Vendor Relationship Management workshop
Nobody knows you as well as you do. Or do they? Let’s run a test. Do you know what percentage of your food bill went to processed products? Or what type of coupons (store coupons, newspaper coupons,...
View ArticleWhat sociologist Erving Goffman could tell us about social networking and...
I just finished Erving Goffman’s classic sociological text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. A friend told me to read this for an exploration into what “identity” means online, and I did find...
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After posting some thoughts a month ago about Erving Goffman’s classic sociological text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, I heard from a reader who urged me to try out a deeper work of...
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The end of social
Much as I’m tempted to talk about Facebook privacy, I’m going to resist. Plenty has been written about Facebook and privacy, Facebook and “forced” sharing, Facebook and sharing by default, Facebook...
View ArticlePreview of HIMSS 2012
I am very happy to be attending the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference this year. We are at a pivotal moment in the history of healthcare in this country and...
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The Direct Project has teeth, but it needs pseudonymity
Yesterday, Meaningful Use Stage 2 was released. You can read the final rule here and you can read the announcement here. As we read and parse the 900 or so pages of government-issued goodness, you can...
View ArticleThe technical aspects of privacy
Thrust into controversy by Edward Snowden’s first revelations last year, President Obama belatedly welcomed a “conversation” about privacy. As cynical as you may feel about US spying, that conversation...
View ArticleFour short links: 22 September 2014
Significance of Javascript For OS X Scripting — not just for shell scripting-type automation, now you can build Cocoa applications with Javascript. This is huge. keybase.io — social media as trust...
View ArticleFour short links: 24 November 2015
uitable — cute library for tabular data in console golang programs. Did Carnegie Mellon Attack Tor for the FBI? (Bruce Schneier) — The behavior of the researchers is reprehensible, but the real issue...
View ArticleFour short links: 26 January 2016
What Paul Graham is Missing About Inequality (Tim O’Reilly) — When a startup doesn’t have an underlying business model that will eventually produce real revenues and profits, and the only way for its...
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