A new report was unveiled today that found that U.S. mothers do not get enough sleep! Um… did they really need a study to figure this out? Have the sponsors of this study not met any mothers before? Well, upon further investigation, it appears that the study was sponsored by a pharmaceutical company that wants …
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Om Malik of GigaOm recently introduded a new website called Web Worker Daily. This site is going to highlight the lifestyle, work habits and technology of the mobile web workforce or the Web Bedouin as they call it. The lead writer is Jackson West and he seems to have a nice readable style. I will be …
I came across two related articles about congress members and telecommuting today… Why Can’t Congress Telecommute? Tom Delay Makes Plans to Telecommute from Texas Jail! Yes they are satire. Yes, I do enjoy making fun of our political leaders. Yes, it is generally more fun to mock the party in power, but I believe taking …
I am going to file this one under, “Yikes!” AOL recently released three months worth of search data to researchers. To “protect the privacy” of the searchers, their names were replaced by identifying numbers. Of course it isn’t too difficult to narrow down the identity of an “anonymous” searcher by looking at what they searched …
The Baltimore Business Journal made a shocking claim. It says that employees’ reluctance to telecommute costs them a lot of time and money. They gleaned this information from the 2005/2006 National Technology Readiness Survey. Of the survey respondents, 25% had employers that supported telecommuting or jobs that were conducive to telecommuting, but only 11% actually …
The head of the VA reported that the stolen laptop with veterans’ personal information on it had been recovered. If, as it appears, the data has not been compromised then this is good news for vets. However, I don’t see how it lets the VA off the hook for their shoddy data security practices. They don’t need to …