The ethics of the web

Jay Rosen in this talk captured at the Carnegie Council explains the ethics of the web.



I would suggest to go read the full and original posting at Wesley Fryer's Moving at the Speed of Creativity. He does it well!

job search notes: links to share

From my recent cruising, these are good links to share:

1 - tips on negotiating salary

http://www.resumebear.com/blog/index.php/2009/07/03/12-negotiating-tips-for-job-seekers/

2 - free webinar on how to use Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook
http://kenrickchatman.com/how-to-use-linkedin-twitter-and-facebook/

3 - free mission statement builder from Franklin Covey
http://www.franklincovey.com/msb/

4 - and since this has been a recurring topic amongst discussion groups

Did I Screw Up My Job Interview Thank You Letter?

from Work Coach Cafe by Ronnie Ann


What links would you share to help another person's job search?

Good links to share

1 - What do you leave behind after an interview? Hopefully, a good impression.

Job Interviews: 10 Impressions You Leave Behind After an Interview

from Work Coach Cafe by Ronnie Ann

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2 -

Your 2 Critical LinkedIn Networks

from Social Media Sonar by Sean

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3 - The PodCamp Boston archive of posts and reflections

Invasion of the Pod Tweeple #pcb4

from karabrickman.com by Kara B


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4 - One book recommendation. I have ordered it. I have read his blog for some time. I have read his PDF teaser. This will be a good book. I have no doubt about it.

The Big Push

from chrisbrogan.com by chrisbrogan

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5 - Food for thought. Band width sync correlation. Say what? Yes please read for more about this interesting item
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/the-bandwidth-sync-correlation-thats-worth-thinking-about.html

Double nickels of link love!

I have a tradition of running a mile for each year I have been around on my birthday. As I get older, that gets harder to do by the mile. But one can change the measure to minutes and be successful. This year that would be farther than I can do on the comeback trail so I settled for 2.55 miles. Cute huh!

But I was still thinking about what I could do for double nickels.

Send an email? might be considered s*p*a*m... not good

Send a tweet each minute? might be inconsiderate of my followers... not good

Give link love? ah, the gift that everyone appreciates!

Now how do I get 55? Since my bloglines feed listing exceeds 800, this by nature will be selective. Let me count the ones I most frequent or find the most good stuff on. In somewhat alpha order since I started with Blogrolling listing. If I left you off, it may have been an oversight or a sign of my new age. :-)



800 CEOReadBlog
37 Days
A Clear Eye
Bernie DeKoven
Blog Brothers

Brand Soul
Chris Brogan
Chris Owen
Christopher Penn
Confident Writing

Dark Reading
Dan Ward
Dave Rothacker
Doc Searls
Drawn

Dwayne Melancon
eHub
EM Sky
FAST Company
gapingvoid

gillianic tendencies
Good Experience
Greg Balanko-Dickson
Hamguin's Hideout
Hobopoet

How to Save the World
John Richardson
Joy of Six
Joyful Jubilant Learning
Karen Wallace

Learned on Women
Make it Great
my topography
New Charm School
Occupational Adventure

Ptak Science Books
Pause
Phil Gerbyshak
PureLand Mountain
Robert Fulghum

Seth Godin
Simplicity
Songs of Experience
Talking Story
Terry Starbucker

Tim Millburn
Time Goes By
Tom Peters
Tomorrow Today
WonderBranding

World Changing

Sanders Says

Ze Frank

Beach Walks with Roz

Limerick Savant

Enjoy!

Who would you add to this listing?

Rapid Fire Learning

It is that time of month again when one can stop, and reflect on what has happened, and realize how much we have learned amidst all that has transpired.

1 - Franklin Matters - I split off my writing about Franklin, MA to a new blog. No, it does not go counter to my move for simplicity, I think it actually helps it. I love that the focus on Franklin Matters will be all things Franklin. Steve's 2 Cents will revert to being the combination of the rest of me not already covered elsewhere.

2 - If we but look around us, how much can we find? I found "All things Sherlock" and my namesake is archaeologist with a major Anglo-Saxon find. There is another Franklin Matters, about Franklin, TN.

