2014
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By bluerasberry on 2014-08-02
Wikimania starts Wednesday. Friday after work I went to the airport with intent to sleep on the way to London so that I could wake up and start some days touring. My flight left at 9am and I woke up in London in the morning. On the flight I watched Jodorowsky’s Dune and Tim’s Vermeer. […]
Posted in art | Tagged documentary, Jodorowsky, Vermeer
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-28
If you are thinking of doing research on Wikipedia’s editor community, please read this. It is easy for researchers to harm Wikipedia’s editing community by disturbing our projects, so please be mindful that your project can cause trouble if you do not take precaution and show compassion to the volunteers who are in this space. […]
Posted in research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged informed consent
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-27
I am concerned about researchers recruiting Wikipedia community volunteers as human subject participants in their research when they need people to take surveys or be interviewed. The major problems with research on the Wikipedia community is that time in research is time taken away from Wikipedia community activities and research done by outsiders to the […]
Posted in research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged survey, volunteer
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-27
After meeting Nick at home I started thinking to myself about what projects I am doing which relate to large data sets so that I could see the extent to which I had some ground for collaboration with him and others in this space. My primary pursuit is public is facilitating public access to information, […]
Posted in clinical research, health, Open access, quantified self, Wikipedia | Tagged activity tracking, big data
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-26
A team of us at CR visited the Kickstarter office in Brooklyn Thursday 24 July. We mostly did this to see an example of a consumer-to-consumer marketplace. The idea of visiting arose when we noticed demand that we do product testing on several products which had been produced through Kickstarter’s platform. In my mind, Kickstarter, […]
Posted in New York City, quantified self, rights | Tagged activity tracking, Airbnb, Kickstarter, marketing, open notes, PatientsLikeMe, Uber
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-20
On Saturday 19 July I met a physician at the HOPE conference (Hackers on Planet Earth) who does medical device research and policy. Here is his organizational website. We were talking about health records which patients keep for themselves. It seemed to me that his ideas were related to the open notes project, Consumer Reports […]
Posted in health, New York City, presentation, quantified self | Tagged conference, Hackers on Planet Earth
By bluerasberry on 2014-06-03
My mother had been sick for a long time, and especially sick for the past few weeks. About a month ago I talked to her and she told me that she was immediately going for surgery to have her gall bladder removed. She had not told me of problems previously, but upon asking about this, […]
Posted in health, Texas | Tagged conference, death, public health, surgery
By bluerasberry on 2014-05-05
Wednesday 30 April to Friday 2 May I was in DC for a Choosing Wisely meetup. Part of it was hosted by ABIM Foundation and part was hosted by Consumer Reports. When I was there I met other people who work in health communications and we talked about how we get messages to people. One […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, DC, health, Wikipedia | Tagged advertising, Douglas Rushkoff, Kevin Kelly, social media, youth
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-17
Like everything on this blog, this post is my own personal candid thoughts. I visited an organization working in a similar space as Consumer Reports, and in this post I say some things about me, my organization, and this organization. This post is intended to be entirely positive about everything I saw, because I felt […]
Posted in Boston, clinical research, Consumer Reports, drug, health, non-profit, research, rights | Tagged electronic medical records, privacy
By bluerasberry on 2014-04-11
I had two articles recently published in BMJ. Rasberry, L. (2014). “Wikipedia: what it is and why it matters for healthcare”. BMJ 348 (apr08 3): g2478–g2478. doi:10.1136/bmj.g2478. ISSN 1756-1833. Rasberry, L. (2014). “Citing Wikipedia”. BMJ 348 (mar05 4): g1819–g1819. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1819. ISSN 1756-1833. That first paper is behind a paywall but the second one can be […]
Posted in health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged BMJ, David Menkes, license, publishing