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links for 2006-05-30

  • Stopdesign | Going to Google
    Congrats to Doug on his new job! Can’t help but be surprised though that all these staunch advocates of freelancing/small companies seem to increasingly be going to work at the Googles and Yahoo!s of the world…
    (tags: google business web2.0 dougbowman stopdesign)
  • Seth’s Blog: The freeloader problem
    “Are marketers training an entire generation that there’s never a limit? That free music and free wifi and free ebooks and free lobby space isn’t just an inducement to pay attention, but is, in fact, a right?”
    I always wondered whether this would be a pr
    (tags: usa business culture marketing)
  • Confessions of a Serial Enthusiast » Archive » Blog » 0xDECAFBAD
    “You see, the realization to which I’ve come is that – in the realm of recreational programming, at least – I could be best described as a serial enthusiast.”
    Sometimes I feel the same way — sometimes I’m more a serial “mildly interested for 10 mins..
    (tags: blog life excitement programming)
  • MinJungKim.com – Braindump v 5.0 » Poetica Spontenaium 5.27.06
    I love this poem that MJ has written. Sometimes I really miss poetry being an everyday experience. Something I should try and remedy
    (tags: poetry)
  • arse poetica: Like Dumber, Like Dumb
    “…no money to take that swank internship that paid nothing and required $1,000+/month in rent in an actual city.”
    The unpaid internship model has ALWAYS bothered me for just this reason — surely it limits your pool horribly to obnoxiously rich kids?
    (tags: recruitment internships usa)
  • the broken laptop i sold on ebay
    This is absolutely HILARIOUS
    (tags: scam revenge ebay humour)
  • Vitamin Features » Designers, Engage Your Brain
    Fantastic article, with some great practical tips
    (tags: webdesign css coding design web)
  • mySociety — travel time maps
    This stuff is COOL … some really beautiful visualisations too
    (tags: maps virtualization visualisations)
  • The Development Abstraction Layer – Joel on Software
    “Management, in a software company, is primarily responsible for creating abstractions for programmers. We build the yacht, we service the yacht, we are the yacht, but we don’t steer the yacht.”
    (tags: joelonsoftware business programming psychology software softwaredevelopment development work management)
Posted by delicious @ 7:18 PM on May 30, 2006
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3 Responses to “links for 2006-05-30”

  1. Elaine Nelson Says:
    May 30th, 2006 at 9:17 PM

    re: serial enthusiasm: in programming, as in writing, I have several big ideas that I chew on very, very, very slowly.

    re: poetry: not that I’m one to give advice (see “very, very, very slowly”), but carry a notebook & write a little every day (or whatever). also, have you seen Sunday Scribbling?

    re: internships. at our college it counts as credit, so theoretically takes the place of a class, time-wise. (of course, it also means paying to work, which strikes me as odd.) I would love to offer a paid internship, but it’s just not in our budget. 🙁

  2. Dave Says:
    May 31st, 2006 at 7:15 PM

    hear hear.

    I spend pretty much my whole life bouncing from project to project and idea to idea. The latest one is in fact going to see me entering the realms of recreational programming, so expect it to take a while!

  3. Meri Says:
    June 1st, 2006 at 2:17 PM

    @Elaine: I don’t really have a problem with unpaid internships which are educational or more work experience kind of things. The real issue for me is when big corporations or governments, which relaly need to make more an effort to reflect the diversity of the population, choose that as a primary recruitment mechanism. It precludes the involvement of the majority of the population and that I have fundamental problems with.

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