages are all the rage in digital, just take a look at the open…
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Episode 55: Icaros, CRA and big data, the Hater app and Gen Z
If you've ever wanted to fly you're going to love the ICAROS flying fitness machine. You're not going to love hearing that the Canadian Revenue Agency is using big data to find cheaters. Actually, we're not surprised. But you know what did surprise us? This article about how Gen Z uses their...
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Episode 54: Disparity amongst CEOs, live suicides, malware for Macs, and epic editorial fails
Perhaps it was eventual for a generation who live their entire lives online but a young girl committed suicide on live on Live.me, and now, it seems impossible to remove from the internet. Macs, and gmail are being targeted by malware and hackers this week, and The Washington Post and Toronto…
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Episode 53: Reductress, troll in the bed, alt-Jedi and Emmy Rossum
What would you do if you discovered your spouse was a troll? Well, there's a woman on Reddit is going through it live. Speaking of going through things. You should read Reductress efforts to make fun of people who make fun of rape. Sometimes sarcasm is all you've got. That toolbox is full of...
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Episode 52: Ellevate, Canada Post vending machines, HoHoTo, and the internet archive
Have you finished your holiday shopping yet? If you're ordering clothes online, you may want to check out what Canada Post is doing in Vancouver. And as part of another smart move in Canada, the entire internet will be archived here to protect it from the U.S. President Elect. Interesting times,...
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Episode 51: Apple hour of code, The Skimm, countering sexual assault with design and MentorWalks
A county council in England has come up with a clever and discreet way of combatting sexual violence and abuse and we'll tell you about THESKIMM, who registered almost a hundred thousand women to vote in the latest U.S. election. Mila Kunis' wrote an article in A Plus about more sexism in…
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Episode 50: In honour of our friend Bob Goyetche
This morning (Friday, November 11) we learned about the sudden passing of our friend and a true podcaster, Bob Goyetche. This episode of Ada's Sisters is dedicated to a good man and his wonderful family, especially his wife Cathy and son Simon. Bob was a community builder and one of the…
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Episode 49: Gender pay disparity, Jessica Jones, Cupertino and Crowdfunding menstruation
We have two worrying gender equality stories to talk about this week: the World Economic Forum says the disparity between women and men and how much they get paid WILL be solved…. in about 170 years. And you know who can really move that process along? The all male standing committee on finance....
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Episode 48: What a doctor looks like, Face-stealing on Facebook and Globots
We're pleased to announce that despite all the smear campaign nonsense going on right now, we haven't included any in this episode. Which doesn't mean we won't be discussing other nonsense, including a warning about Facebook author pages from author, Lauren Layne In other bad news stories,...
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Episode 47: Climbing and sexism, bad advice for women in tech and Bob LeDrew
Fox newscaster Brit Hume had the Internet in an uproar after the first presidential debate, and we want to make sure you see Outdoor Research's response to GQ's sexist climbing story. John Greathouse's article about women in tech in the Wall Street Journal has us wondering if we're all timewarped...
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Episode 46: Pinksourcing, redesigning Girl's Life, the Scale Collective and Sit with us
Kristen Bell's Pinksourcing video is going viral for all the right reasons and there's an Austrian teen suing her parents for posting her childhood pics on Facebook. Graphic designer Katherine Young's cover take on Girls' Life magazine is perfect and we all need to do our best to influence real...
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Episode 45: Returnship, #itsoktoTalk, Cindy Gallop and Sci Fi harassment
Another awesome return-ship program, this time including some big name companies like IBM. Our hashtag this week is about supporting mental health because #ItsOkToTalk. Jim Hines over on Gizmodo wrote an article about sexual harassment in Sci Fi that we think is worth your attention. Our friend…
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Episode 44: Olympic sized sexism, Code Club Senegal, Lindsay Lohan and Sara Benincasa
BLAB and Google Hangouts are going the way of MySpace, but Facebook Live is stepping into the vaccum with a new feature. The Olympics have wrapped up, and like everyone else, we think the ladies were the main story in Rio. From Penny Oleksiak to Fu Yuanhui to Simone BILES, there is so much to…
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Episode 43: Captain Marvel, TTC Harassment app, Parkdale WiFi and Instagram Stories
Toronto's Parkdale neighbourhood now has free wi-fi blasting out there for anyone to use as part of a pilot project we really hope sparks a city-wide initiative. And who knew the ice-bucket challenge could actually amount to anything? Turns out, Eden did - the $100 million dollars raised by...
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Episode 42: Canva app, #LoveforLeslie, Shannen Doherty and Mr. Theresa May
We thought the UK's Metro story about Theresa May's husband was so on point it sang and are thrilled that Angela Lindow has won the first James Golick grant for women in Computology. We're 100% behind Twitter's lifetime ban on Milo Yiannopoulos for leading that hate campaign against Ghostbuster...
