As many of you know, Friday morning at around 3am Eastern Time, a fire broke out in Seattle at Internap which provides connectivity to the EchoDitto servers. To give you some quick background, EchoDitto uses Internap for co-location services; the Internap facility in Seattle is at Fisher Plaza, the only mission-critical business community in the Northwest. more

Having recently posted a job description on CraigsList for an administrative/office manager position in our Cambridge office, I was amazed by the responses that we received... but not for all the obvious reasons. While the quantity was impressive, the quality of the replies was a bit startling. I am not talking about the actual quality of the resume itself, but rather the content of the email sent with the resume. I therefore present Joshua's "Five Tips when Applying for Job!" more