Hear the story behind the story as Chronicle managing editor Robert Rosenthal talks with Alicia Parlette, a 23-year-old copy editor and writer, about her series of personal stories on battling a rare form of cancer.
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If you didn’t read the whole article in the NY Times about
user-content “by the masses” I mentioned yesterday you missed the following
paragraph:
"We are now entering the participation age,"
Jonathan I. Schwartz, the president and chief operating officer of Sun
Microsystems, said on Monday at an industry conference in San Francisco.
"The really interesting thing about the [...]
A good NY Times article about user-developed content on the net.
From photo- and calendar-sharing services to "citizen journalist" sites
and annotated satellite images, the Internet is morphing yet again. A
remarkable array of software systems makes it simple to share anything
instantly, and sometimes enhance it along the way….
…the abundance of user-generated content – which includes
online games, desktop [...]
I am so excited that our Second Life Relay is popping up in great design sites such as WorldChanging.org.
C. Sven Johnson is one of our volunteers who is just doing some amazing
things creating images and collateral for our event. I appreciate the
publicity for the event and glad it is on a blog with such notoriety.
I [...]
Here is an interesting form of social networking – bring key leaders in healthcare to your doorstep to talk about innovation (including venture investors). It helps if you’re the Cleveland Clinic.
This year’s Medical Innovation Summit, planned for October, is the third summit of the Cleveland Clinic. The past two years it focused on cardiology, but [...]
Let’s fore-go the "Oh, those kids!" shall we. The LATimes begins an article reporting on the behavior of always-on teenagers by telling the story of a 15-year-old who sometimes stays connected to a friend by leaving his mobile with a bluetooth headset on all day. Whenever something comes up all they have to do is [...]
There’s an interesting article in the July 2005 Business 2.0 entitled "Helping Doctors Go Digital."
It talks about an application that runs on Palm and Pocket PC devices call Epocrates Essentials (1 in every 4 docs subscribes to it). It is free for basic drug data and starts at $60 a year for information like disease [...]
Could not resist sharing this article – from Fortune on "20 That Made History."
From the web site and in the print edition, Fortune editors say "The 20 decisions below helped create the business world as we know it. But that’s not the only reason they are on this list. They’re here because they shed [...]
I have been checking out the FI Space and it looks like the Personal Change section needs some attention. Here is a great web site for looking at this kind of topic, and I am mentioning an entry this week on the DailyOm web site called "Beyond The Small Self – Being A Good Global [...]
Cool! Be sure you go check this page out. It’s a page dedicated to adopting Chinese Bloggers. Since their country is so restrective on what they are allowed to post often ISP’s in China will self-censor and remove Blogs they don’t agree with. This Web Site let’s you "adopt" a blog and host here in [...]
