There are serious dangers when the data we see gets filtered to much. Even more frightening is that we ourselves may soon be able to filter our own data, blocking items that are contrary to our own points of view. Here is a link to Community Mobilization post with more insight. Here is a link to an amazing video from ...
Read More »Uh-oh! Is that a pink slip in the inbox?
This isn’t exactly new news, but it does suggest that blogging can be hazardous to your job security. What do a flight attendant in Texas, a FedEx Kinko’s employee in Washington and a web designer in Utah have in common? They were all fired for posting content on their blogs that their companies disapproved of. The rise of blogging over ...
Read More »So how many Blogs does the ACS have?
Hey All, Was updating a list of Web sites that ACS employees can use on a daily basis and I noticed that our new ACS Cancer Action Network has it’s own Blog up and running. Maybe we need to start a list of "Resources" here at FISpace to track all the ACS approved Blogs out there. Anyway go check it ...
Read More »There goes the EHR program
From the NYTimes: From the president on down, the Bush administration has been a proponent of modernizing the nation’s creaky health care system with information technology. But while the administration’s words of support for a high-technology future for health care have been plentiful, the dollars, it seems, are scarce. The huge federal spending bill recently approved by Congress eliminated a ...
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