Take a look at this group that is linked to Georgia Tech – and the Bioneers Southeast Forum coming to Atlanta this week:
An interdisciplinary group of scientists and engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology recently formed the Center for Biologically Inspired Design with "the goal of capitalizing on the rich source of design [...]
Good news for Second Life with extensive coverage in The New York Times today – check it out!
An excerpt includes the following: "In a world called Second Life, especially, so many people visit that profitable businesses have sprung up that earn their proprietors real money, not just virtual currency – in fact, a handful of [...]
From this morning’s Wired:
WPP chief executive Martin Sorrell warned on Thursday that leading
media companies like News Corp. are on the verge of panic amid seismic
shifts brought on by the internet…
"I think there’s a certain amount of panic among media owners," he
said. "Most of these companies, ours included I suppose, are run by 50-
or 60-year-olds who [...]
For all you interested in innovative developments for nonprofits on the internet check out NetSquared. It’s a project of CompuMentor, a SF Bay Area organization that has been providing support to nonprofits for years for all-things-computer. This new site is oriented to internet and Web 2.0 (dare I use the term?). They’re doing the Net2 [...]
From Bloomberg:
Mammograms and potent new drugs
contributed to a drop in mortality rates from breast cancer in
the final 25 years of the 20th century, a study in today’s New
England Journal of Medicine found.
Seven teams of statistics experts assessed breast cancer
rates in a study paid for by the National Cancer Institute.
Their results, considered definitive, show that [...]
SINGAPORE, Oct. 25–A scientific
conference on stem cells, senescence and cancer opened here on Tuesday with the
participation of about 500 top biomedical research scientists and clinicians
from United States, Europe and Asia…
The Singapore conference, organized by Keystone
Symposia, the well-known organizer of scientific conferences, is the first
scientific meeting of its kind to be held outside of North America [...]
Okay, okay. so maybe you weren’t so impressed with my ACS Offices Google map. For a more thoroughly developed demonstration of the potential, see this map for Pakistan earthquake relief. Again, you can go to the Communitywalk website and look at some of the experiments others have tried or register and start your own.
All the buzz these days is about Web 2.0. The term applies to the idea of an internet built for much greater user participation in what is on the web. It also applies evidently to a lot of hype around the Bay Area from people who miss the dot-com bubble of the late ’90s and [...]
Over at Community Mobilization I talk about a the dangers of Narrowliving. Joi Ito had a post on Narrowcasting,
which is the production and distribution of niche media to small highly
targeted audiences. The technological advances in printing and on-line
publishing is making this possible and I am very skeptical of what the
future holds if the trend expands [...]
If you want to try out a site that falls within the domain now loosely defined as Web 2.0, I recommend Netvibes.com. It’s 2.0-ish because, as a user, you have control of how you design your personal page and because its built around RSS feeds rather than URLs. You can easily create little boxes for [...]
