links for 2007-09-22
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"Cell phones and the internet have become an essential part of the daily lives of Americans."
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"YouNeverCall has decided to allow a few more days to place the first cell phone call from the moon and so the deadline has been set for January 7, 2015." I think this is worth a lot more no?
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"The Economist has identified influential US bloggers and leaks tips and stories to them, in order to create online buzz before the articles are published in the Economist." They're not a lone. Lots of pubs are seeding links to bloggers.
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They do seem like a two peas in a pod. I am reading Woz's book. It's funny!
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We shall see. It almost always sinks. Let's hope they are right.
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Good warning re. prostate screenings from da boss. Ugh, I feel like 50 is around the corner!
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Al Gore's got a comment up. See you get something for being on the board besides a Googley colored pen you know. ;-)
Edelman's prostate screening sounds terrible. But breast cancer screening is no ideal to be imitated. For the past twenty years, the big machines that xray breasts have seen little improvement. Twenty years ago, they demanded to squish my breast to a thin pancake (OUCH!) and they still do. Yet if you think about the improvements to computer image-processing and data analysis in the past twenty years, it's hard to imagine why those machines couldn't be updated to make tests less painful.
I heard a shocking but related story from a physicist who found a mathematical way to improve PET scan imaging (or maybe it was CAT scan, not my point here) based on some of his research for imaging physics stuff. A big company that makes the big scanning machines bought his patent--and disappeared it. Their patients' diagnoses didn't get one whit better but their company profits were better insulated against a new company's bringing in better technology.
Posted by:Betsy Devine | Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 03:03 AM
Hey, if The Economist or any other online pubs want love links they might as well have their new media editor interview at Conversation Agent ;-)
Posted by:Valeria Maltoni | Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 07:00 PM