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DIY drone filmmaking replaces expensive Hollywood tech

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Watch this: ‘Firefly,’ a stylish skateboarding video shot with a drone
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Skate­board­ers have been tap­ing their tricks with jury-rigged video setups since the advent of cam­corders, but the pro­duc­ers of short and beau­ti­ful video Fire­fly took the next log­i­cal step: using a cam­era mount­ed to a hexa­copte…

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GoPro camera used for stratospheric imaging

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Sustainable Design

GoPro Camera Records Sky Divers and Surfers
By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com

There have been two major mile­stones in nar­cis­sis­tic pho­tog­ra­phy in the last cen­tu­ry. The first was the inven­tion of the self-timer, which Kodak began sell­ing dur­ing World War I. The sec­ond came a few years ago, as teenagers stood at…

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Jeff Dawkins: Big data applied via cognitive science

by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

 

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Visualization of all editing activity by user “Pearle” on Wikipedia (Pearle is a robot). To find out more about this project, go to: www.research.ibm.com/visual/projects/chromogram.html (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Bits Blog: Jeff Hawkins Develops a Brainy Big Data Company
By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com

Jeff Hawkins got rich and famous as the brains behind Palm, an early power in mobile data. He has also developed a new model of how we think, which will now be used, he says, to revolutionize the data analysis industry.

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Zensorium cardio health monitor for iOS

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Zensorium launches Tinké cardiorespiratory health and stress monitor for iOS devices (video)
Jamie Rigg, engadget.com

Plan­ning a glut­to­nous hol­i­day sea­son and then a health kick in the New Year to bal­ance it out? Well, when you start on the lat­ter, you might want one of Zen­so­ri­um’s Tinké car­diores­pi­ra­to­ry mon­i­tors to track your progress. The…

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Farmingo digitizes organic farmers markets

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

Farmigo Opens Doors to Online Farmers Market
Bonnie Cha, allthingsd.com

The ben­e­fits of your local farm­ers mar­kets are plen­ty. You’re get­ting fresh food, sup­port­ing local farms and help­ing to cre­ate a more sus­tain­able food sys­tem. But with lim­it­ed hours and loca­tions, you prob­a­bly can’t take advan­ta…

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Personal genomic price drop: 23andMe

by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Network Science

What Is 23andMe Really Selling: The Moral Quandary At The Center Of The Personalized Genomics Revolution
Steven Kotler, forbes.com

This week, 23andme, the per­son­al­ized genomics com­pa­ny found­ed by Anne Woj­ci­c­ki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, got an influx of invest­ment cash ($50 mil­lion). Accord­ing to their press release, they are using the money to bring …

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Marketing clouds: here comes machine learning

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Information Visualization, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning
Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com

The advent of Sales­force Mar­ket­ing Cloud and Adobe Mar­ket­ing Cloud demon­strates the need for enter­pris­es to devel­op new ways of har­ness­ing the vast poten­tial of big data. Yet these mar­ket­ing clouds beg the ques­tion of who will help…

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Shootings stimulate mass online petitions for gun control

by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Security & Privacy

25,000 People (And Counting) Flood White House With Online Petition To ‘Immediately Address’ Gun Control
Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.com

Update: The peti­tion has reached 25,000 sig­na­tures

Almost imme­di­ate­ly fol­low­ing the trag­ic school shoot­ing in Con­necti­cut, over 16,000 peo­ple have signed an offi­cial White House WeTheP­eo­ple peti­tion to “Imme­di­ate­ly…

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Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Digital health, Ethnographic Methods, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering
Alexis Santos, engadget.com

Come Decem­ber 18th, futur­ist extra­or­di­naire Ray Kurzweil will be join­ing Google’s ranks as Direc­tor of Engi­neer­ing to work on projects that involve machine learn­ing and lan­guage pro­cess­ing. Specifics regard­ing those projects, how­ev­…

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Why cable tv is no longer necessary

by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Cut the cord and say goodbye to cable
Deborah Méndez-Wilson, special to USA TODAY, usatoday.com

On-demand and online services offer more choices than cable—sometimes for free.

Like every­one else, Audra Shar­i­fi Isfa­hani and her hus­band James McCol­lough want­ed to trim their costs in this down econ­o­my. They fig­ured if they cut their…

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Rebooting medicine info graphic

by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Digital health, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Digital Health Infographic
wirelesshealthstrategies.com

6 Char­ac­ters (0,1,A,C,G,T) Reboot­ing Med­i­cine & Health
I cre­at­ed this con­cep­tu­al info­graph­ic with the great team at Mis­fit Wear­ables. It’s based on the work of Dr. Eric Topol, author of “The Cre­ative Destruc­tion of…

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Ginger.io behavioral health IT startup

by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Metadata Masterdata

Smartphone app that assesses behavioral health raises $6.5M
Stephanie Baum, medcitynews.com

A health IT startup that got its start evaluating college students behavior based on their smartphone use has raised $6.5 million, according to a company statement.The San Francisco behavior analytics firm Ginger.io co-founder and CEO Anmol Madan…

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