Gongol.com Archives: January 2016
January 26, 2016
Instead of asking people to forecast whether it will happen, a better approach to the story would ask whether the ingredients are in place
East Coast blizzard led to record on-demand TV viewing
The blizzard didn't follow a tidy schedule, so why should people's entertainment choices?
Chicago's red-light camera program opened the door to big-time corruption
A city official just got convicted on more than 20 counts of bribery and other corruption-related charges. With tens of millions of dollars on the line for the contractor, Chicago's unfortunate reputation for corruption got the best of things.
Apple says iPhone sales are slowing down
Smartphones have reached a near-saturation point among the economies where they are plausible and affordable. That forces Apple to look for "what's next", which is the curse of technology giants: It takes a lot of good decisions to stay in the lead, and it's very hard to build long streaks of good decisions when operating on the cutting edge.
Task force says all adults should be screened for depression
That would be a terrific step forward to move from a paradigm built around "mental illness" to one of sustaining "mental wellness". That's where we ought to be -- treating mental wellness as something positive to be sustained as much as possible and promoted holistically, not as something only to be addressed when something has "gone wrong".
The banana as we know it could be endangered
That's the trouble with having one genetic line become predominant
