IT salaries stuck in the middle

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IT workers' salaries slip in middle

IT workers' salaries slip in middle 06/29/2004 09:48 PM
CNET Jun 30 2004 2:00AM GMT

Stuck in the middle?

Stuck in the middle? 04/15/2005 09:45 AM
CNET Asia Apr 15 2005 2:19PM GMT

Stuck in the Middle: The Role of
Infomediaries

Stuck in the Middle: The Role of
Infomediaries 04/03/2005 06:06 PM

The Idea: Information intermediaries are facing revolutionary changes and threats, but the energy behind these changes is not new technologies, but a broad dissatisfaction by readers and viewers with the end-product, and with the lack of value added by intermediaries. This article suggests some answers. We live in an age of 'disintermediation' -- the cutting out of the middleman. We do bank transactions without tellers, we browse libraries without librarians, we learn without teachers. Those who used to know their role in our society often find themselves reinventing those roles before they simply disappear. One such group struggling with their role are 'infomediaries' -- the people who stand (or used to stand) between you and the information you consume. The chain is shown in the illustration at right. To some extent blogging is an attempt to disintermediate this chain. Some in the mainstream media would like to see us as just another link in the chain, at the very end between the channels and readers, adding little or no value other than links to related stories, high-tech cataloguers. But online journalism can incorporate all six of these intermediary roles, and, in fact, bloggers can be newsmakers in their own right -- like when they break major stories that the legacy media miss, or undertake investigative reporting that the legacy media no longer have.much appetite for. At the same time, search tools and social networking software are providing additional channels and ways to aggregate information, working to some extent hand in glove with bloggers to create entirely new ways to connect Following are some comments from reader Wendy Siegelman, who works for a major infomediary,  from a recent e-mail exchange on this subject: I think that intermediaries are perhaps underappreciated because there isn't a recognized name for the role they have. Maybe these information intermediaries are missing an important element - branding.  Without the proper branding, intermediaries that take, find, gather and make information usable, accessible, meaningful - are not properly valued.  I think there is a relatively high value placed on the concept of 'good communication'. There's the content being communicated, the communicator, and the receiver of information.  But, there's also the element of how the info is communicated.  I think that the value is usually placed on the what and who, but not the how.  [Politicians and others with vested interests use information to] measure and try to influence opinion and policy. Unfortunately, they have made the science of gathering, sorting and adding value and meaning to information appear to be a negative, opportunistic process. Intermediaries that do the same thing for productive and positive ends aren't properly recognized or valued. The critical issue for the future of all intermediaries is, as Wendy implies: What value are you, or could you be, adding? Fail to add enough and you'll be gobbled up by others along the chain or circumvented entirely. Add a lot of value and you can actually 'reintermediate' information flow that had ostensibly been disintermediated -- like some of the best librarians have done, reinventing themselves as researchers, analysts and report-writers filtering, compiling, analyzing, organizing, adding insight and producing crisp and concise documents ready for end-customers. It is that very lack of value-added that has caused disintermediation in the first place. Reporters are too often underfunded and lazy -- so they wait for news to break and ambulance-chase, and add nothing to the propagandist commercial 'press releases' issued by governments and corporations. Most analysts are paid by stock brokers, governments, biotech companies, corporate-sponsored think-tanks, and other vested-interest groups, to help 'sell' their products and suppress information and opinions to the contrary, as James Surowiecki has eloquently demonstrated in his weekly New Yorker column, and as many recent scandals involving analysts who were fired for not towing the line show. Likewise, editors are paid to reflect the editorial stance of the publisher, and legacy publishers are beholden to shareholders who only want them to publish what sells simply and in large quantity. Aggregators then try to pull this 'dumbed down' and censored content together, but are having the rug pulled out from under them by increasingly sophisticated free aggregation tools that channel companies like Google and Bloglines provide. And the mainstream media channels are finding their audience increasingly splintered, demanding and dissatisfied with the poverty of truly informative or useful content they push out. So readers and viewers have been open to disintermediation, not because of cost (which continues to drop precipitously) but because of the poor quality of intermediated content and the lack of value added by intermediaries. What could information intermediaries do to be more valuable? Here are a few ideas from a presentation I made a few years ago to a conference of intermediaries: Make the content more useful, more actionable, or at least more interesting. The limits of attention span and bandwidth often cause intermediaries to strip out content that provides valuable context to the reader or viewer -- tells them not only who, what, when, where, why and how, but also what does it mean? Study how to write great stories, so that those further along the information channel will be disinclined to pare them down and reduce the value you have incorporated in the story. Focus on information that's important, rather than urgent. Too much of the content reaching the reader and viewer today is 'sold' as urgent, when all it is is new. Not enough is important. Follow up. We squander reader/viewer interest and trust when we get them worked up about today's story and then never tell them what happened later. Be conversational. Let the reader/viewer see the person behind the point of view. And don't pretend to be objective -- your audience knows better. Help people deal with information overload. If people hope to be able to give more attention to important stories and issues, they need the rest of the crap filtered out. Search engines, blogrolls, eProfiles and other filtering mechanisms are woefully imprecise. The tools need to be much better, and intermediaries need to find a new role filtering the firehose of daily 'news' in a way that will probably never be possible even with the best tool. There are huge opportunities here. Get out more. Intermediaries need to learn the value of doing their own primary research (interviewing and direct observation), and not merely working with the content flowing though the chain to them. If that's not in your job description -- add it. Read broadly. It gives you perspective. And it has a lot of other benefits as well. Learn a disciplined approach to research and analysis. I like the Pyramid Principle, but there are lots of others. This will make your thinking sharper, allow you to appreciate how your readers will 'see' what you're providing them with, and provide a 'trail' that will make your arguments more compelling and allow you (or others) to understand and check your logic. Take some chances. The disintermediation that is overwhelming the information industries came about because the technology industries were bold, and didn't constrain their products to doing just what other technologies had done before them. Talk to readers and viewers about what is possible, think them ahead to imagine how they could use an intermediary product or service that doesn't even exist today. Level of 'customer satisfaction' with the legacy media is extremely low, and that dissatisfaction has many causes, and suggests many needs that are not being met. Find a need and fill it.

