Even worse than unemployment: The job interview. The process is an exercise in humiliation, and the prize for success is a nightmare -- employment by your torturers. [Salon.com]
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Ugh. After mad cow, I don't trust most beef production either: Scandal of beef waste in chicken. Food processors caught on video boasting that they have developed undetectable methods of adulterating chicken. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Dick Cavett. "If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either." [Quotes of the Day]
8:52:47 AM  #   your two cents []

Bloogle's Progress. Dan Gillmor talks to Google about blogs and more. [Dan Gillmor's eJournal]
8:50:41 AM  #   your two cents []

I'm going to be away at the ISC Symposium in St Gallen in Switzerland over the next few days. The Symposium is an unusual alternative Davos, organised and run entirely by the students at the business school at St Gallen University. Every year for over 30 years, the Symposium draws in some of the biggest names in business and politics -- mostly managing directors, chief executives, ministers or prime ministers address the crowd over three days, and some 700 people attend. Companies can only send a single rep and s/he must be at senior level in the company. Then about 200 of the audience are international university-level students, who win the places through an essay competition. Harvard students help out on organising from the US end. There are keynotes and smaller sessions.

The conference is very well known in continental Europe, especially the Germanic countries, and is hardly known at all in the US, UK and Ireland. So I'm curious about how the whole thing will fit together. One session I'm looking forward to is a discussion session with Joi Ito on software and democracy. I'll post the resulting story back here. If I get the chance, I may blog a bit back as well.

12:56:49 AM  #   your two cents []

Hey, here's something cool about iTunes: when it imports CD info off the web, it is quite happy to use Icelandic letters and various accents over letters, as needed. Sigur Ros arrived linguistically intact! I like little working details like that.
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