Posted by Gregg at 09:41 AM in Information Industry

Even though the internet has greatly accelerated the speed with which concepts are adopted it still take some time for enough users to adopt new technologies to make them relevant. Kevin Werbach writes ... "Jason Kottke thinks we should stop using the word "syndication" to describe what we do with RSS/Atom feeds. I disagree. He's right that what's happening now online is different than the classic print syndication model. But the concept of syndication has always been broader than that. As I wrote several years ago in the Harvard Business Review (and before that in Release 1.0), it's a perfect way to describe the emerging business model of the Internet economy. " more

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Posted by Gregg at 09:37 AM in Human Capital

For fun and benchmarking ... Dozens of them, in full text. (FindLaw.com) more

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Posted by Gregg at 09:54 AM in Human Capital

NPR's All Things Considered examines the emergence of the Chief Privacy Officer in the Bush Administration. What's Jet Blue's excuse? more

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Posted by Gregg at 09:50 AM in Human Capital

As the market exhibits a renewed appetite for risk, interest in stock option as a component of compensation rises, as illustrated in this recent post on BenefitsLink .... A small software company has 100% of the equity distributed but only 10% of the stock issued. The current stockholders are unwilling to dilute their ownership position. We are trying to secure long-term funding. Is there a way to offer stock options to current employees based on the event of securing this funding? more

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Posted by Gregg at 09:58 AM in Human Capital

Kevin Laws in VentureBlog gives some practical advice and good insights into the dynamics of networking. more

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