Jan 28
Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued | Kalzumeus Software
[Editor's note: At nearly 7000 words, you probably don't want to try reading this on an iDevice. Bookmark it and come back later.] Imagine something a wee bit outside your comfort zone. Nothin…
Jan 28
TechCrunch | The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast
Nearly three years ago, I left my position at TechCrunch to start my own Internet business, with the idea of creating a web application that’d help people get together in real-life rather than simply …
Jan 28
January 2012. There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish wo…
Jan 26
I have come up with an idea for a new social networking application. It's not something I expect to be hugely successful, but I think it does have some potential. I've approached a few close f…
Jan 26
Hackers-for-Hire Are Easy to Find
A feud between two billionaire brothers—one claiming the other commissioned hackers to snoop into his email for just a few hundred dollars—suggests how simple and affordable online espionage has becom…
Jan 26
Jessy Eykendorp originally shared this post:
Dear Indonesian Government: Our students risk their lives, crossing a river on a collapsed bridge to get to school!
For Sofiah and her classmates, the journey to school just got a whole lot harder. The Indonesian schoolgirl lives on one side of the Ciberang River (Banten, Indonesia) but her school in the village of Sanghiang Tanjung is on the other – and the river has been flooding.
Faced with an extra 30 minutes' walk to cross via an alternate bridge, Sofiah and her friends have chosen to undertake the precarious crossing of the collapsed bridge instead…
- Read more: http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/20/10197332-indonesian-children-make-perilous-journey-to-school-over-collapsed-bridge
- Read photographer Beawiharta's blog about shooting this story: http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2012/01/23/risking-life-for-school/
#indonesia #indonesian #indonesiangoverment #children #reuters #kompas #vivanews #twitter #twitterindonesia
Jan 26
We have a greater capacity to change the world today than the kings and presidents of just 50 years ago. Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology …
Jan 26
This brings tears just knowing I'm not alone.
The 5 Stupidest Habits You Develop Growing Up Poor
As anybody who's been through the poverty gauntlet can tell you, it changes a person. And it doesn't go away just because you're no longer fighting hobos for their moonshine.
Jan 26
RFS 9: Kill Hollywood Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is …
Jan 25
What It’s Really Like to Work at Google ~ LockerGnome
Google. It's one of the most common household words in today's modern society, and yet for a company that is used by most of us essentially as an algorithm, it tends to trigger a highly emotio…
