Tracking Employees, Shocking Them

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Broadlook--#1 Applicant Tracking
Software Solution--Empowers your
Applicant Tracking Software and fills
your Applicant Tracking Software with
applicant tracking relationships.

Broadlook--#1 Applicant Tracking
Software Solution--Empowers your
Applicant Tracking Software and fills
your Applicant Tracking Software with
applicant tracking relationships. 07/16/2004 03:14 AM
Whichever applicant tracking software your company uses, you need to look at the Broadlook Suite of Software which should seamlessly integrate with whichever applicant tracking software you are using. BroadLook is an integrated set of applications designed to harness the Internet as a powerful real-time data source--the data from which can be exported into your applicant tracking software. [PRWEB Jul 16, 2004]

Clockware Releases Version 4.4 -
Significantly Enhances Timesheet Styles,
Expands Status Tracking, Employee and
Organizational Data Tracking Features

Clockware Releases Version 4.4 -
Significantly Enhances Timesheet Styles,
Expands Status Tracking, Employee and
Organizational Data Tracking Features 04/05/2005 04:50 AM
Clockware announces its seventh major release in eight years, adding enhancements to its enterprise timesheet software, time tracking, leave and exception time tracking and other key timesheet system features. [PRWEB Apr 5, 2005]

Tracking Blogs, Tracking Packages --
What's The Difference?

Tracking Blogs, Tracking Packages --
What's The Difference? 03/31/2005 09:04 AM
Extreme Tech Mar 31 2005 1:16PM GMT

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability

Web Tracking of Billable Time Improves
Productivity and Bottom Line/New Kyebot
Time Tracking and Billing Software
Announces Availability 09/13/2004 02:58 AM
New Web-based time and billing application simplifies administrative tasks associated with tracking billable hours and virtually eliminates problems with under-billing. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Tracking the newsroom bug-tracking idea

Tracking the newsroom bug-tracking idea 02/01/2005 09:42 PM
I want to return to the idea I floated a few days ago about bug-trackin g software for newsrooms. The comment s response ranged from "neat idea!" to "it'll never work," so let's look it over again.

What I imagined was something similar to the way open-source software development projects manage bug reports. When people file bugs against such a project, they go to a publicly available online resource and enter a form that says "Here's a problem I encountered," and provide details. Different projects follow different organizational structures, but generally speaking, other developers will review the bug and try to classify it: Sometimes they'll say it's a duplicate and point to previous entries in the database that dealt with it; sometimes they'll say it's a simple problem and go fix it right away and close it out; sometimes they'll say it's a big one and leave it open to be dealt with in the future; sometimes they'll say it's a "known bug" that for one reason or another is never going to be fixed; sometimes they'll say it's not a bug at all.

For a newsroom, the idea is to provide a structure and a channel for reader dissatisfaction. You wouldn't have to follow the software model detail for detail, but the general outline could be valuable: Provide a form for readers to enter complaints, one that requires them to present details. Post the complaint publicly as soon as it's entered, and record the publication's response in a reasonably prompt fashion -- anything from "Thanks, we fixed the spelling on that name" to "we chose the phrase 'private accounts' because it is an accurate description of the president's proposal, and the label was in wide use by supporters of the idea until very recently, so we do not plan to stop using the term." The explanation is on record, and if other readers keep filing the same complaint they can simply be pointed back to the original answer. Spam? Just delete it. Letters to the editor that don't have a specific complaint? Re-route them to the letters box.

The most common objection seems to be, forget it -- this will become another free-for-all for political partisans to work out their agendas, another wide-open Internet forum that will degenerate into circular debate. Such forums already exist, to be sure; the point of a bug tracker is to avoid that outcome by choosing a narrower environment for the feedback that allows you to quickly aggregate and dispose of duplicate complaints, and that provides a public record of responsiveness and accountability. If 500 people all holler that you shouldn't say "private accounts," you can answer them once and be done with it -- but you can point each individual complaint back to your explanation, so those people understand that you actually heard them and offered some sort of response. There's a big difference between the silence of no response and "no, we're not doing that, here's why." The latter won't satisfy everyone, but it at least acknowledges that there's been an exchange on the subject.

Ross Karchner proposed a somewhat different model based on wiki practices: "1) A publically viewable changelog, where you can see, in detail, the changes made to an article. 2) A place where the author(s) and editor(s) can discuss the changes needed and made. This is also in public view..." I'm not sure whether Ross means the changelog and the writer/editor dialogue to commence from the first time the writer composed a draft, or only upon publication. The former is, I think, too wide open -- even a blogger has the right to compose a posting and revise it in private before choosing to push the "publish" button. The latter is fine -- but since most reputable publications rarely change articles once they're published, and note the changes as corrections if they do, then it's just codifying an existing practice in slightly different ways.

