Kazi560 is a txt based job hunting tool available in Kenya. It allows job hunters to subscribe to job alerts by SMS, and allowing them to find employers who are hiring rather than going door to door looking for work - a very time consuming process. They’re adopting Craig’s List’s business model: employers pay to […]
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Two economic crises face the world today: the credit crunch resulting from the subprime mortgage crisis, and the food prices crisis precipitated by the demand for biofuels. Both are problems we should have identified and solved years ago, but didn’t. Why did we ignore the warning signs and allow ourselves […]
Everyone leaving school that wants to be some one in the media because it is supposed to be glamorous………..
LET ME TELL YOU NOW FOLKS. I AM NOT A RICH MAN, I KNOW A LOT OF OUT OF WORK ACTORS, I KNOW EVEN MORE OUT OF WORK MUSICIANS. BUT I DON’T KNOW ANY OUT OF WORK […]
This post Is The Bedouin Worker Killing The Third Place? got me thinking again about the subject of mobile technology and public space. Years ago, there was thread on Margin Walker about “third places” and the concept of “fourth places.”
To sum up, the “first place” is home, the “second place” is work and the “third […]
Abe Burmeister sums up his renegade economic thinking as “pro-markets, anti-profits”:
In classical economic theory, profit was deeply associated with the figure of the entrepreneur. Profit was how these idealized people would make their way in the world, they would purchase goods, transform or move them and then resell in a market. The difference between their […]
For those unfamiliar with him, this interview serves as a good introduction.
Markets, Antimarkets and Network Economics.
Markets and Antimarkets pt. 1.
Markets and Antimarkets pt. 2.
Markets and Antimarkets pt. 3.
Markets and Antimarkets pt. 4.
Markets and Anti-markets in the World Economy.
Markets, Antimarkets and the Fate of the Nutrient Cycles.
Via the Manuel DeLanda Annotated Bibliography.
Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called “monolithic insanity.”
Propst is the father of the cubicle. More than 30 years after he unleashed it on the world, we […]
This report is from June of 2004, I just came across it.
I’ve been meaning to mention this here for, but for some reason kept putting it off. I’ve made a bit of a career change. For the past three weeks I’ve been working as a computer technician for a local computer services company. Much of my time is spent doing IT for a […]
I didn’t the awesome university job I was trying for. So I registered with a temp agency yesterday, and on Monday I will start a 2 month stint as a bank receptionist. Not the most exciting job in the world, but certainly not the worst. And just in a nick of time too.
How not to buy happyness:
I wish to propose two different answers to the question “Does money buy happiness?” Considerable evidence suggests that if we use an increase in our incomes, as many of us do, simply to buy bigger houses and more expensive cars, then we do not end up any happier than before. But […]
Times online tells you why.
Via Fast Company Now.
Deek Magazine article
I suppose at some point I’m expected to say that the [second largest Pittsburgh daily paper] was an awful place to work, where I was expected to sell out my values and join the vast right wing conspiracy. That, however, wasn’t really my experience. Most of the people I have known in newspapers […]
Ooooo! Busted!.
So much for the Bush re-election campaign creating thousands of new jobs, eh? ;)
By the by, the new issue of Exquisite Corpse has been out for a couple weeks now. Haven’t had time to read much of it yet. Theme seems to be work. Looks like the good stuff is here.