Great story in BusinessWeek about the decline of newspapers, at the hands of the Internet.
Some highlights:
"Consumers are shifting decisively to online information, says Fine (Merrill Lynch analyst), especially the young, and are no longer yoked to the local newspaper. ‘Ads are following the eyeballs to where they make transactional decisions.’ Fine recently forecast that newspapers’ […]

With Google apparently burning the midnight oil working on providing online classified listings search of all types - including vertical Internet job search - to its users, the question I ask myself is "What will this new offering look like?"
Bambi Francisco of MarketWatch is predicting Google will combat eBay and Craigslist by allowing advertisers to […]

I was recently interviewed and quoted in a story about blogging entitled Blogs: Opportunities and Risks for HR.
A large percentage of HR pros have no idea what a blog is, so it’s nice to see stories start popping up in trade pubs bringing blogs to the human resources forefront.
Mandatory is the fact that HR needs […]

I recently sat down with Ray Fassett of .jobs to get some insight into the recent launch of the domain. Enjoy.
1.    You’ve just completed your first week of launch of .jobs.  How’s it going so far?
A.    We had a number of concerns leading to the launch date, not least of which is the […]

Here are some pics from the SHRM Conference. I’m too lazy to add captions, but they include various .jobs and SHRM employees (and Monster’s Trumpasaurus). For more on who everyone is, checkout Employ Media’s Web site.

So, you’re all set to buy a dot-jobs domain, huh? Well, technically, the period the process is in right now is what’s called a sunrise period or pre-registration period.
Here some Q & A’s:
When will .jobs be available for registration?ICANN has approved .jobs in April 2005. SHRM has suggested a timeline of September 2005 for […]

From Yahoo!’s blog:

We will be making changes to the index tonight so you should be seeing
more of your pages in the index as well as some fluctuations in the
rankings of results from previous searches.

I have to admit, Yahoo! is pretty nice to publicize their algorithm and ranking updates. They’re the only one that does so.
If […]