As for the idea of trying all this out at Salon: Who knows, I might well advocate it, though my current on-leave status doesn't put me in a good spot to work on it. But Salon has been dealing with the back-and-forth of online criticism of our work for 9 years plus. Whatever problems we may suffer from, a failure of responsiveness to online feedback is not, I think, one of them, and we have a pretty sturdy process for reviewing complaints fast and correcting them where needed.

I think this approach would pay off best for a newsroom that is having difficulty convincing readers that the publication is actually listening to them. If you showed the public that you were recording and responding to the issues they raised -- whether you end up publishing a correction or simply saying, "We don't think that needs correcting, and here's why" -- I think you'd start to bank some confidence and trust pretty quickly.

I'm not suggesting that this idea is the single, one-fix-solves-all-problems answer to the ills of journalism today. It's a pragmatic, you-could-do-it-real-soon suggestion for beginning to deal with professional journalism's biggest problem: the public's loss of trust, which begins with the sense that media companies are big institutions that pay no attention to their own mistakes.

Stanford: Shocking

Stanford: Shocking 03/14/2005 04:33 PM
Stanford is apparently renting their list of student names to Playboy. I wish I had time to do an exposé…

Shocking! They were lied to.

Shocking! They were lied to. 12/17/2003 03:47 PM
Senators were told Iraqi weapons could hit U.S. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said Monday the Bush administration last year told him and other senators that Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities. If this is true, is he in trouble for saying it?

Shocking Laser Tag

Shocking Laser Tag 03/17/2005 03:52 AM

The most interactive laser tag systems to date simply vibrate when shot, but stop short of inflicting any real pain. Herein lies their fatal flaw, and Gadget Shop has set out to fix this error with their Shocking Guns—a laser tag set that shocks the user when shot by an opponent. It offers two degrees of shock power and "may interfere with electrical devices such as pacemakers," if that weren't already obvious. Each $45 kit comes with two guns and two breastplates, as well as the six AAA batteries required for them.

Catalog Page [GadgetShop via GadgetMadness]

The Shocking State Of 3D Affairs

The Shocking State Of 3D Affairs 10/31/2003 08:29 PM

Shocking Treatment for Depression

Shocking Treatment for Depression 06/11/2004 12:44 PM
Wired News Jun 11 2004 5:09PM GMT

Shocking new game concept

Shocking new game concept 04/04/2005 12:45 PM
Blog: A small Texas company thinks it has a lock on the next breakthrough in video games--physical pain. The Sydney Morning...

The Shocking State of 3D Affairs

The Shocking State of 3D Affairs 10/31/2003 07:14 AM

Stanley Milgram's shocking new biography

Stanley Milgram's shocking new biography 06/14/2004 11:40 AM
The Man Who Shocked The World is a new biography about Stanley Milgram, the provocative social psychologist whose mind-blowing experiments three decades ago are still highly relevant in today's world of Abu Ghraib and Friendster. From the Milgram Web site, hosted by the book's author, Dr. Thomas Blass:

"Controversy surrounded Stanley Milgram for much of his professional life as a result of a series of experiments on obedience to authority which he conducted at Yale University in 1961-1962. He found, surprisingly, that 65% of his subjects, ordinary residents of New Haven, were willing to give apparently harmful electric shocks-up to 450 volts-to a pitifully protesting victim, simply because a scientific authority commanded them to, and in spite of the fact that the victim did not do anything to deserve such punishment. The victim was, in reality, a good actor who did not actually receive shocks, and this fact was revealed to the subjects at the end of the experiment. But, during the experiment itself, the experience was a powerfully real and gripping one for most participants.

Milgram's career also produced many other creative, though less controversial, experiments; such as, the small-world method (the source of 'Six Degrees of Separation'), the lost-letter technique, and an experiment testing the effects of televised antisocial behavior which, though conducted 30 years ago, remains unique to the present day." Link

Siebel reveals shocking prelims

Siebel reveals shocking prelims 04/07/2005 10:12 AM
Computer Business Review Apr 7 2005 1:55PM GMT

Power Supplies: The shocking truth

Power Supplies: The shocking truth 01/23/2004 02:22 PM

Cannibal Confesses in Shocking Trial

Cannibal Confesses in Shocking Trial 12/03/2003 04:56 PM
Wow. That's fucked up. Don't read that.

