Aaron Swartz launches Job Book, an encyclopedia of jobs

http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2007/10/30/jobbookorg-up-and-running/

by divia • 19 years ago

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aheilbut• 19 years ago

Interesting... some of the goals of this sound similar, and complementary, to Path101 (http://blog.path101.com).

tocomment2• 19 years ago

That's a cool idea.

adnam• 19 years ago

infogami ... reddit ... openlibrary ... jottit ... jobbook ... This guy's on fire!

byrneseyeview2• 19 years ago

True, although he abandoned Infogami to start reddit, which he left to start the rest (and that's after starting a few other now-neglected projects like the Alex Kozinski Site (http://notabug.com/kozinski/) and a proto-Wikipedia at http://theinfo.org/).

He appears to be very smart -- but a little too brilliant (http://taoyue.com/stacks/articles/brilliant-men.html).

newzie• 19 years ago

"start reddit" ?

daniel-cussen• 19 years ago

I liked the brilliant article.

ardit333• 19 years ago

umm... can we say ADD?

I like the web.py framework he started but some of the decissions made in there have made me scratch my head.

Still, I'd rather do what he is doing, than being a code monkey/H-1B slave, for my current company.

kirubakaran• 19 years ago

"code monkey/H-1B slave"

Why the derogatory tone on non-immigrant workers? How is it slavery?

tocomment2• 19 years ago

What decisions made you scratch your head?

cglee• 19 years ago

The problem with job/salary surveys is that the people who respond tend to skew towards the more satisfied and higher paid range. That's why when I was in undergrad, all the jobs seemed so darn great - the companies sent the happiest, chirpiest employees they could find.

On a separate note, does jobbook.org look a bit under developed for a publicized app that "took several months"? Maybe there's magic behind that simple UI.

run4yourlives• 19 years ago

ding ding.

Personal salary surveys are considered so inaccurate that HR firms won't bother to do them. I saw something similar with salaryscout.com.

HR pros usually ignore salary data from employee sources.

webology• 19 years ago

It was rather disappointing but I'm sure it will grow in time. It just seemed like yet another wiki for Aaron but I was surprised too at the "several months" comment.

fauigerzigerk• 19 years ago

I like the idea. Not just for choosing careers, it's also a good source for startups that have a general idea but aren't sure what particular group of users to focus on first, and what special requirements that group has.

vidar• 19 years ago

Aaron seems to be using the wiki/notetaking/lightweight approach to a number of things, throwing things up and seeing what sticks. Not a bad idea per se but I have a feeling that each of these projects will need a bit more handholding and followthrough if they are to succeed. But best of luck to him.

axod• 19 years ago

Aaron Swartz is to ycnews, as xkcd comics are to reddit. Instantly upvoted to top page all the time. It gets boring on both sites IMHO

maurycy• 19 years ago

What about PG?

falsestprophet• 19 years ago

Ron Paul

rglullis• 19 years ago

Has anyone noticed that the site is built using the infogami codebase? (http://infogami.org/dev)

webwright• 19 years ago

Like a lot of UGC sites, I'm not quite clear what the incentive is for the contributors...

rob• 19 years ago

Aaron Swartz.. truly the most brilliant human to come to the tech world. He is a revolutionary.

jawngee• 19 years ago

I'm searching for the /sarcasm tag. Please tell me it's there somewhere.

zandorg• 19 years ago

I think I'll make a Web 2.0 startup that thinks up names for new Web 2.0 startups.

What shall I call it? Startnom? CeaseGuerre?

Aaron Swartz launches Job Book, an encyclopedia of jobs

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