Middle-earth a Middle-Tier Game

Middle-earth a Middle-Tier Game 12/22/2004 01:38 AM
Granted, The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth presents gorgeous graphics and interesting matchups between Tolkien's characters. But there isn't much strategy involved in this strategy game. Game review by Lore Sjöberg.

SEO Salaries

SEO Salaries 06/12/2002 11:18 AM
It is either a great deal less than you would expect, or a great deal more than you would expect. Either way - nobody is talking.

IT (And Other) Salaries On The Rise In
The U.S.

IT (And Other) Salaries On The Rise In
The U.S. 09/22/2004 02:19 PM

Google executives cut own salaries to $1

Google executives cut own salaries to $1 04/09/2005 09:23 AM
Pasadenastarnews.com - Sat Apr 9, 08:18 am GMT

Survey: IT salaries down last year

Survey: IT salaries down last year 12/24/2004 12:27 PM
An IEEE-USA survey of IT professionals reported a 1.5% decrease in median income from 2002 to 2003, the first drop since the organization began surveying members in 1972.

Google billionaires had $1 salaries

Google billionaires had $1 salaries 04/09/2005 05:19 AM
ninemsn Apr 9 2005 8:12AM GMT

Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1

Google Founders Cut Salaries to $1 04/09/2005 07:04 AM

Survey lifts the lid on IT salaries

Survey lifts the lid on IT salaries 04/06/2005 01:50 PM
Personal Computer World Apr 6 2005 5:16PM GMT

Google billionaires reduce their
salaries to $1

Google billionaires reduce their
salaries to $1 04/09/2005 05:19 AM
ExpressIndia.com Apr 9 2005 9:28AM GMT

U.S. Techies Working At Overseas
Salaries?

U.S. Techies Working At Overseas
Salaries? 12/03/2003 02:39 PM
The issue of tech companies offshoring programming work is certainly a contentious one, and Business Week has an article talking about how one company dealt with the dilemma of saving 50% on salaries (vs. the standard asking price) by outsourcing to India or, instead, offering much lower salaries to American workers. The company found that they were flooded with resumes for the low paying job - many of which turned out to be high quality programmers. The company hired four programmers at the lower wages, and used them for the one project. Two of the programmers were eventually hired on as full-time employees at regular salaries. Of course, this sort of thing only works while the job market is weak, but does suggest that the market is correcting somewhat for boom-time salaries that were out of proportion with reality. Still, I take issue with the "obvious" choice, as described in the article, of going with cheaper overseas workers. I think that the benefits of having local, on-site staff who you can communicate with directly is quite valuable - often in excess of the amount of money "saved" in offshore salaries. In this case, the employer only valued the location at $5,000/year - which is much less than it's probably worth. The risk in offering salaries that are so low is that you may get lower quality workers who are much more likely to jump ship. However, in this case, it's clear that the employer realized this, and appears to have made his reasons clear to the employees - and, in fact, adjusted the salaries well upwards for the employees he wanted to keep. This all brings to mind the whole concept of "professional internships" that seem to become popular when the economy is down. People who want to convince a potential employer of their worth sometimes agree to unpaid (or barely paid) "internships" to convince the company that they're worth hiring.

