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• Tweet Holvi: the Finnish start-up that could spell the end for Irish chequebooks - Siliconrepublic.com
  Siliconrepublic.com Holvi: the Finnish start-up that could spell the end for Irish chequebooks Siliconrepublic.com She was also involved in the first ever Rails Girls event in Helsinki and has helped to spread these female-friendly coding workshops across Europe and to the US. In addition to experi [...]
• Tweet Finding the Elusive Work-Life Balance - CollegeRecruiter.com (blog) (press release)
  Finding the Elusive Work-Life Balance CollegeRecruiter.com (blog) (press release) The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not track the number of freelance workers in its monthly surveys, but a 2010 study conducted by software company Intuit found that by 2020 more than 40 percent of the American workf [...]
• Tweet Some artists give Adobe's cloud switch a critical review - Total Telecom - Total Telecom
  Some artists give Adobes cloud switch a critical review - Total Telecom Total Telecom The petition claims the pricing model is too costly for freelancers and consumers. Petition organizer Derek Schoffstall of Harrisburg, Pa., argues "paying a one-time fee for infinite access is a much better b [...]
• Tweet Internships: Low-Paid, Unpaid Or Just Plain Illegal? - WDIY
  Internships: Low-Paid, Unpaid Or Just Plain Illegal? WDIY Summer is almost here, and with it comes the army of interns marching into countless American workplaces. Yet what was .... And even at that point, they were going to be left doing precarious forms of labor as freelancers and temps and other [...]
• Tweet Maverick Japanese mayor confuses prostitution with sex slavery - South China Morning Post
  Maverick Japanese mayor confuses prostitution with sex slavery South China Morning Post And what about the infamous R&R exploits of US troops in Vietnam? There are important policy differences, of course, between government-sanctioned sex business and the opportunistic interactions of soldiers [...]
• Tweet Shield law quandary: Who is a journalist? - The Desert Sun
  Shield law quandary: Who is a journalist? The Desert Sun The American “journalist” who is widely credited for serving more jail time than any other for refusing to turn over his video to police, may have never been a journalist in the first place. It was in 2005 when blogger Josh Wolf was video [...]
• Tweet Find Freelancers on Coworks - Tech Cocktail - Tech Cocktail
  Find Freelancers on Coworks - Tech Cocktail Tech Cocktail In 2010, one-third of all American workers were independent – that means freelance, self-employed, or part-time, explains the Freelancers Union. And many of the fastest-growing online freelance jobs are around technology, from email market [...]