Thought For The Day: "Twitter is a River. The most notable characteristics are depth, flow, temperature, difficulty (rapids). The tributaries are particularly visible. "
- How to Change Your Twitter User Name
Your name on Twitter is your brand. It’s very important that you have the right user name. When I initially set mine up (johsumser), I made a typo. By the time I figured out that it mattered, I had hundreds of followers. So, I procrastinated. It’s actually really simple. Go to the settings panel and change your user name. Now, I am JohnSumser, just as you’d expect.
- The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All
I am a huge Tim O’Reilly fan. Besides being a neighbor (his company HQ is about 15 Miles away in Sebastopol, CA), he’s a really smart guy with his finger on the pulse of key tech and financial issues. In this note, he talks about the fact that economic growth is unsustainable, that what we’re doing is leveraging financial assets in order to simulate growth. One day, I’ll bump into him and have a long conversation about the foundations of the problem. As global population levels and begins to shrink, the foundation for growth (which has always been population growth) simply disappears. The irony is that it’s going to take a financial transformation to help us understand that the only assets with real enduring value are human.
- CareerCast
Cheesehead saw this first. Adicio’s original name was CareerCast. It’s delicious to see them resurrecting the original business. This is an interesting time for the firm. As the newspaper empires melt down (and CareerBuilder becomes increasingly unsustainable), Adicio is positioned to become the darling of the very people they put out of business. If you know Rick Miller and his team, send them congrats. This is a particularly delightful moment.
- Recruiting Law: Privacy and Sourcing
Newly minted blogger Heather Bussing continues to wow the Recruiting Industry with sharp insight and analysis on Recruiting Issues. This time, it’s the question of privacy law and its implication for sourcing. With some substantial backup, she notes that there are no legal limitations on sourcing. There may be a few questions of manners and creepiness.
- How Newspapers Tried To Invent The Web
The article is extremely sympathetic in its view of the newspaper industry’s attempts to move with technology.As a bystander who got to get close, I always felt that the problem was too much muscle flexing and cartel-style behavior. The newspaper people did, in fact, work really hard to hang on to their fortunes. But, they misunderstood the value that they represented. It’s the problem with inherited wealth. Preservation and creation are distinctly different things.
