Digging a little deeper into the Cool Stuff blog on Twine, I found this interesting tidbit. Neoformix has made an interactive word map of the most popular words used on Twitter about the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The larger the word, the more often it was used. You click on the word and it will take you to all the Tweets that used that word. That is cool!
I made another observation while checking out these Tweets. Based on profile pictures, I estimate that around 90% of the Tweeters tweeting about the Web 2.0 Expo were males. That doesn't really surprise me. In general, males tend to be more interested in technology than females. When you combine attending a technology expo with using technology to talk about the expo, I would assume men would far outweigh women.
That's been true of the STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) for a long time. The Department of Education has been trying to find out how to attract more females into these areas for years.
So far, not only have they failed to get more females into the sciences, but males are becoming less interested in going into STEM courses. Where are our scientists and engineers of the future going to come from?
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