Two things to read: A Wired article this morning. Danah Boyd’s article on MySpace.
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Reach out…part 2
This morning in the NYTimes there’s an article that says Google is offering a service by which people will click through on their ads and be connected by voice to the seller. I saw awhile back that e-Bay is going to do something similar. That’s why they bought Skype. It all runs on voice over IP (VoIP) and video over ...
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Last week Randy Moss circulated the link to a paper based on a speech by Dana Boyd to the AAAS about why kids are so nuts about MySpace. Communications technologies have created a whole new sensibility about what it means to have a social network, and young people are flocking to MySpace despite the fact that parents across the land ...
Read More »"Buddies" for clinical trials
Stowe Boyd says the center of the universe is the buddy list. Well, that might be especially true for colon cancer clinical trial participants. A new kind of mentoring program has been announced by the Colon Cancer Alliance. Colon cancer patients considering participation in a clinical trial can now access a first-of-its-kind peer-to-peer support system, the Buddy Program, the Colon ...
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