Archive | July, 2007

Unethical Hiring Practices: Job Search Sites Serve Up Ads With No Intent to Hire US Workers

James Carlini wrote an article on Hiring Practices: More Talent Often on the Street Than at Many Companies outlining the sleazy practices of these lawyers he mentions in the article and on the Youtube video he mentions on his site. A good reform would bring transparency to this process and the real harm it brings [...]

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Chicago’s Michael Carruth Launches What If List Blog…

Michael Carruth, owner of Chicago-based Digital Bootcamp, launched a new blog today. It’s called the What If List and I must say I’m quite jealous of the broadness of the subject with the right amount of specificity to make a theme. Good luck Michael!!!

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The Death of Blog Search

Death of the A-list blogger? Not exactly. Is blog search currently on life support? Yes. Does this affect blog traffic? Yes. Is anyone analyzing this situation holistically? Uncertain. Over the past several months: 1) Technorati has “redesigned” in such a way that other content, especially mainstream media content has become more prominent. 2) Sphere has [...]

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WordPress Admin Panel Change – Please Revert Back

Recently, the incoming links panel froze for several days. Now it’s showing the name of the blog post instead of the name of the blog. I prefer the old version and would appreciate a reversion to it. Thank you.

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Kijiji Falls Short

As much as I’d like to see some things replace the aging Craiglist, the US version of Kijiji 1.0, announced yesterday, isn’t it. There are too many things to list from a user standpoint, here are just a few: 1) No resume posting section in the jobs section. The reply to blind ads system in [...]

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