Web

How to hire a web developer

"A good web developer does the minimal amount of work to achieve and acceptable result. To test this start by just looking at your interviewee, good web developers will find a balance between their god-given looks and choice in clothing to find a minimally passable level of attractiveness. Better looking candidate should have crappy haircuts and mismatched retro skater -wear, whereas those that god forgot should be wearing diesel and a really really big watch."

Here's a ringing endorsement for why the web has turned out to be a fairly apolitical space governed primarily by libertarian cash-hounds who do things like sell pretend crap on second-life.

Take Back the Tech - "reclaiming ICT's to end Violence Against Women."

Well you could start by explaining what an ICT is...

Then you could try to work your way past such questions as;

"Are video games gendered?" to real questions like, "Who made my ipod?" (thanks LRS)

So Crayon is a new marketing company that is launching in Second life as well as online.

Claims that they are the first such company, are apparently unfounded, and so now I know all about Electric Sheep CO., Rivers Run Red, and Millions of Us.

here's some their blog entry;

The second thing to let you know is what crayon actually is.

We’re not an agency nor a consulting practice as is traditionally defined. What we are is whatever you want or need us to be.

Anoush Ansari: First woman to blog from space.

See now, that's a *good* reason to keep a blog.

Via Blogher: "The first to know what kind of crazy shit women are up to at any given time in the universe."

Ansari's tagline is "Revolution through competition" I have to go away and think about that one for a while.