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Terry Jones #1 http://m.kyte.tv/ch...
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There are four parts to this video. One of the most interesting developers and ideas for the RealTimeWeb that I've heard yet. I wish FriendFeed has this search engine's capabilities.
- Robert Scoble
Okay, you've got me hooked, RS. Gimme more, please, Sir!
- James D Kirk
fascinating concept "Fluid Info": "database with a heart of a wiki" ... love his accent! Interesting to give user so much control w/o schemas, permissions, etc. Removes all the structure, limitations....wow
- Susan Beebe
ok where's part 2 at?
- Susan Beebe
Susan: Uploads from Spain are slow.
- Robert Scoble
Faster than China or slower?
- David Feng
from IM
Sorry - wrong comment... I mean, commented to wrong person...
- David Feng
from IM
Gotcha! Time for some coffee although that hot chocolate does sound better :)
- Susan Beebe
David: I think uploads in China were faster. But I think the hotel wifi sucks. Can't blame that on an entire country. :-)
- Robert Scoble
Thanks Robert! And thanks for watching.... I'm a bit of a gasbag.
- Terry Jones
Terry your ideas are amazing... ripping away the layers of db constraints to open up an evolutionary platform for information mining / sharing is simply AWESOME! My db structured brain is having a tough time computing the lack of structures, but my intuition tells me this is right for the future....neat data model design concept for sure!
- Susan Beebe
Hi Susan. Thanks :-) BTW, there are permissions. You can have, e.g., a susan/rating attribute that you're putting onto things, and it's yours - no one else can detect/read/write/delete it unless you let them. OTOH, the underlying database objects have no owner. There are no permissions at that level. So you can put a rating (or anything else) onto any object (that you can find). No-one can stop you. So we're fully writable like a wiki, but with a permissions structure within the object (unlike a wiki).
- Terry Jones
Ooooh got it!!! Ok so you're building a core data model (protected) with objects everywhere (open design) which are available to users who are presented with a highly customizable user profile (detect/read/write/delete ) that can call / manipulate said objects to create the user's *own* data set (which has multiple layers of permissions / attributes / tags? to control sharing, reporting and distribution of data) = fabulous! when can I have it? :)
- Susan Beebe
Terry - is this something like entity/attribute/value? I did something like that a few years ago... but found it hard to do searching - equality in my thing was fine, but greater than, less than etc (ie: with a date range) were a bit harder. How have you overcome this?
- Brad
@Susan. Yes, that sounds more or less right. Yes, your own data is on the objects, as it that of anyone else who wants to put something there. it's all combinable, searchable as you like. Plus you can organize multiply, simultaneously, and arbitrarily (simply by adding more tags to objs & searching). We'll do an alpha release in early 2009.
- Terry Jones
@Brad. Dates are stored both numerically and textually. What gets searched on depends on the query. terry/seen > "Jan 22, 2007" is numeric, terry/seen ~ "Monday" is textual, etc. The query language is dead simple. It took me a lot of thinking to reduce everything to very very simple primitive operations and an easily parallelizable query language.
- Terry Jones
BTW, there are 3 more parts to the video coming up... :-)
- Terry Jones
Part II is now up: http://www.kyte.tv/scoblei...
- Robert Scoble
Impressive demo and ideas. I was thinking about similar lines last week using CouchDB (a schemaless document database by Damian Katz). Also the views in FluidDB sound like views in CouchDB. I very much like the idea of sharing data and being able to annotate or enhance the original(!) data. This is Open Data on steroids.
- Berry Groenendijk
Mindnumbing stuff.
- Thomas Bøhm
@Berry Hi. I'm reasonably familiar with CouchDB. It's a very different animal. CouchDB is very focused on documents, and lays out complete documents (serialized JSON strings actually, plus BLOBs) efficiently on disk. FluidDB is not focused on anything :-) And its storage is not done by object, but is instead by attribute (or tag if you like). CouchDB used to not have permissions, but I think that's changing/ed. About views yes, agreed. I hope that makes it clearer. It takes a while to get.
