This morning in the Cullen kitchen:
MIKA (daughter, age 3): Daaaa-ddy. (Big hug. Pause.) I need some money.
CHRIS (husband): What do you need money for?
MIKA: I need money so I can go to the money store and buy some money.
CHRIS: Where do you think we can get some money?
MIKA: From the piggy back.
CHRIS: Well, I think you’re a …
So there’s apparently this blogger who outs politicians. I’m probably the last person who’s heard of Mike Rogers and his blog, BlogActive. He’s gaining mainstream notoriety because he was the first to home in on Sen. Larry Craig for his anti-gay stances in this October 2006 post.
Some might say the personal lives of politicians are off …
Try Moira Cameron’s–she’s the first woman to guard the Tower of London in 522 years.
My family just got back from holiday in London. We took my mother-in-law, an ardent Anglophile who had never before been. She and my husband took in a day at the Tower, where they were guided by a yeoman of performance skills rivaling Albert Finney’s …
The news of late has been filled with stories of how Americans are horrible at taking vacations–that we carry with us our Blackberries, our file cabinets, our guilt. Well, dangit, I’m gonna prove ’em wrong. WiP is on holiday–really on holiday–for a week. Back 9/5. Cheerio.
This weekend, The New York Times’ ombudsman, Clark Hoyt, wrote his column about how the Internet age is screwing the subjects of erroneous or misleading articles. He writes:
A business strategy of The New York Times to get its articles to pop up first in Internet searches is creating a perplexing problem: long-buried information about
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There’s an article titled “How Will Millennials Manage?” on Harvard Business School’s web site. It’s written by James Heskett, a professor at Harvard’s b-school. According to his own experience and that of the many managers he’s known and interviewed, Heskett writes this summary of the work habits of Generation Y (bolds mine):
They are
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I just got off the phone with a guy in Gaza who coordinates a jobs program there for college graduates. Unemployment there is sky high even for college grads, in large part because the economy is in shambles but also because universities fail to prepare students for real-life careers. Accounting majors may gain a thorough grasp of …
How much do Americans hate their jobs? A Gallup poll found that about 77% of Americans hate their jobs. Another found Americans hate their jobs more than in the past 20 years; fewer than half say they’re satisfied. Other surveys have found that 87% of Americans don’t like their jobs.
Then there’s this University of Chicago study from …
a) Register.
b) Walk in.
c) Start talking.
Ah, if only it were as easy. I’ve been to a few job fairs in recent months, both as a recruiter for my company and as a reporter. I admit I’ve been surprised and at times appalled at the lack of skill, decorum and brains among some of the job candidates.
I could more easily excuse the …
On Friday I arranged a tutorial at TIME on blogging for journalists by pioneer blogger Anil Dash. (Dash is also a top executive at Six Apart, the company behind TIME’s blog publishing platform, Movable Type.) Below are some of his tips–many useful for any blogger, whether you write for big media or not.
The session wasn’t without …
My friend Gerry writes in an e-mail this morning:
Tonight’s Daily Show “reported” that Geo. Bush has taken 423 vacation days in his 6 1/2 years in office. That’s 9 weeks’ vacation a year. Sure, he has a stressful job, what with screwing up the world and imposing his supposed Christian morals on the rest of us normal folk, but that’s a
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This week I’m sitting in for an editor who’s on holiday. August is when a lot of magazine journalists travel, and our staff right now is skeletal. You know they’re desperate when they ask the likes of me to manage a section. I am the dregs, people. The grill scrapings. The underside of the barrel.
Anyway, among the innumerable …
