From this morning’s Wired: WPP chief executive Martin Sorrell warned on Thursday that leading media companies like News Corp. are on the verge of panic amid seismic shifts brought on by the internet… "I think there’s a certain amount of panic among media owners," he said. "Most of these companies, ours included I suppose, are run by 50- or 60-year-olds ...

For all you interested in innovative developments for nonprofits on the internet check out NetSquared.  It’s a project of CompuMentor, a SF Bay Area organization that has been providing support to nonprofits for years for all-things-computer. This new site is oriented to internet and Web 2.0 (dare I use the term?).  They’re doing the Net2 Conference April 26-27, ’06, to ...

From Bloomberg: Mammograms and potent new drugs contributed to a drop in mortality rates from breast cancer in the final 25 years of the 20th century, a study in today’s New England Journal of Medicine found. Seven teams of statistics experts assessed breast cancer rates in a study paid for by the National Cancer Institute. Their results, considered definitive, show ...

SINGAPORE, Oct. 25–A scientific conference on stem cells, senescence and cancer opened here on Tuesday with the participation of about 500 top biomedical research scientists and clinicians from United States, Europe and Asia… The Singapore conference, organized by Keystone Symposia, the well-known organizer of scientific conferences, is the first scientific meeting of its kind to be held outside of North ...