Every Wednesday, I gather up a collection of blog posts from around the Internet, sharing them with the Beyond the Rhetoric audience. This week’s set is pretty diverse in nature, so there should be something of interest for everyone.
First, we have Ray Ebersole reminding all the parents in the audience that technology can kill. More specifically, he’s talking about the dangers of texting while driving. When your eyes are on your cell phone screen, they’re clearly not on the road ahead of you. The PSA airing in the UK, which Ray embeds, is quite graphic in depicting this.
If you were following along on Twitter, then you’ll know that I spent last Wednesday test driving the 2012 Ford Focus. Wildsau of Edmonton, who I met that day, has now put up his blog post on the Ford Focus and the Focus challenge. It’s quite the extensive write-up on both the day and the car! We’re putting together a video for Futurelooks too, but it might take a bit longer before that’s published.
Many people questioned the usefulness of Twitter, because they weren’t at all interested in hearing about what people had for lunch. RT Cunningham addresses this kind of concern, discussing the social network signal to noise ratio. Absolutely, there’s a lot of “noise” on places like Facebook and Google+. You just need to know how to find the signal that’s buried in there.
On the matters of money, Aimee of Foximus describes some tips on how to save on dental expenses. Try to eliminate the non-essential and get a discount, but the single greatest way to save on dental is to take care of your teeth and gums in the first place! If you have no cavities to fill, that’s a heck of a lot cheaper in the long run.
And finally, Claudia and Sergio Olivos share some of the original ink drawings that they have completed for the summer. They’re available for $150 each, in case you’re interested. The ink drawings get bits of watercolor too, adding that extra dash of a wow factor to some already fantastic drawings.
A statistic that I didn’t know until I read some more articles is that a driver is 60% more likely to get in an accident texting versus talking of the phone. On top of that when texting, the eyes are diverted from the road for aproximately 4.2 seconds. At 55 mph that is enough time to travel 4 football fields.
I have seen that UK commercial before, I feel like something like that should be aired in the USA airwaves, it would be really effective in my opinion. I think some states would allow it but most would not for the graphic nature of it.
-Jean
I think it could be effective, but it would never make it past the censors.