teapot01

I'm not speaking from personal experience, but a number of connections in tech are telling me that there are plenty of Ads, but no one is hiring. Based in Australia, but I'd love to hear what's going in your region.

I listen to youtube playlists in the background fairly regularly and I've noticed some interesting changes in the last couple of weeks. Initially it began with an auto pause, and a popup saying video paused, click to continue.

More recently playlists have been looping the same song at seemingly random, looking to support forumss gives hundreds of comments reporting similar behaviour. (https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/16267152?hl=en)

Is youtube trying to drive adoption of youtube red by intentionally reducing the user experience for non premium users?

I enjoy learning new things and expanding my area of expertise outside of the work that I do, usually I try to do this through reading, conference talks, and online courses.

Lately though, I find that a lot of the MOOC courses from coursera, et al. tend to be written for complete beginners and provide very lightweight courses. Because of this I tend to disengage from the course and not complete it.

Are there any MOOCs that are more suited for continuing professional development?

A side question is how can these courses ever hope to replace university level training?

I was recently looking for tickets to a concert in Adelaide when I discovered that ViaGoGo is creating fake copies of events which they do not organise, and posting links to their platform for users to buy overpriced tickets.

At present there are still tickets available from the official seller. However viagogo are attempting to use high pressure sales tactics including warnings of limited tickets to get users to buy.

Real Event: Price $89 https://www.facebook.com/events/104583850194346

ViaGoGo Event: Price $101 https://www.facebook.com/events/338943086534325