Adam Tinworth: The Rest of My Life

Enter Disco Stu

Disco Stu has entered the Vox-o-sphere. Go and encourage him with a "hello" and a neighbourhood add....

I Really Need You to Read This Article, Okay? - washingtonpost.com

I Really Need You to Read This Article, Okay? - washingtonpost.com

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But corporate realities are getting harsh around here, and thus I've decided to blog a lot more about sexual deviancy, inebriated starlets, "American Idol" rejects, unlikely but theoretically possible natural catastrophes and pets in distress. In the...

The Simpsons Star Wars

The Simpsons Star Wars

Nicked from here.

NewsBiscuit: Facebook employee sacked for spending entire working day on Excel

NewsBiscuit: Facebook employee sacked for spending entire working day on Excel

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‘It doesn’t exactly send out the right kind of message does it?’ said Mr Chamber’s line manager. ‘Our entire company ethos is to create a website for people to spend every working hour aimlessly browsing through the lives of people they barely know, and this individual comes along and takes it upon himself to waste an entire day evaluating budgeting spreadsheets. Not on my shift he doesn’t, thank you very much.’

Fair and Balanced Videos

So, MainMor posted this:

In the interested of fair and balance blogging, I feel the need to post this:

Done.

My Tragic Addiction

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Should Employers Ban Facebook?

Natalie Cooper, who blogs on The Work Clinic, one of our HR-related blogs, was interviewed on BBC radio last week about Facebook. Like so many internet phenomena, it's reached the level of conciousness amongst the general people that IT managers are starting to run around setting up systems to monitor usage, or even ban the site completely.

Natalie's position, like so many others, is "carefully restrict and monitor".

However, I can't help feeling that all of these decisions are based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what and how Facebook can be used. For me, it's as much a work tool (keeping up with contacts within this whole web 2.0/online communities shebang) as it is a personal fun tool. Yet all the discussions I'm seeing in the more mainstream media are based on the assumption that Facebook activity is purely for personal fun. And I think that's a poor assumption to make.

And even if people aren't using it for any business purpose, surely existing management policies come into play? If it's distracting people so much that they don't perform as needed, then that needs to be handled like any management issue. Just because a problem is rooted in technology, it doesn't mean it needs a technological solution, especially where people management is concerned.

My Current Favourite LoLCat

TV Shows on iTunes UK

I wake this morning to the exciting news that iTunes has added TV shows to the UK store. Hurrah! So far, it's just a bunch of US shows, from South Park to Lost, Ugly Betty to Desperate Housewives. But really, who hasn't had the suspicion lately that the US shows are better than our own? (Doctor Who excepted, of course)

The MMOvie

One of the things I love about online games is the spin-off creativity that develops around them:

MMOvie