I was a bit tongue-tied when it came to present the Aenne Burda award to Martha Stewart at the DLD conference today, but as Steffi said, she has always been a hero of mine.

Creating something that enables *other* people to create themselves is a miraculous kind of business to have, and Aenne Burda herself certainly exemplified this in her magazines, by publishing patterns for women to make their own clothes; Flickr has seen a creative flourishing unlike anything I would have ever dreamed or imagined, and certainly Martha, in so many ways, has unleashed more creation, more DIY and more self expression than any other woman in the world today.

Congratulations Martha!

(They painted the award this year, in the original colors, different from last year. I think I like the unpainted version better, which is the one I have. Less authentic, but more...dignifed.)

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