No weakness in IT expat salaries: Survey

No weakness in IT expat salaries: Survey 12/09/2003 08:25 AM
CNET Asia Dec 9 2003 7:43AM ET

Salaries surge for IT expats in
Singapore

Salaries surge for IT expats in
Singapore 12/10/2003 06:52 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 10 2003 6:04AM ET

Google founders, CEO reduce salaries to
$1

Google founders, CEO reduce salaries to
$1 04/09/2005 02:55 PM
Insanely Great Mac Apr 9 2005 5:33PM GMT

Google duo slash their salaries to a
dollar

Google duo slash their salaries to a
dollar 04/10/2005 03:29 AM
Irish Independent Apr 10 2005 6:17AM GMT

Survey of design salaries 2003

Survey of design salaries 2003 03/06/2004 01:48 AM
Survey of design salaries 2003 - how do you compare? The American Institute of Graphic Arts and Communication Arts team up to offer a white paper summary of national and regional salaries and benefits for web designers and developers, copywriters, art directors, print production managers, freelancers, and related positions. The survey is based on responses from 3,184 people in 17 job categories. (28 page PDF)

Start-up salaries get reality check

Start-up salaries get reality check 08/06/2004 06:41 PM
Honchos at new tech firms have to do more than show up to get the big bucks now, a new study says.

Are We Still A Middle-Class Nation & A
Poor Cousin Of The Middle Class

Are We Still A Middle-Class Nation & A
Poor Cousin Of The Middle Class 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
...According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the following are among the occupations with the largest projected job growth from 2000 to 2010: combined food-preparation and serving, including fast food; customer-service representative; registered nurse; retail salesperson; computer-support specialist; cashier, except gaming; office clerk; security guard; computer-software engineer, applications; waiter; general or operations manager; truck driver, heavy and tractor-trailer; nursing aide, orderly, or attendant; janitor or cleaner, except maid or housekeeping cleaner; postsecondary teacher; teacher assistant; home health aide; laborer or freight, stock, and material mover, hand; computer-software engineer, systems software; landscaping or groundskeeping.     Are We Still a Middle-Class Nation? comes from The State Of The Union section in The Atlantic. Compare and contrast A Poor Cousin Of The Middle Class

Salaries for Executives in Biotechnology
Industry examined.

Salaries for Executives in Biotechnology
Industry examined. 05/31/2004 01:47 PM
[PRWEB May 14, 2004]

Tax techies, they draw handsome
salaries: Premji

Tax techies, they draw handsome
salaries: Premji 08/12/2004 02:40 AM
NewIndPress Aug 12 2004 5:42AM GMT

Kerry Calls for Higher Teacher Salaries
(AP)

Kerry Calls for Higher Teacher Salaries
(AP) 05/06/2004 10:18 AM
AP - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry pledged Thursday to channel $30 billion over 10 years to improve teacher pay as well as raise teaching standards, including $5,000 bonuses for those who teach math and science or work in high-need schools.

Trio of Google billionaires reduce their
salaries to $1 apiece

Trio of Google billionaires reduce their
salaries to $1 apiece 04/08/2005 08:28 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 9 2005 12:14AM GMT

Local authority IT salaries closing on
private sector

Local authority IT salaries closing on
private sector 05/24/2004 04:05 PM
PublicTechnology.net May 24 2004 8:23PM GMT

Dice survey shows defense, government IT
salaries catching up

Dice survey shows defense, government IT
salaries catching up 02/05/2005 08:59 PM
While overall salaries for IT professionals dropped to their lowest levels in four years in 2004, a new survey from Dice Inc. indicates that workers in defense and government-related industries bucked the trend.

"Advertising, editorial lines blur as
bl0ggers' salaries tied to traffic"

"Advertising, editorial lines blur as
bl0ggers' salaries tied to traffic" 04/14/2005 03:59 PM

Help! I'm stuck in a TTL, and I can't
get out!

Help! I'm stuck in a TTL, and I can't
get out! 07/27/2004 09:38 PM
ZDNet Jul 28 2004 2:02AM GMT

Stuck with a PIN

Stuck with a PIN 03/06/2004 02:08 AM
"Ah, yes. I had had the same brain system failure that Chris described - staring at the ATM and just not remembering that PIN! So now I write the PIN number on the back of each card, in the signature box. WAIT! No, I don't write the actual PIN. I use one 'formula' for all cards. For example, a formula could be to add 3333 to the actual numbers of your PIN. The new TOTAL is then written on the card. If this was your formula, you only have to subtract 3333 from the PIN written on the back of any card, and you will have the actual PIN for that card. Now, does anybody remember where I left my wallet?" (A. John Gallant)...