- Terry Jones
Part #3 is now up http://bit.ly/UteO
- Terry Jones
Terry I think I am slowly getting my head around FluidDB. There is still one big problem. The way people tag things. Some people tag things with a x,y coordinates, others with a longitude and latitude, etc. You need consistent tag names (or metadata field names or whatever) to be able to effectively search data. Does FluidDB help you with this in any way?
- Berry Groenendijk
And part #4 http://www.kyte.tv/ch...
- Terry Jones
Hi Berry. No, there's no help, and nor do I think there should be. Conventions evolve. They become consistent to the degree that it's important they are consistent. If it doesn't matter that you write color and I write colour, then it's no big deal. But if I write S.O.S. and you write S.O.B., it could be very important!
- Terry Jones
There's a lot of evolutionary biology thinking behind FluidDB. Attributes will (implicitly) have fitness. Things that are useful will flourish, become trusted, be heavily used, and their owners will similarly gain. Other stuff will not. This gets at the question of spam too. What's spam? But that's another subject - also very important if you're going to build an information architecture that can survive its own success.
- Terry Jones
Terry I like the way you think about these things. Just viewed part #4 of the interview. I am looking forward to the alpha release.
- Berry Groenendijk
Eager to see Alpha product too! send me invite susan.beebe {at} gmail dot com - thanks! This is really inspiring / disruptive technology!! love it! makes my brain hurt in a GOOD way (i.e. un-doing all the overly burdensome architecture that was imprisoning my data!) :-) Terry is one smart cookie!!
- Susan Beebe
How will you expire certain attributes? Similar to domain name management today, will you have leases on groups (or specific) attributes? This seems to be the way that you're going with the revenue model, and would certainly make sense after you've reached enough critical mass. When will you start allowing people to start reserving namespaces/attributes?
- Davison
very neat project
- mikehedge
@Terry - thanks. I built my thing on a standard relational db - Firebird, but everything was stored as text, so it was a bit difficult... :) So... how do you go about implementing "relationships"? ie: I have a video store, with all these videos, and this person rents these vids, so I'd like to send them an email when there's a new release in the genre that they've hired previously? Would love to talk to you more about this. Thanks!
- Brad
@SusanBeebe - you know, that's exactly right! undoing the architecture! yes, sort of kinda..... :) and freeing one'self from the confines of relational theory... but see me other comment to Terry re relationships. Happy Days! :)
- Brad
@Terry - sorry I can't stop thinking about this. In my thing, I maintained another table that aggregated all the various uses of a "thing". So at a glance, I could tell what the most used credit card was for purchases.... which state had the most sales etc.... this was a way to help the business owner make sense of all the data, and plan for the future. ie: Diners Club had like 2% of sales, yet attracted the highest fees - so that tells me get rid of Diners Club as a payment method? That sort of thing.....
- Brad
@Terry - and all - I had better stop here - I could keep typing all night about this, and then miss the new year! :) So happy new year to everyone. And special thanks to Robert for bringing you to our attention.
- Brad
Hi @Brad. Sorry for my slow replies - I don't get any notification of new comments here. I don't really use friendfeed (yet). I'm not sure exactly what @Susan had in mind with her "undoing the arch" comment, but that certainly captures the flavor. Re relationships, there is NO support for them. It's not a relational model. There's just a (conceptually) very simple architecture and laughably simple query language. You get to do analysis on your own CPU :-) Lots of tradeoffs there, of course.
- Terry Jones
The Kyte videos seem to be dead. Am I just stupid or did they get deleted?
- Steven Walling
The video still works for me.
- Terry Jones
DomainTyper - Fast Domain Search #web - http://domaintyper.com/
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really awesome domain search
- Zee.
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Thats great!
- Simon Wicks
bump due to duplicate
- Zee.
Wow !
- Parham
The unfundable world-changing startup - http://scobleizer.com/2008...
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All about Terry Jones' Fluid Info, which is really awesome.
- Robert Scoble
I am curious though. If there is no funding for it, is he willing to get some users on it in order to promote the technology?
