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  Posted by Jason on Jul 10, 2009 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: africa (100), developingCountries (191), reading

  

  IBM Africa Magazine is available online

  http://www.ibm.com/za/Africa/

   

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  Posted by Jason on Jun 30, 2008 with 2 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: email (2), reading, socialSoftware (13)

  IBM Social Computing evangelist Luis Suarez wrote an article for the New York Times: I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip.

  (his website is elsua.net)

   
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  Posted by Tom on May 19, 2008 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: medical (2), news (16), reading

  

  OK, last one for a bit. This article describes diagnostic ‘labs-on-a-chip’ made out of paper. One of the barriers to cheap disagnostic chips is microfludics which has to do with the manipulation of tiny quantities of liquid (think small pumps and pipes).

  See: http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20771/?nlid=1072

   
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  Posted by Tom on with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: games (15), news (16), reading, seriousGames (7)

  Yes, I’m catching up on my web reading after vacation. This article is about a game that uses collective intelligence to help design proteins, specifically by suggesting possible ways of folding protein structures…. http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20738/?nlid=1058

   
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  Posted by Tom on with 2 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: news (16), reading

  Read an interesting article in Technology Review about an unexpected side effect of implanting electrodes in the brain to control obesity:

  “Lozano’s team found that turning on the electrical stimulation triggered old memories in the patient; the higher the voltage, the more details he recalled. More important, after several months of low-level stimulation, cognitive testing revealed that the man’s memory significantly improved. “Verbal working memory went off the scale,” says Lozano…

  Going to be used to treat Alzheimers, but I sure could use a boost to my memory!

   
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  Posted by Tom on May 6, 2008 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: journal, reading

  The International Journal of Design looks pretty interesting: http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/

   
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  Posted by Tom on Mar 6, 2008 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: reading, status (51)

  Leading discussions on two papers in a course taught by Joe Konstan and John Riedl at “the U”. The two papers are the CHI ’99 Babble paper, and The Tyranny of Structurelessness. (I’d actually suggested something other than the Babble paper, but that apparently was their default on the reading list, and they forgot to change it in time — it’s interesting to re-read it after nearly 10 years.)

   
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  Posted by Tom on Feb 25, 2008 with 0 comments Permalink | Reply
  Tags: reading, visualization (14)

  Interesting overview of social network visualizations at http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20223/page1/