2011
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By bluerasberry on 2011-12-31
Brian Glanz is one of the organizers of Open Science Federation. The OSF is a nonprofit organization which has the goal of making science information more accessible, and historically it has done that by connecting scientists with online technology. There is a core team involved including Brian which has been together since 1999, and they […]
Posted in non-profit, Open access, rights, Seattle | Tagged NWABR, Open Science Federation
By bluerasberry on 2011-11-30
I am all about biobanks now. A biobank is a type of biorepository which stores human biological specimens long-term for future research. I have been having encounters with biobanks for years and always had questions about them, and I have even had some conflicts with researchers on this topic. Recently I met someone who develops […]
Posted in biobanks, non-profit, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged NWABR, publishing, social media
By bluerasberry on 2011-11-13
The HVTN conference was from November 7-9. I was there every day. It was cool and I learned stuff but of course the point of a conference is meeting people and making plans together. There was a meetup in the conference which was only for people who are involved in community education, so no scientists. […]
Posted in HIV, presentation, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, HVTN
By bluerasberry on 2011-11-04
Nandan Nilekani is most famous for having been so successful as CEO of one of India’s largest software companies, Infosys. He since left a lot of business-only interests and took a cabinet-level central government position (chair of the Unique Identification Authority of India) as a person who would head the design, implementation, and regulation of […]
Posted in computer, India | Tagged identification, website
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-26
On Tuesday 25 October from 7-9 Kat and I hosted a Seattle Wikipedia meetup for the “Wikipedia loves libraries!” program. The intent of the meetup was to promote local libraries, and Wikipedia had encouraged all users around the country to do the same thing in their own regions. I was fresh from Infocamp was was […]
Posted in Wikipedia | Tagged coffee, meetup
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-19
I went to see Joanne Silberner at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation tonight. Silberner is an elite American journalist who reported public health stories, most notably for NPR. The title of her talk was “Global health and the media: what’s news and what’s not, and why.” The audience were statisticians in public health […]
Posted in education, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged computer, journalism, social media
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-14
I made this list on Wikipedia. It is awesome and in some form it is going to be read by millions of people and in its own small way it is going to have an impact on their lives. List of libraries in Seattle This was for Wikipedia loves Libraries!, an initiative to get people […]
Posted in research, Wikipedia | Tagged library, website
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-11
I went to this conference called “Internet Research 12” where the focus was on people using the internet to pull data. One of the keynote speakers was Mike Minello with a marketing agency called Campfire. Wow! Advertising people are fun! I had never heard this guy’s name but I was familiar with a lot of […]
Posted in computer, encounter, presentation, research, Seattle | Tagged advertising, conference, hero
By bluerasberry on 2011-10-10
Seattle InfoCamp was on October 8 and 9 and I went both days. I learned a lot and consumed new ideas. I love the format of this “unconference” – how it works is that they only schedule keynote speakers and everyone attends their talks, and then on the day of the event anyone who wants […]
Posted in computer, presentation, Seattle | Tagged InfoCamp
By bluerasberry on 2011-09-18
On Saturday the 17th there was a cupcake eating contest at this event in Interbay called the Mobile Food Rodeo. Trophy made the cupcakes so they were awesome. The organizers called me because they knew that I like to compete in eating contests. There were three contestants and I got reminded of something important at […]
Posted in festival, Seattle | Tagged competitive eating