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As part of the Texas Division’s Great American Smokeout they’ve got the QuitNowBlog. It’s oriented to the college crowd (i.e., against smoking but no comment on beer). It’s advertised on MySpace and Facebook too. BTW, November 17 is the 29th year of the Society’s Great American Smokeout, and I’ve been around for every one of them (Groan!)

Lately I’ve been thinking about how far the ACS ought to go in adopting digital technologies for interacting with "communities." I’ve been around a long time and most of the time our fundamental practices have been based on geography, what I think of as Terra-ACS. But when I look back at recent developments I see we’ve already adopted a lot ...

From Wired there is a story about an internal Microsoft memo by a top honchos saying the company faces a "sea-change" in what it needs to offer to be competitive. Remember when Microsoft realized the internet was for real and they switched from total focus on desktop software to offering web-related services? Well, it seems they’ve had another epiphany and ...

From the NY Times: A new drug for acne, Aczone, was approved in July, but with a catch. The Food and Drug Administration said it would require that patients first be tested for an enzyme deficiency that could put them at risk of developing anemia from the drug. The age of personalized medicine is on the way. Increasingly, experts say, ...