The March U.S. jobs numbers came out last week and offered some reason for optimism with the national unemployment rate falling to 8.8 percent. But the growth in hiring was spotty — California, for instance, appears to be lagging. What else did the Elance data reveal? Less expected was the city given the crown of America’s geekiest metropolis. MORE >>

I recent read and reread an interesting post by Thierry de Baillon, Moving Beyond “Work as Usual” in a Complex World. We have moved from knowledge is power to knowledge sharing. This is a good thing but we need to go further as Thierry notes. Then I offer a few of my own. The real power resides in knowledge use, not in knowledge sharing.”. MORE >>

Autism blogger Lisa Jo Rudy once challenged parents to “quit autism for just one day.”. Your child with autism may always be autistic, but there are places and circumstances in which it either doesn’t matter – or in which your child’s special talents make autism irrelevant. Just for one day, quit being the parent of a child with autism. Every day. MORE >>

SugarSync, a file sharing and backup service we’ve written about before , has updated its iOS app to version 2.2, and it’s a big improvement over previous versions. Like a lot of my WWD colleagues, I’ve been a big Dropbox user. The ability to grab a public link to any file in your SugarSync account and email it. MORE >>

Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.    Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want to save for the same reason. spot tested the reduced shortened urls and they all should work. hope this is also useful for you.  MORE >>