They’re Watching You at Work. A look at how people analytics are affecting hiring practices within companies.
Tag: The Atlantic
Locked in the Ivory Tower: Why JSTOR Imprisons Academic Research. The proscriptive part of the article is shallow, but the process of how an article gets published is fascinating. If you’re looking for an area of higher education ripe for disruption I’m not sure it gets much better than this.
Making It in America. What manufacturing in America looks like in 2012. Fantastic work by the Atlantic.
How Tumblr Hired Its 3rd Employee. Cool little story about how Tumblr hired Marc LaFountain, their 3rd employee and head of customer support.
Vladimir Putin, Action Man. Such an awesome stream of images. It’s fun to scroll through and think of alternate captions for them. Talk about a Renaissance man. 😉
North Korea’s Digital Underground. What journalism looks like in North Korea. Fascinating read about how information slips and moves through the margins.
Your child left behind
The Atlantic surveys a recent study that focuses on how individual states compare in international math score rankings. The results are fairly surprising. It all goes to show that for schools more money brings more problems.
Tracking a whale via Flickr
Interesting story from the Boston Globe about a researcher who stumbled across a record whale migration via Flickr. Turns out the whale traveled more than 6,000 miles between photographs.
Found via the Atlantic’s Science and Technology blog.