In the last post I lauded CBS for their cunningly clever purchase of last.fm. I think it’s an extremely wise move, and speaks volumes about the intelligence behind their Internet strategy.
Now, in the other corner, The Register UK reports on eBay’s purchase of StumbleUpon: “eBay makes another baffling buy”. Joining the Skype acquisition [...]

TechCrunch reports that last.fm has just been bought by CBS for $280 million.
The article’s comments include the usual warnings about frothiness. However, I’d say the price is cheap and rather justified considering the time, efforts, and most importantly, the breadth of what last.fm offers… it’s rather unique out there as a music-taste social network.
Personally? [...]

Jason “Not Jessica” Alba, of the JibberJobber Blog, had a post on “Work-Life Balance For Health And Sanity”. It’s a pretty standard missive on the wisdom of not working and only working.
I have to be frank, but I’ve always found the “no vacation” thing curious. Perhaps I find it as curious as the [...]

It always helps to see what’s happening on the other side as I push forward with my own job search. An interesting article came to my attention called No Hire is Better Than a Bad Hire.
The article has two parts at the time of this posting, with a third coming. The gist of [...]

…and I’ve heard nary a peep from any corner of this great world wide web.
Oh well. At least they can know it did matter to someone.