Links Of The Day 8/27/2013

I think this kinda has returned as a feature, don’t you think?

If Media wants to survive it has to see readers as contributors.  So far I think attempts on this have been a mix of “no they’re passive consumers” mixed in with “let’s get them to do our work for us.”  Maybe you can change things.

Zuckerberg and Facebooks’ whole “everyone on the web thing” ought to learn from actual efforts.  Great analysis of Chicago’s efforts to wire neighborhoods and a real lesson for what it takes.

Barnes and Noble retail CEO sold off a lot of his stock.  Uh-oh.  Yes, that could signal an exit or something, but we know the book market has been kinda messy . . .

Apple seems damn serious about Apple TV.  Take a look at these deals.  Everyone seems serious about TV actually . . .

Why cities don’t want to host the Olympics.  And there’s plenty of good reasons.  If your city is making an Olympic bit, BE WARNED.

News Roundup 8/26/2013

What have we got today?

Quartz has a look at what’s wrong at Microsoft – and what needs to be done to fix it.  Excellent reading.  I’m still bullish on Microsoft, but they have some things to fix.

Heroes of Cosplay is having a Kerfluffle that looks to be nasty.  It seems NBC and SyFy used photographs without permissions of the photographers.  Then they got threatening towards the Cosplayers over who owned what.  Yeah, kinda ugly.

George Takei wants action on Russia’s Anti-Gay law.  Lending his voice the geek icon is going to be very powerful.

– Steven Savage

News 8/23/2013

Another reason to take Texas off of your relocation list, if the water problems and other issues weren’t enough, there’s a huge feral pig population that also spreads disease.  I’m not sure I can be funny about this.

Why recruiters need to become matchmakers.  The good ones I know already have.  Maybe you can help out the recruiters you know.

Steve Ballmer plans to retire . . . Microsoft stock leaps.  Kind of sad.  I’ve been bullish on Microsoft career-wise for awhile, and this doesn’t change my mind.

– Steven Savage