Last week the London Evening Standard announced that it is to drop its midday News Extra addition, resulting in approximate 20 jobs losses.
Today exactly who is out and who is safe - for the time being - has been made clear. [...]
A persuasive e-mail from an iPhone developer to Steve Jobs helped Pointy Heads Software get its Knocking Live Video—the first official iPhone app capable of streaming live video over 3G and WiFi connections—approved for sale in the App Store. The [...]
USA Today will cut 26 newsroom jobs, reducing its newsroom staff by 5%, under cutbacks announced by newspaper publisher Gannett Co. yesterday.
An entrepreneurial journalist is advocating independent media as traditional media jobs decrease.During the WAN-IFRA 2009 World Newspaper Congress, the founder of paidContent.org, Rafat Ali, said bloggers are not "poolside" entrepreneurs but actually put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into their work.
[...]The average return on venture capital investments for the year ending June 30, 2009, was -17 percent, according to figures released by the National Venture Capital Association in October.
via @pkedrosky, www.xconomy.com
I could do this job a lot better than most of the mooks I have met working as VCs [...]
Chris Brogan turned me onto a project called the Lemonade Movement:
More than 130,000 advertising professionals have lost their jobs in this “Great Recession.” Lemonade is about what happens when people who were once paid to be creative in advertising are forced to be creative with their own lives.
The trailer [...]
Hey, I've been working with Kiva.org and CHF International to get small microfinance style loans to small businesses in the West Bank of Palestine.
You can check out my portfolio here.
The deal is that this creates jobs where we really need jobs.
I'm doing [...]
To Craigslist founder thank you (Harlem / Morningside)
And
happy thanksgiving. Was laid off. found a job and an apartment here.
Got a lot of stuff here through your website. On this day of
Thanksgiving may you be blessed!!!
(link might be expired when you read this.)
The London Evening Standard will cut its midday News Extra edition in order to focus on improving the currency and quality of its evening edition, the Guardian is reporting. Hey, I was just there bearing witness to the good work they do, feeding people, and helping use computers to find jobs.
(I'm more involved with the latter.)
These guys do the heavy lifting, much harder than sitting on one's butt all day, even if doing [...]
Hey, it's good to have an Administration which genuinely supports the troops. Here's a few areas where things are getting better, with a focus on veterans and jobs.
The Department of Veterans Affairs (the VA) has a veterans youtube channel, leading right now with a video on green jobs. Homeland Security [...]
DonorsChoose.org does a great job getting classroom projects funded throughout the US.
Check out The "Write" Stuff from Mrs C who teaches at a school in South Carolina:
We do not have enough pencils, crayons and writing paper to last the entire school year... The materials [...]
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"My job is really jumping on the social-media bandwagon and strongly encourages employees to use sites like Twitter and Facebook to help broaden our company’s brand and build a presence online. I’m really uncomfortable with combining my personal online life with my professional one, but no one else seems" [...]
For years, I’ve been reading that Wikipedia is dying. (Of course, on the internet, anything successful attracts an “is dying” movement.)
Today, there’s a Wall Street Journal article that does a half-way decent job of glancing at the history of the site, but does so under a [...]
With BusinessWeek announcing staff cut backs set to swallow an entire third of its operation and The Associated Press shelving some 90 employees, last week wasn't a great one for those in journalism industry. And then to top it all off, Friday,' [...] 
After confirming it would cut a total of 90 jobs last week, the Associated Press has named six news editors and four interim regional photo editors amidst further restructuring intitiatives in the US. The appointees will oversee the now expanded multistate territories and are supposed [...] Hey, the folks at Tomorrow's Youth Organization are doing a great job.
I made a minor contribution for systems, looks like they're getting the job done.
Photos: Annie Escobar
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If you're paying any attention to the techosphere today there are two stories dominating the headlines. Both involve non-shipping products.
First, Google showed off the first demo of its Chrome OS. Download Squad does a nice job breaking it down....
"So what exactly is Chrome'" [...] Cross-posted from The Editors’ Desk on STLtoday.com.
As you can imagine, we’ve watched the uproar closely in the wake of my blog post on Monday. I recounted the case of a person who lost his job at a local school after twice posting a vulgar comment on the [...]
Aftenposten, Norway's most trusted newspaper, needs to cut 15 editorial positions, reports journalism.co.uk. In order to do so through voluntarily measures, the Schibsted-owned paper has offered all of its journalists redundancy packages, part-time positions, or reallocation to other jobs within the company- including work as a [...] Updated:
Kurt Greenbaum has apologized for overreacting in his original response to this incident, although he doesn’t explicitly say that he is sorry for calling the school and indirectly causing someone to lose their job.
As someone whose job involves thinking about our social-media policies and our approach to comment behaviour, [...]
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A single vulgar word cost a man his job on Friday.
It all started with Friday’s edition of Talk of the Day, a regular blog on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website, STLtoday.com. Talk of the Day is exactly that. [...]
