OurGirl: Fear and Loathing on Blogger

Raoul Duke: You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.

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i love the harvard business review. i picked up the latest magazine and saw this article:

	We Googled You (HBR Case Commentary)
	Publication Date: Jun 1, 2007 Availability: In Stock Author(s): Diane L. Coutu, John G. Palfrey Jr., danah m. boyd, Jeffrey A. Joerres, Michael Fertik Type: Harvard Business Review Article Product Number: R0706Z Language: English Length: 5p

Description: As the CEO of Hathaway Jones, an American luxury apparel retailer, Fred Westen has spent the past four years struggling to revamp his company's stodgy image and boost flagging sales. He's just announced an ambitious plan to elbow in on China's fast-growing luxury goods market when he gets a call from an old prep school friend. Fred agrees to meet his friend's daughter, Mimi Brewster, to see whether she might be able to head up the company's flagship store in Shanghai. Fred is impressed by Mimi's CV, and the interview goes off without a hitch, but a routine Google search turns up information about her that could affect the company's performance in China. News stories and photos reveal that when Mimi was fresh out of college, she'd participated in nonviolent but vocal demonstrations--including one in front of China's San Francisco consulate--against the World Trade Organization. As the vice president of HR urges caution, Fred ponders hiring practices in the digital age. He knows that nothing is secret anymore--especially among younger people, who brazenly post the most intimate details of their lives for the world to see. If he hires Mimi, and her past conduct becomes widely known, his company's expansion overseas could be set back. But rising stars like Mimi don't walk in the door every day. Should Fred hire her despite her online history? Commenting on this fictional case study in R0706A and R0706Z are John G. Palfrey, Jr., a professor and the executive director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School; Jeffrey A. Joerres, the CEO of Manpower; danah m. boyd, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, and a corporate adviser; and Michael Fertik, the CEO of ReputationDefender.

Learning Objective: This case depicts an executive who, through an online search, discovers information about a job candidate that causes him concern about her qualifications. The reader considers issues such as the legal implications of Internet searching practices, the veracity of information found online, and the wisdom of expecting job candidates to have spotless online reputations.

Subjects Covered: Employees, HBR case discussions, Hiring, Human resources management, Legal aspects of business, Right of privacy.

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Morganism: Blogger Burnout Beware!

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To love another person is to see the face of God.- Victor Hugo

Blogging is a lonely activity, I know...I'm sitting here alone. However We're not alone!
According to Technorati, 1,75,000 blogs are being created everyday. Thats alot of Bloggers, and they probably have some of the same Blogger Block that Connie and I seem to be suffering from.
We're not doing this for the income, although that would be nice. We do this for the passion of writing and forming coherent thought and recording it here, we also enjoy sharing our viewpoints and opinions...and no one interupts with lame stories of (insert lame story here).
How can we combat this insideous malady?

1. Read More! If your drawing a blank, use the internet for inspiration or finding content
2. Start an Idea Morgue! This is such a great idea I'm starting mine today! If you come across something interesting make sure you bookmark it, or add it to your del.icio.us, so that you can draw inspiration from it later on.
3. Collaborate with other bloggers...which is exactly what we're doing.
4. Keep Improving your writing skills, grammar, spelling and punctuation.
5. Love your blog, add water and watch it grow it like sea monkeys

Free Blog Content

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I hope that after I die, people will say of me: "That guy sure owed me a lot of money."--Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

OurGirl: Phil Hartman, Shot to Death May 28, 1998

Phil Hartman, you are missed.



yeh, i know its not a hot trend. phil is pretty old school. but i do miss that guy. and chris farley. adsense will probably respond with a relevant ad six days from now. their head is still spinning from my clown remarks. now i'm just dorking with the blog to see what the magic eightball makes adsense post. mostly, i needed a relevant topic and i wanted to beat morgan in posting a utubey on the blog.

suc(k)cess!

connie has left the blog.

thank you and good night!

Morganje: Smoking Hot Trends!

Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mark Twain in the same post, Holy cow! How do I respond to that little bit of Americana, this Memorial Day. I'm sitting here at the Air Force Detachment (Non-Commissioned Officer on Duty) supervising the airmen returning from a long weekend. Hopefully they will all return without incident before bedchecks tonight. Back to work tommorow...ugh!

