I blog when journal
03/20/2008
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I blog when I have a computer, works to do, and (unconscious) stubbornness not to do them.
Time for blogging journal
03/19/2008
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It takes about 1 — 2 hours to write a post, and (sometimes) another 1 — 2 hours to skim over the bloggosphere. With the investment of such amount of time, I barely have time to read books or do other things for my benefit. But, when I don’t blog, I read a lot and have a strong desire to leave something on my blog… Sigh.
Not being a patriot at times like this journal
03/18/2008
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I’m not a patriot. I stopped playing that more than 10 years ago. But, I’m worried now. I’m worried about the situation in Korea, the USA, China and all over the world. But, I’m most worried about Korea. Economically, and politically. The new president of Korea behaves as if he’s got the power through a physical force rather than democratic election. And, so many projects (like the Grand Canal) are nothing but a wish list of a distributional coalition that supported the coup de tat.
In 1982, he expanded his Logic of Collective Action in an attempt to explain “The Rise and Decline of Nations”. The idea is that small distributional coalitions tend to form over time in countries. Groups like cotton-farmers, steel-producers, and labor unions will have the incentives to form political lobbies and influence policies in their favor. These policies will tend to be protectionist and anti-technology, and will therefore hurt economic growth; but since the benefits of these policies are selective incentives concentrated amongst the few coalitions members, while the costs are diffused throughout the whole population, the “Logic” dictates that there will be little public resistance to them. Hence as time goes on, and these distributional coalitions accumulate in greater and greater numbers, the nation burdened by them will fall into economic decline. (Mancur Olson)
The distributional coalition, according to Mancur Olson, hurts the economy. I hope there’s any bottom line that can be hurt.
After installing textpattern journal
03/13/2008
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Oh well, I can’t settle on a single blog program. I tried, and liked, movable type, wordpress, and textpattern. All of them. I even like other platforms, like mephostoblog or tattertools/tistory/textcube (all same and famous in Korea; tistory is to tattertools what wordpress.com is to wordpress.org, and textcube an (arguably) better evolved version). It’s a pity that a person can have only one blog, isn’t it? Especially when you use xml-rpc and WLW (definitely one of the best I like out of MS).
I don’t have a particular plan for this place for now. But, let’s see.
