Ah, summertime. Lazy days, holidays, vacation days. But are you too tired and burned out to benefit? A Yahoo! HotJobs survey says you might be: Nearly half of the respondents (49%) said they feel “burned out” by their jobs, and many did not fully use vacation … Read More »
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A Web Worker Daily reader asks: Recently, I have been mulling over the decision to go out on my own and be a full time freelancer. Do you have any advice on goal setting or any other good measures on when it would be a wise decision … Read More »
Attendance last night at the UGTV conference in New York showed traditional media is taking user-generated content seriously. Representatives from Disney/ABC, NBC, CBS, MTV, and the BBC joined new media companies including Heavy Joost and blip.tv in a discussion over the disrupted industry … Read More »
“A filer is a person who organizes information using a rigid structure, and a piler is someone who maintains a mostly unstructured information organization.” [From Surviving the Information Explosion: How People Find Their Electronic Information (pdf)] Google Docs & Spreadsheets now offer folders for those … Read More »
Need a fast, high-capacity external hard drive for that notebook? You might want to check out the just-announced Mercury-on-the-Go drives available in 200- and 250 GB storage capacity. Other … Read More »
Too bad there isn’t a lot of buzz about the iPhone this week, huh? Apple’s breakthough device first hit the stage in January, and now we’re finally seeing some speculation turn into reality as the June 29th launch date nears. We now know that … Read More »
GlobalGiving, an internet-based charity clearinghouse founded by two former World Bank executives, is running a crowd-sourced contest to promote their many global development projects. Appealing to young filmmakers, GlobalGiving made available raw photos and video footage from projects from all over the world. … Read More »
I was at a party with a bunch of other parents this week, and we realized that we routinely lie by omission to our childless friends. There seems to be a conspiracy of parents everywhere to only talk about the pleasures of raising kids. While I … Read More »
You’re hot and you’re thirsty, and the Wisdom Cafe is a long haul into town. So what are you going to reach for? Early on in the history of this site, Om Malik invited web folks to share what they nosh on as they work. … Read More »
There’s a blog-sharp maw waiting to gnash anyone who is critical of the democratizing power of YouTube. If you deride its star-making potential, you’re accused of old media partisanship. If you doubt its meritocratic infallibility, you’re a curmudgeon, scribbling from behind the fame-inflaming footlights of “most … Read More »
PermissionTV, a white-label provider of branded web video channels, has raised $9 million in a Series C round. It seems to be a funding week for online video, with Kyte announcing new money Monday and EveryZing taking $10 million Tuesday. Waltham, Massachusetts-based PermissionTV offers … Read More »
If you make a lot of calls of any type — landline, cell phone, voice over IP — you probably use some sort of headset. Daniel Tsang of FreshBooks spends lots of time on his phone and when his headset broke, he found himself cradling the … Read More »
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