By bluerasberry on 2014-11-21
Earlier this year the National Museum of American History took in some artifacts related to LGBT history. I saw the news when it was reported, and was glad for that, but also surprised that this needed announcing or that the idea was new. On Tuesday 18 November I visited the museum with Dorothy and we […]
Posted in DC, gay stuff, museum, research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged Dorothy Howard, Smithsonian
By bluerasberry on 2014-11-13
Saturday 8 November Fabian and I went to see a dance show called the Radio City Christmas Spectacular at the Radio City Music Hall. I understand that the show is a New York City tradition and that it has been presented since the 1930s. I had heard it mentioned since coming to New York, with […]
Posted in art, New York City, rights, service industry, work | Tagged theatre
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-28
If you are thinking of doing research on Wikipedia’s editor community, please read this. It is easy for researchers to harm Wikipedia’s editing community by disturbing our projects, so please be mindful that your project can cause trouble if you do not take precaution and show compassion to the volunteers who are in this space. […]
Posted in research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged informed consent
By bluerasberry on 2014-07-27
I am concerned about researchers recruiting Wikipedia community volunteers as human subject participants in their research when they need people to take surveys or be interviewed. The major problems with research on the Wikipedia community is that time in research is time taken away from Wikipedia community activities and research done by outsiders to the […]
Posted in research, rights, Wikipedia | Tagged survey, volunteer
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 2014-04-17
Like everything on this blog, this post is my own personal candid thoughts. I visited an organization working in a similar space as Consumer Reports, and in this post I say some things about me, my organization, and this organization. This post is intended to be entirely positive about everything I saw, because I felt […]
Posted in Boston, clinical research, Consumer Reports, drug, health, non-profit, research, rights | Tagged electronic medical records, privacy
By bluerasberry on 2014-02-10
Elsewhere I talk about clinical research. Suppose that a research participant wants information about a clinical trial. What types of information would this person want? I was thinking to model information types as follows: Logistical information Research participant rights Health information Information about the particular clinical trial Logistical information refers to all the metadata about […]
Posted in clinical research, drug, education, health, rights | Tagged pharma
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-13
I am interested in the Devyani Khobragade incident just as an America who reads the news and who has lived in India. I also happen to live in New York, so perhaps since this happened where I live people talk about the case more here. I have read enough of the articles to know that […]
Posted in New York City, rights, service industry | Tagged Sangeeta Richard
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-04
Wikipedia could be used as a channel for conducting and managing information requests. This has not been done previously. I would like for it to be done in the future. This post is one of three in a series, and this one talks about Wikipedia and information requests. In other posts I present the idea […]
Posted in computer, non-profit, rights | Tagged MuckRock, request
By bluerasberry on 2014-01-03
I am interested in India and this post contains a perspective on a story happening in India and Manhattan. There is a news-making diplomatic argument happening now and for some months, but it has gotten more tense lately because of many Indian politicians seeking to escalate it. I wanted to write about this because I […]
Posted in New York City, rights, service industry, work | Tagged women's rights