Great...even more blogs to read every day. In all seriousness, the great blogs are a pleasure to read each day. It is the dreck that is such a pain.

That was very kind of you to include CollegeRecruiter.com in your list of 56 web sites that organizations need to use when recruiting employees. Your identification of our college niche was dead-on. Employers which are seeking candidates with years of experience will certainly be better served by other job boards but we feel we provide excellent value to employers who want to hire college students who are searching for internships or recent graduates who are hunting for entry-level jobs.

Thank you for the blog love!!

I think that I read recently (Wall Street Journal?) that there is some talk and perhaps some action about a class action lawsuit against Microsoft for how it has marketed Windows Vista. My recollection is that it was related to labeling of computers in 2006 as being "Vista ready" when they were actually only capable of being upgraded to the stripped down version of Vista, but the Compaq that you temporarily had sure seems like it fell into the same bucket of a computer that talked the talk but wouldn't walk the walk.

Monster has actually been involved in Web 2.0 since the day they launched. Doesn't user generated content include resumes and job postings, or does Web 2.0 exclude such content? I actually believe that Web 2.0 does not include job postings or resumes as those are more akin to data than information. Articles, podcasts, blogs, videos, etc. are more akin to information than data and when I think of Web 2.0, I think of user generated information, not user generated data.

Nothing sells tickets like a bit of controversy. I have to believe that there were a number of potential attendees who were pushed into the "yes" camp as a result of this session. Nothing wrong with that. It should be fun and good info for those who follow Jobster.

We have our key people sign non-competes, but they're non-solicit agreements as you've defined them. I've never had an employee give me any pushback on those either before or after they've worked for us. People feel that we're being reasonable by not allowing them to solicit business from clients they've been involved with for a year or whatever period is defined. We are inhibiting their ability to earn a living a bit, but hardly at all as they can do the same kind of work and even do it for a competitor, but they can't work with the same clients they did while they were with us. That prevents them from stealing clients before or after they officially depart and that's what we're primarily concerned about.

Never listen to a CSR reading from a script? Amen, brother. I wish that I had a dollar for each time have I been told to re-format my hard drive by so-called tech support reps. Ridiculous. The last time was about two weeks ago by a rep from Sharp when I was having a hardware issue. The guy agreed that it was hardware yet he's telling me to re-format my hard drive. I asked him how that would solve anything other than a software problem. He said that he was just telling me what he had been told to tell people when the problem isn't covered by his manual. Yeesh.

Are free postings good for employers? Maybe. But free postings leads to a lot of crap postings by fly-by-night organizations offering bogus "commission-only" positions that are really just fancy fronts for stealing from vulnerable job seekers. Don't believe me? Have a deep look at the free Craigslist sites. But to me the far more interesting question is whether free postings are good for Jobster. Again, maybe. They haven't seem to have done much for HotJobs or the other sites which have tried them. Many employers are only willing to post jobs no matter how much sense it makes for them to do more, so getting Jobster for free will now encourage those employers to use Jobster but not pay Jobster. Are those clients? Hardly. They're expenses. The key to this free posting deal is whether Jobster will succeed in converting clients who sign up for freebies into clients who pay big bucks and, more importantly, pay big time in terms of the number of hours they must invest in order to get good results from Jobster. I hear all of the time from employers that tried Jobster that it takes too long. I don't buy it, but that's the perception. The reality is that for many and perhaps most of those ex-clients of Jobster, they weren't willing to be proactive and network with candidates. They would prefer to drop hundreds of dollars on a posting, get hundreds of resumes, and then wonder why they can't hire good people. I do think that Jobster has taken a smart, courageous step. Whether they will be able to execute it is going to be most interesting. I truly wish them the best as I think that this move is best for the entire industry in the long-term.

Despite what Guy said, the honor and pleasure was ours. I was fortunate enough to attend his presentation. He was funny, interesting, thought provoking, and repeatedly expressed his love for hockey. What more could we ask for?

Excellent food, fun atmosphere, and $6 for a meal in aluminum foil. What could be better? I love Chipotle. Thank goodness they were spun off from McDonald's. I was always fearful that McDonald's would do to Chipotle what GM did to Saturn.

I'm not sure, but this might be related to why you can't see your reflection in a mirror and people walk right through you as if you're not even there. :)

I've also heard that Joel was seen in England with a small amount of radioactive material. He denies this and any involvement in the assassination of certain high profile Russians, but it seems that someone might want to look further into these allegations. :)

A puppy blender? Is that kind of like the Bass-O-Matic? Mmmm. That's great bass!

Trust me when I say (write?) that passing your name along a couple of months ago was much more enjoyable than passing a kidney stone about 10 years ago. :)

The standard joke that I like to tell is that blogs are written by people with nothing to say and read by people with too much time on their hands. Apparently you had little to say when you posted the above entry. Hmmm. I guess that means that I don't have enough to do today. Yeah, right. :)

A suit is definitely appropriate if you are interviewing for a position that will require you to wear a suit should you be hired. But if you're interviewing for a production line position and will be dressed in shorts and a t-shirt, you should not wear a suit to the interview. It is better to be a little overdressed than underdressed for an interview, but it is not good to be grossly overdressed.

I will be absolutely shocked if OnRec 2007 doesn't draw at least 500 attendees. All of the 2006 attendees should be back and they'll each bring a colleague or two. It was a great, great show.

I couldn't let that Blame Canada video reference pass without a comment. As someone who grew up in Winnipeg (I moved to Minneapolis for the weather), I got a real charge out of it. Now if I could only figure out a way to harness the energy from that charge so that I could heat my house this winter. :)

Since my stellar appearance, my agent's phone has been ringing off the hook with offers. The ideas for new shows are staggering and quite flattering. They range from "CSI: Blogger" to "Cheers: Northern Porter" to "Law & Order: Fully Recovered Lawyer Now Running College Career Site." I thought that your good humor deserved an attempt of the same in return. Thanks for the note, Jim.

There's a Days Inn on Lakeshore Drive. About three blocks off of Michigan Avenue a/k/a Miracle Mile. Nothing fancy, but a nicer Days Inn. Quiet, tall, and right on Lake Michigan.