- Rob Diana
I met Terry a while back. This thing really is awesome. My impression is that he's basically a little concerned with premature exposure. He has this idea of what it is and should be, and is worried that people won't get it. Maybe he's over it now-- joking aside, Scoble featuring is a big promotion. I hope he gets the attention he richly deserves.
- Jeremy Dunck
I really enjoyed the videos. Not only is his idea a possible "game-changer", but watching him describe his work it's impossible to miss how passionate he is about it. I wish him the best of luck!
- Jeffrey Marsh
Robert - please keep us posted on Terry Jones' "Fluid Info" - I think that is simply amazing technology and highly disruptive as it is so dang different! :)
- Susan Beebe
Ha - I just found this thread in Google. Thanks for all the wishes. We're hoping to get an alpha out at the end of June. There's a TON to do before then though.
- Terry Jones
Terry also talked at PGCON recently [ http://bit.ly/9ANOf ]
- Arvind
nice
- Jordi Rivero
Paparazzi! #mac - http://derailer.org/paparazzi/
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"Paparazzi! is a small utility for Mac OS X that makes screenshots of webpages."
- Seth Greenblatt
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Note that it uses the WebKit rendering engine, so if you're logged in within Safari, you'll also be logged in within Paparazzi.
- Jeremy Dunck
Calacanis is saying in his mailinglist that his new offer is now $500,000 for 3 years of @questions in the twitter suggested users list.
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I think it's well worth it. Also, I don't think they will take it.
- Jason Calacanis
I agree that it might be worth it for Mahalo, but perhaps not so much for other business owners reading this feed.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I can't believe I'm saying this, but - I think they should take it. They should change it from "Suggested Users" to "Sponsor Users" and give anyone who pays a certain number of impressions based on the amount. Bingo: revenue model. I'm waiting for my job offer, Twitter.
- Shawn Farner
Calacanis is a mad genius.
- Dimitar Vesselinov
doesn't scale: ~$165k/yr per sponsor, in current scrolling window there are 1st three initial spots & ~100 throughout the scroll - so, ~$500k cost for one of three top spots, and then sliding scale down from there - diminishing returns says that the lower you go the less valuable it becomes, so lets say they could generate another ~$2.5mm from rest of sponsors - that's $3mm for the sponsor list & a very small portion of what their profitable revenue needs be - monetizing api is still best way to proceed
- mike "glemak" dunn
Wikileaks reveals secret blacklist behind proposed Great Firewall of - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
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wow, didn't realize that australia was becoming a communist nation...
- Shawn C. Reed
Android app lets you scan DVD barcodes, then auto-torrents them to your PC - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
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Dear Future, Welcome: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009... ! I eagerly await the forthcoming PhD thesis on the subject. (via @mario)
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EveryBlock is a new way to keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city - http://www.everyblock.com/
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what EveryBlock does really well is provide a user-friendly, easy-to-digest interface for exploring public records: every building permit, restaurant inspection, police call, zoning agenda item and more. You can hone searches from a one- to eight-block radius around a particular address. And you can set daily/weekly email alerts, as well
- Cee Bee
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this is real cool. totally allows you to specify an area near you and give you an RSS feed concerning that area
- Cee Bee
+1 - I use this all the time, and get weekly update emails. Limited to a few cities, though.
- Paul Whitaker
Interesting I guess if your city is on top of things. The City of LA is not on top of things and most of that stuff is only available by going downtown. Other than that we have ZIMAS which gives me info, but it's never current.
- Anika
bookmarked
- TrafficBug
Marc Hedlund on Hulu, Boxee, and "content providers" - http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
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"someone else -- not you, someone smart -- will win instead, or you can change your mind"
- Andy Baio
I believe I am now a Marc Hedlund fan.
- Jeremy Dunck
Replacing ads with art - http://overstimulate.com/article...
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The Official Top 20 Most Used Tools to Update Your Twitter - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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why the _____________ Mohomed?
- Zee.
Zee head butts Mohomed > bloody annoying
- Russellreno
Square Pegs: At your (ad) service | pegasusnews.com | Dallas / Fort Worth - http://www.pegasusnews.com/blogs...
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Hallelujah!!!
