A couple of interesting stories lately, thought I'd link to them rather than nothing. I'm horribly unqualified to give an opinion on the Economic Downturn TM, but I think this article is pretty interesting and sets out clearly alot of ideas that I would like to think I would have gotten to with some time, research, ambition, etc.
Why haven't I heard Bill James take on the BCS before? Seems like he would be an authority and he cuts right through it here.
Nicole accidently sent LinkedIn invites to everybody in her address book the other day so I signed up. It's basically just a facebook for your career and it's got some interesting stuff in there so I'll might end up using it. Turns out I know a decent amount of people in there with a few quick searches. Anyways, that's not the interesting part, what led me to post on this was the acute occurance of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. I had never heard of LinkedIn and I surf the internet all day at work and I'm fairly plugged into whats going on even if I'm not particpating. For example, I've heard of Twitter a while back, I never signed up or used it or anything but I was aware of it's existence. Not with LinkedIn. Anyways an hour after Nicole sends me the link I see a deadspin commentator mention it. Next I see another article mentioning it, and then I click on the NY times story about the top ten sites for IT pros in '09 and number 1 is, you guessed it, LinkedIn. Hilariously when I click on the "share" button next to the article it offers options to, well, share the story the first option is through LinkedIn. I give up.
Why haven't I heard Bill James take on the BCS before? Seems like he would be an authority and he cuts right through it here.
Nicole accidently sent LinkedIn invites to everybody in her address book the other day so I signed up. It's basically just a facebook for your career and it's got some interesting stuff in there so I'll might end up using it. Turns out I know a decent amount of people in there with a few quick searches. Anyways, that's not the interesting part, what led me to post on this was the acute occurance of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. I had never heard of LinkedIn and I surf the internet all day at work and I'm fairly plugged into whats going on even if I'm not particpating. For example, I've heard of Twitter a while back, I never signed up or used it or anything but I was aware of it's existence. Not with LinkedIn. Anyways an hour after Nicole sends me the link I see a deadspin commentator mention it. Next I see another article mentioning it, and then I click on the NY times story about the top ten sites for IT pros in '09 and number 1 is, you guessed it, LinkedIn. Hilariously when I click on the "share" button next to the article it offers options to, well, share the story the first option is through LinkedIn. I give up.
posted by teeblah at 10:31 AM
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Wow, you slogged through that NYT article on Sunday? It was late, I gave up, fearful of the length. Pretty sad how my reading ability has changed due to the internet.
So that LinkedIn invite was an accident? Well I was her first connection, so makes me feel awesome.
I started using it last year after some pressure from one of our board members. I have like 30 connections but it hasn't led me to anything yet. The weirdest thing I've found is the "You may also know this person" feature. The algorithm they use for determining who might know is ridiculous. Scary, actually.
The fact that everytime I log in to LinkedIn it says I might know someone - and then I do and it's a friend of a friend of a friend freaks me the fuck out everytime.
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