Ari Melber’s article Facebook: The New Look of Surveillance is a fascinating look at the privacy issues with the social networking site Facebook. Excerpt:
Like guests at the Hotel California, people who check out of Facebook have a hard time leaving. Profiles of former members are preserved in case people want to reactivate their accounts. And [...]
If you have even a miniscule interest in security go and read Bruce Schneier answer questions for the Freakonomics blog. The questions are interesting and the answers informative and fun to read. An excerpt:
Q: All ethics aside, do you think you could make more money obtaining sensitive information about high net worth individuals and [...]
Lindsay from Wisegeek recently emailed me about a tool that they’d created. She wrote:
Simply rate some movies that you’ve seen, and the Movie Critic Matchmaker will tell you which movie critic has tastes closest to yours! You’ll never have to wonder who to trust again!
I checked out the tool and two of the reviewers [...]
Marc Andreessen, who’s best-known for being the co-founder of a company you may have heard of, Netscape, wrote a superb post titled How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with.
He splits the post into an explanation of the criteria (’what to value when evaluating candidates’ 
and the process (’how to actually run [...]
Meetuplex is an interesting, funny, and creative look at the difference between working at Google and Meetup, by Meetup’s CEO, Scott Heiferman. Here are a couple of comparisons:
At Google, you take the Google Bus with people as smart as you. Your fellow Googlers will probably be listening to Tech Talk Podcasts while coding.
At Meetup, you [...]
Here’s an excerpt from an interesting blog post by Eric Sink titled This is NOT how it’s supposed to work
Until the end of September 2006, we had a person on our team here at SourceGear. Let’s call her Jane.
Jane was an extraordinary employee. She worked in QA as part of the Vault development [...]
It’s here. No, it’s not the first Ben and Jerry’s but I like the way you think. It’s Joel’s job board, India edition.
Here it is straight from Joel:
OK, it’s live! I’ve put up a new version of the job board specifically for jobs in India, jobs.joelonsoftware.co.in.
To help fill it up, posting a job is [...]
Brilliant stuff from Eric Sink, from his post titled Baptists and boundaries:
Whenever I speak to a bunch of developers, one of my favorite things to do is ask the crowd if they have ever heard of Joel Spolsky. Most of the time, far less than half the crowd raises their hand. Why do [...]
BlogMailr, no relation to Flickr I presume, which I found out about via Lifehacker, is a way to publish your blog through email. From the hors’s (spelling mistake intentional) mouth:
BlogMailr is all about making publishing to your blog easy. There is nothing to download, nothing to install, it’s free for personal use, and works with [...]
If you’ve never read Joel Spolsky’s Guerilla Guide to Interviewing, then the latest version (ver. 3.0) is a must read for you. I think that it doesn’t matter if you’re a software guy or if you’re working at a magazine, there’s something for everyone.
A couple of ideas that Joel mentions are almost Semco-like (see [...]
