Fire bosses 'face growing revolt'

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Iraq cleric 'to end Najaf revolt'

Iraq cleric 'to end Najaf revolt' 08/18/2004 12:41 PM
Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr reportedly agrees to end an uprising in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf.

Apple employees 'will bl0g in revolt'

Apple employees 'will bl0g in revolt' 07/14/2004 11:38 AM
Micro Persuasion's Steve Rubel has written an article on the lack of blogs penned by Apple employees -- and why he thinks they will soon start blogging without the company's blessing...

Special Warriors Have Growing Ranks and
Growing Pains in Taking Key Antiterror
Role

Special Warriors Have Growing Ranks and
Growing Pains in Taking Key Antiterror
Role 08/02/2004 08:32 AM
The military's Special Operations Forces are grappling with proposals to give them an expanded mission in the global campaign against terrorism.

makeoutcity.com: 2004/05/23: Fire, Fire,
House on Fire

makeoutcity.com: 2004/05/23: Fire, Fire,
House on Fire 05/24/2004 09:56 PM
Jay McCarthy's house burned down

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Medics 'face £64,000 debt'

Medics 'face £64,000 debt' 01/23/2004 08:45 PM
Medical students face a 44% debt increase under top-up fees, the British Medical Association warns.

NHS doctors 'face discrimination'

NHS doctors 'face discrimination' 06/27/2004 11:14 AM
NHS doctors face discrimination because of their race, gender and sexuality, according to a report.

US Muslims 'face more harassment'

US Muslims 'face more harassment' 05/03/2004 12:33 PM
Muslims in the US suffered a record number of alleged harassment attacks in 2003, a Muslim rights group says.

Juice Boost Scam Keeps Growing And
Growing...

Juice Boost Scam Keeps Growing And
Growing... 08/17/2004 05:02 PM
A couple weeks ago we had the story about the not really free, not really broadband, free broadband scam from a company named Juice Boost. Broadband Reports has an update today about how the scam/joke/pyrami d scheme/something is taking on an incredible life of its own. The scam, of course, involves some sort of non-existent accelerator software and claims that even the most non-tech-savvy individual should realize are completely made up (free broadband connections over telephone lines and a regular modem that never go down and they'll pay you if you receive a spam message or if the connection drops among other, equally ridiculous claims). Looking for any kind of details on the company turn up nothing but more affiliates (some of whom have even sent out press releases or promises of bars of silver if you sign up). The problem, of course, is that they're promising affiliates lots of cash for signing up more people (limited to the first... oh, 80 million) so the affiliate spammers are coming out of the woodwork taking the ridiculous promises of Juice and "boosting" them even higher. Hopefully, this is all just a demonstration of how ridiculous most affiliate programs are, but that seems unlikely.

Workers 'face £50k pension gap'

Workers 'face £50k pension gap' 09/08/2004 06:31 PM
Employees' savings are on average £51,000 short of the sum needed to fund a comfortable retirement, a report says.

IVF babies 'face birth problems'

IVF babies 'face birth problems' 01/23/2004 12:18 AM
Single IVF babies are more likely to be born early and weigh less than those conceived naturally, say researchers.

Universities 'face £2m vetting cost'

Universities 'face £2m vetting cost' 02/19/2004 07:57 AM
Plans for bright children to get through school quicker will force universities to vet staff, Conservatives warn.

Minorities 'face jobs struggle'

Minorities 'face jobs struggle' 04/22/2004 06:47 PM
Black and Asian people are two and a half times more likely to suffer unemployment than their white counterparts, the TUC says.

Women 'face IVF struggle in NHS'

Women 'face IVF struggle in NHS' 06/11/2004 09:02 PM
Women in many parts of England may continue to struggle to get free IVF on the NHS, a survey suggests.

Children 'face net porn abuse'

Children 'face net porn abuse' 02/10/2004 03:08 AM
Children are being lured into taking part in live sex shows broadcast on the internet, the charity Barnardo's warns.

