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The Old Media Declares War On New Media

Posted on March 29, 2017 by jccarlton

Imagine if you are huge media conglomerate, say the one based in Australia, New Corp. You can see you revenue sources drying up from some of your media outlets due to the internet and you are at your wits end to change the trend. Lucky for you, you purchased the most respected business media outlet in the world and It’s fairly easy for you to weaponize that advantage so long a s you don’t really care about your outlet’s credibility. Apparently New Corp. is willing to sacrifice the Wall St Journal’s credibility on the altar of having to keep a dying business model on life support.

Hell Gate Bridge Is 100 Years Old

Posted on March 9, 2017 by jccarlton

No Zombies in sight. The bridge seems to empty of zombies, the NY Times not withstanding.

So What Do All Those Resumes The ATS Flushes Represent.

Posted on February 13, 2017 by jccarlton

They all represent hope, hope that somehow, some way they will get a chance to talk and maybe even have a working relationship. That’s because people are not machines or “assets.”

The Hyperloop Attracting Money, Getting Students To Do The Engineering

Posted on February 11, 2017 by jccarlton

Thunderfoot has another Hyperloop video. I’ve posted about the Hyperloop before. I have a great deal of skepticism about the Hyperloop and even more on how the engineering seems to be progressing.

If Your Building Looks Like A Factory, Your Corporate Culture Probably Does Too

Posted on January 19, 2017 by jccarlton

So Facebook is a great company? Then why does the HQ looks like the worst sort of factory from the Soviet Union with some little things added for show?
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/apr/08/facebook-hq-mark-zuckerberg-frank-gehry-new

They may look impressive to Mr. Branson, and they are impressive, but as somebody who has worked in all sorts of different situations It looks potentially oppressive to me. The open office might work for some things, but it’s a throwback to the days when there were just rows of desks and the only people with privacy were the people on top. I mean, Gehry architecture included the building looks and acts as a perfect example of Taylorism in architecture.

Bad Management

Posted on December 15, 2016 by jccarlton

This article on the Clinton campaign in Michigan shows how things don’t work. In a political campaign, on the ground data is crucial. If you don’t know what’s REALLY happening you can’t be effective. Yet the Clinton campaign seemingly acted like a badly run corporation and ignored the rumblings that things were not going as well as they seemed.

From Breakbulk To The Container

Posted on November 29, 2016 by jccarlton

The shipping container, the vessels that carry them and the land vehicles that carry them represent a revolution in the way cargo gets moved across the world. The full impact of that revolution is still being felt. The one thing that is certain is, that like it or not the world is going to be more connected than it has ever been in history as getting stuff from point “A” to point “B” has never been cheaper. To understand the full impact of the revolution We need to start at the beginning.

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