"Medical schools prepare for "silver tsunami"
By Richard C. LewisMon Jan 28, 4:24 PM ET
Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to care for the elderly.
Now, Brown and other U.S. medical schools are plugging...
"Innovative but unproven": perhaps the most concise and perfect definition of the entire new media/web 2.0/user-gen/social medial landscape."Current Media, the parent company of Current TV and Current.com, has...
"Qtrax is NOT just another P2P network, it provides a complete system for finding and downloading music. The player provides access a web site filled with artist content, including Videos, Ringtones, Lyrics, Album...
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Rob Curley, news website visionary wrote this in a longer piece that is part of a recent Nieman Report. The giant relational database and geocoding are what http://creatingcommunityconnections.org needs next..."An interesting attribute of these local guides is that the entire...
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"Google has announced the launch of Google Knol which appears to be an attempt to take on Wikipedia. Google Knol allows experts to create "authoritative" articles about a particular topic.
The web contains an enormous amount of information, and Google has helped to make...
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So giving it away is not just for those wanting to get the word out... The movers and shakers of the literary world are getting onboard as well, including Paulo Coelho:"Paulo Coelho, the best-selling author of...
Collaborative 'knowledge-building' websites, like Wikipedia, rely on users' participation, along with some semblance of community, in order to function effectively. But who contributes to Wikipedia and why? The...
I don't know that BBC and MySpace are the most logical partners, but the BBC seems to view this opportunity as an effective means of getting programming out to new audiences; and MySpaceTV does have 'localized...
It's hard to imagine watching a sweeping, epic Bollywood film squished down to fit a tiny mobile phone-sized screen, but with a potential audience of 233 million mobile phone users, it's obviously worth...
Scientific American comes out boldly with a wiki experiment that invites readers to edit an article and weigh in on some of the "meta publishing" issues that crowd sourcing via wiki technology brings to science, including consideration of the impact of this kind of...
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It's a root veggie...it's a tuber...no, it's supercarrot! That's right--US scientists have apparently engineered a high-calcium carrot that could fortify your bones without fattening up your butt. "Someone eating...
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"CrosuS Is HERE
Games company Isotx is downright proud – and a little emotional – to announce the release of CrosuS, the brand new Game Management System for the PC.
CrosuS is a new tool which finds the latest content and updates for all of your favourite PC games from...
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BitTorrent sites like The Pirate Bay have long claimed that they could not be prosecuted for making files available for illegal download, "since none of the actual illegal files are hosted on [their] servers but...
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With an appropriate nod to Seinfeld, perhaps we can remix a 90s slogan to work in the new millenium: Celebrity now! Myspace Celebrity will allow celebs to communicate directly with their fans, via the social...
Early reports claimed that up to forty passengers were injured on an Air Canada flight Thursday morning, that number has now been significantly reduced. UPDATE: "Half a dozen passengers were
badly injured...
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