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A new project designed at Harvard takes computers, using artificial intelligence, to scan the private medical files of 2.5 million people at local hospitals, as part of a NIH-funded effort to find the genetic roots of diseases. The story is reported today in the The Boston Globe by reporter Gareth Cook, so check it out. The Globe story says that ...

John Nisbitt in his book, Megatrends, in the late ’80, said that for every new high tech development you had to remember to high touch the people involved.  Race forward to the present and introduce fundraising on the Internet.  What about high touch? In the NonProfit Times, May 15, 2005, there was an interesting article on that subject.  It was ...

Link: Wired News: Google Gets Earthy. Have I expressed my enthusasim for everything Google does? I am sure I have. Their latest product is Google Earth a a free software package that gives detailed, 3-D views of cities across the globe replete with thousands of restaurants, schools, hotels and other establishments. But what makes this really cool is the ability ...

Hear the story behind the story as Chronicle managing editor Robert Rosenthal talks with Alicia Parlette, a 23-year-old copy editor and writer, about her series of personal stories on battling a rare form of cancer. Link to podcast