I spent the weekend learning how to do a podcast. To listen, click here. Sites and software used: Audacity (audio recorder, editor) Flashkit (free, uncopyrighted music and effects) Ourmedia (free audio and video blog host) Technology Review  tutorial (Advise downloadeing the MP3 file) Podcastingnews 

Business Week has just launched a new business innovation portal. They explain why in an article in the most recent issue. Here’s some of it: The Knowledge Economy as we know it is being eclipsed by something new — call it the Creativity Economy. Even as policymakers and pundits wring their hands over the outsourcing of engineering, software writing, accounting, ...

The NY Times reports that Medicare is going to give away to doctors record-keeping software that’s been used by Medicare and the VA for years. A couple of years ago the Bush Admin. set up a project to set some industry standards for EMR, but evidently that didn’t go anywhere. Now Medicare is just going to put it out there. ...

The internet’s moving toward audio/video with amazing speed. From Wired: Much of the recent success of internet video is due to the upswing in broadband penetration, which surpassed 58 percent of web users last month, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. This enables internet users to view online content easily. However, it is just the tip of the iceberg. New media standards such ...