By bluerasberry on 2014-03-12
Today Vint Cerf, Google’s “Internet Evangelist”, presented at Consumer Reports. He talked about the history and the future of the Internet. What he said was familiar to me but hearing it from him in the way that I suppose he has been performing continually for 50 years was a thrill. Vint Cerf is called one […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, encounter | Tagged Vint Cerf
By bluerasberry on 2014-02-10
Elsewhere I talk about clinical research. Suppose that a research participant wants information about a clinical trial. What types of information would this person want? I was thinking to model information types as follows: Logistical information Research participant rights Health information Information about the particular clinical trial Logistical information refers to all the metadata about […]
Posted in clinical research, drug, education, health, rights | Tagged pharma
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-25
For traditional educational organizations, it is easy to create high quality information content but difficult to disseminate them to the right audience. For Wikipedia, it is easy to disseminate information to the right audience, but difficult to create high quality information content. Which ability is more useful?
Posted in health, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged text
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-13
I am interested in the Devyani Khobragade incident just as an America who reads the news and who has lived in India. I also happen to live in New York, so perhaps since this happened where I live people talk about the case more here. I have read enough of the articles to know that […]
Posted in New York City, rights, service industry | Tagged Sangeeta Richard
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-11
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is three of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I describe MuckRock as […]
Posted in biobanks, clinical research, research, Wikipedia | Tagged informed consent
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-04
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is three of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I describe MuckRock as […]
Posted in computer, research, Wikipedia | Tagged MuckRock, request
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-04
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is one of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I present the idea […]
Posted in computer, non-profit, rights | Tagged MuckRock, request
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-03
I am interested in India and this post contains a perspective on a story happening in India and Manhattan. There is a news-making diplomatic argument happening now and for some months, but it has gotten more tense lately because of many Indian politicians seeking to escalate it. I wanted to write about this because I […]
Posted in New York City, rights, service industry, work | Tagged women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-12-23
I did not have a clear idea of how Broadway worked before living in New York. I understand better now but still it is something more complicated than I expected. Broadway refers to the live theatre culture in New York City. It is also the name of a street running diagonally south/north across the grid […]
Posted in art, New York City | Tagged Broadway, theatre
By bluerasberry on 2013-12-05
Lee visited me in New York from Thursday 21 November until Tuesday 3 December. I went to work on the weekdays except 27 and 28 November, which I had off for Thanksgiving. He had some time on his own. On the 23rd he went alone to the Natural History Museum. Together we went and saw […]
Posted in animal, New York City, tour | Tagged Lee
