I know this recession is turning into the great depression, but where’s your Holiday spirit?
December 20, 2009
December 17, 2009
Working Two Jobs and Still Underemployed — how does this affect your statistics Federal Govt?
The unemployment rate stands at 10.2%, but what about the Undermployment rate? It’s pretty scary to think about. There’s a lot of job competition out there, especially for those “right out of college” jobs.
“The number would be much higher if we included the mechanical engineers working at 7-Eleven,” says Heidi Shierholz, who studies underemployment at the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning Washington think tank.
More over at The WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125962111284270397.html
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December 16, 2009
What’s up with City Sourced?
Over on Robert Scoble’s blog about 3 months ago http://scobleizer.com/2009/09/18/the-unknown-story-behind-citysourced/ one of the guy’s from City Sourced offered to bet me $1000 (or was it $2000?) that his app was going to take off in the next year.
They won the TC50, got on stage with a city councilman and launched submitted an app to the Apple Store for the iPhone. That’s some fantastic momentum. I’m sure they got funded, too.
(looks like the app is live now though I couldn’t get it to work)
The Recent Press section of their site has some cool pictures but no news, so … what’s up? We’ve got potholes in Sunnyvale, I see broken lamps posts in San Jose. How’s it going guys? I just installed your iPhone App but is there anyway to see what’s being reported around me?
I guess I could click “My City”, oops:
Any uptake on the app? how it’s going working with city government?
That Was Easy (wordpress upgrade + adding a bunch of plugins)
This is mostly a note to remind myself and the WP team, of their nice work!
I have to say Wordpress has come a long way in what seems like a short time. It looked like my template was hacked and I hadn’t posted over here for a while so I thought I would sweep up a bit, boom …
I was able to back everything up and do an upgrade in about 2 minutes. New default theme that needs some love (any suggestions?) and I’m on the latest version of WP with upgrades to Google Analytics tracking, some Feedburner stuff, comments from Disqus and oh yeah, almost forgot I really like the latest changes to ShareThis. It’s looking really nice.
Now to login as myself and see how well trackbacks are working.