Music Industry, R.I.P.; Workers slack back; No-headphones; Chris on 43f; City babies; New 5ives; Crab!!!
Submitted by Merlin on October 9, 2007 - 9:44am.
- The day the music industry died - Times Online - “The truth now is that a rudimentary cotton garment with a band logo stamped across it that has probably been manufactured for pennies in a Third World sweatshop costs about twice as much as an album recorded in a state-of-the-art western studio.” Related, don’t miss Yahoo!’s Ian Rogers’s post “Convenience Wins, Hubris Loses”
- Abused Workers Fight Back by Slacking Off | LiveScience - “Employees toiling under an abusive supervisor often rebel quietly and indirectly by slacking off on the job and handing in sloppy work.”
- What’s next, no potty breaks? [AskMe] - “My company just instituted a “no headphones” policy…how can I deal?” I don’t know how you can expect someone to do a data-entry job without headphones. That’s just inhuman.
- 43 Folders [Chris Glass] [PNSFW] - “Backstory: Merlin and I met years ago when we were teenage girls on LiveJournal.” Chris Glass talks a bit about he ended up redesigning 43f. Love that guy.
- HollenbackNet - BigCityBaby - If you hadn’t put the pieces together yet, I’m about to need advice like Phil’s. And, wow!, did I ever dig his long article on big-city baby-having.
- You Tube - Inbox Zero - My Google Tech Talk on Inbox Zero is now available on the YouTube — previously it was only on the Google Video (now clocking in at 186,000 views)
- Five rejected Spice Girl personalities - “5. Emotionally-Unavailable Spice.” A long overdue 5ives update. One of three.
- I’m not usually one to get squeamish, but this wigged me… (kottke.org) - I’m not too squeamish either, Mr. Kottke, but this bastard crab is literally haunting my dreams. Dear Lord.
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Glad you enjoyed my article, Merlin!
Hey Merlin, glad you found my article about having a baby in the city useful. While I had been mulling over writing it for several months your announcement was the motivation I finally needed to get going.
dancemonkey: I think all your points are excellent. I want to emphasis that my article is based purely on my personal experiences and a sample set of one baby. Everyone should defintely take my advice with a grain of salt. There are probably better products and ways to do things out there that I just haven’t found.
benbr: privacy hasn’t really been an issue yet because our son is only six months old now so we are still totally absorbed in the day-to-day child rearing activities without a lot of free time to feel cramped. I guess if you are the kind of person who likes living in the city then you are probably less sensitive to cabin fever anyway. However we realize that we are going to have to move to a bigger apartment some time in the next year or so when our son is more mobile.