Muskblog: Making the Internet better since 1995

You can’t control what other people say or think about you, so online there is always potential for less than flattering information turning up in a Google search conducted by your future boss. Rather than worrying about what you can’t control you can be more proactive by publishing online yourself…

This morning I woke up to an invitation to join Zorpia.com. I don’t know the person who invited me, I think they must read my website, probably my nurgle subdomain…

It’s my own fault I suppose, but how could I know? I should have left well enough alone, never mentioned it again, but I didn’t. I went and linked to it again and I believe it has been re-aired on the Discovery Channel more than once, now “The Man Whose Arms Exploded” completely dominates my search engine referrals…

Yesterday I added a comment to my lengthy posting about looking for a job online linking to an interview Guy Kawasaki conducted with Libby Sartain a senior HR person at Yahoo! Today Guy shows how he would apply to an actual position at Yahoo! in the form of a cover letter and two sample resumes…

Jakob Nielsen’s advice on blogging holds up pretty well with the passage of time. Jakob Nielsen is considered by many to be the guru on website usability. He can also come across as dogmatic and unwilling to compromise or to allow for artistic creativity. I prefer Steve Krug and his book. None the less, I tried to incorporate Jokob’s advice and to that end added a picture of myself in the sidebar when he originally advocated it. However it is his night point which inspired this blog post…