Author: Neville Hobson
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Tweeting a joke can be no joke
Reports emerged late last week that Twitter is deleting tweets that copy another tweeter’s jokes. The Verge reports on a writer’s request to Twitter to remove a tweet that used her content (a joke) without permission and thus infringed her…
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Windows 10 is just around the corner
In just a few days, on July 29, Microsoft will begin the public rollout of Windows 10 in 190 countries. If you want to upgrade your desktop or laptop computer, it’s a free upgrade in specific circumstances. Lifehacker has a…
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Is it time for a post-capitalism post-communism mashup?
Books on politics and political issues rarely capture my attention or my imagination. During the past decade, I have read just three books about politics, all biographies – Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. Probably great fodder for Freudians…
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FIR #817: Sarcasm poses a challenge in sentiment analysis
Sarcasm poses a challenge for computer algorithms in sentiment analysis: is relying on humans to make the final call the only way forward?; social by design: how Ogilvy leveraged the Chinese obsession for naming with an integrated advertising campaign for…
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Labelling the C-Suite of the future
There could be a slew of new three- and four-letter acronyms to get used to if changes in C-Suite functions and roles take hold as outlined in 10 C-Suite Jobs of The Future, a thought-provoking report in FastCompany magazine this…