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Google Palimpsest: critical step toward transparent government!
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Yikes! I’ve been Twittering and sending e-mails about Google Research’s new Palimpsest service (which hasn’t been formally announced, but which Wired wrote about recently, citing sources within Google), but just realized I hadn’t blogged about it!
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
IMHO, this could be the critical link in achieving the dream I discussed in my […]
Google.org funds emergency program that sounds very familiar…
Thursday, January 17th, 2008Tip o’ the hat to David Jara of Motorola for tipping me off about this!
News today that Google.org, Google’s charitable wing (”Google.org aspires to use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age: climate change, poverty and emerging disease”) will give grants totaling $5 million to fund Innovative […]
Just posted another YouTube tip: put medical records on thumb drive!
Friday, September 7th, 2007I’ve just posted another YouTube “21st-century disaster tip.”
This one deals with electronic medical records.
Remember how many Katrina victims suffered even more because their medical records were either damaged or destroyed?
Driven both by that human tragedy and by the need to streamline medical record keeping in general (a win-win if I’ve ever seen one!), more and […]
TB case: it all comes down to human issues
Thursday, May 31st, 2007The Andrew Speaker TB case is a graphic reminder that, no matter what kinds of policies we institute to screen people at the borders, it still comes down to human factors. Just as many of the security guards interviewed by AP for the story on chinks in the DHS armor weren’t adequately trained […]