Aljazeera.Net - Shocking images shame US
forces

Aljazeera.Net - Shocking images shame US
forces 11/11/2003 04:42 AM
What You Won't See on Fox, NBC, CBS etc .. Shocking images shame US forces in Iraq .. Iraq

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" Aljazeera.Net - Shocking images shame
US forces "

" Aljazeera.Net - Shocking images shame
US forces " 11/11/2003 03:17 PM

Abuse less shocking in light of history
(USATODAY.com)

Abuse less shocking in light of history
(USATODAY.com) 05/13/2004 06:43 AM
USATODAY.com - One of the most surprising things about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers is that so many Americans are surprised.

AG Called to Investigate Shocking
Internet Photo

AG Called to Investigate Shocking
Internet Photo 12/07/2003 09:28 AM
Israel National News Dec 7 2003 8:52AM ET

The Poor Man: Kitty Kelley's Shocking
Revelations

The Poor Man: Kitty Kelley's Shocking
Revelations 09/08/2004 08:31 PM
a preview of the shocking revelations from the new biography of Our Fearless Leader .. The Poor Man: Kitty Kelley's Shocking Revelations .. are indeed shocking

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Avoiding a Shocking Experience for the
Information Consumer

Avoiding a Shocking Experience for the
Information Consumer 01/23/2004 02:21 PM
Avoiding a Shocking Experience for the Information Consumer
h ttp://www.oclc.org/membership/escan/introduction/default.htm

The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan suggests that, paradoxically, a worthy goal of the library might be "invisibility" -- in the sense that the service is ubiquitous and fully integrated into the infosphere. "After all, technology and services are most welcome in our lives when we do not have to devote much thought to them. We press a switch and light comes or goes. Expecting the information consumer to pay attention to the differences between William Shakespeare the author and William Shakespeare the subject as search terms is akin to expecting Joe Householder to know if the red wire or the black wire should be grounded before he plugs the lamp in -- and expect Joe to go to RedWire.com to figure out what happens if he's wrong. Thankfully, clever people have hidden all this technology inside a box and millions are saved from a shocking experience."

Tyson Stopped in Shocking Fourth-Round
KO (AP)

Tyson Stopped in Shocking Fourth-Round
KO (AP) 07/30/2004 11:02 PM
AP - Mike Tyson was knocked out in the fourth round Friday night in a shocking end to the latest comeback of the fighter who once was the most feared heavyweight of his era.

"a preview of the shocking revelations
from the new biography of Our Fearless
Leader"

"a preview of the shocking revelations
from the new biography of Our Fearless
Leader" 09/09/2004 03:56 AM

Shocking news: Apple involved in theft
of copyrighted material

Shocking news: Apple involved in theft
of copyrighted material 04/06/2005 10:04 AM
I would have thought a software and IP-house such as Apple would keep its path clean and make sure not to infringe other peoples copyright or downright steal other peoples creations. Not so it seems. Apple and copyright violations -...

Exclusive: Shocking Details on Abuse of
Reuters Staffers in Iraq 5/20

Exclusive: Shocking Details on Abuse of
Reuters Staffers in Iraq 5/20 05/21/2004 02:16 AM
Editor and Publisher excerpts graphic details of their mistreatment .. Before Abuse Photos Out Similar Treatment For No Reason .. More

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Shocking Hate Internet Site Appears to
Advocate Burning Churches

Shocking Hate Internet Site Appears to
Advocate Burning Churches 09/01/2004 09:54 AM
GOPUSA Sep 1 2004 2:17PM GMT

Electric Universe : The Shocking True
Story of Electricity by David Bodanis

Electric Universe : The Shocking True
Story of Electricity by David Bodanis 04/12/2005 05:37 AM

This biography of electricity -- and of the men and women who had a hand in uncovering its inner workings -- begins in the first moments after the Big Bang. Which is probably not where your high school textbook started its exploration of the subject, nor will you find many of the oftentimes surprising stories Bodanis uses to illustrate his tale.

The first mobile phone was dev eloped in 1879? Thomas Edison, inventor of the light bulb, "had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be"? Alexander Graham Bell, in part, invented the telephone to impress a girl (well, acutally the girl's parents)? Samuel Morse stole the telegraph from a guy named Joseph Henry and patented it, but not before he ran for mayor of New York City on an anti-black, anti-Jew, and, most especially, anti-Catholic platform? None of that was in my high school science textbook and such is the authority of the textbook that I have a hard time believing some of it. You're thinking maybe Bodanis is embellishing for the sake of making a more exciting story (history + electricity? wake me when it's over!), but then you get to the 50 pages of notes and further reading on the subject and realize he's shooting straight and science is more strange, exciting, and sometime seedy than your teachers let on.

