Marc Andreesen has a blog now. Read it why dontcha! He started out a little slow but hit his stride in no time at all. Yes, I’m complimenting the arguable father of the modern web. So that means I’d like to comment on several of his posts. In one [...]

In the grand tradition of deep-blog-linking, I’m going to point to a post on the Reforming Project Management blog, which discusses in brief the policy of Four Seasons Hotels for hiring personnel… and some of their “keys” to a successful operation.
It struck me mainly because a lot of the focus was on how they choose [...]

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? [...]

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 [...]