Drug Farms Forced Underground
I hope this helps you with your Homework David. Researchers who want to grow genetically modified plants that contain pharmaceutical drugs are being forced underground — literally.
Environmental activists and regulatory agencies have not looked favorably upon “pharming” projects. They don’t trust that the transgenic plants, crops with foreign DNA added to [...]
A Scan of the Headline Scanners
For those of you who don’t know, what you are reading right now is a Blog. As Blogs grow more and more popular people start to enjoy reading more and more of them. The bad part about this is remembering to check all 30 of them everyday. A way [...]
Welcome to the ‘Plogging’ World
Looks like there is a new way to “Blog” out. Check out this article to learn more about Plogging. Which is basically a Blog about a Project that
you are working on. The Funny thing is that this is not brand new. I have a Plog about the C-Tools 2.0 project for [...]
Video T-Shirt
Could the next big social change come from Video T-Shirts? Imagine a future where everyone around you has something to sell…. I hope not. Not only is this more obnoxious than people wearing Logos all over their clothes, we will have the added annoyance of sound and movement. When will advertisers learn we all [...]
Handhelds for healthier minds
Good news for my C-Tools project. A new survey conducted by medical reference software company Skyscape and released at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting reports that psychiatrists have developed a very close relationship with their handhelds. More than 64% of the survey 280 respondents use their handheld more than four times [...]
Computer System Makes ‘Chain’ Of Health Care Stronger, Safer
This is a pretty interesting article about U Mich. project to build a hospital information system that puts together a whole chain of information. Sounds like it would do a lot of good. But, actually, the in-hospital information is only part of the information that could be [...]
At last the final installment of The Report I’ve been expelling for weeks. This one’s about my exerience meeting figues from the life science industry. It’s also about CRM because I think it’s the way to go to engage the industry (We committed to becoming a constituent-focused organization, right?), and I think we need to [...]
Text Messages Killing Radio Star
International editors and publishers warned Friday that nontraditional communications — such as cell phone text messages — are rapidly outflanking radio, television, and print media because of their immediacy and proximity to the public.
In a two-day meeting to stimulate newspaper readership among the young, publishers from the Los Angeles Times, USA [...]
Read This, Jump Into Blog Fray
More about Blogs. Looks like someone has invented the world’s first Political Blog engine. It’s called What’s Making Blog News, although not very descriptive, it’s the first site that lists the main stories making the rounds on political blogs. Unlike other meta sites like Blogdex or Daypop, What’s Making Blognews [...]
Bloggers Assail Movable Type’s New Pricing Scheme
Say it’s ain’t so. Looks like our own Moveable Type is turning on it’s community. Instead of having one of the world’s best free programs it’s now starting to charge people a hefty new fee. Will the blogging community take this? We will have to wait to find out.
