Some interesting IT job statistics. Don't move to San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, or Detriot... Move to Miami, San Diego, or Las Vegas... Follow to palm trees. Also, demand for Novell Netware is rising (?!?#!)

I can only image that the environment is so bad that whatever slight increase in need for Netware people might have occured looks huge in comparison to everything else. Just because you're the only thing going up doesn't mean your "hot." That may go for the cities listed as well...

[IP] IT job trends: Move where the palm trees are

] The United States is conducting a secret 'dirty tricks'
] campaign against UN Security Council delegations in New
] York as part of its battle to win votes in favour of war
] against Iraq.
]
] Details of the aggressive surveillance operation, which
] involves interception of the home and office telephones
] and the emails of UN delegates in New York, are revealed
] in a document leaked to The Observer.

The Observer | Special reports | Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war

If you had trouble searching for new users on the user weblogs page or in the bookmarklet, well it was broken, but its not anymore. Just FYI.

Found "Analog Voyager" on iTunes this evening under Ambient. This is a good station if you find SomaFM getting repetitive...

RADIO POWER: Newish net station from Pittsburg

Lowest consumer confidence in 10 years, worst job market in 20...

Bangkok Post Monday 03 March 2003 - Expect gloom if consumers stop spending

The soldier on the front line needs a network structure and he has to be shown that power comes out of that network structure. He have to institutionalize peer-to-peer and power-to-the-edge. ... If we do that well we find that we step out of the information domain of merely networking and into the cognitive domain where battles are truly won or lost.

One of the most gut wrenching things that occured during the raid in Somalia depicted in Black Hawk Down was the direction of the caravan through the city through two levels of higharchy. It was obviously stupid. You had someone in a command center looking at a video of the caravan, making a decision, relaying that decision to someone in an airplane, who relayed that decision to the driver. By the time the driver got the decision the circumstances had totally changed.

Thats it in a nutshelll. In the past the people at the top made decisions because they were the only ones with the perspective to make them. This is an extremely inefficient way to operate. The people on the frontlines need to be making the decisions, and the people in the offices are simply there to give them the perspective they need to make those decisions.

These changes will mirror the changes you'll see in every kind of organization that exists.

Transformation Trends - 17 February 2003

] A journalist attends the World Economic Forum and writes
] her friends an email about the experience. Two weeks
] later, that email is on the Web, people she's never met
] are correcting her spelling, and the journalist is vowing
] to go back to longhand.
]
] Welcome to the world of accidental privacy spills.
] Compared with the problem of keeping personal email
] private, copyright and spam are easy. Full essay inside .
] . . .

This post is extremely long. The internet want poetry. The message conveyed as efficiently as possible so that we can all get on to the next one, as there are so many in the inbox. This doesn't fit the standard. However, it is a perfect explanation of the relationship between copyright and privacy, and also observes the conflict between the old and new journalism. How YOU think these questions will be resolved is an interesting exercise.

LawMeme: Legal Bricolage for a Technological Age - Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy, and the Internet

This looks somewhat interesting. A cross between cnnfn, a weblog, and wired?

AlwaysOn Home

Welcome to the exhibition of rediscovered works by the mid 20th century illustrator A.C. Radebaugh.

A very cool exhibit, soon to open in Philadelphia, displaying lots of futuristic graphic artwork from the 1950s. Flying cars, urban airships docked at skyscrapers, and more. This stuff is almost propagandist in its technological optimism.

Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised

] The global economy is in very very very very bad shape.
] Last year when WEF met here in New York all I heard was,
] "Yeah, it's bad, but recovery is right around the corner".
] This year "recovery" was a word never uttered. Fear was
] palpable -- fear of enormous fiscal hysteria. The watchwords
] were "deflation", "long term stagnation" and "collapse of
] the dollar". All of this is without war.
]
] - If the U.S. unilaterally goes to war, and it is
] anything short of a quick surgical strike (lasting less
] than 30 days), the economists were all predicting extreme
] economic gloom: falling dollar value, rising spot market
] oil prices, the Fed pushing interest rates down towards zero
] with resulting increase in national debt, severe trouble in
] all countries whose currency is guaranteed agains the dollar
] (which is just about everybody except the EU), a near
] cessation of all development and humanitarian programs for
] poor countries. Very few economists or ministers of finance
] predicted the world getting out of that economic funk for
] minimally five-10 years, once the downward spiral ensues.

Newsday Reporter's 'Spilled' Email