Monday, April 18, 2005
Fast Company
I can't for the life of me remember subscribing to it, but Fast Company is an excellent jobcraver's cheatsheet and has all the current buzz chat and rah-rah articles a fogey like me needs to keep focused and fierce. A good letter in the May number correcting last month's snippet about it *not* being Kool-Aid that Jim Jones dished out. I suspect the meaning and context has evolved over the years, so I'm not sure the writer is right, but he kicks off with a splendid ageist jab: But I still think the current meaning leans towards popping a suicide pill. Meanwhile, I am a little worried by Alex Halavais' many good points in his 'Blogging Up' advice on 'how to career-blog without it coming back to haunt you".Mr Kihn reveals both his age as well as his ignorance of history in "Don't Drink the Grape-Flavored Sugar Water" ... The phase "drink the Kool-Aid" doesn't come from the Jim Jones 1978 Guyana tragedy. It comes from the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests in San Francisco in the '60s, where concertgoers were encouraged to "drink the Kool-Aid" (laced with acid) to see if it would help to 'immerse' themselves in the music."
Well I never."Having a blog is almost like building a brand for yourself ... Don't reveal anything in a blog you wouldn't want to see on the front page of The NYT. It's pretty standard that anyone interviewing you Googles you beforehand ..." Uh ohh.
Halavais cites good examples of blogs to emulate, among which
As I say, that's me in trouble on the Google front until I concoct a casually cool must-hire showpiece for m'self. I know the ingredients:
