So for now, the three-reasons-to-love series is morphing into a trial three-ish-links-to-love series. From my readings and the comments this week:
- The King Effect: Blog of an war crimes aid worker in the DRC. Her thoughts on the just held elections were featured in a recent New York Times guest post:
- “People want to vote in a way that won’t escalate into another full scale civil war,” explained psychologist Jean-Paul Syatokaki. “Regardless of whose politics they actually support.”
- I found Springwise recently – they share awesome unique business ideas from around the world. They recently did a profile of Simpa Networks – who allow users of their solar panels to pay for electricity service via mobile phone. If they don’t pay, then a remote monitoring system turns the power off. Just like at home.
- Autocorrect fails. As you might expect – there are plenty of non-family friendly fails, but this one would be alright for the kids.
- And finally, a comment on my “On asking for directions” post: “I think the key point is that we would go crazy if we didn’t have autopilot. The human brain is very good at ignoring certain information (like the fact that we can actually always see our nose)”. Good point. And thanks for making this week a “notice-your-nose” kind of week.
I have had a business idea where I crowd source writing emails for online dating websites with my own crazy style going to the highest bidder. (I write emails for people that want to contact other people) I think I could make a fortune with all the people in the world who can’t construct sentences with accepted elements, such as capitalisation (no that I am looking at anyone).
Actually, you can’t see your nose because of the way the two images from your eyes are mapped onto your brain, I think I know the point this person was trying to make. It is to do with heuristics and biases. I have previously blogged about this: http://bytesized.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/being-too-right/
Andrew
So why did you stop blogging again? With this fortune to be made off your writing?
And for your information, I can actually see my nose.
I stopped because I couldn’t come up with a theme nor generate a decent audience. There were people more knowledgeable in every area of what I was writing about and it was taking considerable time. There was some good stuff in there and a load more in Facebook as ‘Notes’.
Sure you can see you nose – with one eye closed I imagine…
Andrew
Many people kayak better than you as well, btw.
Sure. I am not trying to write a website about my kayaking or get anyone else interested in what I am doing, and really I am unfussed if anyone else chooses to participate (in going kayaking).
I have no interest to write a blog that no one would reads, maybe that’s just me. I also saw no way how this situation was going to change (and I was putting in a lot of time and effort). So I quit. If the circumstances change I might restart in a new and different forum.
Andrew