The idiot in the exchange is more likely a smug IT sociopath who fancies himself a "designer" because he's the only wonk in his small dysfunctional company with the cracked copy of Photoshop and the free time on endless weekends home alone to spend learning enough about it not to electrocute himself when scaling a photograph.
He's a mechanic, at best. He clearly lacks the grace to be a legit professional designer.
Freelance writers have long complained of similar practices amongst "content mills" such as Demand Studios (the guys behind all those "how to" webpages). The mill pays $3/story, $15/video. For a working writer or videographer, it's the kind of revenue that puts the "chump" into "chump change." But -- and here's the catch -- thousands and thousands of people will work for this! Many full-time writers sneer at them as mere wannabes who are pissing into the community pool, but their work is (apparently) good enough for The Client, and these folks are happy to be making some beer money "writing professionally." The thing is, there are so many writers -- and designers, too, apparently -- and the bar for entry into the profession is so low, and the, well, "romance/coolness" of being a paid (however niggardly) creative artiste is so great, that the Content Mills have such low overhead they are making money hand-over-fist.
Of course, if you're really good at what you do, you get to name your price and you do well. But if you're in the bottom 90 percent of a profession whose products -- such as words and designs -- aren't constrained by artificial geographical boundaries and location (thanks to this new-fangled Internet thingy) then, brother, you are scrapping and scrambling.
I'd settle for an e-mail program that just strips out the emoticons and LOLz and makes people write like someone writing, and not like someone writing while simultaneously trying to communicate body language.
Oh, and while you're at it, can you make it so the program pokes the writer in the eye every time he writes the words "win" and/or "fail" in all caps? Thanks.
Oh, maaaan, Slashdot, this is so, so, wrong. Lookit:
Michael Wolff was paid a huge sum to write a bio of Murdoch a few years back, "The Man Who Owns the News." It ended up becoming the "Heaven's Gate" of publishing: Wolff was paid a million dollars in advance, and it sold horribly. As a result, Wolff became a pariah amongst publishers, and he has had a jones against Murdoch ever since. He started "Newser" -- an online news aggregation site, sort of a Drudge Report, but with pictures and short summaries written by semi-literate snarky hipster interns -- specifically as a response to the "old-fashioned" way that Murdoch did business. Wolff writes a column there daily; like, every third or fourth one is some screed, equal parts vitriolic and smug, predicting failure for everything Murdoch is involved with. If Murdoch issued a statement saying that "Gravity is a Good Thing," Wolff would find some way to either argue against it or poke fun at it.
Of course, it doesn't make matters any better that Wolff had an affair with one of those aforementioned interns a few years back that was made public -- and kept public, arguably far longer than an extra-marital affair involving a "C"-level journalist should have been -- by the Murdoch-owned NY Post. Wolff's wife (a divorce lawyer!! (he's obviously not the sharpest pen in the inkwell)) left him and took him to the cleaners.
Nobody who knows anything about Murdoch or NYC journalism takes anything Wolff has to say seriously when he's in "Murdoch mode." Kind of like asking the Sheriff of Nottingham to give a measured opinion about that guy "Robin Hood."
I thought Black Hat was one of those "we don't care who you are, we're going to talk about this" forums?
Those types of organizations don't have annual conferences in Las Vegas.
"Black Hat!" I mean, really. Who would you expect to show up at a Las Vegas venue called the "Super-Villain Expo," Lex Luthor, or wannabes in purple-spandex cosplay?
I've schmoozed with plenty of PhDs and post-PhDs, and I haven't met a one whom I'd like to see in a position of any political power or federal-level responsibility. Does this guy Chu sound like he'd be an interesting fellow with whom to have to have a beer? Sure. But you could have described him as a self-taught banjo impresario or the CFO of a large alliance in Eve Online and he'd sound just as interesting, and just as qualified for a cabinet-level job.
