I have been updating the OPML file with about 20-30 new blogs that I have come across in the last couple of months. The listing now stands at 255 and this excludes all of the Education Blogs found at edublogs.org where I am sure there are many that would fit into the eLearning area.
The other thing is I have moved the location from www.specht.com.au to hrblogs.org at hrblogs.org/opml/hrblogs.opml, there is a redirect on the old site if you happen to be using the file for your feeds.
I covered dot jobs back in April and then again in June and mentioned it several times in between. So what is new? Over the last few weeks I have been seeing sites with a dot jobs extension appearing all over the internet, even OnRec wrote about it yesterday.
Do you have a dot jobs domain?
Is it being used?
Have you specifically set up a jobs site for it or are you just redirecting back to your original careers area?
Is it appearing on all of your advertising?
Check out the dot jobs info site from EmployMedia and you will see some of the companies who have registered; Amazon, Google, Symantec, News Corp,Volkswagen, eBay, Pfizer, PWC the list goes on.
Ok, usually a new reader is not a big deal but this time it is.
My son Ben, who is turning 8 in a couple of weeks, has decided to check in on what Dad does with this blog thing. He even left a couple of comments last night, thanks Ben.
(Via Doc Searls, via Cameron Reilly).
An Iranian, Hossien Derakshan, ended up being kicked out of the US because the border patrol officer Googled his name, finds his blog, is not with the content so takes him in for questioning. During the questioning they find a magazine with a NY address and to cut a long story short kick him out. Read the rest!
Interesting given the recent interview I did on background checking, the internet and the public domain.
A week ago Ray Ozzie posted about Really Simple Sharing a new extension to the RSS (and OPML) protocol from Microsoft called Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE), that is released under Creative Commons. SSE allows asynchronous replication of items among two or more parties via feeds. There has been a bit of a buzz over this for several reasons such as Ray is involved, Microsoft is doing it, RSS is the protocol, even Dave Winer thinks it is cool which is great as he is the author (?) of the RSS specification.
But what is this? Essentially SSE allows two (or more) people to share and update a single feed and then re-publish. Several people way more intelligent have provided several use cases and other examples. Denham Grey, Jeremy Chone, Mike Arrington, Gabbr.com, and Dion Hinchliffe. There is even a picture or two available in Flickr on the SSE. Finally Microsoft has an FAQ about SSE.
Ok on to more mundane things, how to we actually use this draft extension?
Right up front, being able to combine comments into a single RSS feed (of course we will have to deal with comment spam). Our news readers will become content creators as well, I a would guess that more people will start to comment as it should become easier. Further to this we can really begin to FUSE our content.
I had hoped for some HR examples, but right now nothing maybe later.
Everyday I get amazed at the comment spam that is posted on my site, 99.9% of it never gets through the spam filters within WordPress so reads never get to experience it. Today I check out the moderated comments and they just struck me as bizarre.
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quintillion codify?tested offensive,educational windmills:wart?…
grabber municipality presumption predicating camped.sympathies cabbages?
And what was the site behind these insightful comments. Well the URL would lead you to believe a Real Estate organisation which would of been a new one, but no the same old online pharmacy 😦 when will they learn.
Michael Specht 