Despite rain at Auburn U’s Relay, they joined with Lee Co’s Relay and raised $60,000, reports Jane. Congratulations to them!!

Yesterday Lorraine Thompson and I attended the BayBio annual conference for biotech companies. BayBio is the SF Bay Area biotech trade group. We attended to network with people in the industry. I’m on the organization’s Patient Advocacy Committee. We’re looking for an appropriate working relationship between nonprofit organizations and biotech companies that supports both the goals of disease-oriented organizations and ...

Seems that the advent of blogs and, next, vlogs is causing some head-scratching in journalism schools, Here’s a piece from Adam Pendenberg at Wired with some interesting thoughts. Should we raze our curriculum to the ground and start over, perhaps, and look to the web for inspiration? Could it be beneficial to jettison "objectivity" and "balance" in favor of transparent ...

I’ve been pretty amazed at the rate that new audio and video oriented internet sites have been coming online. It’s a concomitant of the arrival of the tipping-point for broadband as the dominant mode of the net in the US. I think you’re going to see a pretty rapid switch from the text dominance of low bandwidth to AV dominance ...