Author Archives: David Collin

Future of medicine

Popular Science has an article that purports to describe the "future of medicine." In typical Popular Science fashion, it’s got a lot of diagrams and paintings of cell-level devices that they claim will be used in treatment of cancer and other diseases. Worth a look.

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Dont miss Mixed-Reality Event

The next NetSquared Net Tuesday (July 18) will be a chance to participate in genuine "mixed-reality event." That means that you can participate two ways: If you’re in the Bay Area come to 322 Ritch St., San Francisco, starting at 6:00 pm and join the so-called "real" crowd of mingling flesh-and-blood people. I’ll be there interviewing the evening’s moderators for ...

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Good term: The People Formerly Known as the Audience

There’s a great opinion piece on The Huffington Post today about a mind-shift needed about the former roles of information providers and the "audience." Essentially, the author, Jay Rosen, spells-out why that’s over. The people formerly known as the audience wish to inform media people of our existence, and of a shift in power that goes with the platform shift ...

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Wanna do some bootleg video-casting?

Here’s a good article from NYTimes about new services that enable sharing large files like video files with a restricted audience. It’s aimed at families, but why not work groups? Do-it-yourself broadcasting rolls on,

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