This week’s Carnival of the Capitalists has been posted. The Frugal Underground is hosting.
Please note that the Carnival itself has a new home: thecotc.com. Update your links!
I’ve been spotted the last couple of weeks not only in posting a notice to the current CotC, but also in submitting an entry myself. I could whine about being overworked — but everybody is! So instead of wasting more time…
Here’s my pick o’ the lot, the ones that made me click through:
- The first-click award goes to Barry Welford of The Other Bloke’s Blog, for “BrainWare ABC – Alzheimer, Bilingualism, Creativity.” I read somewhere recently that gamers exhibit similar traits to bilingual people. Wish I could remember where I read that! I did find a write-up at USA Today that links to an article at Globe and Mail that — hah! refers to the same Professor Bialystok as this blog post. Vindication!
- Second click-through should have taken me to a copyright tutorial but something at the site consistently causes Safari to choke and die. (Yes, I know that I really should be using Firefox instead. Very simple to install. More reliable. I’ll get my tech staff on it right away…)
- So instead I clicked through to Freelance Pro, and an article describing a new web-based calendaring tool, now in public beta apparently.
- My last click-through was to “Making Money over the Internet” by Anita Campbell, on passive income. I’ll read the trumpted booklet with a wary eye.
That’s all I have time for this morning — but if you have the time, there are lots more posts to chew through.
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I’m glad you found that intriguing. Professor Bialystok seems a most interesting person from what I read. She believes that bilingual people are very good at multi-tasking because they are maintaining two ‘parallel’ language systems in action at the same time. Perhaps gaming requires such multi-tasking skills too. Thanks for the award.
Hi cehwiedel: Thank you for the mention of my copyright tutorial, but I am sorry that you weren’t able to view it! I will check with our webmasters too, to see if they know what the problem might be. Hate to hear that it wasn’t accessible!
I appreciate how tricky it can be ensuring that webpage properly display using all of the different platforms available. Safari has some drawbacks — and one was exhibited by its crashing instead of properly processing your webpage. I do mean to revisit the tutorial, using Firefox instead of Safari.