THE DARK ONE and I had a pretty good weekend we went to see the third installment of Pirates of the Caribbean. I really don't understand the public enthrallment with this piece of crap. The whole Davy Jones with tentacles and all the magical crap is just mind-numbingly boring...matter of fact I fell asleep, so did THE DARK ONE. My sleep apnea woke me up and there she was sleeping with her mouth open. Cute. Since that movie sucked and Squishykitkat was spending the weekend with friends...we went out again the next night. Now hold on, I know you don't believe this, but occasionally we have fun together (May is our anniversery Month...14 yrs I think) We went and saw Disturbia, which was a fun, fresh thriller starring my new favorite actor Shia LeBeouf, and Hot-Milf, Carrie Anne Moss. I kept expecting her to start running on the walls and shooting up the Matrix.

Oh, but that's not all...THE DARK ONE, asked me to go to the Smithsonian Museum this morning. I know, I know. I was expecting to get whacked or something! She just wanted a romantic day exploring the Holocaust Museum. Man that place is a downer. But a nice place to pay respects for the victims of the holocaust. Its hard to believe that Man is capable of such atrocities...that said, it was one of those days when you remember, why. Walking down those darken halls, hand-in-hand, watching her, read the exhibits...a sharp memory from the past, like a song forgotten...It's moments like these.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

"UNNAMED ONE" and I are always looking at ways to improve the blog or shamelessly direct traffic to our site. The synergy and enthuisiasm of our efforts propelling us forward as we blog the world. Today I stumbled on to something that is interesting, a cross section of what America is interested in, what they are, or were searching for on any given date. Called Hot Trends from Google Labs its a list of 100 top searches for that day. Studying these topics and discovering why they are being searched is most captivating. I started brainstorming about how to leverage this into traffic...shameless, really. I understand why Marquis Hill is the number one search, he tragically drowned today in Lake Pontchartrain, LA. I know why Prospero Books is the number three search, because the owner is burning books in protest to the lack of interest in the printed word. However other searches have me completely baffled, Why are people, lots of people searching for grilled corn on the cob around 1:00pm today?

Captain Koons: The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then,
after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the
watch to you.

Our Girl: The Little House Gap Analysis

Bernie: Deadline: A date or time before which something must be done.

i looked for a lou grant quote, 'cause i'm a big fan of the hairy old dude and mrs. pychon, later known as tony's mother—oh, poor YOU—but i didn't find anything suitable. AND you can't go wrong with duvall.

i'm ecstatic that morgan is posting on an every other day schedule. this could save my marriage. i'm lucky to have a tolerant husband—much like laura ingall's almanzo.
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growing up, a little house on the prairie book was always in my hands. i understood laura with my whole heart. laura was strong as a little french horse, a half-pint of cider half drunk up. as she was growing up, she was allowed to work with her father, whether stomping hay or twisting the slough grasses into stick bundles in order to keep the fire going through the long winter. she fished, she rode fast ponies with her cousins by the shores of silver lake and she was quick enough to catch cap garland's throw. and even though she wanted to remain a pioneer girl and wander the country, eventually, she married a farmer.

although i never intended to marry a farmer and have fought a good fight over the vineyard— looks like my life is going to run a parallel course on that as well. and i'm feeling happier about it. did you know i went to college close to mansfield for my freshman year, but never went to visit? i still have my laura books; they are waiting for my little girl that never came.

i just got my big guy to read huckleberry finn and tom sawyer, which he liked very much and finds it hard to believe momma's high school sweetheart came from hannibal, mo. but that was long ago and momma ran away from that life. well, that life and the other life where she was traveling through california with a man she wouldn't end up with, either, and she saw these dusty stores with cartoony frogs painted haphazardly on the windows. many, many frogs and suddenly she became really excited. where are we, she asked the man. are we in calaveras county?

how the hell should i know, asked the man. why do you care? well, said momma, mark twain wrote about a frog jumping contest in... and the man interrupted her and shouted, everyone knows mark twain lived in missouri. he was never in california. at that point, signs everywhere appeared promoting calaveras county and mark twain and frog jumping contests and for once, momma didn't need to rub it in but it didn't improve the man's attitude. and although i counted the days until my vacation was over and i could run away from that man, too, the california vacation was one of the best trips i have taken.

i look forward to taking my boys on a trip like that, long and loopy and exploring a whole coastline. my boys travel really well. now, though, it seems the only time i go back home is when there is a funeral. even so, i make sure the boys go up the st. louis arch and put their toes in the mississippi. they know where their momma is from. their momma gets less sure about it by the minute, though. its getting to be like cahokia mounds. my people are disappearing. i miss my family. i miss my home.

I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
-Tom Sawyer Abroad