In the age of huge content curators (Facebook, Twitter, Google, Amazon) what good is blogging anymore? Today I read this great column by Cory Doctorow, where he describes how blogging has helped his writing career. In the post, he also makes an analogy that really reverberated with me: the word “blogging”, originally a portmanteau of […]
Today I read an article that put me on a foul mood… or rather, gathered the darkness that I have been feeling this whole week. This IEEE spectrum article talks about a company that developed a bionic eye and recently went bust, leaving people who used that implant without the ability to upgrade, service, or […]
For a while I’ve been trying strategies to get more things done, and shut up that little annoying voice at the back of my head. Last week, I managed to limit my gaming time by focusing myself to play only after 22:30. Still, this week was terrible in terms of how much stuff I actually […]
There is currently a court case in Japan fighting for the right for same-sex couples to marry, stating that the same-sex marriage ban infringes on the constitutional equality of rights among people. I hope they succeed! But unfortunately, this week the government lawyers apparently came up with several lame claims about why same-sex couples should […]
These days I have been reading the University Newspaper as a way to practice my Japanese. The front page news was that the university released “University Bonds” to finance itself. So that is a thing. I wonder if that is a good thing. I think people buying university bonds means that they trust the university […]