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Resumes... what are they good for?

Seth Godin has a remarkable post up today. Remarkable because he manages to express an extremely salient point in a space so small I wouldn't have thought it possible. The crux of his post is this: Here's why: A resume is an excuse to reject you. Once you send me your resume, I can say, "oh, they're missing this or they're missing that," and boom, you're out. Having a resume begs for you to go into that big machine that looks for relevant keywords, and begs for you to get a job as a cog in a giant machine. Just ...

South by Southwest Interactive

Yes, Jacqui and I are heading south this March. To Austin, Texas for South by Southwest, or SXSW as the kids say. A lot of really cool people from all over the country who also happen to be friends are going too. I am also excited to be attending my first conference in a long time where I am not media. That means I can have fun, enjoy things, learn stuff, goof around with friends, stay up as late as I want, and get a pony for Christmas too! For those who may not know exactly what South by Southwest ...

Futzing and Resistance to Change

Riding the train this morning to O'Hare, I read two great articles posted by Tara Hunt on her blog. Tara co-founded and works for Citizen Agency in San Francisco and is an Online Marketing Professional. That stuff is all in her about page, but as I've been subscribed to her blog over the past few days (and creepily following her on Twitter for a while... just kidding), I've come to really enjoy her posts. The two recent posts I'm referencing are Futzing as the Future of Word and The Human Body Teaches Us to Embrace the Chaos. The first is ...

Bits and bobbles before Macworld

Things have been moving extremely quickly in our run up to the week of Macworld over the past few days. Because I have so little time, I am proceeding to engage in a massive brain dump. In no specific order, here we go: I've secured a G4 Powerbook to use next week from our good friend Adam Received the Eye-Fi and discovered that it is extremely close to being able to perform the tasks I wished, but falls oh so short. I'll talk about those in an upcoming article on the device on Infinite Loop. Besides not being able to ...

Analytics junkies

My friend, super-blogger, and fellow Arsian, Josh Bancroft has a really keen post about how he tracks the various metrics of his personal blog (which gets quite a good bit of traffic!). I will admit it too, I am an analytics junkie too and I use a lot of the same metrics and tools as Josh does to see what content is doing good and where I can make improvements on my site. This is another post that grew from an interesting conversation at work. We were discussing what site statistics/metrics are REALLY important to a blogger. That is, swimming ...

Apple dominates CES

Last year, Macworld and CES were booked over the same week in January. Quite unfortunate. Does anyone even remember what happened at CES last year? The iPhone, Apple TV, and a slew of other Apple products hit the ground and blew away anything that was being discussed in Las Vegas. Well this year, Apple barely had to try. Macworld is next week, and as you know, Apple announced minor, incremental updates to their pro-line. Result? News of CES is swept away on the blogs (that is, if you count TechMeme as an accurate portrayal of what's being talked about). Heck, ...