Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
20 May 2005In his usual eloquent way, Mini-Microsoft sums up the hiring of new dev folks at Microsoft:
# High quality people don’t want to work for Microsoft.
# Low quality people are swelling our interview loops to the degree I’m really worried some of them are slopping up on deck and joining the crew.
# The good quality people [...]
In: smp
11 May 2005Ok, maybe I am only partial digerati. I cannot understand the love and passion generated by podcasts.
And after flaming him, I have to come down hard on the side of Charles Cooper. I can’t see how podcasts will change the world.
I did amateur radio in the 80s at CFUV at UVic. Many weird “aaahhhhh…uhhhhh….ummmm…” moments, [...]
In: smp
22 Apr 2005Business 2.0 pulls this nugget out of the SJ Mercury News:
Bill Coleman, CEO of Cassatt and SVLG board chairman, said he’s seen the cost of housing have a growing impact on businesses in his three decades in Silicon Valley. When he first arrived, the company he was building could afford to have all its employees [...]
Dave Winer notes that Silicon Valley isn’t what it used to be. [here]
Now, with Yahoo getting its mojo back [here and here], and a few other happenings in the Valley, there are some signs of life.
But there is still a lot of vacant real-estate. The office buildings that housed Webvan are still vacant after 3 [...]
Thinking About the Effects and Reform of Higher (Cost) Education
In: Commentary
10 Aug 2008In Massachusetts, the latest user-generated crisis has centered around the evaporation of low-cost student loans due to the credit crunch. Families are scrambling to find ways to pay for their children’s university and college education, surprised by this sudden disappearance of what had been seen as a very deep well.
I am not here to comment [...]