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Turns out crowdsourcing my resume was a good idea, lots of helpful suggestions. Thanks to you all! I know what my morning project is now….

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The melody line for U2’s “White As Snow” off of the new album “No Line on the Horizon” keeps reminding me of “O Come, O Come, Emmannuel” …

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Sometime between February 27th and March 4th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!

• Skittles.com: Interweb the Rainbow. Taste the Rainbow.: Bizarre and really interesting — Skittles is crowdsourcing their website. Rather than building their own promotional site, they're pulling in their Facebook fan page, Twitter searches, Youtube videos, and Flickr photos. Nice little experiment!
• What Were Arcades Like?: "I was reading about arcades and how you'd have to queue to play popular games as well as follow rules like no throwing in fighting game or the others wouldn't let you play. This seems rather strange. The money cost must have gotten expensive pretty quickly as well. I'm not old enough to have been to them when they were around so I'm curious about what they were like."
• METAL MACHINE MUSIC: Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising: "This film traces fascinating and reviews the fascinating history of industrial music, via its 1970s origins, through its enormous rise to prominence in America in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s with NIN as the focal point, to culminate with the current activities of Trent Reznor as he uses marketing and promotional initiatives in a manner just as creative as the music he continues to compose. "
• Thousands in Scramble for Free Books After Amazon Supplier Abandons Warehouse: "The warehouse, whose lease recently ran out, once contained as many as five million books destined to be sold online. After the lease expired, he firm running the secondhand book business moved out, leaving it full of books. Managers of the industrial estate invited people to help themselves so they can free up space at the site."
• It’s ‘Potter’ vs. ‘Twilight’ at Great Literary Debate: "Be prepared for lightning bolts and bared fangs as teens square off to defend their literary faves March 21 in 'The Great Debate: Harry Potter vs. Twilight.' Co-sponsored by Seattle Public Library and TEAM READ, the free event is intended to settle (or not) the burning issue of which mega-selling fantasy series reigns supreme." It's a little disturbing how tempting I find it to show up to this, camera in hand, just to see the sparks fly. And not glittery-vampire or broken-wand sparks, either.

Originally published at eclecticism. You can comment here or there.

Sometime between February 27th and March 4th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!

• Skittles.com: Interweb the Rainbow. Taste the Rainbow.: Bizarre and really interesting — Skittles is crowdsourcing their website. Rather than building their own promotional site, they're pulling in their Facebook fan page, Twitter searches, Youtube videos, and Flickr photos. Nice little experiment!
• What Were Arcades Like?: "I was reading about arcades and how you'd have to queue to play popular games as well as follow rules like no throwing in fighting game or the others wouldn't let you play. This seems rather strange. The money cost must have gotten expensive pretty quickly as well. I'm not old enough to have been to them when they were around so I'm curious about what they were like."
• METAL MACHINE MUSIC: Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising: "This film traces fascinating and reviews the fascinating history of industrial music, via its 1970s origins, through its enormous rise to prominence in America in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s with NIN as the focal point, to culminate with the current activities of Trent Reznor as he uses marketing and promotional initiatives in a manner just as creative as the music he continues to compose. "
• Thousands in Scramble for Free Books After Amazon Supplier Abandons Warehouse: "The warehouse, whose lease recently ran out, once contained as many as five million books destined to be sold online. After the lease expired, he firm running the secondhand book business moved out, leaving it full of books. Managers of the industrial estate invited people to help themselves so they can free up space at the site."
• It’s ‘Potter’ vs. ‘Twilight’ at Great Literary Debate: "Be prepared for lightning bolts and bared fangs as teens square off to defend their literary faves March 21 in 'The Great Debate: Harry Potter vs. Twilight.' Co-sponsored by Seattle Public Library and TEAM READ, the free event is intended to settle (or not) the burning issue of which mega-selling fantasy series reigns supreme." It's a little disturbing how tempting I find it to show up to this, camera in hand, just to see the sparks fly. And not glittery-vampire or broken-wand sparks, either.

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Not so much fixing up my resume as fighting with it. Frustrated. Most of the words floating through my brain are not resume appropriate.

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UPDATED: Any kind souls want to critique/make suggestions for my resume (again)? http://xrl.us/mdhresume (158KB .zip w/.pages, .doc and …

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Fueled somewhat equally by the frustration of trying to ‘sell myself’ with my resume and curiosity about all this ultra-modern networking and interconnectedness that the intarwebz give us all, I decided to try a little bit of an experiment yesterday.

The only kind of resume I’d ever had was the old “throw everything on there in a big old list” style. Functional, accurate, but I knew it very likely wasn’t the best approach, especially for someone like me who has a bunch of skills, but hasn’t had jobs that obviously stressed those skills. Figuring that somewhere amidst all my various contacts who occasionally check up on me via this blog, its LiveJournal mirror, or my accounts on Facebook, Twitter, or a multitude of other sites, would be someone (or a few someones) with a few good pointers, I sent out a plaintive little cry for help. Once the resume was ready (though with my address and phone number redacted), I created three versions (one each for Apple’s Pages, Microsoft Word, and Adobe Acrobat), zipped them up into an archive, and tossed them on my webserver. Then, one little tweet:

Any kind souls want to view/critique/analyse/make suggestions for my resume? http://xrl.us/mdhresume (174KB .zip w/.pages, .doc and .pdf)

Within just a few minutes, I started to get responses. Over the course of the next few hours, I got some very welcome advice, samples, and edits from ccheney, Michelle, firemaplegirl, and ladybriggan, plus some entertaining stories from Ogre_Kev.

So, now, after far too many hours of banging my head against my keyboard (really, for all the number of years I’ve been told how well I write, resumes are a glaring exception — perhaps because it’s not so much writing as trying to distill all the eclectic bits of experience and tech knowledge into a series of bullet points: me as a PowerPoint presentation), a new tweet went out:

UPDATED: Any kind souls want to critique/make suggestions for my resume (again)? http://xrl.us/mdhresume (158KB .zip w/.pages, .doc and .pdf)

I’m pretty comfortable with the resume as it stands now, so as long as I don’t get a “DEAR GOD, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING‽” response, I think I’m ready to start sending it out to employers (and yes, I’ll be customizing it a bit for particular jobs where necessary).

Once again, thanks to everyone for the advice and words of encouragement!

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Sad: My Dual 2.0Ghz PowerMac isn’t strong enough to watch Flickr’s HD video smoothly. It does come closer than YouTube’s HD video, however.