- Mike Orren
Known (minor) issue in IE6, significant issue in IE7. Working on it. But lest it be missed by the less-than-obvious title: "As far as I know, we now have the only ad server anywhere that is actually part of the content management system. This means that while the humans here look at advertising and editorial differently the machine sees it all as content to deliver when relevant and to measure."
- Jeremy Dunck
The taste of shame and humiliation - http://jacobian.org/writing...
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Holy Smokes! Gmail Gets Offline Support! - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
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Yeah, Zee, nice find. RTM has been providing this offline support for awhile (also with GooglGears) so this should be FTW with Gmail.
- Melanie Reed
Concert review and audio: 6th Annual Django Reinhardt Festival at Arts Fifth Avenue (Saturday show) - http://www.pegasusnews.com/news...
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Joshua Schachter - Lessons Learned in Scaling and Building Social Systems | Kris Jordan - http://www.krisjordan.com/2008...
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"Joshua Schachter is the creator of del.icio.us, creator of geoURL and co-creator of Memepool. Built delicious in 2003, sold it to Yahoo! in 2005, and left Yahoo! just a few years ago. 4+ million users. 100s of millions of urls indexed. He was there through all of it and is going to be talking about the things he learned and “screwed up at everything there is to screw up at.”"
- l.m.orchard
LocalSolr | GIS Search - http://www.gissearch.com/localso...
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A Solr addon for doing geographic searches. Must investigate further.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Sadly it's result inclusion rather than results ranking, AFAICS.
- Jeremy Dunck
Health privacy is dead. Here's why:
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1. By disclosing your weird diseases other people help you out and get you more information than your own doctor can.
- Robert Scoble
2. By disclosing your weird diseases, other people give you ideas you would never have thought of. (This happened to me tonight).
- Robert Scoble
3. By disclosing your weird diseases you feel better just by telling other people what's going on in your life.
- Robert Scoble
You know about these guys, right? http://www.patientslikeme.com/
- Michelle Riggen-Ransom
4. By disclosing your weird diseases other people can make sure you don't "cheat" on your treatment plan.
- Robert Scoble
Absolutely. We got lots of great information from blogs & forums when my husband was diagnosed with liver cancer. It was through social media that we learned the transplant programs in Shanghai probably used condemned political prisoners as donors. Also, doctors sometimes won't tell you things for fear of malpractice or being wrong.
- Robyn McIntyre
It's not a violation of privacy if you chose to disclose your health issues. Privacy is violated when others access or profit from your record without your express consent.
- David McCallie
Too many doctors, hospitals, clinics, etc. will trust m$ health vault and it will get hacked.
- Mathew Packer
David: privacy is dead because you will share your diseases with the world before your insurance company even knows. Why? Because there are too many benefits to doing so.
- Robert Scoble
Your disclosure is your business and always has been. It's others disclosures when you don't want it to be that's the issues I would think.
- John Rubier
The interaction also provides a feedback loop into the medical community - esp in areas like Oncology where all sorts of mixed/weird treatments are being tried. Many docs are also experimenting with holostic approaches, incl diet and drugs. And the Genetics Testing whirlwind is about to hit - further stretching what we don't know and pushing people to seek out others with same genetic predispositions.
- texaszman
Robert, check your fastcompany email address, I just sent you some info.
- Matthew DeVries
5. By disclosing your weird disease, you don't get that job you applied for because they saw you have [insert weird disease here]
- John Rubier
John: our ideas of privacy have totally changed. 20 years ago I would NEVER have told my community my weird diseases. Today? There's HUGE benefits to doing so. And, if you are on a medical treatment plan you should put your medications into an online database which can warn you about problems before your doctor will even know about problems.
- Robert Scoble
I've shared my health problems to help others. Over time, the replies have been numerous. Eventually someone knows someone close to them, etc. Sadly, the old small blog is gone, now it's just a squidoo page with little traffic :(
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
John: that is one risk, yes. But, I think that will change too.
- Robert Scoble
#5 will probably be the big reason, actually I recall someone getting busted and losing their medical compensation claim because of a status update on their facebook..
