…especially if you have no talent. Ah, YouTube. Where no humiliation goes undisseminated. (Thanks to reader Whit Honea, who pointed me to the great daddy blog Dadcentric.com, where I first saw this clip.)
How we retaliate when the boss is a pig
New research from Florida State University was triggered by this observation:
Considerable attention, both in blogs and in popular media, has been given to abusive bosses over the past few years. (See the Web sites HateBoss.com and WorkRant.com, for example.) Less discussed are employees’ responses to such behavior. How do employees
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What can New York do to improve the odds in its battle with London for financial supremacy?
The insanely prolific Dan Gross had a piece in the NYT Sunday mag about New York’s diminished profile as a financial center. Dan ascribes this mainly to the increasingly “multipolar” nature of the global economy, meaning that it’s not so much that there’s something wrong with New York as that there’s a lot more action in and around …
Social networking inspires art (in the form of parody love songs)
Because this blog sometimes covers the business of social networking, it seems appropriate to share the two social networking love songs I stumbled across last week. (If you’ve already heard ’em, move on. Nothing to hear here.)
The first, from the formerly ubiquitous ze frank, is the charming and insanely catchy “A Social Network for …
RE/MAX’s Dave Liniger talks about real estate’s “perfect storm”
Dave Liniger, the co-founder and chairman of real estate brokerage giant RE/MAX, stopped by Time Monday along with RE/MAX CEO Margaret Kelly. Dave did almost all the talking, so much so that I had trouble keeping up with him at times. None of what he said was stop-the-presses shocking, but Liniger tends to be more of a plain talker than …
Happy Boss Day. Seriously.
So here’s how I imagine this taking shape. The bigwigs at Hallmark are sitting around, brainstorming more occasions that would necessitate cards.
BIGWIG 1: So we’ve got Secretaries Day, Favorite Colleague Day, Bonus Day…
BIGWIG 2: How come we never get any cards?
BIGWIG 3: Huh?
BIGWIG 2: We give out cards all the time. How come …
Daddy blogs: sex, work, poop and boogies
Over the summer, I spent a lot of time on daddy blogs. You know: the male equivalent of the explosivley popular mommy blog genre. Turns out this is almost as hot a category, if judging by the proliferation of new entries. Men who spend a lot of time with children feel a great urge to share the experience. Reminds me of something from my …
The incredible shrinking federal deficit stops shrinking
I wrote a column earlier this year about the incredible shrinking federal deficit. So it seems like I ought to mention that there are some early signs that it’s about to start growing again. From Bloomberg (via Econbrowser):
Government auctions of bills, notes and bonds in the fiscal year that started this month may rise more than 50
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Fox Business: Aspirational, biased, but really not bad at all
I’ve had Fox Business on all day, and I don’t think I’ll be able to stand leaving it on long enough to join Cody and Rebecca at Happy Hour, so here’s my take: It’s not bad at all, although I’m unclear on who the heck is gonna watch it.
CNBC covers business, and in particular financial markets, like a sports channel. It assumes people …
Attention Australian readers: Must-see TV Tuesday night
Occasional Curious Capitalist commenter Marcus has a documentary TV series, Not Quite Art, premiering Tuesday night at 10:00 on the ABC. No, not that ABC. This ABC. (The Australian one.)
I know this because Marcus and I are Facebook friends and I’ve been getting all the updates, including a link this morning to this rave review in the …
My employer’s not hiring—at least on the web
Time Inc. launched its web site today. I know what you’re thinking. Now? It’s 2007! We’re the world’s leading magazine publishing company! We’re launching a web site now?!
Okay, give us a little credit. It’s not like Time Inc. has lacked a web presence. Each of its dozens of magazines has its own individual site. Plus, our parent …
The Gimein mini-era comes to an end, and I return to my addiction
As you may have already noticed, I’m back after a week of leaving Mark Gimein in charge. It was fun watching this blog–which I’ve been writing for just over a year now–from the outside, and Mark’s eclectic choice of topics was a healthy reminder that there are more interesting things to write about most of the time than mortgages and …