Lending an academic job

See an interesting article by Jonathan A. Dantzig if you are looking for career in academics. The title of the article is "Landing an academic job- The process and the pitfalls". I liked the way Jonathan has explained the entire process of getting an academic job. He tells the basic things which should be done. It is available at http://quattro.me.uiuc.edu/~jon/ACAJOB/academic_job.html.

Google strategy

Times magazine "in search of the real google"
Every employee is meant to divide his or her time in three parts: 70% devoted to Google's core businesses, search and advertising; 20% on pursuits related to the core; and 10% on far-out ideas. The San Francisco wi-fi initiative resulted from someone's 10% time;