- Mathew Packer
Weird diseases? Oooh! So apart from the kidney thing the doctor told you what, exactly? :)
- WorldofHiglet
The real issue is what happens when privacy is lost. Currently, you'd probably lose the ability to get insurance, or perhaps to retain or get a new job. We need to fix the laws to protect us from inadvertent (or willful) disclosure of personal health data. The GINA laws are a step in the right direction, but they only apply to "genetic" information (as if there is any health information that isn't at some level "genetic!")
- David McCallie
For the majority of people there is very little value for someone to gain from finding out you are having an invasive procedure such as a colonoscopy, have a health problem or have a funny rash. There are much larger health benefits to be gained by allowing your healthcare provider to openly share you information between providers/organizations. There is also much social value in having information open for research.
- Robert D. Fraser
Mathew: the thing is, the insurance world now knows about my condition. So, if they are going to discriminate against me, they already have that info. In the meantime, by keeping it quiet I don't get the other benefits.
- Robert Scoble
however, will disease disclosure online prevent you from getting a job much like your drunken myspace pics?
- ishak
Robert: the example I mentioned was someone with a back injury from 'work' who was receiving compensation benefits and posted something on their facebook about getting injured in a football game that same week.
- Mathew Packer
privacy has been dead for awhile...but just because it's online, doesn't mean your next door neighbor knows your inner truths
- clarke thomas
Agree with David - it is you being open, rather than health system not respecting your privacy. Doctors have malpractice issues if advice is given when they can't back up with clinical research and that is years behind what people are trying.It is the advantage of you sharing with your network. Others sharing is a breach of your privacy.
- Kate Tribe
Robert Fraser: I disagree. My wife recently shared her funny rash (her doctor thought she had an infection and was trying to treat it with anti biotics. One of her Facebook friends said "looks like you have Shingles." Turns out the doctor was wrong and the Facebook friend was right.
- Robert Scoble
I don't think privacy survives when you sign off on that 18 page HIPPA notice when you check in, anyway.
- Mike Seidle
re: health privacy - are people just not getting what scoble means here? if the advantages to being open about these health issues are great enough (and the advantages are becoming greater due to social networks for instance) then health privacy will die because nobody really will want to keep these things private .... nothing to do with the doctor/hospital side of things
- Chris Heath
ishak - Well Robert's drunken myspace pics didn't prevent Fast Company from hiring him ;)
- John Rubier
Chris: exactly. We are in a weird place where insurance companies can use this data against you (if they don't have it already, which in my case isn't true). There are other cases where diseases are socially negative, like sexually-transmitted diseases. But people will see that for 98% of the health problems they'll have there's a benefit to talking it through online.
- Robert Scoble
exactly robert, and even with the socially negative ones there's always the 'anonymity' of the intarwebs
- Chris Heath
Certain parts of our medical history have been for sale for a long time, insurance companies, the MIB, been writing about this for 2 years, it's really almost who writes the best algorithms, I post more breaches about government systems than private industry, DOD 2 weeks ago
- Barbara Duck
Health privacy died when HIPPA was enacted. Personal Identity protection became compromised when we were stamped with Social Security numbers. Whenever the government enacts some policy to protect us we inevitably become sitting ducks.
- Rick Savoia
Don't you owe us 20 more reasons? :-) I became a big believer in sharing when the Internet helped me find others having the same reaction to a new MS drug & discover what other drug we all had in common Happened in 1995! Company was stunned, but soon shared "possible interaction" on warning list
- MaryAnn Chick Whiteside
health privacy can still be kept if you can post an illness anonymously and let people help out. You can, of course, tell your friends that you are the one who posted it. :)
- Rom Feria
@Robert See dm's?
- Ed Shahzade /NextInstinct
Sorry, I meant in there is little value or leverage for hackers to gain from finding out about that rash. I work in healthcare, and the reason we don't have extensive electronic records are because there is a lot of concerns about 'privacy'. The perception is that health records are a huge risk, yet there is no value if some one 'hacked' or stole the information relating to your wifes shingles, but there is tremendous value in having your allergy or related medical info when you move around in healthcare.
