Social Change

Remember a few years back when naysayers were warning the internet would make us alienated and isolated, and maybe it would destroy our family and social life? The highly respected Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a report titled "The Strength of Internet Ties" finding that those worries were unfounded. I think this report is so significant I’m ...

I’ve just been in Second Life with ACS colleagues. We were at a Future Salon meeting and then got together at the Relay For Life site. I understand we’ll have another Relay event there this summer. The last Relay there netted $6,000. Hey, that’s pretty good for a start. Hopefully we’ll have a permanent presence there, a "virtual" unit. I’ve ...

Here’s an article from the NT Times about the disruption going on in the media industry as, suddenly, the long-discussed idea of "convergence" is actually happening. Large-screen TV, digital video, iPod video, iTunes, mobile phone video and music, Internet video, etc, etc, are coming together in a big mashup. Devices of all kinds are not only displaying stuff in many ...

The American Cancer Society did a huge amount of work helping cancer patients get back on track with treatment in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (Hear my podcast with a staff in Mid-South not long after the storm.) Devastated clinics, lost records, and many other problems were deterrents to the continuity badly needed by people under treatment. That’s an ongoing ...