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joanofarf

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    Comment #22167071

    I used Miro for years and loved it. Now my company has Mural, which is better for creating presentations, but not as good as Miro at being an actual collaborative space.

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    Comment #18396743

    I recently had to ask 5-8 colleagues to fill out a TRACOM "Social Styles Assessment" for an upcoming training program at work, so this is something I've been curious about as well.…

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    Comment #17893555

    I've been using Workflowy for several years and recommend it very highly. The ability to expand/collapse, zoom in/out, and do everything via keyboard shortcuts makes it very pleasa…

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    Comment #17816288

    True. I wonder if now, six years later, more older music, not just the biggest hits, has been digitized as well, so that the sample does not skew so heavily.

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    Comment #17816089

    I do think pitch content is a useful metric. A lot of popular songs reuse a handful of common chord progressions. While the key and timbre may change from song to song, the tension…

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    Comment #17816015

    Further down in the Scientific American piece, one of the researchers does respond to this: >Serrà acknowledged in an email that a bias due to the “test of time” effect is possible…

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    Comment #17735878

    >I think schools need to do a better job requiring humanities majors to take STEM classes in the same way I was required to take humanities. This. And incorporating more technology…

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    Comment #17725716

    I block the camera on my work machine, so that if I accidentally have video turned on when joining a meeting I don't embarrass myself.

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    Comment #17718596

    > While there is still innovation, there aren't dramatic changes happening as often in the past two decades. There are many popular songs today that could have been popular in 00's…

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    Comment #17717913

    >I don't think that virality being required is a problem Look what that has done to "Online Content-with-a-capital-C" at large. If you launched an ad-supported website today and wa…

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    Comment #6650347

    A couple of questions: Do the freelance publicists go through any kind of screening process before they can get on the site? How does a business user's wish list of media outlets w…

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    Comment #6536083

    Check out the Writing Excuses podcast ( http://www.writingexcuses.com/ ). They're all published and commercially successful genre fiction authors, and the podcast is consistently h…

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    Comment #6512302

    You'd have a hard time setting a monthly price that is acceptable to both consumers and publishers. The New York Times runs anywhere from $16 to $30 per month, depending on which l…

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    Comment #6512208

    Netflix replaces DVD rentals and purchases, not the initial product, which is the release in theatres or the initial broadcast on television. You can still make money in the box of…

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    Comment #6512070

    Sort of Spotify for written content. Wouldn't this end up leaving even more money on the table? Spotify pays artists based on their share of total plays. Say two sites (X and Y) jo…

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    Comment #6052181

    On what basis do you decide to contribute to one open-source project over another? On what basis do you decide to work for one business over another? Are your answers to those two …

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    Comment #5987537

    Tor Books, a subsidiary of Macmillan and the biggest publisher of Sci-Fi and Fantasy fiction, went DRM-free on all of its ebooks last year. They've observed "no discernible increas…

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    Comment #5981198

    "Bolivian minister says Evo Morales' plane was rerouted to Austria on suspicion that Snowden was on board." Here's the story on NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/07/02/worl…