- Robert D. Fraser
More importantly, there are billions of dollars traded arcross the globe daily and people are still unsure if they want to have an electronic health record, why is this?
- Robert D. Fraser
Lately though there are more paper medical records being trashed and found, one guy burned his chimney down trying to burn old med records, one guy paid around $50.00 at an auction for the unknown contents of a storage unit, well it was packed with boxes of medical records, all with the usual SS# and credit card information for patient payments. Lucky he was an honest guy this time, but...
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- Barbara Duck
Robert...here are two beta initiatives you, in part, inspired me to compile. Leveraging both Twitter and FF in the interest of patients and reforming the health financing and delivery systems....www.HospitalTwits.com and www.DocTwits.com.
- Gregg
The government is not quite set up to police it at all either, here's a story where many billed Medicare with false claims under dead doctor names, so there was no cross reference on the doctor's ID, so those dead doctors were busy seeing a lot of patients. http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008...
- Barbara Duck
One more interesting story about extortion with Express Scripts,, pay up or the thief is ready to throw thousands of records out on the web, FBI and forensics working this case like crazy. http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2008...
- Barbara Duck
What works for me is posting health woes in a semi-private place like Facebook. I had no idea that several of my friends had thyroid and/or adrenal issues, and we wound up having really helpful discussions. With 225+ friends, I'm guessing there will always be someone who can give advice without worrying about insurance companies finding out. (Although I'm on a high deductible self-employed plan...and barely make a dent in said deductible, so I personally am not worried about this...)
- Carolyn
Makes me think of this post by Fred Wilson... http://www.avc.com/a_vc...
- Mike Doeff
Last week was a big success for the US Attorney's office in shutting down a company called Ingenix that sold your medication data for $15.00 a pop to any insurer and the were using it to deny claims and coverage, and it was owned by United Health care, so not only is privacy gone but we are for sale too! There's still one more company out there doing it and hopefully they will be next,...
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- Barbara Duck
Is it not true though in the US that you can be turned down for treatment if you are found to have had a disease previously that you have not been to your doctor about? That seems like something that should be taken into consideration when disclosing online. Don't the insurance companies employ private detectives to check that kind of stuff out?
- Nicola Quinn
Anyone out there know anyone that had nerve/groin pain after suburethral sling surgery? My latest, weird surgical complication... in an otherwise totally healthy and uncomplicated gal. It is being addressed by my great doctors, but just curious if there is anyone out there that went through this and had a great outcome. I would like a place to find this stuff quickly and simply online.... but don't really want to discuss it with Facebook friends or Twitter... Something more annonymous would be good.
- Colleen
I agree, you can find a lot of information online that your doctor's will not tell you, and in some cases... ie... when something goes a bit wrong... this is important. Recently happened to me, and I found good information online. Privacy will always be maintained in hospital/doctor's office environment, but yes, people will choose to discuss their own health issues online.
- Colleen
The whole health privacy argument is a ruse. If you think your records are private, think again folks. Most IT depts in hospitals have extremely poor security practices, health insurers, well they like to do all sorts of things with your data and for most cyber-criminals, about the only thing interesting in your record is your SS#. The privacy ruse is simply put out there by various parties to insure that he who own the data, owns the customer relationship.
- John Moore
Thanks Robert for bringing this issue up. About time it received more balanced "airplay".
- John Moore
Could we generalize that to: "Privacy is dead"? :) I think that's the end balance...
- Meryn Stol
Not for pharmacies it's not. HIPAA scares the hell out of us.
- Jim Shireman
Privacy is your right to withhold that info if you wish. If you're sharing it then good for you, but others don't have to if they don't want to. I think a lot of people don't understand privacy and so they're willing to call it dead. I have spoken about my epilepsy because I wanted to. I'm also aware that you don't trust everything you read on the net - many people are misdiagnosing themselves because of other peoples conversations causing a strain on healthcare as they turn up whenever they feel off.
- alphaxion
HIPAA d/n apply when a patient discloses their health records.GoogHealth & MSFT HealthVault don't comply with HIPAA b/c patients, not healthcare providers, disclose personal data. Ever tried to read your (probably mostly paper) medical records? Expect chaos, confusion, scary/confounding notes & references to family history, family members, maybe mental health. Be careful before disclosing. Relying solely on wisdom of non-medical professional crowds for diagnosis or advice has considerable downside risk.
