Mob Rule & More
Quiz buffs take note - you are often wiser to ask the audience, than phone a friend. Not that your friend is dumb, but a crowd collectively carries more smarts. I know - counterintuitive but true.
That’s a key plank in James Suroweicki’s The Wisdom of Crowds, a book http://www.randomhouse.com/features/wisdomofcrowds/ I explored for Sunday Life magazine a year or so back. Click on Jelly Bean Principle as listed under Freelance to your right - and read all about lost submarines, capuchin monkeys and multiple jujubes in a jar.
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Coming up in the next few weeks is a profile of local comic, Adam Hills - the uncut version. Again composed for Sunday Life readers, the interview is built around a dozen tunes I guessed may have been triggers for the Spicks + Specks compere. Put it this way, I was half-right.
The same magazine has kept me busy covering the topic of The Beauty Bias, a deep-seated trend where the lookers collect the lollies nine times out of ten, less from their own merit than the perfect bone structure. Admit it - we all fall sucker to a sparkly halo now and then. I’ll post the story after pub-date inside a few weeks.
Also under the Freelance banner, look for an up-coming gig where you’ll get a privileged peek across two Friday shifts at two separate police stations - one in rural Vic and the other Sydney metro. Just how does the long arm flex itself these days? Public affray merchants, you’ve been warned.