Jobs from Hell? Hobbies, transparency and don’t mention poledancing classes

Welcome home darling, how was your day at the cube farm? Bit of a discussion in today’s Sydney Morning Herald (Oct 27-28, page 3 MyCareer) about putting hobbies on job applications. (You go find the linkety link). I blame the education system for this kind of nonsense. Howard Rheingold said it so well at eduau2007…

Howard Rheingold in Australia and Teledildonics

Yep Teledildonics is exactly what you think it is. Long before Amy Jo Kim and Jenny Preece wrote their Social Networking bibles in the late ’90s, and long, long before Danah Boyd started making friends on Friendster, Howard Rheingold was writing, speaking and evangelising communities online (late ’80’s). How can you not love a man…

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