After Katrina the Society did a lot to help cancer patients recover or recreate records related to their disease. It gave impetus to discussion at the Futureing and Innovation Center about supporting a nationwide system of health records. It’s clear that some sort of health record system is badly needed for a variety of reasons. There’s an article in Wired ...

Jeez, you never know when you’ll be a bystander to some kind of warfare. It is reported in today’s Wired News that Six Apart blog platforms like TypePad–the host for FISpace–were down Tuesday because they are associated with an anti-spam company called Blue Security. Apparently Blue Security is figuring out how to deal with spam, and one powerful spammer launched ...

We’ve been having some email discussion about marketing in online communities. Maybe a fresh perspective would be useful. So here’s a web site about “bottom-up marketing.” One aspect of this is to have change start out on the edge, get some adoption, and have the change pecolate into and up the organizaton. I hope FISpace and FICenter are like that. ...

Given that my IT department doesn’t support wi-fi in any way, shape or form, it’s illustrative and a tad frustrating to run across this CNet map of the municipal wireless and broadband projects in the works.  (Actually I was given a 14 ft. Cat 5 Ethernet cable, but that’s not my idea of being mobile.) The option I’m pursuing now ...