Amitai Givertz's Blogversity Blog » Asides http://blogversity.com A Crucible for Blogging, Business & Life in the Bubble Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:33:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Microsoft’s Future Grounded in the Here and Now http://blogversity.com/2011/10/31/microsofts-future-grounded-in-the-here-and-now/ http://blogversity.com/2011/10/31/microsofts-future-grounded-in-the-here-and-now/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:46:31 +0000 Amitai Givertz http://blogversity.com/?p=840 Microsoft have unveiled their vision of the future in a slick tube imaginatively titled Productivity Future Vision (2011). While the video showcases Microsoft “innovations” [rather than an actual vision of the future] some of the the comments are timeless, ensuring this glitzy promo will be talked about for all the wrong reasons…

  • “I never asked for this.”
  • “Fake! The World will ends in 2012.”
  • “OMG, you left your porn on the fridge again.”
  • “I was expecting more than a better touch screen.”
  • “Cannot retrieve user data. Data Plan may be exceeded.”
  • “How about Microsoft stop daydreaming and create some damn jobs for the working class.”
  • “That mom is having affair with that Japanese administrator, while father is forced to stay home with daughter, cooking like a woman.”
  • “Where are the fucking robots and flying cars already?”

Do leave a comment of your own, won’t you?



[No video? watch it on YouTube]

 

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Read the post here…

]]> http://blogversity.com/2007/12/29/lessons-learned-from-the-recruiting-roadshow/feed/ 0 Bill Vick and Towers of Confusion http://blogversity.com/2007/12/12/bill-vick-and-towers-of-confusion/ http://blogversity.com/2007/12/12/bill-vick-and-towers-of-confusion/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:32:44 +0000 Amitai Givertz http://blogversity.com/2007/12/12/bill-vick-and-towers-of-confusion/ A personal reflection posted on Recruitomatic today. It is about recruiting big-biller Bill Vick’s presentation at the Dallas Recruiting Roadshow.

Bill’s presentation introduced “bleeding edge” technology to recruiters who by and large — by their own show of hands — were hemorrhaging on old notions of how to use the Internet. It was that that was was most interesting to me. I wondered, “Is the so-called war for talent going to be won with what most recruiters are currently equipped with?” I don’t think so.

You can read the whole post here…

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Trying to wrap my head around information foraging theory I’m hoping a modern-day forager can help me make some stodgy stuff a little easier to digest…hmmm, maybe not!

The Discovery Channel airs an interesting program called Man vs Wild. The star of the show is Bear Grylls, a real life Action Man who demonstrates techniques for surviving the most inhospitable landscapes.

To accentuate the extreme nature of his adventures — and the diversity of what we eat on planet Earth perhaps — we are treated to the spectacle of watching iron-gut Grylls eat some particularly horrid things, or delicacies depending on your stomach.

Read the rest here…

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