Meet John Q. Deskjockey. He spends the best part of gorgeous Spring days tethered to a desk in a white-walled box with fluorescent lighting and a picture of his favorite mountain lake hemmed in by a decorative frame on the corner of his work station.

Content deliver provider inks deal with Microsoft to provide exclusive hosting for multiplayer games on the next generation platform.

Scrivs takes a look at whether its best to write an original content blog or a syndicated (linking to others articles) blog. It is a good question that is well worth thinking through for each of your blogs.

Light sweet crude prices dropped below $50 down $1.47 to $49.45 amid speculation of higher oil inventories on Tuesday. Brent crude trading in London was down 49 cents to $50.75. The U.S. Dept. of Energy releases their weekly report tomorrow and experts figure oil inventories will be up.

Long-running patent suits between the two technology companies finally come to a close with a settlement.

Though currently on the launch pad during mock countdowns, the space shuttle Discovery will be taken down and returned to the assembly building for adjustments on the fuel tank.

On the weekend I was speaking with a friend, Alex, who is a Farmer about blogging and the more we talked the more we realized that there is a lot of similarities between what we do. I thought I’d rehash some of the main points from our conversation here:

Weight management program provider, NutriSystem has filed with the SEC for a public offering.

Today I am very proud to write here that CooperKatz’s Micro Persuasion practice has secured a new corporate blogging engagement, and it’s a big one – Vespa scooters.

Boeing and Lockheed Martin are teaming up to make rockets for the United States military.

A patent application by Google aims to improve the results of its news searches by creating a news source credibility database.

Citing tougher US immigration laws, the proliferation of Asian (specifically Chinese) engineering, and a declining number of US engineering grads, Bill Gates issued a warning to educational institutions that the US is in danger of losing its leading technological status.

Eric Ward at Search Engine Guide writes about the power of the passive inbound link. In short – a passive link is a link you don’t buy, ask for or trade links for.

The European Central Bank has left its benchmark rate at 2%, marking two straight years that the rate has been unchanged.

According to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), sales of semiconductors shot up 13.2% globally in the first-quarter from last year’s numbers.

Google has filed a patent application titled: Systems and methods for improving the ranking of news articles.

The EU and U.S. have agreed to continue negotiations related to a dispute over Boeing and Airbus subsidies.

The state of Kansas is preparing to debate Darwin’s theory of evolution and a current variant on creationism called intelligent design. When Darwin cruised on the Beagle all those years ago, one wonders if he foresaw such controversy lasting so many years. Things really came to a head though during the Scopes Monkey Trial.

Next generation consoles from the two companies, plus a rumored project from Nintendo, cause developers endless headaches.

Here’s a nice web page that you can use instead of the usual Google homepage that makes it easier to begin many types of searches that Google now offers.

Windows XP update to add support for Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 opens a new facet to marketing the operating system.

While Toyota and Nissan reported their “best month ever,” General Motors and Ford reported more than dismal sales for April.