Blogging here from the Webzine conference- I’m going to come away from this whole thing with a great deal to think about for MPOJ.
The sessions themselves have been spotty in quality at best, but hanging out with people who run really successful sites has jogged my brain quite a bit. I’ve got […]

I got this phone call the other day from a guy with a shiny new degree in Computer Science, looking for a job.
We generally need 2 years of professional experience, or at least some heavy internship experience, before we can work with someone, and I told him so. I suggested that he […]

I’m at Webzine 2005 this weekend. I’m there partially for Metroblogging, in which I am an active participant, but I’m also looking forward to learning some new stuff for my own projects, including this one.
Besides that, Philip Kaplan is going to be there. I discovered FuckedCompany in 2000, when I was […]

The United Food and Commercial Workers union is picketing a Wal-Mart in Las Vegas. Well, actually, the union members aren’t picketing. The union is hiring non-union temps making $6/hour to stand around outside an air-conditioned Wal-Mart in the 104 degree heat, with no transportation to get anywhere else. Workers inside the picketed Wal-Mart […]

The company I work for is a large, multinational staffing firm with offices across the US. The offices closest to the areas affected by hurricane Katrina have been seeing an influx of applicants who are displaced hurricane victims, looking for work as they try to rebuild their lives.
The problem is, many of […]