Games firms 'face tough future'

Games firms 'face tough future' 02/01/2005 09:52 PM
UK game firms face a testing time as they prepare for the next round of games consoles, the industry warns.

Children 'face internet porn abuse'

Children 'face internet porn abuse' 02/10/2004 04:56 AM
BBC Feb 10 2004 9:05AM GMT

Half premature babies 'face risk'

Half premature babies 'face risk' 01/05/2005 07:27 PM
Nearly half of extremely premature babies who survive develop a disability or learning difficulty, a study says.

Small ISPs 'face ruin' over BT price
hikes

Small ISPs 'face ruin' over BT price
hikes 08/27/2004 01:35 PM
ZDNet UK Aug 27 2004 5:11PM GMT

Under fire: Internet service provider
M-Web has come under fire for including
abortion in a package of 'taboo'

Under fire: Internet service provider
M-Web has come under fire for including
abortion in a package of 'taboo' 09/14/2004 08:57 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Sep 14 2004 1:26PM GMT

"Fire Fighters President Says Use of
Fire Fighter Images in New Bush Ads
Smack of Political Opportunism"

"Fire Fighters President Says Use of
Fire Fighter Images in New Bush Ads
Smack of Political Opportunism" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

Fire Chief Stops Fire at School
Inspection (AP)

Fire Chief Stops Fire at School
Inspection (AP) 01/01/2005 10:33 PM
AP - Just call it good timing.

Fire Messages And Fire The Enemy, On One
Screen

Fire Messages And Fire The Enemy, On One
Screen 04/13/2005 03:06 PM
Electric New Paper Apr 13 2005 6:27PM GMT

Bosses keep an eye on work computers

Bosses keep an eye on work computers 01/18/2004 03:49 PM
news.com.au Jan 18 2004 6:49PM GMT

Nortel, Cisco bosses met

Nortel, Cisco bosses met 06/21/2004 07:27 AM
Globe and Mail Jun 21 2004 11:45AM GMT

Former Mitsubishi bosses arrested

Former Mitsubishi bosses arrested 05/06/2004 06:00 AM
Japanese police arrest seven former Mitsubishi executives on suspicion of falsifying reports into a fatal fault.

Bosses keep an eye on work computers |

Bosses keep an eye on work computers | 01/18/2004 02:46 PM
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Blogs, bosses and bucks

Blogs, bosses and bucks 06/25/2004 08:31 PM
I had a good time yesterday at Supernova, but it seemed that one of the points I made on our panel caused some consternation among some listeners, so let's look at it.

I had heard a certain amount of what I thought was wildly overoptimistic forecasting of the widespread adoption of blogging as a tool in corporate America. For instance, Tim Bray said: "Any corporation that doesn't do this in the future is going to be playing catch-up. They can use the technology to make the enterprise provide a more human face to world." (I copied this quote from a trade journal article on the conference and promptly lost the URL. Sorry. I wasn't taking notes myself so if it's wrong, apologies in advance.)

I agree with Tim and the other optimists that blogging can give enterprises a more human face. But will they let it? What I said yesterday is that I thought the successes to date in public blogging by software developers at places like Microsoft and Sun weren't likely to be duplicated in other, more traditional corporations any time soon. Software professionals are relatively unique in feeling that (a) their talents are in demand and (b) if they get fired from one job they can probably (except maybe at the very bottom of an economic cycle) get another one pretty easily. In other words, they feel more empowered to spout off on their blogs without fearing for their livelihood than the typical American worker does.

I'm not sure why, but Tim seemed to take this comment to mean that I thought that people in other fields -- I think he mentioned construction, it's hard to remember -- wouldn't succeed as bloggers because they're "not as interesting." Of course, that's not what I said, and it's precisely the opposite of what I think. Everyone has stories to tell, and everyone's stories are worth telling: that's a credo of the digital storytelling movement that I've been involved with for a decade now.