The summary is written by the same guy wrote the "blog" at InfoWorld, to which he links. InforWorld's astroturfing here has devolved from the shameless into the downright misleading and incomprehensible. But they've probably already paid Slashdot in advance for the space so they've got to fill it somehow...
It is kind of humorous to see the people whose online personae are buxom, wasp-waisted pointy-eared swashbucklers poke fun at the people whose online personae are pictures taken ten years ago when they had all their hair.
All's harmless, in moderation. To each, their fantasy.
What what you do with it then... put it in a beige-colored folder, and file it away alphabetically in that beige-colored file-cabinet atop which you keep your tri-cornered hat?
Well, no. But that makes such a nice l'il hipster story, I'm almost tempted not to correct you.
The "teabagger" epithet was first applied to the movement by CNN's Anderson Cooper (Cue the "well, he should know" snickering...)
Tea Party activists did use the phrase "tea bag" as a verb, on isolated placards, but they never referred to themselves as "teabaggers." That phrase has always ever been a pejorative hung on them by their opposition.
The terms are being used interchangeably here. The bloom is off the rose on IT careers, certainly (in the US, at least), and not just for women. And the number/type of pure IT careers is imploding, I'm sure (once upon a time there were "webmasters" who were counted as IT guys). But capital "T" Technology as a whole? The highly technical careers that use computers and software as tools? I'm not convinced.
Fewer woman programmers and server room jockeys, OK. But fewer woman technology workers and technicians? Not so sure. Sounds like stats being massaged to prove a point for somebody...
You're citing the Huffington Post? Seriously?? Here's a tip: HuffPo was designed -- literally -- as a left wing version of The Drudge Report. Not that there is anything wrong with that, of course, but you can't go around citing it in polite, informed conversations with people who aren't DailyKOS readers with any credibility.
How easy it is to implement a blog is always a sure indicator of that blog's content quality. I have found that the blogs which are hard-coded from scratch using vi atop LAMP hacked onto a toaster oven are inevitably post-modern literary masterpieces.
Software developers and computer hobbyists inevitably make the best writers, don't you agree?
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The average, typical IT tech lacks the "touch" when it comes to employee monitoring. Give the monitoring tools, or reports from such, to the HR guys, whose ultimate responsibility this should be.
Employee monitoring is in the position today where web page creation was 15-20 years ago. It was an "IT Function," because the tools were new and computer-y. Eight million "blink" tags and six hundred thousand animated "under construction" GIFs later, the tools made their way over to the Marketing and Creative Services people, and civilization lurched forward.
Of course, there were always the techs who fancied themselves designers, from whose fingers the tools had to be pried away. I suspect there is more than that many techs who have gotten more than just a little bit comfortable wearing the Big Brother jackboots as well...
...and the number of them who owe me money, claim they're strapped for cash, yet tweet that they are the "mayor" of some downtown over-priced coffeehouse or sushi joint is ver-r-r-r-y revealing.
Gents: I may not be one of your twitter "followers," but I check your twitter pages religiously nonetheless. Pay up. Looks like my daughter's gonna need braces.
Seriously, it doesn't. Snydeq is their PR flack, and he's got a weekly slashdot quota (check out his submission history). Quality of article doesn't matter, he just has to hit his numbers. Hey, it's a living, right...?
...he used "fora" as the plural for "forum" and triggered some kind of douchebag filter. These douchebag filters were first created as an experiment by Google in the late '90's to keep out the folks who wrote "boxen" as a plural for "box," but were later taken off-line. I fear that one of the filters may have missed the purge and now it is evolving, learning...
...does any money change hands? Does slashdot make a coupla bucks, at least? I hope so. If not, can Galen at least arrange for snydeq to take Rob Malda out for dinner and a show every now and then?
Slashdot Mirror
I think if you use the word "awesome" twice or more in a slashdot summary you have to forfeit your adulthood.
The idiot in the exchange is more likely a smug IT sociopath who fancies himself a "designer" because he's the only wonk in his small dysfunctional company with the cracked copy of Photoshop and the free time on endless weekends home alone to spend learning enough about it not to electrocute himself when scaling a photograph.
