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Full time, with benefits employee position….

Manager of Web Production Development

Work with artists like White Stripes, Linkin Park, Hot Hot Heat, Muse and more. Perks include a cool work environment, amazing technology, and fun people.

What we are looking for:
- Minimum 3 years in website creation / management experience.
- Experience with tools and languages such as PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Drupal, SQL, Flash, SVN, Unix Shell required.
- Skills in Information Architecture, User Interface Design and E-Commerce are strongly preferred.

We are the tech department for this entire company. Because of that, a degree of patience, enthusiasm and passion is necessary. You’ll be an uber-geek amongst a lot of music fans. WBR is fast paced, super fun, future-forward, collaborative and run internally like a start-up.

Knowledge and Ability Required
- XML, XHTML Transitional/Strict, CSS 2- PHP 4/5
- MySQL 4/5, phpMyAdmin- Telnet, SSH, SVN
- Web Production knowledge (e.g. graphic optimization)
- Linux/Solaris/UNIX system knowledge
- Apache familiarity (.htaccess etc.)
- Mailing list management
- Able to pickup new technologies / approaches / processes as required.

Desired Knowledge and Abilities
- Mac OS, Photoshop, Illustrator- Flash 8+ ( ActionScript 2.0 )
- Video preparation / optimization
- Drupal 4/5, WordPress, PHPTemplate familiarity
- DHTML, XmlHttpRequest, jQuery, Dojo, Mochkit
- SVK, CVS, Perl, Ruby

A love and passion for music and technology is a must!

Read this blog too, to see what we’re like.

E-mail your resume (no attachments!!!!) to me at ethan (@) warnerbrosrecords.com

Also include some links to things you’ve worked on, delicious/digg/Slashdot/Facebook/whatever accounts.

For a second imagine if the Kindle had all its morphological features (ie: EVDO, e-ink display, light weight, nice price) but with an open API for anyone to publish content for anyone that uses the device, through an Amazon market place. No DRM imposed, only an infrastructure that provided a means of doing mobile reading of ANY textual content. Also, we should come up with what the modality of experience this engenders should be called. Mobile reading? Ubiquitous Textuality? Diachronic Discourse?

[From Will Kindle Reignite Amazon's Flame? - Seeking Alpha]

Speaking of newspapers, how much fun would it be to be given a newspaper, cart-blanche to reinvent without any corporate overhead, but with full access to its inherent resources? You have a great infrastructure, printing presses (sell them!) and in the case of a good amount of them, great local awareness. My secret dream: being given a year, as CEO, to do a ground-up reinvention of a newspaper. Anyone interested?

[From Spiral Death Watch: Newspaper Ads In The Can ]

The original headline for this post was “TinyURL OUtage SHows Fragility of the Web” – synecdoche to the n-th degree, yes indeed. TinyURL’s outage doesn’t expose even a single point of failure in the web, it just exposes the consequence of single influence, regardless of success or failure. Power-law at work.

[From TinyURL Outage Illustrates the Service's Risks]

[From EXCLUSIVE: Apple Secretly Tracking iPhone IMEI and Usage (with proof)]

Another blog slamdown without any factual data. Wonderful. Here is some facts about IMEI’s, lifted from the bastian of sources (Wikipedia)

Format:

AA-BBBBBB-CCCCCC-D

NN – Reporting Body Identifier

XXXXXX – Type Identifier

ZZZZZZ – Specifies the model information

D – Check digit

IMEI’s are globally unique and carry from cell to cell just fine. They are in a sense the GUID (guaranteed unique idenfier) for the phone on any given network, and similar to the MAC address of a computer. IMEI’s are also useful in the blacklisting of phones when they are stolen. Back in the analog days, you blocked the ESN of a phone when it was stolen (I’ve had many phones stolen).

Why would IMEI’s be useful to send with a request on a widget or an app, or even in headers on a web-request? Same reason you put a GUID in a users cookies with a web-app. Easy tracking, easy personalization, better user experience.

If you have tinfoil hats on for an IMEI transmission, might as well do rotating MAC address spoofing. Just don’t complain when your router gets upset.

This is what Digg has become? Racist jokes and bad science? And they banned the key for decrypting HDDVD but let this shit on here? Bad form.

. [From Digg - Paleontologist unveils African dinosaur]

Computers are never designed to “just work.” Ever. I use a Mac (actually a few of them) for up to 20 hours a day and they take care and feeding, as all devices and technology do, from your car to airplanes to your TV. The Brand Promise of Apple is that I enjoy doing this.

[From The brand promise of Apple « Scobleizer]