3 - Podcast feed problems can be tricky. Especially when the root cause was a single desktop system somewhere that was attempting to down load two of my podcasts multiple times but only partly each time. Since the number of times exceeded 18,000 in each case, it must have been some rogue program and not someone who listened to the sound of my voice. :-)

4 - Collaboration creates new words. Troy Worman started his On! Blog Meme. I added a few and posted it on Thanksgiving as a link love post, Connie Reece called it "Thankslinking". How cool is that!

5 - 19 syllables is sometimes all that is necessary to condense a book. I found several good quotes from Madeleine L'Engles' book A Circle of Quiet which I sprinkled around here, here, here and here. Then after finishing the book one night, I laid down to go to sleep and found my mind racing. I leaped up to write those thoughts down before they disappeared into the ether or where ever they go and ended up with this.

What did you learn this month?

Bob Quotes & Links

From Robert Brady writing at Pureland Mountain comes this gem of imagination on the folks who put together Stonehedge about the same time that the pyramids were built.

In Egypt they had a pharaoh and slaves, so a series of wiggy pharaohs with many thousands of free laborers goes a long way toward explaining the pyramids and other mega-items (though it doesn't answer the question that kick-started this ramble). But in the case of Stonehenge, all you've got is a bunch of farmers, herders and warriors - there weren't many career alternatives available in those days - doing their farming, herding and warring, when suddenly one of their number jumps up and says: I've got a fantastic idea, let's do more than just dig a huge circular ditch for a thousand years—why don't a bunch of us just drop whatever it is we're doing and trek as far as 240 miles, to what will one day be called Wales, chip out a four-ton slab of rock over X number of years, using our stone tools - or your bronze tools, if you want to ruin them - then for a few more years roll the big rock slab back here, all at no salary. Waddaya think: sound like fun, or what?

Read Robert's full posting here.

From Robert Fulghum writing at his blog comes this gem on what we call home:

“Where’s home for you?”

An innocent enough question. Often asked in the early stages of a new acquaintance, especially when traveling. Usual meanings: Where do you live now? Where did you grow up? Where do you come from?

In an age of nomadic existence when many of us have moved often, the answer is usually not what’s in the place on an official form for “Place of Birth.” Shift the question to “Where would you go if you were required to go home?” Or ask, “Where do you feel most at home?” Sometimes an answer lies in “Where do you want to be buried when you die?” A final home.

There are many ways of being home. One is never to leave it. I think of those people I grew up with who still live in the same town I left long ago.

Read Robert's full posting here.

From Robert Peake writing at Reputation in Poetry talks about attention and exposure:

Poetry is a profoundly intimate art. We demand the full attention of our listeners on something as complex and undecorated as words. No backing music, no other channel to flip to while the commercials are on. We make every word tell because it has to - because with a captive audience comes a lot of responsibility. Just calling a piece of writing a poem ups the ante considerably on both sides.

When a poet I really trust and whose work I really admire starts reading their poems, I take off my skin. I turn up my antennae. And if in that fully exposed state they take advantage of me or worse just let words fall flat, I go away almost wounded. The dial drops a notch on how much I can trust them with my most vulnerable self, the rare and precious commodity of my full attention. This constant unconscious fiddling with rating knobs in our psyche is reputation.

Read Robert's full posting here.

Just because we have been bob, bob, bobbing along doesn't mean we have spring on our minds does it?

This Web 2.0 Thing Explained

I posted this yesterday on the Joyful Jubilant Learning blog, but is it well worth cross posting here.



It takes about 5 minutes and tells the story very well.

Enjoy!!


Found via Will Richardson writing at Weblogg-ed

Ad Comment Alert

Be aware of a commenter coming along advertising an application that automatically and easily creates backlinks for bloggers on WordPress blogs. Interestingly, it found two of my Blogger blogs and left comments on the postings related to the z-list meme.

Comments were left simultaneously on both blogs (hard for a single person to do with the amount of text left behind) so I expect he was using the tool.

Needless to say, I am not reprinting the text. I am not adding to the link traffic they are looking for. I did go ahead and delete both comments.

I am as desirous of links as most any normal blogger.
I am not in it for the money.
I am in it for the conversation.

Forewarned is forearmed!