In quick succession I got a couple of glimpses of media’s current attention to the obesity problem. While channel surfing last night I came upon “CNN Presents,” a weekly, single-topic show. They did a pretty informative hour about obesity with interviews with experts and with weight-loss successes and failures. Then this morning while getting ready for work I saw the ...

A couple of evenings ago I attended a hors d’oeuvres and wine reception for BayBio, a San Francisco Bay Area biotechnology promotion organization. Since biotech is well established around here it’s a little hard to generate a lot of gravity to this sort of thing. The people attending tended to be the ancillary biotech community: IP law firms, small start-ups, ...

ScienceDaily News Release: New Technology Will Speed Genome Sequencing And the wheel goes ’round–smaller, faster, cheaper, smaller, faster, cheaper… The consequence is that these technologies become more commonplace…and disruptive to the way things used to be done.

This social software is touchy stuff. It seems that the implicit agreement for these ephemeral processes is: “Hey, don’t run your agenda on me!”