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Oftentimes what's good for people as consumers is also good for people as union members - and vice versa. Case in point, consumers' expectation that quality goods won't, say, explode when they're not supposed to coincides nicely with the elan that union workers demonstrate as regards their ability to produce quality goods. Labor's explanation for this pride in a job well done is that union workers have decent benefits and make fair wages, and because of that are in decent health and spirits. Which all translates to being able to do their best on the job, and results in their production of quality goods.

Sometimes you just can't get a good RSS feed when you need one.

For those of you who missed the memo, RSS stands for (among other things) "Really Simple Syndication" - and is a "microformat" (a little snippet of code) that takes the basic information from posts to a website and and presents it in a way that allows other people on the web to easily monitor new posts to the site as they appear.

A report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project makes it clear that almost half of all American adults who use the internet or have a cell phone need someone else to help them set it up.

Yesterday, the word went out that a huge web hacking campaign hit up to 10,000 servers. The attacks added a simple line of code to the hacked sites that redirects their viewers to one of six servers which then send the traffic to a server in China. That server then launches attacks on viewers computers via major web browsers like Internet Explorer, and other commonly used pieces of software.
 

What is the marketing industry telling corporate leadership about social networking? We're as curious about that question at Prometheus as many other labor movement folks are; so we listened to a podcast from a recent conference called Corporate Communications in a Web 2.0 for some answers. And the panel led by event host Mark Ragan, CEO of Ragan Communications, was certainly not shy about providing them.

Greetings, CorD fans. While it's gratifying to see people other than Steve or I posting to this site, I thought I should chime in and just say that I haven't disappered for the last 3 weeks. I've just been busy with various Prometheus projects, and then sick for the last week with the fairly nasty cold going around now that weather's getting colder.

I'll be back shortly with new stuff. But if any of you all have labor tech projects going on - especially in unions at any level - you should let me know by commenting to this post. I'm looking to interview some folks on new developments, and how they're working out.

It's probably healthy to have moments of self-doubt from time-to-time, and I'm experiencing one now; so I thought it would be appropriate to share it with Communicate or Die viewers since the doubt in question is about the efficacy of the kinds of technology I generally discuss here. It occurred to me to explore this issue while doing my weekly search for cool new stuff that might be of use to unions, and feeling like ... blah. Like, how many new tools can we use? How many different ways to communicate with people can we handle? Is all this stuff a distraction from more important matters for unions?