He's a mechanic, at best. He clearly lacks the grace to be a legit professional designer.
Freelance writers have long complained of similar practices amongst "content mills" such as Demand Studios (the guys behind all those "how to" webpages). The mill pays $3/story, $15/video. For a working writer or videographer, it's the kind of revenue that puts the "chump" into "chump change." But -- and here's the catch -- thousands and thousands of people will work for this! Many full-time writers sneer at them as mere wannabes who are pissing into the community pool, but their work is (apparently) good enough for The Client, and these folks are happy to be making some beer money "writing professionally." The thing is, there are so many writers -- and designers, too, apparently -- and the bar for entry into the profession is so low, and the, well, "romance/coolness" of being a paid (however niggardly) creative artiste is so great, that the Content Mills have such low overhead they are making money hand-over-fist.
Of course, if you're really good at what you do, you get to name your price and you do well. But if you're in the bottom 90 percent of a profession whose products -- such as words and designs -- aren't constrained by artificial geographical boundaries and location (thanks to this new-fangled Internet thingy) then, brother, you are scrapping and scrambling.
I thought android was the "Open" one...
I'd settle for an e-mail program that just strips out the emoticons and LOLz and makes people write like someone writing, and not like someone writing while simultaneously trying to communicate body language.
Oh, and while you're at it, can you make it so the program pokes the writer in the eye every time he writes the words "win" and/or "fail" in all caps? Thanks.
Oh, maaaan, Slashdot, this is so, so, wrong. Lookit:
Michael Wolff was paid a huge sum to write a bio of Murdoch a few years back, "The Man Who Owns the News." It ended up becoming the "Heaven's Gate" of publishing: Wolff was paid a million dollars in advance, and it sold horribly. As a result, Wolff became a pariah amongst publishers, and he has had a jones against Murdoch ever since. He started "Newser" -- an online news aggregation site, sort of a Drudge Report, but with pictures and short summaries written by semi-literate snarky hipster interns -- specifically as a response to the "old-fashioned" way that Murdoch did business. Wolff writes a column there daily; like, every third or fourth one is some screed, equal parts vitriolic and smug, predicting failure for everything Murdoch is involved with. If Murdoch issued a statement saying that "Gravity is a Good Thing," Wolff would find some way to either argue against it or poke fun at it.
Of course, it doesn't make matters any better that Wolff had an affair with one of those aforementioned interns a few years back that was made public -- and kept public, arguably far longer than an extra-marital affair involving a "C"-level journalist should have been -- by the Murdoch-owned NY Post. Wolff's wife (a divorce lawyer!! (he's obviously not the sharpest pen in the inkwell)) left him and took him to the cleaners.
Nobody who knows anything about Murdoch or NYC journalism takes anything Wolff has to say seriously when he's in "Murdoch mode." Kind of like asking the Sheriff of Nottingham to give a measured opinion about that guy "Robin Hood."
I thought Black Hat was one of those "we don't care who you are, we're going to talk about this" forums?
Those types of organizations don't have annual conferences in Las Vegas.
"Black Hat!" I mean, really. Who would you expect to show up at a Las Vegas venue called the "Super-Villain Expo," Lex Luthor, or wannabes in purple-spandex cosplay?
...that tired, clever-maybe-once-upon-a-time "ahem"/"cough" convention?
Thanks in advance...
I've schmoozed with plenty of PhDs and post-PhDs, and I haven't met a one whom I'd like to see in a position of any political power or federal-level responsibility. Does this guy Chu sound like he'd be an interesting fellow with whom to have to have a beer? Sure. But you could have described him as a self-taught banjo impresario or the CFO of a large alliance in Eve Online and he'd sound just as interesting, and just as qualified for a cabinet-level job.