The stories that programmers are telling in the current explosion of blogs have given their work a vital new visibility; as developers tell their stories to each other, creating a pool of technical, practical and philosophical knowledge, they are also giving the public a new and fascinating window onto their discipline. (I'm as aware of this as anyone -- my work on my book is infinitely easier thanks to the profusion of programming blogs.)

Do I think it would be a Good Thing for this pattern to be duplicated in other fields? Of course -- and it's happening in some, predictably in those areas where individual professionals have a tradition of independence (the legal world, academia).

But the utopian vision of blogging somehow flattening corporate hierarchies and allowing Cluetrain-like voices of authenticity to trumpet forth from every Fortune 500 headquarters? Maybe it's possible on the sort of time scale that Supernova keynoter Tom Malone talked about -- from hunter-gatherers to agriculture, that sort of thing. But I don't think it's going to happen in our lifetimes.

I'm sorry to be the pessimist at the party. But for large numbers of workers in America, particularly those at big companies, the dominant fact of life remains don't piss off your boss. And, in an era of health-insurance lock-in and easy outsourcing and offshoring, many U.S. workers remain doubtful that they can simply waltz into a new job should their activities displease the current hierarchy to which they report. So the odds of them feeling at ease publishing honest Web sites about their work lives are extremely poor. The blogs you're going to see from within most traditional companies will be either uninformative snoozes or desperate attempts at butt-covering and -kissing. Not because people don't have great stories to tell -- but because telling the truth has too high a cost.

Someone at Supernova got up and said that he worked in investment banking and thought it was a field that was ripe for blogging. No doubt! I'm assuming that your typical investment banker has managed to sock away some private unemployment insurance cash (also known in some industries as "fuck you" money, something Dick Cheney apparently has in abundance).

For those with such resources, blog on! For those lucky enough to work for a company that says "blog on" and means it, cherish your luck. But for most of the rest of the working population, the blogging revolution will be happening in some other office.

Bosses playing Gotcha!

Bosses playing Gotcha! 12/30/2004 02:47 PM
globetechnology.com Dec 30 2004 5:41PM GMT

IT bosses are storage addicts who can't
stop themselves

IT bosses are storage addicts who can't
stop themselves 09/24/2004 05:47 AM
Storage buyers need help, not capacity

Bosses tell staff to hang up when
driving

Bosses tell staff to hang up when
driving 01/02/2004 09:37 AM
Blanket ban

Shell bosses 'fooled the market'

Shell bosses 'fooled the market' 04/19/2004 04:25 PM
A damning internal report into the reserves scandal at Shell says it deliberately hid its oil and gas shortfalls as far back as 2001.

Google bosses work for a dollar

Google bosses work for a dollar 04/11/2005 07:55 AM
Pocket-lint.co.uk Apr 11 2005 11:13AM GMT

Bosses warned on employment 'myths'

Bosses warned on employment 'myths' 08/11/2004 05:02 AM
Check first, fire later

Bosses paying for staff Internet use

Bosses paying for staff Internet use 04/25/2004 08:41 PM
bizhot Apr 25 2004 11:36PM GMT

Tech bosses slam 'IT doesn't matter' bad
boy

Tech bosses slam 'IT doesn't matter' bad
boy 11/18/2003 01:20 AM
ZDNet Australia Nov 18 2003 0:26AM ET

Bosses fear employee fraud

Bosses fear employee fraud 08/27/2004 01:43 PM
But fail to act accordingly

Calls for Alitalia bosses to quit

Calls for Alitalia bosses to quit 05/06/2004 11:40 AM
Italy's authorities call for Alitalia's chairman and CEO to step down as part of a plan to shore up the ailing airline.

Bosses to track workers via their
mobiles

Bosses to track workers via their
mobiles 09/22/2004 02:53 PM
ZDNet UK Sep 22 2004 6:25PM GMT

Police quit jobs over bad bosses

Police quit jobs over bad bosses 05/06/2004 08:14 PM
Four-fifths of police officers who quit their job blame poor management for their choice, a Home Office study finds.
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