5th ConstituencyFrom Sumser and the interbiznet Greenhouse: A Deeper Faster LookFeel The Momentum Shift- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Chief execs upbeat despite downturn. Despite massive unemployment, sluggish sales and bottom-feeding stock prices, executives at tech start-ups are optimistic about the future of their sector. Although most will slash administrative and travel expenses, many say they will soon expand employee ranks. Eighty-nine percent of the CEOs say they plan to hire new employees, but most are being conservative. Of those hiring, 49 percent anticipate adding less than 25 new employees; 20 percent plan to...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/20.html#a58 Email Distracts- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Technology: Working parents 'spend longer on email'. Parents who work spend on average twice as long dealing with email as playing with their children, according to Government figures. From:NewsBlip.comhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/20.html#a57 Blog Notes 5: For Whom The Blog Flows- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Embedded in most current blogging software is an odd notion. Because the systems are self-referential and the overall audience is in its early growth stages, there is an interesting assumption that one "blogs" for oneself or other bloggers. Conventions, like blogrolling (a cross linking scheme that builds traffic within the blogging community), have a nearly religious fervor associated with them. Community building, as we've mentioned in other Blog Notes creates the essential social...http://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/21.html#a66 Whoa!- (Found July 15, 2008 ) Hossein Derakhshan: "There are about 1000 Persian weblogs." Scripting Newshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/21.html#a67 Last Labor Shortage Brought Wage Freezes- (Found July 15, 2008 ) The time of the Black Plague was the last historical example of a sustained labor shortage. Read the King's decree about wage freezeshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0108019/2002/05/21.html#a68 |