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I’ve pretty much given up on the idea that this blog will help me get a job… (Unless someone wants to prove me wrong.)

I’ve also learned that looking for a job is a lot of work. You spend time on the job boards, and time writing (and re-writing) your resume, and talking to recruiters, and going to interviews, and you might even try a bit of networking, hoping you meet someone who might know someone who is hiring.

Anyway, I am a web geek for hire! I do open-source stuff, Perl, PHP, Apache, Linux, MySQL… Mac OS X, blogging, podcasting, videoblogging, wikis, Microformats, Sematic Web, XHTML/CSS, etc… And even though I’m a techie-nerd, I come from the publishing world with a graphic design background. I love the web. I want to help build it, and improve it, for a company I like and respect. Is that so much to ask for?

Do you know of something in the Milwaukee/Madison area, or something with a company that doesn’t care where I live? Let me know…

Hey, in the meantime, I’ll just be hopeful that PayMeToBlog.com takes off and pays me enough to live my extravagant lifestyle.

(P.S. I don’t do .NET or Java…)

I’ll be honest, when I made a post titled BarCampMilwaukee? I was hoping someone would notice. Well, someone has…

See this post by Justin Kruger titled BARcamp :: Why I like cheese even more than racing. Justin is involved in Fireseed and shot me an email which is right inline with my post. So while barcampmilwaukee.com does not seem to be online quite yet, it is registered and planning for the event is in motion.

This is awesome! I hope to be able to meet up with Justin and Bob to discuss this further.They always say Milwaukee is a “Great Place on a Great Lake” and I’m hoping we can prove this to be true when it comes to the web and technology as well.

When I know more, I’ll post it here.

I really wanted to link to an article in the Business Journal, but the article I wanted to link to will be disappearing from the web soon:

It appears as though they don’t want to publish print pieces online for free. This may or may not make sense. It’s been going on for the last 5 (10?) years, and print publications still haven’t quite figured it out.

I’m not always a fan of Google, but they get some things right, and while I would have said that Google Video is not exactly right, what they do get right is linking to a specific point in a video.

As more and more time-based media comes online, we need better tools (and maybe even some standards?) for linking to it. I know that some work has been done in this area, but we really need to step it up so audio and video can eventually be on par with hypertext when we want to address it on the web.