Friday, February 7, 2003

This article freaked me out Because I'm married to my desk at work, don't get a lunch, you depend on me doing my job without a potty break, my chair is giving me bleacher butt, there is a mass of engineering hardware stored under my desk, and worse, my CALVES HURT ALL THE TIME just below my knees. Oh shit. I heard somewhere that Donald Rumsfeld has a tall desk and works like Ebeneezer Scrooge, standing up. I just that is better than being a waitress on your feet all day, or getting an ass like a radio DJ, which is what I'm working on (thank god I go running on the weekends). Miasma Computer Users, Please Stand Up. New Zealand researchers document the first case of what they call 'eThrombosis,' and what other researchers say is a simple matter of not stretching the legs. By Kristen Philipkoski and Kim Griggs. [Wired News] 11:44:14 PM    Comment [] Jobs web sites: They ARE black holes I CHALLENGE ANYONE who has ever gotten a job through an online jobs site to write a comment on this post. I have reached the unfortunate conclusion that such a person does not exist on planet earth. I'd love to be proven wrong. But especially after having taught my students how to use such sites 2 years ago, I worry that I sold them a bill of goods, and perhaps have bought a bill of goods myself. These monstrous slush piles only troll for envelope stuffers and Amway sales people. Am I right? Am I right? Have they become sillier than the newspaper classifieds? Miasma Click to Open Resume, Hit Delete. Traffic and revenues are up at the Web's major job sites. But with so many applicants and so few decent job openings, employers are overwhelmed with the responses. Is anybody reading all those resumes? By Greg Sterling. [Wired News] [...] With unemployment at an eight-year high, job seekers are flocking to the Internet in search of employment listings. But the results are often less than satisfying, recruiting experts say. While companies are flooded with resumes, the overwhelming majority of applicants never even get a reply. "The company wants a haystack and the candidate is the needle," says John A. Challenger, chief executive officer of international outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. "When you apply for a job online, your resume just goes into the void. You feel like you're accomplishing something, but you're probably just spinning your wheels." [...] While job seekers who submit resumes online often feel they are disappearing into a "black hole," many employers are struggling to process the rising tide of online applications. 11:38:30 PM    Comment [] Lesson on Basic Premise of Weblogs Doc Searls and Chris Gulker pick up the discussion of the Washington Post. To Doc and Chris, both of whom wear both hats, professional and amateur, consider that many news reports are quotes and connective text, nothing more. The blogging world is just the quotes. You get to find your own authorities and instead of getting soundbites, you can hear all they have to say. Some reporters say it's revolutionary to publish the full text of their interviews on the Web but I say that's second best. When the reporter takes notes he or she is selective, they can't write down everything, and they introduce errors, incorrectly writing down what was said. Better to give the keyboard to the authority and let them say it in their own words. That's the premise of weblogs. [Scripting News] 10:43:43 PM    Comment []

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