By bluerasberry on 2015-06-24
Right now I am on a plane from New York to Colorado going to the Aspen Ideas Festival Spotlight Health, which is a medical spin off of the Aspen Institute conference. A team of us from Consumer Reports are coordinated to present and promote some Consumer Reports projects, including education about unnecessary health care and […]
Posted in Colorado, health | Tagged Aspen Institute, Consumer Reports, medicine
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-22
On June 20 I went to a conference in New York called The Seed. It is organized by a consortium of activists and nonprofit organizations who promote the vegan lifestyle, and this annual conference is a special event to complement a monthly vegan market and meetup which they group also hosts. At their events they […]
Posted in animal, health, New York City, non-profit | Tagged conference, food, PETA
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-12
I talked with Alex Stinson (user:Sadads on Wikipedia) today about libraries and archives. The context was that Consumer Reports has a light relationship with Kansas State University because their library system holds some archives relating to the Consumer Movement, including Colston Warne‘s papers. I am not going to give context to our conversation, but I […]
Posted in non-profit, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged library
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
As I described in another post this month, the Wikipedia article on Jashodaben has been deleted four times already. In another post from September 2014, I discussed some reasons why I support Jashodaben’s demands for recognition as the Spouse of the Prime Minister of India. There is pressure on the Indian media to avoid discussing […]
Posted in India, rights | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi, women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
When a topic is not well covered on Wikipedia, that is often an indication that a topic is not accessible or well covered in available sources on the Internet. When I was developing a draft for a Wikipedia article on Jashodaben I searched for all the information I could find. In November I set a […]
Posted in art, India, Wikipedia | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
I have been the primary developer of a Wikipedia article on Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi, the wife of the prime minister of India. Right now the article does not exist. Soon I will move my draft into Wikipedia’s article space. I anticipate that some people will object. This article has been deleted in Wikipedia’s review process […]
Posted in India, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi
By bluerasberry on 2015-05-29
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization which acts as steward of the Wikimedia projects. It is governed by its board of 10. One of the seats is a lifetime appointment for a key member, 4 are reserved for experts and chosen in a traditional way, and the remaining 5 seats are for representatives of […]
Posted in election, non-profit, Wikipedia | Tagged Wikimedia Foundation board elections
By bluerasberry on 2015-05-07
Today I gave three Wikipedia presentations in Manhattan. I ought to be spending all of my time out of the office and at universities per the terms of my grant to do outreach to students, but as of yet I have not managed enough invitations to be on campus all of the time. Dorothy has […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, New York City, Wikipedia, work | Tagged hospital, PBS, WebMD
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-14
Historically the Wikimedia Foundation has applied negative outsider branding to the Wikimedia community. By “negative outsider branding”, I mean that the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) prefers to describe the Wikimedia community as if they were social outcasts, and that when the WMF plans outreach, or engages with the media, or positions itself to interact with the […]
Posted in presentation, Wikipedia | Tagged branding, Wikimedia community
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-05
The New York Times just published “Using Patient Data to Democratize Medical Discovery“. The article talks about activity trackers and Apple’s software suite for reporting health information to Apple devices. It links to the story of a patient named Steven Keating who benefited from having his own health records. Keating’s “The Healing Power of Your […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, rights | Tagged activity tracking, privacy