Published in August 6th, 2008
This is nice to see, especially given his recent comments about Internet use…
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Published in June 27th, 2008
The Methuselah Foundation is hosting a conference on aging in LA this weekend. Most of it is scientific, but they will have one small session on policy issues. I’ll be there, and will report back on developments as they happen.
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Published in May 7th, 2008
Here is an interesting post from my friend Auren Hoffman on Coke’s inability to do math.
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Published in March 4th, 2008
This is a summary of a survey conducted by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Useful information that’s not surprising.
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Published in January 17th, 2008
University of Minnesota researchers created a beating heart in the laboratory by injecting fresh heart cells into a non-living rat heart matrix. Amazing stuff.
“In the United States alone, about 5 million people live with heart failure, 550,000 new cases are diagnosed every year, and 50,000 die waiting for a donor heart. The work is [...]
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Published in December 14th, 2007
Are you fed up with Match.com? If so, there’s a new service out there that will help you find your “perfect chemistry” mate. The Scientist this week reports that a new site called ScientificMatch.com “uses DNA samples from customers to match them with others who have different alleles for major histocompatibility complex [...]
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Published in April 17th, 2007
Anaheim Mayor Curt Pringle today announced a citywide wireless service coverage initiative to ensure all major cellular phone companies are able to provide full coverage through Anaheim’s 50 square miles. This is in contrast to other cities like San Francisco and Philadelphia that prefer to stifle competoition by only granting city-wide access to a [...]
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Published in April 12th, 2007
This is a cool article from MIT’s Technology Review. Researchers at company ZymeQuest have figured out how to make everyone a universal blood donor.
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Published in April 9th, 2007
This is an event hosted by Lead21 to launch my new book “Digital Dialog.” It’s a compilation of my columns on various topics including privacy, broadband, and — yes — longevity. Most of my friends are aware that I’m now working on a new book on the politics of longevity, so you will [...]
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Published in April 8th, 2007
From my husband, Aydin:
Today China boasts over 105 million Internet users, not to mention 350M mobile users (growing by 57 million every year). By 2010, Chinese Internet users will outnumber US Internet users by 25%. Currently, 87% of the Chinese Internet audience uses search. And given Internet search’s dominance of monetization and audience rankings globally, [...]
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Published in March 30th, 2007
If you need a break in the middle of your day, try this site: likebetter.com. It told me that if I had to choose between being a pirate and a ninja that I’d choose to be a ninja. It’s right.
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Published in March 30th, 2007
What is it about the sentence “I don’t care about the Internet,” that some people just don’t get? Today TechNewsWorld published an article about a new study showing that:
“Almost half of households without Web access don’t care that they can’t surf. In fact, 44 percent of the nation’s 31 million offline households say the [...]
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Published in February 7th, 2007
That’s what a state senator from Brooklyn seems to think. Sen. Carl Kruger is proposing to ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry or any other electronic device while crossing the street in New York City and Buffalo. New Yorkers should be insulted by what this implies.
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Published in January 11th, 2007
Utility = E x V / (Gamma) x D.
E is a person’s expectancy for succeeding at a given task; V is the value of completing the task; Gamma is its immediacy or availability; and D is the person’s sensitivity to delay. Utility is the desirability of the task. Why anyone decided to do [...]
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Published in January 11th, 2007
Ok, so I had planned to let the Command College students write a post here explaining what Command College is, but we never got around to it. Instead, we spent our time talking about Net neutrality, Muni Wifi, digital economies like Second Life, genetic engineering and superlongevity. It was a fun group as [...]
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Published in January 9th, 2007
I’m leading a session at the Command College today in Oxnard, CA. If you don’t know what Command College is, visit back in a few hours for your answer.
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Published in December 14th, 2006
Remember web 2.0? Well, Europe has now moved on to web 3.0. My husband went to a conference in Paris oraganized around that idea and here is his post. Apparently the conference was good, but the few politicos that showed up made some stupid remarks. The winner in the stupidity contest [...]
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Published in November 29th, 2006
Government has no place in the bedrooms of the nation, yet dusty old bureaucrats are always trying to push their way in. The lastest news on this score is that “the government is targeting unmarried adults up to age 29 as part of its abstinence-only programs.” With everything that’s going on in the world, this [...]
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Published in November 16th, 2006
Nobel-Prize winning economist Milton Friedman died today at the age of 94. This is a tragic loss for humanity, as one of the greatest advocates for individual freedom and choice has ceased to exist. Milton was a close friend of Sally Pipes, my President at the Pacific Research Institute, so I had the [...]
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Published in November 9th, 2006
After being away for two weeks for my wedding and honeymoon, I’m back. Regular columns will resume at TechNewsWorld next week.
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