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SHOCKING POLL: A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS
CANNOT NAME A SINGLE DEPARTMENT IN THE
PRESIDENT’S CABINET

SHOCKING POLL: A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS
CANNOT NAME A SINGLE DEPARTMENT IN THE
PRESIDENT’S CABINET 11/06/2003 05:13 AM
It's things like this that make me wish we had voting requirements

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Shocking End to 151 Game Winning Streak
Credited in Part to Landro® Play
Analyzer

Shocking End to 151 Game Winning Streak
Credited in Part to Landro® Play
Analyzer 09/13/2004 03:42 AM
Washington’s Bellevue Wolverines shocked America by besting Concord, California’s De La Salle Spartans and their record-breaking 151 game winning streak 39-20, before a crowd of 24,897 in Seattle Seahawks’ Qwest Field. Bellevue assistant defensive coach James Hasty attributed their surprising upset to a strict training regiment which included viewing extensive game footage using the Landro® play analyzer. De La Salle had not lost a football game since 1991. [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Clear Channel agrees to cough up $2
million for Howard Stern’s
shocking and jocking

Clear Channel agrees to cough up $2
million for Howard Stern’s
shocking and jocking 06/09/2004 09:16 AM
Radio Giant In Record Indecency $ettlement .. More

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VH1.com : Shows : The Greatest : 100
Greatest Shocking Moments in Rock & Roll
(100 - 81) : Episode

VH1.com : Shows : The Greatest : 100
Greatest Shocking Moments in Rock & Roll
(100 - 81) : Episode 11/11/2003 09:24 AM
The 100 greatest shocking moments in rock & roll history .. shocking

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It's Buy Your Employees A PC Day In The
UK

It's Buy Your Employees A PC Day In The
UK 01/19/2004 12:52 PM
Over in the UK they have some complicated regulations concerning incentives for helping companies help their employees buy computers. They're trying to make it easier with a set of guidelines that make the system clear. Companies can get a nice tax break for buying their employees home computers, which the employees can pay back over a three year period out of their salary. There's no indication in the article as to what happens if the employee leaves the company before the full amount has been paid. This seems like a good idea - assuming that it's the employees' (and not the employers') choice. Of course, some may cynically suggest that this is just a good way for companies to get their employees to keep on working while they're home.

Always on the Job, Employees Pay With
Health

Always on the Job, Employees Pay With
Health 09/04/2004 11:08 PM
Workplace stress has a measurable impact on Americans' health and costs the nation more than $300 billion each year.

How Company Employees Use The Web

How Company Employees Use The Web 01/04/2005 11:32 PM

The Next Threat: Employees

The Next Threat: Employees 12/17/2004 06:43 PM

Companies step up monitoring of internal networks: Interesting article. If the hackers don't get you, your own employees will.

Executives don't want a repeat of what happened at America Online, where a former employee was arrested in June for allegedly stealing 92 million screen names and selling them.

Or at credit-software company Teledata Communications, where a former employee in September pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges of stealing the financial identities of tens of thousands of people.

Don't Just Spy On Employees, Bill Them
As Well

Don't Just Spy On Employees, Bill Them
As Well 02/01/2005 09:43 PM
While many studies have shown that spying on employees tends to make them less motivated and less productive, that still hasn't stopped any number of companies from coming out with tools to help show just how much you distrust your employees. The latest, however, goes a bit further than the usual reports of just what various employees have been doing while surfing the internet. This one tracks exactly how much time and bandwidth an employee uses on various websites so that an employer can bill the employee for that time. Do you think the companies that install this will also bill the employees for the amount of water they drink out of the water fountain? Maybe the wear and tear in the parking lot from driving their car into it each day as well would make sense. It's not clear why this needs to be repeated so often -- but such micromanaging of employees doesn't tend to do much good. If an employee isn't getting their job done, that's an issue that should be taken care of. However, monitoring what they're doing every minute of the day -- and then even stooping so low as to charge them for the time, is a plan that's only going to backfire. Hopefully, the first employee presented with such a bill will turn around and present a bill to the employer for any phone calls or emails handled at home as well as the time, gas and depreciation expenses of driving to work each day.

Microsoft employees mobilize to help

Microsoft employees mobilize to help 12/30/2004 04:55 PM
Seattle Times Dec 30 2004 7:43PM GMT

IRS Employees Fall For Hackers

IRS Employees Fall For Hackers 03/17/2005 03:41 AM
Slashdot Mar 17 2005 7:11AM GMT
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