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Writers Outnumbering Readers
From Jeff Jarvis, In 2004 reports Pew, 53 million Americans used the Internet to publish their thoughts, respond to others, post pictures, share files and otherwise contribute to the explosion of content available online. In 2006 57 million Americans read blogs says the Pew Report 50 million Americans buy daily newspapers....
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Google tests online system to store health records
Google tests online system to store health records Web search company Google Inc is testing in the United States an online storage bank where individuals can store and access their medical records, the company said on Thursday. Just last week, Google said it was teaming up with the Cleveland Clinic, a leading academic medical center, to test an exchange of medical data that Google says will put the patient in charge of his own records. The electronic system will allow patients to control their records and interact with multiple physicians, health care service providers and pharmacies. Google said other...
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Fear, hope and love
Seth Godin writes Fear, hope and love: the three marketing levers The easiest way to build a brand is to sell fear. The best way, though, may be to deliver on hope while aiming for love......
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Fifty is the Turning Point
Jean Paul Treguer, CEO of Senioragency International with headquarters in Paris is the 1st and only international marketing and advertising network dedicated to 50+ and senior consumers. He has a blog in English from which the following there is a succession of important events that occur around the age of 50 and which plainly change people?s lives. At 49, on average, women become grandmothers for the first time. Three years later, in general, they?re in the throes of the menopause and are telling their husbands it?s high time to stop smoking and to watch their diet. At fifty, the...
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Google's Goal to Organize Our Lives
One of the ten most popular stories of the year the Financial Times, Google's goal: to organize your daily life Google?s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off. -- The race to accumulate the most comprehensive database of individual information has become the new battleground for search engines as it will allow the industry to offer far more personalised advertisements. These are the holy grail for the search industry,...
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Revenge of the Right Brain
Revenge of the Right Brain by Daniel Pink in the last 10 years, thanks in part to advances in functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers have begun to identify more precisely how the two sides divide responsibilities. The left hemisphere handles sequence, literalness, and analysis. The right hemisphere, meanwhile, takes care of context, emotional expression, and synthesis. -- Until recently, the abilities that led to success in school, work, and business were characteristic of the left hemisphere. They were the sorts of linear, logical, analytical talents measured by SATs and deployed by CPAs. Today, those capabilities are still necessary....
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Ancestry Press -Bringing family stories to life
From Springwise, Ancestry books and family tree posters Genealogy buffs can now pull together the fruits of their hard work and research into handsomely bound self-published books and family tree posters thanks to Ancestry Press, a new venture recently launched by Ancestry.com. Customers who already have their pedigree information archived on Ancestry.com can easily transfer their family trees, facts, photos, stories, historical documents, recipes and more to formatted templates?or blank pages they can design from scratch?for printing. And those who aren't yet Ancestry.com users can set up accounts quickly and easily. Books are hand-bound and printed on 100-pound gloss,...
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World Digital Library
Library of Congress Advances 2 Digital Projects Abroad 1. The digitization of rare cultural materials. 2. The World Digital Library project modeled after the Library of Congress's vast American Memory project with cooperation from other national libraries....
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Surrogate Memory
Don't Forget to Back Up Your Brain But what if you could capture every waking moment of your entire life, store it on your computer and then recall digital snapshots of everything you've seen and heard with just a quick search? Renowned computer scientist Gordon Bell, head of Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group and founder of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, thinks he might be able to do just that. He calls it a "surrogate memory," and what he considers an early version of it even has an official name ? MyLifeBits. I think this is profoundly...
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Scrapbooking
Scrapbooking or "journalling with embellishments" is a billion dollar business and an addictive leisure activity for millions of Americans, mostly stay-at-home Moms between 18-40. Slate has a good video that visits the 2007 Scrapbook Expo, called Scrapbookers Unite! that gives you a clue if you know nothing about scrapbooking....
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