Talk about a radical shift in Orginizational Change. I had dinner with Christopher Dover last night. Christopher is the great intern who is currently writing the Relay Blog for the Society. If you haven’t checked it out you need to go over and post some comments to him. He is also working on a comprehensive [...]
Here is an interesting item from the Business 2.0 blog in an article titled "Culture of Participation (the Podcast Interview)."
The blurb from the web site says, "Publish and be damned, a Website that helps authors self-publish, just interviewed me about the culture of participation, my name for the idea that the Web is turning [...]
"Cancer Blogs: A New Way for Patients to Communicate" is a topic in the NCI Cancer Bulletin, and it explains what blogs are in its July 12 issue.
The story says, "Blogs provide the people who write them (also known as "bloggers") with a platform for sharing their thoughts and experiences with others. Dr. Bradford [...]
I spent the weekend learning how to do a podcast.
To listen, click here.
Sites and software used:
Audacity (audio recorder, editor)
Flashkit (free, uncopyrighted music and effects)
Ourmedia (free audio and video blog host)
Technology Review tutorial (Advise downloadeing the MP3 file)
Podcastingnews
Business Week has just launched a new business innovation portal. They explain why in an article in the most recent issue. Here’s some of it:
The Knowledge
Economy as we know it is being eclipsed by something new — call it the
Creativity Economy. Even as policymakers and pundits wring their hands
over the outsourcing of engineering, software [...]
The official Second Life Relay For Life page is now up. PLease go there to learn more about the event and make donations.
I am please to let you all know that I was nominated for, and won the National Human Service Assembly award for Excellence in Technology Innovation. Jerry Paffendorf
was nice enough to nominate me for our work on the Second Life Relay
For Life. I am especially excited that I will have an opportunity to
address the assembly, [...]
According to a new Pew Internet & American Life report, one out of six American adult internet users (16%) have gone online to view another person or a place via a web cam. That translates into roughly 21 million people who have viewed material on web cams and on any given day, about two million [...]
The NY Times reports that Medicare is going to give away to doctors record-keeping software that’s been used by Medicare and the VA for years. A couple of years ago the Bush Admin. set up a project to set some industry standards for EMR, but evidently that didn’t go anywhere. Now Medicare is just going [...]
The internet’s moving toward audio/video with amazing speed. From Wired:
Much of the recent success of internet video is due to the upswing in
broadband penetration, which surpassed 58 percent of web users last
month, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.
This enables internet users to view online content easily. However, it
is just the tip of the iceberg. New media standards such [...]
