The Google Job Experiment - YouTube

The Google Job Experiment - YouTube

 

Uploaded by Alec Brownstein on May 3, 2010

When top advertising creative directors Googled themselves, they got a message from me asking for a job. Download a high res Quicktime of the experiment here: http://alec.at/gqqR2T More of my work here: http://www.alecbrownstein.com My tweets here: http://twitter.com/jusfonzin

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Middle Ages Tech Support - YouTube

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Google Taking Its Fight for Internet Freedom to the Public

Google Taking Its Fight for Internet Freedom to the Public

By Todd R. Weiss  |  Posted 2012-11-26

As governments worldwide prepare to meet Dec. 3 to discuss the future of the Internet, Google is reminding citizens to make their own views known.

Google is using its power, influence and online might to sound the alarm for Internet openness and freedom to individual users around the world as leaders of many nations prepare to meet to discuss how the Internet should be regulated in the years to come.
"Starting Dec. 3, the world’s governments meet behind closed doors to discuss the future of the Internet," wrote Google in a post on Google+. "This meeting of the International Telecommunication Union, or ITU, will take place in Dubai. Some governments want to use this meeting in Dubai to increase censorship and regulate the Internet." Read more...

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After Storm Destruction, Rockaway Libraries Help Keep Community Afloat - NYTimes.com

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By VIVIAN YEE

Published: November 25, 2012

A library bus parked outside the original branch in the Rockaways has become a place for warmth and useful information.

It was the little things, the sudden absence of everyday fixtures, that disoriented residents in the Rockaways in the days after the storm, as much as the loss of house and home. The traffic lights had gone dark. Where was one to get a prescription filled? And oh, what about books due at the library?   Read more....

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Book People Unite - YouTube

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• THE FILM
• THE SONG
• THE PLEDGE
• THE STORY

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Act Like a Business Owner to Advance Your Career | CAREEREALISM

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 Whether you work for a global corporation, a small business, or for yourself, it is absolutely essential you THINK and ACT like an “owner” — “own” your job, own your role as a leader or manager, own your roles and responsibilities — put yourself in the shoes of a business owner, and think and behave as any owner would do.
This is not new career advice; many of us have heard this before, and many of us have probably given this advice to others. But what does it actually MEAN to think and act like a business owner?
Standing in the shoes of a business owner is a mind-set shift and in my opinion includes fully embracing the following as part of HOW you DO your job and how you THINK about your job:

1. Show Passion and Enthusiasm

Both your head and your heart need to be “in the game.” Your clients and customers need to see and “feel” your enthusiasm for what you do. Your colleagues, team mates and direct reports need to sense your passion for what you do. Passion and enthusiasm are the fuel for the energy that flows into your job. Others are drawn to you and inspired by you in direct correlation to level of sincere passion and enthusiasm you exhibit.
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Txtr beagle e-reader - review | Technology | guardian.co.uk

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Hurricane Sandy devastated some sections of New York City and did massive damage to numerous libraries in Queens. Undaunted, the amazing Queens Library sent a mobile book bus with a rapid response team of librarians, led by Matthew Allison, into the area as soon as roads were opened again.


Maybe it's hard to imagine what a librarian can do when people have no power, no heat, and no food. People in the Rockaways, in Queens, live in crowded conditions, crashing with friends and families, seeing homes where everything was destroyed by flooding. What can a library do when people are cold, tired, hungry, and scared? Read more...

Scenes from a Crisis: Volunteers Bond with Occupiers for Sandy Relief

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(Photo: Brennan Cavanaugh / Flickr)

 With Occupy Sandy relief workers at sites in New York, writer observes volunteers from disparate organizations and backgrounds coming together and bonding under Occupy's banner for a common cause.

As the full extent of Superstorm Sandy's destruction begins to set in, Occupy Sandy continues to expand its effort to provide relief to ravaged areas in Staten Island, Coney Island, Red Hook, and the Rockaways. The work can roughly be divided into two categories: the primary distribution hubs at St. Jacobi Church on Fourth Avenue and 520 Clinton Ave., and the field, where organizers often go intersection by intersection, sometimes door to door to assess needs of the community. What I've found, observing these efforts and increasingly participating in them, is that Occupy Sandy has provided the public with a concrete example of the virtue of Occupy's sometimes abstract ideals. Read read more...

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by Jennifer Howard
November 12, 2012

More damage at the Tulane library after Katrina. At NYU, says its dean of libraries, "the good news is it's a medical library, and most of its core work is electronic."

If a burst pipe can seriously damage library collections and facilities, consider what a monster storm can do. When Hurricane Sandy struck New York City on October 30, powerful winds and higher-than-usual tides sent a 14-foot surge of water from the East River through New York University's Langone Medical Center, shutting down the hospital, drowning thousands of mice and rats used in research, and swamping the Ehrman Medical Library.

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10 Kick-Ass Secret Passage Bookshelves

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by Amanda Nelson

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Messages requesting donations posted on the doors of John Jay High School in Brooklyn, currently an evacuation shelter for Hurricane Sandy victims.

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METRO New York Library Council - NYC Library Services - Online Public Library METRO

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