I missed rounding up last week's Signal, forgive me. This week is a pretty good one though, ending as it did with something of a philosophical rant around "what is government in the age of the Internet." Enjoy. Friday Signal: What Do We Do With The Internet? Thursday Signal: What, You Don’t Like Me? Signal: Apple Takes Its Bite. MORE >>

I’m seeing more companies starting to hire again as the U.S economy slowly swings back into positive territory. Whether you are looking for remote workers or office workers, there are a few ways to improve your chances of finding the best talent, regardless of location. Use your network. Ask for links. Do your research. Show your talent. MORE >>

Three articles in Science focus on "the data deluge and the opportunities that can be realized if we can better organize and access the data." These (I think) call for specialist information literacy, although sadly information literacy is not mentioned in the articles. Thanks to Peter Willett for alerting me to this special issue. Wald, C. Pain, E. MORE >>

In my recent post about ClipCube , a simple Windows app that enables you to check out previously copied/cut items and re-copy the to the clipboard, I said it was missing a couple of features I would have liked it to have: the ability to handle images and keyboard shortcuts. Supports images, with thumbnails in the copied item list. Unicode support. 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 >>