Category: Swiss walks
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On the Importance of Volunteers at Sporting Events
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn recent weeks I volunteered at two events. The Triathlon de Divonne and the Critérium de Céligny. At both events there is a social need that people need to be made aware of. That social need is for people to volunteer at sporting events, not just participate. The Course de l’éscalade is…
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On A Silly Fly That Flew Into a Fridge and Fell Asleep
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor a week or so there were a lot of flies clustering. I believe that this was due to weather weirding. For months it was too warm, and dry, so they didn’t breed as voraciously. Eventually the weather changed temporarily so there was an infestation for those with bad luck. During…
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Two Social Runs in a Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I woke when it was still dark and cold. I went to Décathlon for a run and got there early so I waited in the car, where it was warm. I saw people arrive, and when 07:50 arrived I walked into the shop. I learned at that moment that there were…
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Worsley, True Crime and Jack the Ripper
Reading Time: 2 minutesA few days ago I watched an interesting documentary in which Lucy Worsley investigated Jack the Ripper, but rather than look at the crimes, motivation, and identifying who the criminal was she took a “media and society” perspective focused on the genre of true crime journalism. Within the documentary and podcast genre…
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Reviving an Old Content Payment Habit
Reading Time: 3 minutesImagine, for a second that we reverted to the old habit of paying for a day’s content daily, a week’s content, once per week, or a month’s content, monthly. With Substack and many online newspapers they have the habit of saying “pay for the entire year” before we’ve had time to read…
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Thinking of the One Hour Workout and the Apple Watch
Reading Time: 4 minutesRecently someone said that the Apple watch is seamlessly integrated and easy to use. I never considered its simplicity of use because I grew up playing with GPS devices from the etrex 32 to the Nokia N95 8GB to several dozen watches and devices over the decades. As a result the difficulty…
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Watching Rivers Dry Up
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn February I walked or ran along the Asse river that runs from the Jura down towards Nyon and it was flooding. Walking paths had to be diverted and trees found themselves surrounded by water like individual islands. I walked by the same river during my daily walk yesterday and the opposite…
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The Facebook Hyperlink Silo
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I saw two posts commenting on how Facebook was paywalling external hyperlinks. In order to link to an external site Facebook is now adding payed tiers. Pay one amount, and you can post more hyperlinks, pay another and you can pay fewer. Years ago people spoke of the social media…
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The Article in comments Fad
Reading Time: 2 minutesContinuing on from yesterday’s theme of publishers harming themselves through their behaviour today I want to comment on the fad of adding hyperlinks to comments rather than directly into a post. The idea is that you can use the image you want, and by clicking to see comments facebooks counts this as…
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Tabloids, Human Writers, and AI Summaries
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I read what some might think is good news. Tabloids in England are firing human writers because Google AI summaries are undercutting human reader traffic to their sites. To this I have two comments. Before every newspaper was pay-walled I would browse to The Guardian, the Independent, Le Monde, Le temps,…