MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'clay shirky'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:51:27 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3866960&cid=t_158757_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fvacation-unplugging-how-important-is-it%2F2010.08.14 It’s a post you’ll see periodically: Blogger goes on vacation and goes dark from his blog and Twitter. This spawns the requisite post detailing how nice it was to be away. Refreshed and all the stronger, we hear about the lessons from playing parchese, listening to the crickets sing, and ignoring the purr from Tweetdeck. [Recently] I have been on vacation, but I didn’t necessarily unplug. I screened for critical emails once a day. I had prewritten and scheduled a couple of posts, but they didn’t require much maintenance. Besides that, I was too busy boogie boarding, kayaking, and eating crab cakes to really look at Twitter. (more…) *This blog post was originally published at 33 Charts* (Source: Better Health) Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3866960 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:00:17 +0100 3866960 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3599354&cid=t_158757_87_f&fid=36438&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FCato-at-liberty%2F%7E3%2Fq00VB0pZZj0%2F By Jim HarperBefore I can write a blog post, I must lift my hands to type. I say so because the default setting in life is privacy. Staying in bed maintains privacy pretty well. Clay Shirky gives privacy a contrary treatment on the New York Times‘ Room for Debate blog. We are both discussants there of the question whether the government should intervene to solve privacy issues with Facebook. Shirky, a teacher in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at N.Y.U., writes: There are two principal effects of the Internet on privacy. The first is to shrink personal expression to a dichotomy: public or private. Prior to the rise of digital social life, much of what we said and did was in a public environment — on the street, in a park, at a party — but was not actually publ... Cato-at-liberty blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3599354 Wed, 26 May 2010 13:50:56 +0100 3599354 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2017501&cid=t_158757_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F12%2F07%2Fwhat-i-learned-from-clay-shirky-about-science-online%2F The “science online” community has somehow compiled a required reading list (thanks John!), from which many ideas and quotes are mined. I recently finished reading an entry on the list: Here Comes Everybody, by Clay Shirky. I enjoyed the book - much of it was familiar to me, but it makes good use of specific examples to convey general principles. Of more interest to me is the application of these ideas to science online. Here’s what I think we can extrapolate from the book - and this is purely my personal interpretation. Most online science communities will fail Why? Answer: almost everything on the Web fails. However, there is so much activity that a few ideas succeed. Shirky uses the notion of “failure for free”; if you have an idea, it costs little or not... What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2017501 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:26:08 +0100 2017501 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1062877&cid=t_158757_132_f&fid=35001&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nodalpoint.org%2F2007%2F11%2F30%2Fburn_semantic_web_burn Taking down A.I. town? The Semantic Web is (quote) "a new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers". It will "unleash a revolution of new possibilities" using a magical "new" artificially intelligent technology called ontology. So says a much-cited article in Scientific American published back in May 2001. Most people who have read this article, fall into two camps: "believers" and "non-believers". Let me tell you a short story about a religious war between these two groups... read more (Source: nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog) nodalpoint.org - A bioinformatics weblog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1062877 Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:30:38 +0100 1062877