Social Change

OJR section: page one While looking for a blog I rediscovered this website for the Annenberg Online Journalism Review. It’s with the USC Annenberg School of Communications, and I think it does a great job of discussing the evolution of journalism into the new media of the Internet.

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Googling the genome A kind of entertaining piece about some of the social adjustments that people might face when full individual genomes become readily available.

The Institute of Medicine (the folks who brought you the report a few years ago about all the accidents and mistakes being made in health care settings) is about to publish a new report entitled: Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion. Basically, they’ve found that in the US there is a high level of illiteracy about health matters, so ...

Having gushed effusively about Leroy Hood, I’d like to turn to the China part of the conference. First, through, one last note about Hood. He had three messages for the Chinese: Everything he’s ever done that was important (including current work) has been met with great resistance. It’s not too late to get in on the ground floor of systems ...