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And although I have considered never picking up a weight again, I know the benefits of weight bearing exercise and so, sometime this year, will go back to they gym, but less frequently and for a shorter duration.
And never forget that 50% of your health is nutrition.
It's interesting because my employer (a multinational telco HQ'd in Canada) is keen to give me real work coding as soon as I want it. So with that, and my real purpose (building my next application myself) I'm really engaged and having a lot of fun.
If someone needs fresh information, one of the ways to get that is to find someone local to where you need the information, to get it to you.
In this model there are Requestors and Collectors. It will all be free for the foreseeable future and then we will take a percentage from Collectors and perhaps set an annual access fee for Corporate clients. All that TBD.
The people gathering data locally are part of the group I just referenced - or anyone with a smartphone that will engage with a remote client to do an information gathering task for whatever price can be agreed. In this scenario, location and exclusivity of that location has value for the person needing information from it.
This isn't really about news, but in a world where the cost of maintaining a bureau everywhere is something that has to be considered, it could be used for on-demand assignments to users who want to be a stringer for any news outlet. The DPA http://www.dpa.com/ are keen to use this app once we scale because it lets THEM contact people close to wherever the news is.