Archive for April 11th, 2008
11
04
2008
It is 3:00AM do you know who the President is on the phone with?Posted by: Wayne in WatercoolerTHEY work long hours, often to the point of exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece - not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing workforce of homeoffice labourers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling under great physical and emotional stress created by the around-the-clock Internet economy that demands a constant stream of news and comment. In the last few months, two of them have died suddenly. Oh, the President is asleep, so am I; this software has a feature that allows me to post an article at some later time so I can have a vacation and still post articles. I need to write a delayed article on dopdf it is a cool program that allows you to print to a PDF file. Maybe tomorrow. Popularity: 15% [?] |