By bluerasberry on 2013-10-16
On Friday 4 October I went to Seattle and returned Sunday 13 October. I wanted to visit friends and have coffee. On 5 October Lee and I went to the zoo to visit animals. It felt good to go there but I was very tired. I missed Lee a lot. I went to Evan’s place […]
Posted in clinical research, Open access, Portland, research, Seattle | Tagged Brian Glanz, Christian, Cyan, Evan, Jason, Jonathan, Kelly, Lee Haertel, Mark, meetup, PATH, Patrick, Roman
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-17
The Preventing Overdiagnosis was held at Dartmouth from 10-12 September. Consumer Reports was a sponsor of the event, as was Australia’s Bond University and BMJ. I was scheduled to speak about Wikipedia and health. There is a concept in medical literature called “overutilization” which refers to overuse of medical resources. This includes overtreatment, which is […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, rights, Wikipedia, work | Tagged Choosing Wisely, public health
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-17
There are two ways that media outreach can go. One way is that people can oppose the public’s natural behavior and run advertising campaigns and make infrastructure interventions to get everyone to do something unnatural. Definitely Wikipedia has problems, but it would take a lot of effort, advertising, and interventions to get people to use […]
Posted in health, Wikipedia
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-15
I went with some Wikipedians to see The Machine on Thursday 12 September 2013. This was a telling of Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov, which was a story I already enjoyed. In the play the chess matches were actually played and shown on a large screen to the audience. I thought that it was interesting […]
Posted in art, New York City | Tagged theatre
By bluerasberry on 2013-09-03
Sunday 1 September I visited the New York Botanical Garden to study and relax. There was an exhibit there called “Wild Medicine” which I wanted to see. I walked as much of the garden as I could because I was eager to see it but then also I had some reading to do, and I […]
Posted in Geneva, museum, New York City, tour, Wikipedia | Tagged botanical garden, medicine, translation
By bluerasberry on 2013-08-17
Sou and I visited the Grand Palace in Bangkok on 14 August 2013. We were returning back from Wikimania and were able to arrange a flight which passed through Bangkok and let us stay overnight, so we did. The night we arrived Sou wanted to visit the gay sleazy district. When we were in Hong […]
Posted in Bangkok, gay stuff, service industry, Thailand | Tagged palace, sex
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-24
On Sunday 21 July I went to a conference called “reRoute” hosted by the New Economics School and held at New York University. The conference was for what I would call young leaders in the consumer movement, although the attendees would not call themselves that. I am not sure what they call what they are […]
Posted in New York City, non-profit, Open access, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged conference, consumer rights
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-24
I went to the Wikipedia meetup in Boston on Saturday 20 July. I was already in Boston to present to Lisa Gualtieri’s health communications class, so I stayed another day and attended this. I was riding the train there and Molly User:GorillaWarfare said hello to me. I would not have recognized her because I had […]
Posted in Boston, Wikipedia | Tagged meetup
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-23
I went to Boston to present on Friday 19 July at Lisa Gualtieri’s health communications class at Tufts University. It was called “5th Tufts Summer Institute on Digital Strategies for Health Communication“. I gave an overview of the health content on Wikipedia and suggested that anyone with a health message to share could share it […]
Posted in Boston, education, health, non-profit, presentation | Tagged classes, public health
By bluerasberry on 2013-07-18
There is a lot of opportunity to attend cultural events in New York. I suppose that one might say that these events are free, but from another perspective the events are only available to those people who can afford time to attend them, and that means being able to afford to live in a place […]
Posted in New York City | Tagged concert, music
