Last Friday, the Department of Labor issued its monthly jobs report for October and reported that the U.S. economy lost another 190,000 jobs in October (a number that will certainly be revised up or down in future months). October’s losses represent the 22nd straight month of monthly job losses, and unemployment rose from 9.8% to [...]
Go see No Impact Man.
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 [...]
Coosje van Bruggen, the artist (or at least half of the collaborative team along with husband Claes Oldenburg) that created one of Minneapolis’ most identifiable landmarks, died yesterday. If Minneapolis is any indication, she had a significant impact on the civic aesthetic of many communities around the world.
In anticipation of the day that the Minneapolis Star Tribune stops publishing (which could happen any week now), I’ve decided to take steps to prepare for life without a local daily. I am also interested in determining how hard it would actually be to wean myself off of an increasingly irrational addiction to a local [...]
Even worse than expected, today’s jobs report from the Department of Labor was dismal, with the U.S. economy shedding 240,000 jobs in October. This was the 10th straight monthly decline, and the nation’s unemployment rate now stands at 6.5%, a 14 year high. So far this year, 1.2 million jobs have been lost, with more [...]
I recently came across an amusing and quite insightful story in a book I’m reading at the moment. When B. Dalton was buying other booksellers around the country back in the 60’s and 70’s, a B. Dalton executive traveled to L.A. to talk with Louis Epstein, the founder of Pickwick Book Shops. Towards the end [...]
The icon to the left will appear on anyone’s iPhone homepage if they bookmark this blog through safari on the iPhone. (Pretty cool, huh?). I will send a Sweet Land DVD (phenomenal movie – see here and here) to anyone who emails me a picture of the Diggings icon on their iPhone.
It’s a shovel in [...]
Driving to lunch yesterday listening to NPR’s Talk of the Nation, I heard a great story from the author of a recently published biography on Franklin Roosevelt relating to the power of communicating effectively through mass media.
One week after being inaugurated in 1933, FDR spoke directly to the American people through the first of his [...]
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, I thought I’d post a Compete.com graph of the visitors to a few state-operated, publicly financed job boards in a sample of states where JobDig operates (JobDig currently serves markets in 14 states, and just announced its 15th state – Indiana – that will launch August 4th). The chart [...]