- Tom Stitt
Robert: Here is a good example to illustrate some of your points: http://bit.ly/nbcp.
- Niranjan Tulpule
One thing I believe is very important is to be careful what you share and where as you never know who's looking, could be anybody, so to discuss a condition you really have, use an alias on discussion forums. On another forum with doctors, one MD was looking to hire a new med asst, looked on My Space and found his prospective new employee sitting on the beach topless, smoking a joint, anyway that's the type of stuff you want to be careful where and when you share. Anyone could be looking.
- Barbara Duck
Have you got something to hide? Actually I can see companies sussing out places like this out to expose people who cheat the system. Easier than following someone around for months on end...
- Terry O'Fee
the communities that deal with health issues always show users anonymous nicknames - not their real names.
- Alensa
The problem always comes back to the fact that a Profit-Making Insurance Company MUST discriminate against those who represent a higher risk of loss/high costs, making Profit-Making Insurance Companies a TERRIBLE thing to include in a Health Care System intended to provide quality care to all. Also, when the employer pays for even part of the insurance it makes health a part of the employment decision, which it shouldn't be. Nothing about privacy, everything about failures of a for-profit system.
- The Web's Wendell Wittler
Caution is name of game here... Recognize analogy that is happening FOR REAL with college applications officers. One of the 1st things they do circa 2009 when processing prospective students is to Search FB & MSpace. As adults we have to lead our youth and help to present a respectful outward image. *** Per Health Care, I agree that support groups and the like will yield (and have done so in case of my personal family) COUNTLESS new insights where your GP or Specialist may not be fully up to speed.
- Jeff Ploetz
focused support groups / chat rooms such as www.BrainTrust.org were a God Send to me as I grasped for ways to learn, 1st hand, what to expect and how to assist my bro-in-law who is 300+ miles to the west. http://giving.roswellpark.org/NetComm... .. I offer this secure free PHR @ https://www.WorldMedCard.com
- Jeff Ploetz
Update Twitter Using Shorthand Language & Common Abbreviations : SMS : Slang : Replies - http://www.twonvert.com/
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- Oscar Antonio Moralí
from Bookmarklet
do we really need this?
- Poor Gamer
Copyright Policy | whitehouse.gov - http://www.whitehouse.gov/copyrig...
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- l.m.orchard
userfly - http://www.userfly.com/
Jeremy Dunck, Helen Hoefele and Mike Orren liked this
Run instant usability studies for your website using your real users.
- Steve Rubel
We're testing it. So far their servers are overloaded and we're still wrestling with the ethics of recording users. Also how to communicate what is happening without confusing people. Great concept.
- Mike Orren
PBS Bill Moyer's criticizes Gaza offensive. Anti-Defamation League rushes in and calls Moyers a "racist." - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Jeremy Dunck, Sean McBride, Mark Collier and 6 other people liked this
Typical. If you can't deny the charge, attack the messenger. Are the Israelis so special they can't be criticized? You know, the Muslims feel the same way. It's aggravating.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
BTW-I was referring to the attempts by Muslim nations to get "blasphemy" outlawed by the U.N. Criminalizing criticism only makes you look childish.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
The first half of Moyer's segment is warped (watch it), the balance is fine/fair; Israel is not killing indiscriminantly and to compare it to Hamas is to compare Rudy Guliani to OBL
- Bob Sonin
its nonsense..... all these "anti-defamation" leagues do is squelch dialogue and encourage people to be hyper-sensitive. It really makes me sick...
- Jeffrey Canton
It would be very easy to turn this nasty smear rhetoric around and use it against the ADL and Abe Foxman in spades, but that wouldn't be right. M.J. Rosenberg did a good job in defending Moyers, without losing his cool.
- Sean McBride
Sidenote: is the ADL now officially advising Youtube and Google on matters of political correctness? If so, that could be a disturbing development. The ADL was caught illegally spying on Americans some years ago -- Google it. Google is potentially the most powerful spying instrument ever created. Google needs to inspire all the trust it can possibly muster, given the enormous power it...
