Scoble's got a link and some of his own comments on Orkut. I pretty much agree, I didn't find myself going over there much after the first few days. There simply wasn't enough to hold my interest, even in the communities, which is maybe the best part of Orkut. The problem there is that those communities, for the most part, already exist elsewhere. I already have a community of bloggers, and of IT people on my blogroll, or who leave comments here. I already know of and check out a number of photography community sites, and I'm just not much of a networker because I do feel rude sending a message to someone I don't know at all just because they're listed as a friend of someone I do happen to know. That's not really how networking works, networking is getting your friend to introduce you to and start a conversation between you and the other friend of theirs. I get the impression that social software tries to cut out the middle man and let you do that yourself, but that really misses the "social" part of networking and moves it much closer to "marketing", which is rude in this context.
I have a question. If you're a tech recruiter, or know a tech recruiter can you help me out? I want to know, when you're a tech recruiter, why do you contact people without even looking at their resume first, and why do you lie about the job you're calling about? Seriously, last week I got a call from a tech recruiter. The discussion started around the fact that he had a postion in Columbus that he wanted to talk to me about. During the course of the conversation, he indicated he didn't know any of my qualifications because he didn't have a copy of my resume. After I explained to him what I do, that it's all "hand's on" work and I would not want to, nor really be very good at, a telephone helpdesk type job, he proceeded to tell me that this wasn't like that at all. In fact I would be managing the rollout of PDA software. Something I have never done, and really am not qualified for. He said that if I was familiar with PDA's that would be enough. So I sent him my resume. He sent me a brainbench qualifications test. I took the test, and passed, there was nothing on it about PDA software. Then, I saw the job he was talking about, posted by his company on Monster on Monday. The job description?
This person will be responsible for answering incoming helpdesk telephone calls.
Yes, yet another morning filled with answering virus questions, hooking things up, looking up details, tracking down failures, etc. (aka yet another day in IT!) But I just wanted to take a moment and share DNS Report, especially the mail test. It comes in handy when you don't get direct access to your ISP's mail server and you want to track down why a specific account keeps bouncing to you. I entered the email address someone was having problems getting email to, and it ran a mail test and came back with the answer. The server was unreachable. Later, I checked again, and it was reachable, so I advised that person to go ahead and send their mail now! There's lots of other tools linked there as well. Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Switch to RSS?
Had to do some meetings this morning and deal with some issues so I've been busy. A recurring theme seems to be problems with email delivery. For example, one of our users sent an email to about 100 people late yesterday, with a 25 page .pdf attached. All of these people are on one of our committees and would have been expecting things from us, but only about 65 of them actually got delivered, the others bounced. I told someone that the idea that we could have a list of 100 people, in 100 different organizations, each with their own filters and ISP's, and that they would all manage to get the message, is dead. Perhaps it's time to publish each committee's "notices" to their own portion of the website and let them either get it there, or for the more tech savvy among them, subscribe to an RSS feed? That solves the problem of undeliverable email, but I wonder how many of them would be willing to do something new, or if the howls of protest will keep us from trying anything so cutting edge? :) Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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Is it just me?
Or does it seem like there's a new virus, or a new variation on an old virus getting lose in the wild every day? These hits are keeping me busy with questions and updating def files, but I can't help but wonder how they keep getting spread if they all require the user to open an attachment! Is there not some point where people will learn to stop doing that?
Would you believe we're working on day 5 since I changed the DNS servers for this site and my home connection still does not consistently resolve to the new server? Of course this is the same ISP that told me back a few months ago when it couldn't resolve the DNS for my other site to wait 14 days before contacting them for all their DNS servers to get updated. I assume that means that at any time, RoadRunner customers may be up to two weeks behind the rest of the world when it comes to DNS updates? Nice... Digg this | Post to del.icio.us| FaceBook | Stumble Upon| Google Bookmark|
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