Just in the last week I’ve gotten involved in a number of "podcasts" in the ACS here in California. Actually, they’re not exactly podcasts with RSS feeds to the public, but they will show up on our extranet called  The Link. People are beginning to realize audio can be a powerful tool. More importantly they’re realizing that new media are ...

See John Lorance’s post at Net2 about recent trends in online traffic. Blogs are sparking a lot of traffic growth. It references the article "New Trends in Online Traffic" from the Washington Post.

Here’s an interesting article from MIT’s Technology Review about how vast databases of patient information are being connected to compile worldwide data about cancer, and, eventually, to provide a powerful tool for clinicians treating the disease. For several years, clinicians and computer scientists in the U.S. and abroad have been trying to improve cancer care—from diagnosis to treatment—by building vast, ...

From today’s NY Times is an article spelling out a change that I think will have far-reaching consequences for what we think of as "business systems." THE Internet is entering its Lego era. Indeed, blocks of interchangeable software components are proliferating on the Web and developers are joining them together to create a potentially infinite array of useful new programs. ...