By bluerasberry on 2021-11-15
I tried explaining something in video by webcam which is new for me, but I want to try more often. I sorted notes in my head, rehearsed out loud once, then recorded. I watched it and thought it was fine, so I published it. I wanted to start a conversation on demographic profiling in the […]
Posted in data, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged demographics, profile, Scholia, WikiCite
By bluerasberry on 2018-06-22
Corporate forces use a dirty trick to undermine community activism: they steal the social movement with counter-propaganda by publishing media to redefine the movement goals. The way it works is that after a social movement names and defines itself, the corporate forces start publishing media using the same name but report that the social movement […]
Posted in Open access, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged consumer rights, net neutraily, propaganda, Tim Wu
By bluerasberry on 2015-10-24
Wikipedia is built by summarizing and citing what reliable sources already say. Academic journals are reliable sources, but often prohibitively expensive for Wikipedia contributors to access. There is a social movement called “open access” which demands public access and reuse rights from academic journal publishers. I feel strongly about this movement. I stepped up the […]
Posted in Open access, San Francisco, Wikipedia | Tagged Jake Orlowitz, library, Michael Eisen
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-22
The Cochrane Collaboration is an international nonprofit organization which compiles the results of medical research and publishes summaries of the collected findings. Cochrane is widely trusted because they are able to take a long-term view to their reporting, which leads to their publications being conservative, broad, and acknowledging of all major perspectives. Additionally they do […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, health, Open access, research, Wikipedia | Tagged Cochrane, Wikipedian-in-residence
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 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 2014-01-25
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 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 2013-07-24
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 2013-06-26
On 22 June, our last day together Audrea, Daniel, Matt and I talked about meeting up and chilling. Before meeting up as a group Aubrey had suggested we visit the grave of Jorge Luis Borges, and I was keen on doing this as well. He was at the Cemetery Rois so we agreed to find […]
Posted in Geneva, Open access | Tagged Andrea Zanni, cemetery, Daniel Mietchen, hiking, Matt Senate, mountain