By bluerasberry on 2016-12-02
Since I have arrived in 2012, Consumer Reports has been in a series of management and operation shakeups related to converting from a primarily paper publication to a primarily digital service. Since moving to New York City to join CR, I have had the experience of meeting other media professionals in NYC whose observations about […]
Posted in computer, Consumer Reports, New York City | Tagged publishing
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 2014-04-11
I had two articles recently published in BMJ. Rasberry, L. (2014). “Wikipedia: what it is and why it matters for healthcare”. BMJ 348 (apr08 3): g2478–g2478. doi:10.1136/bmj.g2478. ISSN 1756-1833. Rasberry, L. (2014). “Citing Wikipedia”. BMJ 348 (mar05 4): g1819–g1819. doi:10.1136/bmj.g1819. ISSN 1756-1833. That first paper is behind a paywall but the second one can be […]
Posted in health, research, Wikipedia | Tagged BMJ, David Menkes, license, publishing
By bluerasberry on 2012-03-21
I am posting some examples of silly ads in this post. These are not my ads and they are not clickable – they are for illustration purposes and I explain them in this post. I do not feel that the mainstream media perspective about Wikipedia or other encyclopedias is reasonable. In this post I am […]
Posted in education, Open access, Wikipedia | Tagged advertising, book, publishing
By bluerasberry on 2011-11-30
I am all about biobanks now. A biobank is a type of biorepository which stores human biological specimens long-term for future research. I have been having encounters with biobanks for years and always had questions about them, and I have even had some conflicts with researchers on this topic. Recently I met someone who develops […]
Posted in biobanks, non-profit, research, Seattle, Wikipedia | Tagged NWABR, publishing, social media