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Recent e-mail thread, names redacted and text lightly edited to protect the innocent and/or guilty: from: to: Barry Hi Barry, I am looking for an information architect for [gigantic investment bank] in NYC. Please e-mail me your resume and hrly rate and I will get back to you. XML and investment
The fact of the matter is that making a significant change in a product that is in use in your organization can be more difficult to extricate yourself from than a tar pit—particularly if it means a big loss of revenue to a vendor. A perfect example is the state of Massachusetts’ attempt to go with…
Successes or failures of employees in the workplace can be traced to what kind of father they had, a psychologist argues in a new book. In “The Father Factor,” Stephan Poulter lists five styles of fathers — super-achieving, time bomb, passive, absent and compassionate/mentor — who have powerful…
From the latest issue of New Scientist magazine (subscription required) comes an article entitled “Change the way you see the world” (and it will): We love our maps. At first glance, people are shocked by them: the shapes look familiar, yet everything is absurdly distorted. Without even thinking…
The Freaknomics boys are at it again, with an article in the Sunday New York Times about “expert performance.” Simply put, research shows that people who are very good at what they do — star ballet dancers, soccer players, neurosurgeons — are not born with “natural talent,” but acquire their skills…
The OpenDocument format has become an ISO standard. OpenOffice 2.0 fully supports this standard. Go download it now. Related: Free/Open Source Software Toolbox for Knowledge Workers (at Campbell-Online.com)
Solveig Haugland has just posted a brief primer on how to use your word processor, and it should be required reading for anyone who writes as part of their job. It’s cleverly masked as a article about how to format your documents so that they will be easier to share between word-processsing…
Copyblogger is all about “how to sell with blogs, e-mail and RSS.” It looks like an excellent resource for small businessses and consultancies looking to leverage the power of the Web to market themselves. Copywriting 101 is a set of articles about persuasive writing for the Web: Copywriting skills…
Long seen as a method to maximize employment opportunities and salaries in the post-dot-com-bust era, a study released today finds that pay for certified IT skills falls short of the pay for non-certified skills. The Q1 2006 Hot Technical Skills and Certifications Pay Index, released April 25 by…
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 7 as a public beta. I’ve downloaded and installed it without difficulty. Still kicking the tires, but so far I haven’t seen anything that would make me leave Firefox. Internet Explorer 7: downloads (Microsoft.com)