{"id":2407,"date":"2010-08-19T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/08\/new-phrase\/"},"modified":"2010-08-19T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T21:18:57","slug":"new-phrase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2010\/08\/new-phrase\/","title":{"rendered":"New Phrase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/twincities\/stories\/2010\/08\/16\/daily14.html?ana=from_rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bizj_twincities+%28Minneapolis+%2F+St.+Paul+Business+Journal%29\" target=\"_blank\">this article from our local business magazine<\/a> and came across this phrase which was new to me (emphasis mine):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twin Cities television viewers are most drawn to sports, comedies and dramas, and they&#8217;re increasingly using digital video recorders and other <strong>time-shifting technologies<\/strong> to watch their favorite programs, according to Comcast Corp.&#8217;s second annual &#8220;TV Pulse Survey.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would argue that Taleo is a \u201ctime-shifting technology,\u201d if you get my drift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading this article from our local business magazine and came across this phrase which was new to me (emphasis mine): Twin Cities television viewers are most drawn to sports, comedies and dramas, and they&#8217;re increasingly using digital video recorders and other time-shifting technologies to watch their favorite programs, according to Comcast Corp.&#8217;s second annual &#8220;TV Pulse Survey.&#8221; I would argue that Taleo is a \u201ctime-shifting technology,\u201d if you get my drift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[1630,1748,97,1631,1629],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","tag-dvr","tag-hiring","tag-select-metrix","tag-taleo","tag-time-shifting-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-CP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2103,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2009\/09\/twice-the-fun\/","url_meta":{"origin":2407,"position":0},"title":"Twice The Fun","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"September 10, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Here\u2019s a headscratcher from an ad I read today, Sept. 10: On September 30, 2009, ABC Company will be upgrading the technology we use to receive job applications. 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