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  • Fred Trotter, health IT hacktivist

    Data: Bringing Hidden Healthcare Data Into the Open Sarah Mitroff, wired.com Self-described health IT hack­tivist and author Fred Trot­ter has hatched a plan to bring hid­den health­care data into the open. http://flpbd.it/ncJYs Related articles ‘Hacktivist’ group Anonymous strikes at Israeli government websites (washingtontimes.com) HIT firm ranks hospitals based on patient engagement tools, social presence &…

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  • We can now predict your behavior using online data

    The Rising Science Of Social Influence — How Predictable Is Your Online Behaviour? Ferenc Huszár, techcrunch.com Techcrunch recent­ly ran a piece by Michael Wu of Lithi­um. The fol­low­ing is a response writ­ten by Fer­enc Huszar, who, prior to join­ing Peer Index PeerIndex as lead data sci­en­tist, was was a PhD stu­dent at the Machine Learn­ing…

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  • Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address a Human Need

    Technology Is Useless If It Doesn’t Address A Human Need BY MEAGAN FALLONE, fastcoexist.com Facebook is great for checking out photos of your exes and all, but for social innovators working in the developing world, there’s no point to new technologies unless they make life better for the people they’re trying to help. Editor’s Note…

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  • Tiny housetruck tour

    Tiny Housetruck Video Tour Steven, tinyhouselistings.com Sev­er­al years ago John Labovitz real­ized that he want­ed to live a much more sim­ple life. He real­ized that liv­ing in a small (well, tiny) home would be the cat­a­lyst for the sim­ple life he was search­ing for. He began visu­al­iz­ing and… http://flpbd.it/ydmaJ Related articles Top Tours of the…

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  • Why energy management is the key to growth

    Why Better Energy Management is the Key to Peak Productivity Gregory Ciotti, lifehacker.com We live in a cul­ture that seems obsessed with being pro­duc­tive. While increas­ing our out­put and doing more with our time is cer­tain­ly an admirable goal, accord­ing to Tony Schwartz, author of Be Excel­lent at Any­thing, that mis­guid… http://flpbd.it/D6hu5 Related articles The…

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  • Klout and other ways to measure your influence

    Beyond Klout: Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence Adam Popescu, readwrite.com Mea­sur­ing social influ­ence online is becom­ing a more sophis­ti­cat­ed, refined and gran­u­lar process. While the much-maligned early leader in the mar­ket, Klout, has scooped up a lot of head­lines over the past few years, there’s a bet­ter… http://flpbd.it/7Qp5t Related articles Is Klout Gaining…

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  • Visualizing how you will die

    (via What do people die of? Mortality rates and data for every cause of death in 2011 visualised | News | guardian.co.uk) Related articles Information is Beautiful on how we die (guardian.co.uk) How We All Die, Visualized (gizmodo.com) The visual system as economist: Neural resource allocation in visual adaptation (medicalxpress.com) Data visualization startup Visual.ly grabs…

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  • Medium attempts to be a better source of information

    Medium wants people to eat their ‘information vegetables’ by Donna Tam, cnet.com Obvi­ous CEO and Twit­ter co-founder Evan Williams says his new project is about cre­at­ing con­tent that focus­es on qual­i­ty over speed. SAN FRAN­CIS­CO — Evan Williams, Twit­ter co-founder and CEO of Obvi­ous, wants to change the wor… http://flpbd.it/fk1nt Related articles Biz Stone Working…

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  • Why your body is the next target for social technology

    Smart Body, Smart World: The Next Phase of Personal Computing Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, allthingsd.com In the past half-century, com­put­ing has evolved from the main­frame to the desk­top to the shoul­der bag to the pock­et, and now it’s tak­ing over new fron­tiers: our phys­i­cal bod­ies, and the phys­i­cal envi­ron­ments that we inhab­it.…

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  • After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting

    After Sandy, New Jersey Becomes an Unwilling Test Case for Internet Voting Arik Hesseldahl, allthingsd.com Hold­ing an elec­tion is com­pli­cat­ed. Hold­ing an elec­tion eight days after a his­tor­i­cal­ly sig­nif­i­cant dis­as­ter? Prob­a­bly expo­nen­tial­ly so. This is the cir­cum­stance in which the state of New Jer­sey will find itself… http://flpbd.it/WCGB4 Related articles Christie to personally call out…

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  • Stitcher is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing

    Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Stitch­er is already a heavy hit­ter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and pod­casts are acces­si­ble from the desk­top. Today, the com­pa­ny announced an HTML5 ver­sion of its pop­u­lar app that’s……

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  • HBS on why you must tell a story in presentations

    Structure Your Presentation Like a Story Nancy Duarte, hbr.org After studying hundreds of speeches, I’ve found that the most effective presenters use the same techniques as great storytellers: By reminding people of the status quo and then revealing the path to a better way, they set up a conflict that needs … http://flpbd.it/HmuZW Related articles…

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