In story after story about the current economic meltdown over the past 5 months (or 12 depending on your point of view), the media and the country as a whole are taking great solace in the belief that the current unemployment rate of 8.1% (as of the end of February) means we’re not even close [...]
My fascination with lego creations continues…
I’ve been saying for months that we have entered the final chapter of the daily newspaper story, and if there was any doubt as to the validity of that proclamation, those doubts were erased today when the Seattle Post-Intelligencer announced today that it will be abandoning its printed publication and moving entirely online. It is [...]
It has to be the case that the New York Times is reading this blog. The story they ran yesterday on the front page was my #1 prediction for 2008. Either that or they’ve been reading Alan Mutter’s blog, or tweets from themediaisdying or any of the other countless blogs, articles, industry analysts, pundits, experts, [...]
LinkUp’s job listing report for February showed that nearly every single industry tracked by the job search engine experienced a decline in new and total job listings for the month. Similar to the state by state data, 32 of the 37 industries reported a decline in new job listings with all new listings by industry [...]
LinkUp reported this week that total job listings from over 14,000 company web sites around the U.S. plummeted in February, dropping 13% from January. New jobs posted to company web sites dropped even further, declining 15% from January. The total number of job listings dropped by more than 127,000, while new jobs posted to those [...]