Twitter: the new way to find a job – BizTech – Technology – smh.com.au.

1. Jobs Are The New Assets – 10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now – TIME.

(If you can't tell what's going on, you sit on the seat and your weight appears on the GIANT FUCKING BILLBOARD)

Unemployed using Web 2.0 to get jobs. 

The Boss – For Twitter C.E.O., Well-Orchestrated Accidents – NYTimes.com.
Nice little bio from the sort-of-founder of twitter, Evan Williams.
I particularly like the para, “My life has been a series of well-orchestrated accidents; I’ve always suffered from hallucinogenic optimism. I was broke for more than 10 years. I remember staying up all night one night at my first company and looking in couch cushions the next morning for some change to buy coffee.” I feel your pain, brother.

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Craig who? Poster mystery baffles Melbourne | smh.com.au.

PASSION was number one for Bill | RICHARD ST. JOHN’S BLOG.

Rudd ‘slip-up’ creates a ‘shit storm’ | smh.com.au.

So after reading this story I’m confused; it’s OK to quote someone (PM or mere mortal) using an expletive in print/online. But on live TV that’s a no no?

For fuck’s sake! The world’s going to hell in a hand basket and ‘shit storm’ hits the fan! It’s probably the most honest thing a politician has ever said.

In the same edition of the SMH, channel 10 canned a pole dancing troupe from appearing on ‘Australia’s Got (Dubious) Talent’ even after long consultation with the troupe over costuming, performance and music. One can only wonder how many times the producers and rest of the male crew had the girls audition before they came to their ridiculous ultra conservative decision. And I bet not one of them handed over so much as a fiver for the privilege.

The skill and stamina involved in pole dancing rivals that of Olympic athletes. I’m glad the girls aren’t on AGT – they are far better than any of their B-grade, wanna be, street performing competitors. I think pole dancing should be in the Olympics as part of the gymnastics.

Archibald Prize 2009 | NEWS.com.au.
Well the Archibald had been run and won for another year. I’m pretty sure that at this year’s announcement Mr Capon would have said something like, ‘It was another stellar year and the decission of the judges was the hardest to make yet.’ But I think he would have been telling porkies. A look at this year’s finalists is not awe inspiring at all. Not one of them makes me want to run out and start painting. 

Of course Mr Capon is a man of great honour so he may well have been far more diplomatic than I, and perhaps talked about the struggle of the artist in the realm of portraiture through the worst financial crisis in living memory.

And perhaps the artists had the same thought as they were plying their craft. Perhaps paying the rent, buying more oils and canvas or food was at the forefront. I know it is for a lot of people.

Maybe the quality of art can be completely equated to the state of the stock market. Maybe creativity in the fine arts ebbs and flows at the whim of the Dow Jones or ASX. They’re both like tumours – all invasive to every aspect of our lives no matter if we’re investors, spectators or blissfully unconscious and unaware of them.