Unskilled & Unaware – the Kruger Dunning Model
Kate Carruthers Just read an article by Justin Kruger and David Dunning (1999) from Cornell University about the way that people who know less about a particular area overestimate their own skills…
Reading – Vindication of the Rights of Women
Needed a break from reading Dante’s Inferno (I can only take so much of hell in one go) so I decided to re-read Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights…
Quotation: Infringement of Human Freedom (Pitt the Younger)
Just came across an apt quotation for our times by William Pitt (the younger) from a speech in the House of Commons (November 18, 1783): “Necessity is the plea for…
Speak LOLcat
At last a way to speak LOLcat more easily – a most excellent LOLcat translator (or in LOLcat: OH HAI AT LAST I FINDZ IT. I CAN TALK FLUENT LOLCAT…
Reading – The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Currently reading Dante’s Inferno in the Everyman edition of the The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso. It is one of those canonical classics that I’ve never bothered to read and…
Current reading: Blink – by Malcolm Gladwell
Currently reading Malcolm Gladwell’s book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. It is a bit scary to think that many of our decisions are made sub-rationally.
LOLcats
I am just obsessed with LOLcats at the moment – they make me laugh. The site is described as “the number one place to find all of your funny cat…
grasshoppers – ning v. facebook?
Chris Brogan has been experimenting with a new social network called ‘grasshoppers’ – people helping people. He has created it in two places: Ning and Facebook (although it did seem…
5 Worst Websites – TIME
the 5 top websites to avoid (according to Time) are: eHarmony.com eVite.com Meez.com MySpace.com SecondLife.com Agree with them regarding Myspace & SecondLife, but eVite just looks like it needs a…
Women in ICT – Setup for Success Workshops
AIIA and ACS recently ran the SET Up for Success workshops in Australia. These are designed to help advance the careers of women in the ICT industry, with a one-day…