An article from Fast Company. Blogs were once the domain of angst-ridden teens and doomed presidential candidates. But the likes of Verizon, IBM, Microsoft, and Dr. Pepper are all climbing on the blogwagon. Turns out, Web logs are a nifty knowledge-management tool. And companies also see them as a promising medium for advertising (naturally). To me the big breakthrough about ...

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You need a subscription to access this Wall Street Journal article, but I’ll quote liberally. Support for a change in how health-care coverage is presently provided appears to be growing among many diverse constituencies, including both Republicans and Democrats. The reasons are easy enough to understand. With average health-insurance premiums for families potentially accounting for 21% of median household income, ...

From the Institute for Alternative Futures: While the future promises major advances in healthcare, they will be slow to move into medical practice unless the U.S. confronts access and other larger problems in its healthcare delivery system, according to IAF President Clem Bezold in a March 3 keynote speech to private funders of healthcare research. The time lag in moving ...