Around here we’ve been discussing things like work/life balance, teleworking, and flexible work. Here’s a few links I ran across today that–I hope–give people something to think about.
WORK,
ENTREPRENEURSHIP, AND OPPORTUNITY IN 21st CENTURY AMERICA
This US Chamber of Commerce report says individual entrepreneurship is an important element of the future US economy. Back in the [...]

Diana Ngo brought this video at WebMD to my attention. It shows how computer-game-like technology is being used to help radiation oncologists use 3-D visualization to define the boundaries of tumors and decide where to apply radiation.
While you’re there check-out the article: "Fighting the Good Fight." It’s about where we are in winning the [...]

Here’s the link to a whole batch of "pictures" from the 2006 Second Life Relay For Life event. The tag for the pictures is SLRFL2006.

Nike and Apple have teamed up for the Nike+iPod Sprot Kit. According to Technology Review the kit:
…uses a wireless sensor to monitor pace, distance, time, and
calories burned while walking or running. Some experts believe the
Sport Kit is the forerunner to wireless, personal sensors with myriad
functions, from tracking locations to monitoring biometrics.
The Sport Kit turns iPod [...]

Before it goes off the newsstands, you might want to get the July Scientific American. It’s cover story is. "Stem Cells: The Real Culprits in Cancer?" It’s a good overview of theorizing and research about the role that stem cells might play in originating and sustaining tumors. We know stem cells are the generators of [...]

While doing a podcast interview for NetSquared with Linden Lab Community Manager Jeska Dzwigalski (aka in Second Life as Jeska Linden) I asked her about the Second Life Relay. Here’s the portion of the interview specifically about SL Relay and success factors for community building.
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As reported on Community Mobilization the Second Life Relay For Life is now over and I have come up for air.  It was an amazing event this year with well over 1,100 people walking the track
and donations reaching upwards of $40,000.00! The event itself was
exceptional with hundreds of people at a time enjoying the amazing
architecture [...]

I hear the Second Life Relay was a great success last weekend. I don’t want to upstage the information about the event that others will have later, but I do want to link to this piece of video from Tao that gives a sense of the SL sets that were created for the event. Tao [...]

This week I attended the most far-out Net Tuesday yet. CompuMentor was really pushing the envelope of virtual reality technology by holding a "mixed reality" event. That means there were two venues:

Many people were online at the TechSoup site in Second Life.
Simultaneously, some of us were in the CompuMentor annex in San Francisco.

Live, streaming [...]

The post below about MySpace reminded me about the article in the July WIRED in which this quote appeared:
“To find something comparable, you have to go back 500 years to the
printing press, the birth of mass media – which, incidentally, is what
really destroyed the old world of kings and aristocracies. Technology
is shifting power away from [...]