The world of job aggregation got a bit more interesting recently after blogger John Sumser of Electronic Recruiting News ripped Simply Hired and other aggregators for what he alleges is, at best, bad manners, and possibly even copyright infringement. John uses an analogy of a company coming to mow your lawn but doing a […]

I wrote a couple of weeks back about Brian Billick’s new experiment as the Baltimore Ravens offensive coordinator. In his new job as both head coach and offensive coordinator (the latter of which was his old job in Minnesota from 1994-1999), Billick did just fine on Sunday. Ultimately, the Ravens’ win over New Orleans yesterday […]

Like something out of a John Prine song, my granddad was a carpenter. I say “was” but the use of the past tense is not entirely accurate. He worked as a professional carpenter from the late 1940s into the 1980s, at which point he went on full disability with a broken back.
The reality, however, is […]

The National Football League (NFL), which has become the best-run league and producer of America’s favorite sport, represents the pinnacle of professional sports leagues. Though not without its share of headaches and embarrassments, the NFL’s success, relative to that of the other major sports leagues, is enviable. As with most big businesses, though, the expectation […]

For those who watched cartoons in the 1970s and 80s, Scooby Doo is a familiar name and the cast of Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby are likely etched in your memory. As a “youngster” during that time, I often watched re-runs of 1970s-era episodes while doing my homework after school. I came to count […]

It was interesting to follow the pseudo-news reports of the U.S. Census Bureau’s “official estimate” that today the population of the United States eclipsed the 300 Million mark for the first time. To think that the federal government is capable of accurately tracking the population of the country is laughable, but this is the formula […]

Tom is an environmental engineer with a Maryland state environmental agency dedicated to managing dredged material containment facilities. The Chesapeake Bay and its various tributaries provide both an environmental and financial bounty to the state of Maryland and, as such, must be carefully protected. Dredging the Bay and its tributaries removes sediment from shipping lanes, […]

Oddly, I just sent an e-mail to Mick about this last night, and then come to read about it on Joel Cheesman’s blog in this post. I can’t blame him for being a bit cynical, because it’s clear that the change from vertical search engine to “Web 2.0 thingamajig” is aimed squarely at the burgeoning […]

Google acquiring YouTube isn’t that big of a deal to the job seeking world, but it does reiterate one important point that we’ve made before: Use technology to your advantage when seeking a job. If that means creating a video profile of yourself (not the MySpace kind, but the professional kind), go for it. Many […]

Depending on what you’re reading or with whom you’re speaking, the current state of the housing market is described as either a slow-down, a correction, a cooling, a bust or any number of other descriptors referring to a significant drop in new housing starts and interested buyers. And all those descriptions are probably accurate, depending […]