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Ellen Simonetti received an unexpected call from her employer, Delta, telling her that her manager needed to “talk” to her. Ellen found out that her employer was firing her for posing “inappropriate” pictures on her blog. Despite her clean performance record, she was given no warning and terminated. For something she thought was harmless it spilled into her professional life and adversely effected her. It’s stories like this that has given corporations a bad taste for the idea of blogging. It is seen as something that adds no real business value and instead detracts the employee from (read more...)

I hate JavaScript. I mean I really hate JavaScript. Dealing with different implementations of the DOM between browsers is a menace I couldn’t duplicate if I tried. I’ve tried JS libraries from Mootools, script.aculo.us, and so on until recently. I knew jQuery existed, but I didn’t realize how powerful the language was until recently. When I realized I could select and manipulate DOM elements with CSS selectors then I was off to the races! I love how it’s tailored for designers who already understand that syntax. There is no more getElementById(”search”) or other garbage, because (read more...)

Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress lead, has the following to say on this question. Someday I think there will be a realization that the real story is more exciting than the cookie-cutter founder myth the media tries frame everything in. It’s not just one or two guys hacking on something alone, it’s dozens of people from across the world coming together because of a shared passion. It’s not about selling out to a single company, it’s dozens of companies independently adopting and backing an open source platform for no reason other than its quality. I’m not a millionaire, and may never (read more...)

I don’t post videos often, but this video is worth mentioning. It’s done by a cultural anthropologist on the evolution of the web to a more collaborative, interactive, “Web 2.0″ environment. (read more...)

The movement dubbed “Office 2.0″ alongside “Web 2.0″ is a array of applications that aim to increase desktop productivity without a desktop. The average business man is no longer bound by geographical boundaries, and his respective office should reflect that. The Journey I decided I was tired of e-mailing documents to different computers to work on them. I wanted a single sign-on place to work on my office documents (particularly word processing but also spreadsheets and presentations). I need a place to work on these documents in a “live” fashion. I wanted to hit save and push it (read more...)