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 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 2014-07-26
A team of us at CR visited the Kickstarter office in Brooklyn Thursday 24 July. We mostly did this to see an example of a consumer-to-consumer marketplace. The idea of visiting arose when we noticed demand that we do product testing on several products which had been produced through Kickstarter’s platform. In my mind, Kickstarter, […]
Posted in New York City, quantified self, rights | Tagged activity tracking, Airbnb, Kickstarter, marketing, open notes, PatientsLikeMe, Uber
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-20
On Saturday 19 July I met a physician at the HOPE conference (Hackers on Planet Earth) who does medical device research and policy. Here is his organizational website. We were talking about health records which patients keep for themselves. It seemed to me that his ideas were related to the open notes project, Consumer Reports […]
Posted in health, New York City, presentation, quantified self | Tagged conference, Hackers on Planet Earth