The summary is written by the same guy wrote the "blog" at InfoWorld, to which he links. InforWorld's astroturfing here has devolved from the shameless into the downright misleading and incomprehensible. But they've probably already paid Slashdot in advance for the space so they've got to fill it somehow...
In fact, I think it's the Cat's Pajamas!!
Global Warming: The Y2K Scare for the New Century.
It is kind of humorous to see the people whose online personae are buxom, wasp-waisted pointy-eared swashbucklers poke fun at the people whose online personae are pictures taken ten years ago when they had all their hair.
All's harmless, in moderation. To each, their fantasy.
Huh??
What what you do with it then... put it in a beige-colored folder, and file it away alphabetically in that beige-colored file-cabinet atop which you keep your tri-cornered hat?
Well, no. But that makes such a nice l'il hipster story, I'm almost tempted not to correct you.
The "teabagger" epithet was first applied to the movement by CNN's Anderson Cooper (Cue the "well, he should know" snickering...)
Tea Party activists did use the phrase "tea bag" as a verb, on isolated placards, but they never referred to themselves as "teabaggers." That phrase has always ever been a pejorative hung on them by their opposition.
The terms are being used interchangeably here. The bloom is off the rose on IT careers, certainly (in the US, at least), and not just for women. And the number/type of pure IT careers is imploding, I'm sure (once upon a time there were "webmasters" who were counted as IT guys). But capital "T" Technology as a whole? The highly technical careers that use computers and software as tools? I'm not convinced.
Fewer woman programmers and server room jockeys, OK. But fewer woman technology workers and technicians? Not so sure. Sounds like stats being massaged to prove a point for somebody...
You're citing the Huffington Post? Seriously?? Here's a tip: HuffPo was designed -- literally -- as a left wing version of The Drudge Report. Not that there is anything wrong with that, of course, but you can't go around citing it in polite, informed conversations with people who aren't DailyKOS readers with any credibility.
How easy it is to implement a blog is always a sure indicator of that blog's content quality. I have found that the blogs which are hard-coded from scratch using vi atop LAMP hacked onto a toaster oven are inevitably post-modern literary masterpieces.
Software developers and computer hobbyists inevitably make the best writers, don't you agree?
The average, typical IT tech lacks the "touch" when it comes to employee monitoring. Give the monitoring tools, or reports from such, to the HR guys, whose ultimate responsibility this should be.
Employee monitoring is in the position today where web page creation was 15-20 years ago. It was an "IT Function," because the tools were new and computer-y. Eight million "blink" tags and six hundred thousand animated "under construction" GIFs later, the tools made their way over to the Marketing and Creative Services people, and civilization lurched forward.
Of course, there were always the techs who fancied themselves designers, from whose fingers the tools had to be pried away. I suspect there is more than that many techs who have gotten more than just a little bit comfortable wearing the Big Brother jackboots as well...
...and the number of them who owe me money, claim they're strapped for cash, yet tweet that they are the "mayor" of some downtown over-priced coffeehouse or sushi joint is ver-r-r-r-y revealing.
Gents: I may not be one of your twitter "followers," but I check your twitter pages religiously nonetheless. Pay up. Looks like my daughter's gonna need braces.
Thanks.
Seriously, it doesn't. Snydeq is their PR flack, and he's got a weekly slashdot quota (check out his submission history). Quality of article doesn't matter, he just has to hit his numbers. Hey, it's a living, right...?
"AOL for Dummies."
When I first saw that on a shelf at B&N, I seriously thought it was a parody from The Onion.
...he used "fora" as the plural for "forum" and triggered some kind of douchebag filter. These douchebag filters were first created as an experiment by Google in the late '90's to keep out the folks who wrote "boxen" as a plural for "box," but were later taken off-line. I fear that one of the filters may have missed the purge and now it is evolving, learning...
...and boy, am I glad the bottom 99% is making the important decisions.
...does any money change hands? Does slashdot make a coupla bucks, at least? I hope so. If not, can Galen at least arrange for snydeq to take Rob Malda out for dinner and a show every now and then?