RT @microphilosophy: The point of seeing both sides isn't to hover between them but to be able to come down on the right side with the right degree of conviction
The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that. - http://cory-barbot.tumblr.com/post...
American labor history is filled with complaints from employers and government officials that unionized workers are independent and self-organizing. Indeed, so potent is their self-organization that it threatens to render superfluous the employer and the state. During the Great Upheaval of 1877, striking railroad workers in St. Louis took to... - http://cory-barbot.tumblr.com/post...
Within GE, she says, “our traditional teams are too slow. We’re not innovating fast enough. We need to systematize change.” Comstock connected me with Susan Peters, who oversees GE’s executive-development effort. “The pace of change is pretty amazing,” Peters says. “There’s a need to be less hierarchical and to rely more on teams. This has all... - http://cory-barbot.tumblr.com/post...
A prominent Hollywood insider told me, with a note of nostalgia in his voice, “I can tell you what YouTube is not going to do—generate shows like ‘Friends,’ ‘24,’ and ‘C.S.I.’ The world of TV I grew up with, where hit shows threw off hundreds of millions for the creators and networks—that’s not going to happen.” But others think it will; all it... - http://cory-barbot.tumblr.com/post...
A cornerstone of search engine optimization is the analysis of server log files. Analytical tools are essential, but we need direct access to the raw logs in order to study bot behaviour and spot errors, patterns and potential crawling issues GUI analytics can’t give us. - http://cory-barbot.tumblr.com/post...