And here we are, nearing the end of the month, the end of the semester here in Japan, and a time when things get creative for me. Materials development, preceded by syllabus writing, along with a research article or two. This week I posted about Noom, a lifestyle app that uses psychology to gradually change…
Noom: For a lifestyle change
Noom is spooky sometimes. Great, but spooky. Noom is an app for your phone, one that introduces a healthier lifestyle. Not a diet app, definitely. It is specifically designed as a mobile app. You carry it with you. It never nags, but does put thoughts into your head. Good thoughts. It uses psychology. A lot…
Weakly Update #5
Feel free to make a comment. The first one I have to approve, then you are cleared for others. Below are links of stuff I found interesting this week. After my two posts about my problems with Amazon, I am looking into ways to save my content locally. My faith in “the cloud” has been…
Upstream Amazon, but now with a paddle, finally
I wrote about my (now) 3-week ordeal when a tech over at Amazon.uk (Vishnu, you should be fired) for cancelling BOTH my UK and US account when I asked him to leave the US one alone. Three times. My 5th attempt I tried using some ALL CAPS while writing in the chat with the support…
Amazon has me by the Books
I have had a frightening experience with Amazon over the new year vacation, and extending into the year, that has opened my eyes about the power relationship between seller (Amazon) and “buyer” (me) in digital commerce. I have ignored Cory Doctorow and EFF and their warnings about how buying hundreds of books (I have 320)…