That's what drives me nuts about this. We're a fairly sophisticated audience. The average web user sees a.edu and thinks "Oh, information!".
I see this every day, trust me.
I'd say it's up to the Kerry campaign to do a better job of online PR. All Google News does is collect and index the content. If Kerry wants to have an spider-killing splash page and put very little effort into his online campaign, well, who's fault is that? Basic SEO is hardly a hidden art, these days.
I just finished a piece reviewing the Bush and Kerry sites - some of it's relevant to this whole discussion: Reviewing JohnKerry.com.
Is this a small startup? Or a major company? That's a critical difference. At a small startup you're incurring a lot more risk, and your potential employer should be willing to negotiate a little.
At a bigger company, good luck. Even though the risks may be as high, the HR clerk you're working with won't want to discuss it. Either take the job and deal with the contract, or look elsewhere.
At some point you either decide you're going to live with these kinds of working conditions, or do something about it. No judgement either way, but it IS a choice, and you have to make it...
The big thing is, try not to plan out the next five years of your life. No matter WHAT you think, good or bad, you can't predict the changes a child brings.
Keep seeing your friends, and keep taking your wife out for nice dinners. Or bring her flowers now and again. And MAKE SURE YOU GET UP WITH THE BABY ONCE IN A WHILE. These are the keys to domestic tranquility.
Take your baby to the zoo and the aquarium. They love it. And teach them to use a mouse early...
And enjoy it! Diapers, sniffles, midnight feedings and all, my wife and I have had so much fun with our first, we went ahead and had a second!
....who said that push technology would revolutionize the Web, and that the 'New Attention Economy' had arrived. Sheesh.
I believe that the recording industry is going to fundamentally change. But it won't dissappear...
I gotta admit this is a pet peeve for me. During the boom I had to compete with companies paying 10x what people were worth. Now everyone else is slashing their staff, benefits and bonuses, and they're telling me I'm too generous!
But if you (generic you, not YOU) go to work somewhere for stock options and the like and then get your bonus cut when times are tough, well, you made that bed...
Yeah, they work for me. I pay them to work for me. I don't pay them, though, to check on a site on a weekend to make sure it's OK, or skip a lunch or go home late or come in early because we're on a deadline. That's above and beyond the call and my staff do it because they're passionate about their work. It still warrants a reward.
I AM in a leader position. Bonuses are a matter of managing expectations - my staff understand that salary is what you get for doing the job competently. A bonus is what you get because, at the end of the year, I can say 'I enjoyed working with this person this year.' I know it sounds hopelessly cliche, but there you have it.
Batman wins. Hands down. Superman's waaaay to namby-pamby - he'd let Batman get back up after a haymaker because it's not right to hit a man when he's down, blah blah blah. The Dark Knight prefers to bury the hatchet in people's foreheads.
Or he'd get a really good archer to shoot a kryptonite arrow... Oh, wait...
Just made the switch myself. As someone who's tinkered with FreeBSD but is no expert, OS X is a godsend. I can use an OS that has huge advantages, work in the same environment that most of my web sites are hosted in, but avoid the learning curve for a while.
I know the FreeBSD geeks will say I shouldn't avoid the learning curve, but I gotta make a living, right? OS X made a UNIX-based laptop a legitimate choice for me.
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Got a reply in the comments on my blog. Scroll down - it's the long comment near the bottom. http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/04/linkadage-selling-edu-blog-space.htm
I don't. You don't. But average web surfer does. It's not OK to take advantage of that.
That's what drives me nuts about this. We're a fairly sophisticated audience. The average web user sees a .edu and thinks "Oh, information!".
I see this every day, trust me.
I'd say it's up to the Kerry campaign to do a better job of online PR. All Google News does is collect and index the content. If Kerry wants to have an spider-killing splash page and put very little effort into his online campaign, well, who's fault is that? Basic SEO is hardly a hidden art, these days.
I just finished a piece reviewing the Bush and Kerry sites - some of it's relevant to this whole discussion: Reviewing JohnKerry.com.
Is this a small startup? Or a major company? That's a critical difference. At a small startup you're incurring a lot more risk, and your potential employer should be willing to negotiate a little.
At a bigger company, good luck. Even though the risks may be as high, the HR clerk you're working with won't want to discuss it. Either take the job and deal with the contract, or look elsewhere.
At some point you either decide you're going to live with these kinds of working conditions, or do something about it. No judgement either way, but it IS a choice, and you have to make it...
The big thing is, try not to plan out the next five years of your life. No matter WHAT you think, good or bad, you can't predict the changes a child brings. Keep seeing your friends, and keep taking your wife out for nice dinners. Or bring her flowers now and again. And MAKE SURE YOU GET UP WITH THE BABY ONCE IN A WHILE. These are the keys to domestic tranquility. Take your baby to the zoo and the aquarium. They love it. And teach them to use a mouse early... And enjoy it! Diapers, sniffles, midnight feedings and all, my wife and I have had so much fun with our first, we went ahead and had a second!
....who said that push technology would revolutionize the Web, and that the 'New Attention Economy' had arrived. Sheesh. I believe that the recording industry is going to fundamentally change. But it won't dissappear...
Heh. No, you're OK.
I gotta admit this is a pet peeve for me. During the boom I had to compete with companies paying 10x what people were worth. Now everyone else is slashing their staff, benefits and bonuses, and they're telling me I'm too generous!
But if you (generic you, not YOU) go to work somewhere for stock options and the like and then get your bonus cut when times are tough, well, you made that bed...
It's not a bribe. It's saying 'thanks'.
Yeah, they work for me. I pay them to work for me. I don't pay them, though, to check on a site on a weekend to make sure it's OK, or skip a lunch or go home late or come in early because we're on a deadline. That's above and beyond the call and my staff do it because they're passionate about their work. It still warrants a reward.
I AM in a leader position. Bonuses are a matter of managing expectations - my staff understand that salary is what you get for doing the job competently. A bonus is what you get because, at the end of the year, I can say 'I enjoyed working with this person this year.' I know it sounds hopelessly cliche, but there you have it.
I've given my staff bonuses every year, including this one. People keep telling me bonuses are 'outdated' because they don't reflect performance.
I think that's a load of crapola. How can someone not deserve an extra check after working the year?
Real question is, did management get a bonus? Of course they did...
Batman wins. Hands down. Superman's waaaay to namby-pamby - he'd let Batman get back up after a haymaker because it's not right to hit a man when he's down, blah blah blah. The Dark Knight prefers to bury the hatchet in people's foreheads.
Or he'd get a really good archer to shoot a kryptonite arrow... Oh, wait...
Just made the switch myself. As someone who's tinkered with FreeBSD but is no expert, OS X is a godsend. I can use an OS that has huge advantages, work in the same environment that most of my web sites are hosted in, but avoid the learning curve for a while.
I know the FreeBSD geeks will say I shouldn't avoid the learning curve, but I gotta make a living, right? OS X made a UNIX-based laptop a legitimate choice for me.