Did you think the term gig economy was a modern concept? You’d be wrong. Yes, it refers to the growing number of freelancers and contract workers making up the workforce. But its origins stretch back much further. What is the Gig Economy? Spawned by jazz club musicians in the early 1900s, the notion of a […]
When running social media for your business, it’s important to be on top of all aspects of your accounts. This can even include your post archives, and tweets your company (and past marketers) may have published years ago. While it might seem silly to spend any time searching your Twitter history and navigating through past
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Tony Villanova – March 19, 2019 Data Studio makes creating visually appealing and interactive reports a cinch, it can also cause a headache if anyone edits the report or makes changes and accidentally breaks the report or data source. This has been a hurdle to get over when issues arise, until now. In the latest
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A congressman who attended Harvard at the same time as Mark Zuckerberg accused the Facebook co-founder of “rewriting history” amid an ongoing whirlwind over the social media giant’s declaration that it will not police political speech, even if it contains outright lies. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), a former Marine Corps reservist who served in Iraq,
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Koch was first to venture out of the ISS with a red tether attached to her suit. Meir soon followed, carrying a tool bag as she made her way out of the hatch at 7:49 a.m. The spacewalk was originally scheduled for 5½ hours, but the crews successfully completed their main task and the mission
from the still-not-in-space dept Five Years Ago This week in 2014, while Edward Snowden was telling a reporter that he probably wouldn’t have revealed as much as reporters did from his documents (which was part of the point of passing the decision on people not immersed in the NSA), new releases from said documents gave
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from the moral-panics-through-the-ages dept Video games are often blamed for unemployment, violence in society and addiction – including by partisan politicians raising moral concerns. Blaming video games for social or moral decline might feel like something new. But fears about the effects of recreational games on society as a whole are centuries old. History shows
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Launching a new product is no easy feat — even major companies have unexpected flops. Less than 3% of new consumer packaged goods exceed first-year sales of $50 million, according to Joan Schneider and Julie Hall, coauthors of “The New Launch Plan.” Microsoft’s Zune failed to compete with the iPod, Cosmopolitan magazine couldn’t break into
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The UK is attempting to be the fourth nation to successfully land on the moon with a rover due to set off in 2021. The UK’s first moon rover will be sent into space in 2021. The world’s smallest robotic moon rover, with legs not wheels, will be part of the first set of payloads
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from the not-so-distant-past dept Five Years Ago This week in 2014, while Roca Labs was going off the rails in a case that kept getting more and more bizarre, we saw a mixed bag of court decisions: Warner Bros. was ordered to reveal its automated DMCA takedown notice process, a judge adjusted the MP3Tunes ruling
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