FuckedWeblog catalogs distressed, absent or departed weblogs. See recent ones or submit an blog site's suicide note or obituary.

This might be useful in an intranet. Part of pruning the tree, finding successors, acknowledging the need for archival.

Permalinks in categories point to those posts on the home page and home page archives, not to their instances on the category home page or in the category archive. Permalinks just don't understand their page's category. I explain further and with examples on the Radio UserLand discussion list.

[aka Blue Sky Radio]

I like Jay's blogging voice. His blog, A Voyage To Arcturus, is a delightful blend of philosophy, astronomy and space, and life.

Will Project-Manage for Food

I got laid off. OK, it ain't up there with what happened to this guy, but it shut me down for a few days. Not moping -- updating a résumé and networking like mad.

My situation: I've been with my employer for 12 years, and they're handing out 2 weeks' separation pay for each year of service. My last day in the office is supposed to be Thursday the 25th (this may change, but that's way too complicated to go in to here). I should therefore be at full pay until mid-January and full benefits until the end of January, which softens the blow quite a bit. It also gives me a disincentive to try very hard to find another job there -- I can pocket the ~6 months' severance if I go elsewhere (unless it's a direct competitor) and it spreads the Manifold household's risk, as She Who Must Be Obeyed works there as well.

I already have some promising leads, but I know better than to leave any stone unturned; so if you would like to see my résumé, drop me a line. I'm not going to send out personal information to utterly random strangers, though, so if you write, explain a bit about what you do and how you might be able to help. I'm looking for a project management position.

Short version of my qualifications:

• 18 years professional experience; 9 years project management.
• PMI and Quality SIG member; working toward PMP certification.
• Leadership of numerous quality and business process improvement teams and initiatives.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to matrix-manage cross-functional teams to achieve organizational goals.
• Proficient in MS Project, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel; experience developing databases in MS Access.

I live in Kansas City, Missouri, and would prefer not to relocate.

I'm going to leave this up for a couple of days and then resume blogging properly.

My four take aways:

1. Interesting choice: not posting a resume because it is full of private information. (See Resumequity.)
2. Note the economics of severance pay.
• Under Nobel winner George Stigler's theory of search unemployment, your search campaign is a series of information hunting activities, like job interviews. You consider them in order. When do you stop looking? Stigler says you take a job when you don't think you'll find anything better (the marginal cost of the next activity matches its marginal benefit). This assumes that the longer your search, the more it costs you (salary foregone, hard costs of search).
• Severance lowers the cost of your campaign. This means you can prolong your search to find a better job than the ones you know about. (information economics)
3. I like Jay's observation about having too many eggs in one basket. Diversifying family income is a good idea. One of the reasons people become free agents is to diversify among multiple employers at the same time. 
4. Most people don't use more than one way to find a job (some studies show an average of 1.7-1.8 per person). You improve your chances dramatically by adding additional methods. Blog, networking, mailing list. A good strategy.

 [aka bloggers for hire]

Hugh Madison, author of American Invisible, Inc., shares some common sense observations of KM.

Summarizing, success calls for:

• Motivation
• Training
• How to blog context.
• How to write for strangers.
• How and when to write for lay people.
• Orientation to peers
• CXO champion and reviewer

Two things implied but not stated:

1. Free agent culture (temps, consultants, project teams) demands KM to assure continuity and flexibility.
2. Insist that deliverables include usable documentation of all work, planning, and conversation.

When will Manpower and Kelly teach klogging the way they teach Microsoft Office and test for typing speed?

Anita Rowland says:

It's not too soon to start planning your Perseid Meteor Shower viewing expedition. (BrainDan, I promise it won't be as cold as last fall!)

"This year the shower peaks on August 12th and 13th. Experts say it should be remarkably good. The Perseids have been strong in recent years--a promising sign for 2002. And the moon sets early in mid-August; lunar interference will not be a problem. Sky watchers can expect to see dozens to hundreds of meteors per hour."

Science at NASA:

The best time to look for meteors is when Perseus is highest in the sky--between 2 a.m. and dawn. On August 12th, set your alarm for 2 o'clock in the morning. Go outside; lie down on a sleeping bag or a reclining lawn chair with your toes pointed northeast; and gaze upward. Soon you'll see shooting stars racing along the Milky Way.

 

[aka events]

Dave Winer said here:

If Links and Titles are turned on and no link is specified, the link element for the item is the permalink to the item.

Isn't that what Julian is asking for??

I don't think so. I think he is asking...

Whether or not Links and Titles are turned on, if no link is specified, the link element for the item is the permalink to the item.

Not custody but movement of knowledge creates value.

Not management but sharing.

Robert Buckman: "It is movement in response to a need. That knowledge that moves in response to a need of the organisation is the valuable knowledge that you should capture for future reference."

Tacit.com built their products around this idea a few years' ago. Their whole emphasis is making it fast and easy to find out who knows about your kind of problem.  

Should have been "Are You Klogging Yet?"

You can tell it's well researched because it cites:

• Dan Gillmor
• Andrew Sullivan
• slashdot
• the klogs discussion group
• Omar Javaid
• David Weinberger
• Aaron Christy
• Mike Sanders
• Andy Chen
• J.D. Lasica
• Rebecca Blood
• Peggy Noonan

Follow up with John Foley.