Laura Lemay on the Kathy Sierra situation:
Mostly as I read the comments on Kathy’s post and on other blogs I have noticed a kind of interesting but obvious breakdown. Men, in general, are shocked and horrified that this kind of harassment goes on at all. Women are of course shocked and horrified at [...]
So Wired News does an article on increased transparency at Microsoft, mainly covering their Channel 9 site. Someone at Microsoft mistakenly sends Fred Vogelstein, the author of the story, a confidential internal dossier about how the company is managing the story internally. It covers who’s talking to Vogelstein, what they’re telling him, and how likely [...]
The question on everyone’s mind after the Battlestar Galactica season finale was, “Are the four really cylons?” Series executive producer confirms that they are.
The most common reason I read for dismissing the US Attorney scandal as no big deal is that nobody broke any laws in firing the attorneys, because they are political appointees who can be fired for any reason. That is, of course, true, but it’s not really important. Just because something is not illegal doesn’t [...]
I’ve been reading Kathy Sierra’s blog pretty much since she launched it, mainly because I really enjoyed Head First Design Patterns. Her blog seems innocuous enough. It’s smart, funny, and topical, the topic being designing products that users like. So today I’m checking out the feeds, and what do I find, but a long post [...]
A few simple reasons why a social safety net is probably a good idea.
Justice Department official claims he didn’t know about some pertinent details of the US Attorney scandal because he didn’t scroll down when reading an email on his Blackberry. I can’t wait until we have the first blogging software-related political scandal.
Future quote from someone’s official spokesman: “He didn’t know about the plan to fleece the voters [...]
The Washington Post prints the experiences of one recipient of a national security letter, anonymously, because the first rule of NSLs is recipients are not allowed to talk about NSLs.
Rather than turn over the information, I contacted lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union, and in April 2004 I filed a lawsuit challenging [...]
Take a look at this bit of rumormongering about MySpace and tell me it doesn’t sound like 1999 all over again. Companies hiring like crazy and then just setting the employees adrift once they start is a sure sign that things are going off the rails, and I’m certain MySpace isn’t the only offender in [...]
Andy Baio figured out a nifty way to track Twitter’s growth rate since it was launched. Companies that aren’t interested in revealing that sort of information indirectly may want to read about using GUIDs instead of sequential ID fields in databases.