September 2009
41 posts
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Atlas Sound — “Sheila”
From their...
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Ontario's EHealth operation bled $1B →
jayparkinsonmd:
Even in a “socialist” healthcare system like Canada’s where they have the authority and freedom to command, they have failed to implement electronic health records from the top down.
I think this mostly stems from the level of waste and fraud that happens in government, but also has much to do with the fact that healthcare IT simply sucks. It’s built by people who don’t...
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“Augmented reality amounts to information shadows made visible.”
– Tim O’Reilly and Jennifer Pahlka, “The ‘Web Squared’ Era”
(via infoneernet)
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Forgetting in a digital age →
Dan Misener of CBC’s Spark:
In his new book, Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger argues that forgetting is a natural human process, and that digital technology and cheap storage are creating all sorts of problems, from an assault on privacy, to an inability to make decisions.
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Moore's law not fast enough for game consoles, so... →
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The Mantles — “Don’t Lie”
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An open letter to the enemies of Net neutrality →
Paul Venezia of InfoWorld:
Dear Senator Hutchinson:
I’m sorry, Senator, you have it backward. If the big ISPs are allowed to play free and easy with packets traversing their networks, innovation will plummet. Only those companies that can afford to tithe the big ISPs will get to play in the “publicly accessible” Internet, and those that can’t afford to do so will simply...
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“The real company values, as opposed to nice sounding values, are shown by who...”
– Netflix CEO Reed Hasting
(via Anthony De Rosa)
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“There is an inverse correlation between how much you need something and how...”
– Garry Tan, “Build it”
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Where consciousness isn't →
Tuomas Manninen in Metapsychology:
The key assumption behind the science of consciousness is that consciousness is an internal process that occurs in the brain. Noë’s chief goal in [his book, Out of Our Heads,] is to show that this highly questionable, yet unquestioned assumption, has led the consciousness research astray; in brief, the search for consciousness has focused on where it...
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Devendra Banhart — "Baby" →
An infectious new tune from Devendra Banhart, streaming on MySpace Music.
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Death Cab for Cutie — “Meet Me on the...
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Chad VanGaalen — “Twisting Magic Up”
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“Mint was a key leader of the next generation of game changers. And now it’s...”
– Jason Fried, “The next generation bends over”
He nailed it. What a disappointment to see such a positively disruptive startup in a field that needs massive disruption simply roll over and sell out. Sure, it’s possible that Intuit could do the right thing with Mint, but it’s...
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“When executives at a healthcare provider wanted to improve the experience for...”
– From a Forrester report on ‘Experienced Based Differentiation’
(via alexjcampbell)
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Muse — The Resistance →
Stream the new album, pre-release, via iLike.
Is Happiness Catching? →
… Christakis and Fowler say, they have for the first time found some solid basis for a potentially powerful theory in epidemiology: that good behaviors — like quitting smoking or staying slender or being happy — pass from friend to friend almost as if they were contagious viruses.
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“Of the 65,000 people who register for a Pandora account each day, 45,000 do so...”
– Claire Cain Miller on Pandora’s founder, Tim Westergren, in “Listening to Radio on the Web? That’s So Last Year”
(via infoneernet)
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“Every time an ATM says “press enter to exit” a UX designer dies a little inside.”
– Whitney McNamara
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The Cinematic Orchestra — “All Things”
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“It is increasingly apparent that modern copyright law is utterly and completely...”
– Kris Kotarski of the Calgary Herald
Setting aside one’s political sensibilities, the mere fact that a party premised on the ideals of the pirate (not merely “piracy”) has achieved some level of legitimacy in Europe and is on its way to North America should sound alarm bells for...
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Coldplay — ”Easy to Please”
From the...
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Mistaking beauty for truth in science and... →
… the economy is a complex system of interacting individuals — and these individuals themselves are complex systems. Neoclassical economics radically oversimplifies both the individuals and the system — and gets a lot of mileage by doing that…
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WatchApps like Zio are what keep me passionate about the magic of software. I can’t wait to see this one released.
(via jxnblk)
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Why Online Anonymity May Be Fading →
NPR:
Author Andrew Keen, who wrote a book about how blogs and user-generated Web sites are destroying the culture, says those who want to remain anonymous are increasingly being “marginalized” online. On sites like Twitter, he adds, anonymous users who are indiscriminately nasty rarely accumulate many followers.
“In the future, I think there will be pockets of outrageously irresponsible,...
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"Try this career choice standard on for size." →
Will this choice allow me to:
Spend the greatest amount of time
Absorbed in activities and relationships that fill me up
While surrounding myself with people I cannot get enough of, and
Earning enough to live comfortably in the world?
Fact is, this definition of success keeps me honest.
Apply it, test it, kick its wheels & see what unfolds.
This is Jonathan Fields’ formula...
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“… advertising is the tax you pay for being unremarkable.”
– Robert Stephens
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The Menahan Street Band — ”Make the Road by...