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- Sean McBride
USA government uses Google to spy. What else is new! LOL
- Igor The Troll יִצְחָק
Wow -- that's reassuring.
- Sean McBride
30,000 employees - Circuit City shutting down http://money.cnn.com/2009...
Jason Shultz, Jeremy Dunck, Jorg Jansen and Alan Le liked this
This is so sad and ridiculous. Yeah, maybe they were a shining example of doing it wrong, but there is a need for good electronics stores with good salespeople. When people buy stuff online, all the burden of making a good choice and figuring out how to use stuff shifts to the consumer. Think how many people are buying products that are not right for them because of the lack of quality customer service.
- Laura Norvig
Are you saying customer service at Fry's is good? Someone should tell our local ones...
- Jeremy Dunck
@Laura - I have never once been in a store and known less about the products than the salespeople - It's almost always the case that I have researched my purchase long before setting foot in the store. I realize this isn't how everyone operates, but there are so many online resources to make good purchasing decisions. If they purchase poorly, it's their own laziness or apathy towards purchasing wisely.
- Nathan Chase
amazon is the ultimate win for me. low prices, no tax, free 2nd day shipping. i don't have to drive anywhere. it's the best
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
Introduction to Information Retrieval - http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinric...
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Looks like a must-read; Matt says that this is the best technical book he's read in years.
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Croydon?
- Jeremy Dunck
Feynman: Take the world from another point of view (1/4) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Bill Romanos, Dani Radu, Karthick R and 48 other people liked this
Best 9 minutes I spent this week. Thanks for sharing.
- B2B Specialist
Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- B2B Specialist
Great Quote:"The truth is some much more remarkable"
- B2B Specialist
Paul, thank you for introducing me this genius man.
- ideali
Part three:http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- B2B Specialist
"The cases that fail are the most interesting ones"
- B2B Specialist
Part three has him with his science fiction writer friend in a pub.
- B2B Specialist
Part four: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- B2B Specialist
Part four he says he doesn't need magazines and content. He needs conversations with good people, people who are trying to think of something new.
- B2B Specialist
Here's a free PDF of Feynman's "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" in which he relates many amusing tales, including safecracking safes containing atomic secrets and various other adventures. http://www.google.com/url...
- Jason Wehmhoener
found a real gem http://short.to/inr on Feynman; splendid 55-minute video documentary. [Congrats on the winning the Crunchies!]
- Adriano
The link you provided Jason is dead. I would suggest just buying the book to everyone else anyhow because it's all good stuff :)
- Rudolf Olah
@Rudolf: I bought the book for a 1$ at a used book fair. An excellent purchase!
- Charles Nadeau
codepad - online compiler/interpreter - http://codepad.org/
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"codepad.org is an online compiler/interpreter, and a simple collaboration tool. Paste your code below, and codepad will run it and give you a short URL you can use to share it in chat or email."
- Micah Wittman
I agree, genieyclo. If memory serves, I read or heard somewhere (can't remember where) that the guy who developed and runs this took extra precautions to run it not only jailed but virtualized in some interesting kind of way for layered security. *must find a link*
- Micah Wittman
Wow
- sjjh
Nuclear apocalypse and the Letter of Last Resort. - http://www.slate.com/id...
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Wow: "At this very moment, miles beneath the surface of the ocean, there is a British nuclear submarine carrying powerful ICBMs.... In the control room of the sub..., "there is a safe attached to a control room floor. Inside that, there is an inner safe. And inside that sits a letter. It is addressed to the submarine commander and it is from the Prime Minister. In that letter, Gordon Brown conveys the most awesome decision of his political career...." The decision? Whether or not to fire the sub's missiles ... in retaliation for an attack that would ... have already visited nuclear destruction on Great Britain."
- Jacob Kaplan-Moss
It seems obvious to me that a person in a position of national responsibility could never speak the true intent in the letter. But for me, I place a higher value on humanity than nationality: you must not fire given that condition.
- Jeremy Dunck
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