Much like the Lego Obama inauguration, Christoph Niemann combines two of my favorite things in rendering aspects of the New York City experience in Lego form. Absolutely brilliant. (Thanks Mo for the link).
A few of my favorites…
And having at least a portion of our business centered around freely distributed weekly jobs newspapers, I have to [...]
As always, I try hard to refrain from self-congratulatory pats on the back, but once in a while I feel the urge to highlight notable, and even at times not-so-notable, achievements of JobDig and LinkUp. Earlier today, LinkUp received inclusion on Tech Crunch’s Go2Web2.0 site as a member of their highly esteemed web 2.0 canon. [...]
It’s almost impossible, and probably somewhat silly to try to segment the decline of the daily newspaper industry into discrete chapters or phases, but I’m going to do it anyway because it seems that over the past month or so, the industry has begun entering its final chapter. All year, the story has been building [...]
Doonesbury’s Rick Redfern was layed off from the Washington Post this week in another high profile sign that the daily newspaper industry is coming to an end almost as swiftly as the investment banking industry. To add insult to injury, Redfern’s boss suggests that he could use his buyout package to ease the transition to [...]
Mirroring the figures released by the Department of Labor last week, data released by LinkUp.com on Monday provided further evidence that the nation’s jobs picture deteriorated substantially in July. The number of total job openings posted on corporate web sites dropped 4% from June, while the total number of new openings posted dropped 2%. Even [...]
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Without getting overly political as to the causes, one of the most startling aspects of the current U.S. economy is the phenomena of the working poor – individuals and households that work one or more jobs (most often more than one) and are still unable to climb out of poverty. In 2003, there were 7.4 [...]
I cannot wait.
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On this horrendous day, please take a moment to pause and remember.