PowerPoint slides on what you can do now to continue to have a career in software. UC Davis labor critic Norm Matloff was not impressed with these, but I think they are worth a look. One can’t program forever…
This week’s The Nation had a sidebar for Joel Rogers and Richard Freeman’s article on “Open Source Unions”, with examples of minority unions who use the web to deliver services to their members.
My old boss from UW Madison, Joel Rogers, and Richard Freeman propose a new approach to an old form of Union organizing. In the early days of American Labor, union membership was offered to any “wage worker”. You didn’t have to be an employee of a shop with a union contract. Union members may not [...]
I’m not sure I’m qualified for this position. But what an opportunity.
[ via Red Rock Eater ] Here’s a conference on the new economy from a critical perspective where they promise to be neither dogmatic about the glories of the Internet economy, nor behave like a bunch of anarchists from Eugene.
[ via AcqWeblog ] Librarianship, the original venerated fannish occupation, has received respect from the market. Check out this salary survey from the Special Libraries Association. Dr. Laura, I’m certain, will bitch about this on her show.
Lucy Huntzinger’s a travel agent, so has great customer-from-hell stories. (In the sense of someday you’ll look back on this and laugh.) “She had the greatest hairdo I ever hope to see this side of the deep south. It looked like she’d wrapped a loaf of bread in an old shower curtain, sewed big, gauzy, [...]
Skills: Pearl, Linus, Seashell, [...] “We’re really clueless.” Link