Enter Disco Stu
Disco Stu has entered the Vox-o-sphere. Go and encourage him with a "hello" and a neighbourhood add....
Fair and Balanced Videos
So, MainMor posted this:
In the interested of fair and balance blogging, I feel the need to post this:
Done.
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.
In Which I Venture to East Grinstead
The life of an Estates Gazette journalist is an isolated one. You sit in splendid, uhh, isolation in Procter Street, and only ever venture to QH for induction and training.
But since I leaped into a Sutton role, my Reed horizons have expanded immeasurably! New York! Dublin! The Strand! Rugby! and now… East Grinstead!
Yes, last Friday I ventured to one of the most remote outposts of the RBI empire, East Grinstead, for meetings with Bankers Almanac and Kellysearch.
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:
Halesworth Street Fair
We spent the early afternoon today at the Halesworth Antiques Street Fair. Here's a taste of what it's like:
Vox Hunt: Coffee Table Book
Book: Show us a great coffee table book.
QotD: Passing The Drive Time
When driving alone, what do you do? Sing along to the radio? Think about your day? Something else?
Submitted by carapiccoladiva.
I spend just under two hours in the car each weekday, so it gives me plenty of time to catch up on the latest podcasts on a while range of subjects.
Sure, sometimes I listen to music, especially if I'm pretty tired, but I do like the intellectual stimulation of talk podcasts when I'm driving the same old route for the umpteenth time.
DVD Review: The Mother
![The Mother [2003]](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/wp-content/772/2007/08/6a00d8341da3af53ef013486acf7a5970c-200pi-1.jpg "The Mother [2003]")