"Vast tuition sums go to pay huge
salaries to professors to stare at their
navels and get approving glances from
THE PAPER OF RECORD ."

"Vast tuition sums go to pay huge
salaries to professors to stare at their
navels and get approving glances from
THE PAPER OF RECORD ." 06/14/2004 09:52 AM

MCI Stuck on Verizon

MCI Stuck on Verizon 04/06/2005 11:49 AM
TheStreet.com Apr 6 2005 3:21PM GMT

Stuck On The iPod

Stuck On The iPod 02/19/2004 06:04 PM
Steve Jobs just made me buy another iPod. And that ticks me off. By Patrick Regnier (Money Magazine via MyAppleMenu)

Stuck Like Chuck

Stuck Like Chuck 02/05/2005 09:02 PM
Stuck Like Chuck - A Philadelphia writer's sad, brief but captivating observations of another's seemingly constant return to self-destruction; in turn, unflinchingly relating his own struggle.

Stuck on Chuck E.

Stuck on Chuck E. 02/19/2004 10:06 AM
CEC Entertainment proves that there's money to be made in catering to kids.

At Grand Central, Stuck After 1:30 A.M.

At Grand Central, Stuck After 1:30 A.M. 06/10/2004 10:23 PM
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but late night commuters have discovered that such truisms do not apply at Grand Central Terminal.

"Fingers stuck up at the Serbs"

"Fingers stuck up at the Serbs" 09/01/2004 11:50 AM
Survivors of a concentration camp in Bosnia return to commemorate the dead, hoping for signs of remorse, if not reconciliation.

getting stuck in salami and beer

getting stuck in salami and beer 12/19/2004 03:48 PM

I watched My Coolest Years: The Geeks with Anne and the kids last night. I thought the show was fantastic, and I was honored to be in such great company. Open note to The Cool Guy who tormented Jessi Klein or the girls from The Donnas: Dude, wherever you are, you are a loser.

Biggest surprise of the show: John Tesh is hellafunny! I remember that he played a Klingon for a day on Next Generation in the episode "The Icarus Factor." Well, "played a Klingon" is probably a little too much . . . he was sort of a featured extra in a line of about twenty guys who wore Klingon makeup and costumes, and snarled while they zapped Worf with painsticks. (Back then, a metric ton of celebrities wanted to be on the show, and they usually ended up wearing crazy alien make-up. Mick Fleetwood was this weird fish-looking thing, for example.)

I remember that he was really friendly, and seemed to be getting a HUGE kick out of the whole thing, but I don't remember him being as funny as he was on My Coolest Years last night.

Best moment of the show: When I saw that they titled me "Wil Wheaton: Author of Just A Geek" (which reminds me: Just A Geek has been recommended by Quint, from Ain't It Cool News! I am in incredibly good company over there, too. Thanks, Quint!) instead of That Other Thing.

That's a big deal to me, you know. Though I personally feel that I'm finally emerging from the shadow of America's Favorite Acting Ensign And Starfleet Academy Classmate Killing Cadet, I wonder if I'll ever do that in the eyes of the entertainment industry. This morning's Dork Tower gives a funny-because-it's-true view of how that effort is playing out in fandom.

. . . and in casting too, now that I really think about it . . . but that's okay. The Path I'm currently wandering is a good one.

Absolute coolest moment in the show: They put up a picture of me with my überhot wife as part of the "Geeks Ultimately Win, So Bite It, You Cool Kids" portion of the show. Ryan just about died when he saw Anne, in the coolest "I'm fifteen and I'm so proud of my mom" way. (Apparently, the kids on his baseball team tried to torment him by singing "Ryan's mom has got it goin' on" to the tune of "Stacey's Mom," and he silenced them by replying, "Yeah. My mom's hot. So what?" Sweet.)

Tonight, VH1 gives us My Coolest Years: The Dirty Hippies, which should be hilarious. It looks like My Coolest Years could end up being as great as I Love The 80s, or maybe even better. Go Generation X! Rock! Yeah! \m/

If anyone from VH1 reads this: I had a blast, you guys. Thanks for making me look cool. I'd love to work with you some more.

Passengers stuck on ferry

Passengers stuck on ferry 09/25/2004 07:17 AM
More than 70 people are stuck on a ferry which is unable to dock in Belfast because its doors will not open.

N Gage QD GPRS HELP! PLEASE PLEASE HELP!
SO STUCK!

N Gage QD GPRS HELP! PLEASE PLEASE HELP!
SO STUCK! 12/28/2004 07:42 PM
All About Symbian Dec 28 2004 10:43PM GMT
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