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 2015-08-04
The Wikimedia community has a problem with harassment. The situation is that a significantly large number of people say that they would participate in Wikimedia community activities, except that they perceive the Wikimedia community to be hostile, unfair, and sometimes that it explicitly targets them for harassment. I recognize that there should be some response […]
Posted in rights, Wikipedia | Tagged culture, harassment
By bluerasberry on 2015-07-05
As a paid professional who is employed to encourage volunteers to donate their labor so that Wikipedia can be developed with their crowdsourcing, I feel that I have expert insight into the relationship between staff and volunteers in online collaboration. This is a niche field and the relationships between staff and volunteers are broadly misunderstood, […]
Posted in rights | Tagged class struggle, protest, reddit, wealth
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
As I described in another post this month, the Wikipedia article on Jashodaben has been deleted four times already. In another post from September 2014, I discussed some reasons why I support Jashodaben’s demands for recognition as the Spouse of the Prime Minister of India. There is pressure on the Indian media to avoid discussing […]
Posted in India, rights | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi, women's rights
By bluerasberry on 2015-06-05
I have been the primary developer of a Wikipedia article on Jashodaben Narendrabhai Modi, the wife of the prime minister of India. Right now the article does not exist. Soon I will move my draft into Wikipedia’s article space. I anticipate that some people will object. This article has been deleted in Wikipedia’s review process […]
Posted in India, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Jashodaben, Narendra Modi
By bluerasberry on 2015-04-05
The New York Times just published “Using Patient Data to Democratize Medical Discovery“. The article talks about activity trackers and Apple’s software suite for reporting health information to Apple devices. It links to the story of a patient named Steven Keating who benefited from having his own health records. Keating’s “The Healing Power of Your […]
Posted in clinical research, health, research, rights | Tagged activity tracking, privacy
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
By bluerasberry on 2015-02-13
In the past I have talked about police in India, as has Nandan on his blog. I want to share a story about police in America and Indian people and give some thoughts. A police car in a small city in Alabama videotaped American police attacking an Indian man around 11 February 2015. The story […]
Posted in rights | Tagged culture, police, violence
By bluerasberry on 2014-11-26
The Berkman Center for Internet and Society offers a free online class called “Copyright X”, which invites the interested public to learn about copyright. To join the class one must submit a 2000 word essay describing one’s interest. This is my essay, a bit longer than what I actually submitted with the 3000 character limit. […]
Posted in education, health, HIV, rights, Texas | Tagged copyright, prevention education, public education