On Tuesday, the EU accepted a proposal to consider internet censorship as a trade barrier. The proposer of the policy, Jules Maaten, feels that this would protect online freedom of speech.Justice John Stevens has this to say about internet censorship:
As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, [...]

With the recent news of Yahoo! laying off close to 1000 employees due to a muted outlook released by Jerry Yang, will this acquisition be a positive outcome for Yahoo employees?
Microsoft most likely wants to pick up Yahoo (and they’ve tried in the past, but failed) because they want to gain in the online advertising [...]

I’m reading a case study published by the Harvard Business School on Google Advertising, and one of the last few paragraphs mentions something I find quite interesting which I was not aware of.It states that Google has been conducting an experiment whereby they purchase ad space from magazines and allow its AdWords advertisers to bid [...]

Many people consider e-mail marketing as a spammer’s game. Is it effective? Is it cost-efficient? Vero Pepperrell discusses steps on how to avoid email management pitfalls in her article, The Seven Deadly Sins of Email Marketing Management.

Steve linked to this article which mentions some information about a supposd mobile phone being developed by Google:

As the personal project of co-founder Larry Page, Google’s phone is also one of its best-protected secrets. When a report surfaced in the New York Times discussing the possibility of a mobile phone project, the famously grumpy Page [...]

While reading through my daily dose of RSS feeds via Google Reader I came across this interesting post entitled “Hiring - No False Positives” by Dick Costolo, the CEO of FeedBurner:

[T]he “No False Positives” school of hiring says that bad hires are worse than no hire because bad employees infect the company with all sorts [...]

Many of you know that I hurt my back while at the gym back on the 25th of February so I won’t go into details of how it happened (e-mail me if you really want to know). I could barely move that following Sunday and then when I went in to work on Monday [...]

Execupundit.com: Note From Boss To Employees

How many of you have had a good and or bad manager? Are you a manager yourself? Have any of your employees ever given you a negative review? A friend of mine is in charge of a few different teams (design, marketing, development) and he is always looking for ways to be a great [...]

Yesterday I posted 10 ways to do nothing at work, well today, for those of you who would disagree with that list, here are 18 ways to stay focused at work. Source: c|net.
So, who’s a fan of this list?