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Episode 41: Zencaster, Ledbetter, Ulysses app and Spector
We love all these accounts and apps set up to track diversity - for example, the LedBetter, a web based database that shows you the representation of women in positions of power. Then we tell you about this new Spector tool - a Shazam for fonts. And we're eager to try out Zencaster a new way to...
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Episode 40: Clinton and Tech, Apple Coding Camp, Uber Conference
We love how the women of Google responded to sexist comments from shareholders - with LADY DAY - a day when we get to put the word "Lady" in front of all our titles. And on the topic of women responding to sexism, we get fully frontal with Samantha of Manchester's response to an unwelcome dick…
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Episode 39: The Stanford heroes, the Aussie heroes and #TryBeatingMeLightly
It's been a bit of a depressing week for the ladies despite Hilary Clinton's landmark gains in the U.S. We don't understand why anyone is talking about how the next President of the United States looks, and we suggest that everyone stops and focuses on what really matters (economy, education,...
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Episode 38: Chewbacca Mom, Blab, creepy bartenders, girlswhocode
Something is going on over at BLAB, and we're not sure it is the smartest move. But a move we totally approve of is Girls Who Code's series of videos making fun of the totally erroneous idea that women aren't able to work with technology. Really, what can you say after that piece of awesomeness?...
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Episode 36: Etsy, female sportscasters, #morethanmean, playing the woman card
If you haven't seen the video where men read horrible tweetssentto female sportscasters, we're going to tell you all about it.Andthen we'll pull out our woman cards. Never heard of them?Neitherhave we. But Trump tells us it's a sneaky thing we've hadaccess tofor generations and have used to…
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Episode 35: Lemonade, nipples, longest invoice and playing in the backyard
This has been one of those weeks where you can learn a lot about how and why things go Viral. Like how that 11s video of Kim Kardashian disappointing Prince on-stage is on everyone's Facebook wall. Or how a 1-hour video message about infidelity can dominate the twitter-sphere. Or how a Winnipeg...
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Episode 34: Bots, female avatars, the web we want and red red lipstick
You know what happens when gamers are arbitrarily assigned female characters? Well, they certainly didn't thank the makers of RUST who did just that. An endeavour that is getting a lot of support is The Guardian's subsite dedicated to confronting cyber-bullying called ‘THE WEB WE WANT.’ And if…
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Episode 33: Kerry Washington, Chariot for Women, Reddit hate and the Gap
First, we talk about The GAP ad that’s got people all aflutter on social media and then we look at the dismal stats around speaker diversity at Tech-related events in Toronto. On the Uber-side, we are getting excited for this new app called Chariot for Women (though we're not loving the name). We...
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Episode 32: Uberpitch, gender-friendly emojis, Blendoor, #unfairandlovely
We ruminate on whether there really is a problem with technology designed primarily by men for men, and the American Medical Association study that says yes. Then we turn to gender-based emojis and a body positive underwear campaign for men. Speaking of color, our tooltip of the week is a new app...
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Episode 31: Hilary Clinton and feminism, SXSW follow-up, two Toronto teens of distinction and Marvel scientists
We’re not obsessed with Barbies, but there’s a matching DAD BOD Ken doll now! We promise to spend less time talking about silicon equality and more talking about real human equality - namely about the personal attacks on Hilary Clinton and how that is effecting women at large. SXSW finally…
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Episode 30: Sexist dress codes, naked selfies, Land's End Legend program, circular phones and Wikipedia
Winnipeg's Amy Tuckett-McGimpsey and Allison Ferry attack sexist dress codes because at some Canadian restaurants, you are still required to dress like you're going to the club if you're a waitress. We talk about a teacher who was forced to resign because of her naked selfie and the quick end to...
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Episode 29: Blab panel discussion on Gender, Public Speaking and Pay Equity
This is a special episode we recorded on Tuesday, March 8th with guest Gini Dietrich @ginidietrich and surprise guest Bob LeDrew @bobledrew (we had planned to have Elan Morgan @schmutzie join us too but the technology failed her).
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Episode 28: Kesha, rent-a-minority, PartPic, and Access Now
Chris Rock's monologue for the 80th Academy Awards was all about the #WhiteOscars hashtag, and we loved it. And one solution Hollywood might want to look into is the Rent-a-Minority website, made for employers who "are racist, but don't want to look racist." Ok, it's a satirical website, but we...
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Episode 27: the Crunchies, U Waterloo, women code better and Hijabie Barbie
Podcamp Toronto was a blast as always, and our panel on Women in Podcasting generated some awesome discussion — we grabbed a few members of the audience for some quick audio clips. The University of Waterloo is offering some free computer science courses that we think people should be paying...
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A weekly podcast about technology and digital culture hosted by Angela Misri and Eden Spodek.
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