I always like to try to help my friends and acquaintances find work. However, I inevitably forget who is looking, or forget to send along job opportunities I hear about. Thus, I’ve decided to create an email group for people I know who are interested in getting emails from me about work opportunities to centralize […]
Google Looks for A2 Real Estate
Via Murph on Arborupdate, the Detroit News reports Google is looking for space in Ann Arbor. 200,000 square feet of space for 1,000 jobs – in a state that badly needs them. Remember all the backlash in the last year against Richard Florida and his Cool Cities theory? According to the News: “Boston and Boulder, […]
The RIAA on Campus
Always good for a link, George sent me a link to this EFF white paper: Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released a white paper exploring solutions. Entitled “When Push Comes to Shove: A Hype-Free Guide to Evaluating Technical Solutions to Copyright on Campus,â€? the paper examines the benefits and drawbacks of several systems designed to […]
Shut-ins in Japan
This is from a Post story today about Japan’s “nerd culture”: Yet some sociologists critical of the nerd culture here have linked it to the high incidence of severe behavioral problems among men under 40. Immersed in role-playing games and comic fantasy worlds, many have found real-life personal conflict difficult to cope with– one cause, […]
Political Tech Firm in Hot Water
Via E, this from AmericaBlog: Convio, a big Internet consulting firm in DC, worked on Howard Dean’s campaign among other big lefty clients. Well, now they’re working for the Alliance for Marriage, the lead group of anti-gay religious right bigots trying to write us out of the US Constitution. —–