By bluerasberry on 2016-04-13
On Friday-Saturday April 8-9 I participated in the The Huffington Post and Change.org Editors Lab] with Richard Knipel (user:Pharos) and a new friend, Pablo Duboue introduced to me by user:JeremyB. The theme of the event was, “Impact Journalism”, with the question to address being, “How can news organizations develop innovative and interactive ways to create […]
Posted in New York City, Wikipedia | Tagged authority control, conference, protest
By bluerasberry on 2016-03-24
Wikipedia’s content typically has at least okay accuracy and its audience is huge, plus its accuracy is inexpensive to improve to the quality level of any other source. Other communication channels may or may not have more accurate than Wikipedia, but almost always they serve a smaller audience, and it is expensive to increase traffic […]
Posted in New York City, research, Wikipedia | Tagged communications, survey
By bluerasberry on 2015-12-17
Fabian has been interested in buying a home in New York City. The situation is that for all living memory, buying a home is usually less expensive than renting in New York City because monthly payments are comparable and housing prices have gone up every year. Apartments in New York that are near transit might […]
Posted in New York City | Tagged auction, Fabian
By bluerasberry on 2015-10-29
On Wednesday 28 October I attended a half-day of a two-day conference on “expanded access” at the New York Academy of Science. Johnson & Johnson sponsored the event and I felt that what I saw was guided by their pharma influence. “Expanded access” is a term referring to a pharma company’s provision of an experimental […]
Posted in clinical research, health, New York City, research, rights | Tagged clinical research, safety
By bluerasberry on 2015-10-26
My housemate Pat had her knee replaced on Monday 12 October. I have been surprised about her recovery. She told me that she had pain since her 20s when she had an injury playing rugby. She had an ACL replacement in response to that injury, and some disability since then. For the past 15 years […]
Posted in health, New York City, service industry | Tagged medicine, Pat Slaven
By bluerasberry on 2015-10-14
There is a trend in the communications industry for metrics reporting. Internet publishing allows for tracking of who reads what and how they read it. In my opinion society has not come to understand the implications of communication tracking, and industry does not know either. As a Wikipedian, I am a communications professional, and I […]
Posted in New York City, quantified self, work | Tagged communications, metrics
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 2015-05-07
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 2015-04-02
I was recently at a meeting where collaboration among Wikipedia, Consumer Reports, PBS, NPR, and other nonprofit media organizations was discussed. Someone mentioned these reports from a few years ago, and I did not know of them. I want to excerpt the parts of them which mention Consumer Reports or Wikipedia. Eventually I might incorporate […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, New York City, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Aspen Institute, Knight Foundation, public service, publishing
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-01
On Sunday and Monday 29-30 March there was a meeting of Wikipedians and representatives of members of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. That organization is best known as the consortium supporting public broadcast media in the United States, including PBS, NPR, and all of the affiliates they have in every city in the United States. […]
Posted in Consumer Reports, legal, New York City, non-profit, presentation, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged civil rights, copyright