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Re: Paul Krugman, “Obama’s Trust Problem”

By ottonomy on August 24, 2009

Paul Krugman recently wrote a good article on health care, in surprise that Obama and the Democrats didn’t expectsome resistance from the left after bailing out chummy banks and rolling over on health care (among other “compromises”).
Specifically: “Until the idea of the public option came along, a significant faction within the party rejected anything short [...]

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#opened09 backchannel

By ottonomy on August 9, 2009

Here’s the embedded widget for the conference backchannel chat, though I’m sure much of the discussion will be on Twitter #opened09

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What sessions should I go to at #opened09?

By ottonomy on August 9, 2009

Now that I’ve got plans all worked out to actually make it to the Open Education Conference in Vancouver next week, I’ve got to decide what to do there. Check out the schedule and leave a comment if you think I’m missing something too good to miss.
http://openedconference.org/program/program-schedule-at-a-glance – conference schedule
Each session is 45 minutes long.. [...]

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Doctors and Twitter

By ottonomy on August 5, 2009

I saw this on another page, but its spam filter was all messed up and I couldn’t post my comment, so I’m bringin’ it back home.

I do not think Twitter is the appropriate tool for most of these types of actions, though I do believe hospitals should embrace web 2.0 techniques. Really, the important part [...]

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Lifestream

http://bit.ly/cD1QCy Mmm.. Google Labs' new public data tool makes some cool animated graphs of some large datasets they're testing on.

Monday 21:03

Bookmarked a link: New Google Tool Is Crack For Data Nerds

Monday 21:03

RT @chrislehmann: "The More Open We Are, the Better Education Will Be. We must increase our opportunities to be generous." #tedxnyed (David Wiley)

Saturday 8:50

RT @MyEugene: Check out these little cuties! --> Hand-made electric cars serve a niche market in Japan http://ow.ly/1eNyE

Friday 14:41

I tweeted about media as a service last night and woke up to a new follow by @gleonhard who's been sayin this for a while. :) #followfriday

Friday 14:34

The future of E-Books Article's "geeky side note" on need for "url" for pub'd documents is what i've been thinking http://on.wsj.com/45nDMw

Friday 2:59

RT @jamtoday: Protesting the California Education Cuts: Across CA,  thousands of students and educators are protesting throughou... http://bit.ly/akIAw7

Friday 1:36

http://is.gd/9Co67 NYT sums up modern patents: “The net effect is that they decrease innovation, and in the end, the public loses out.”

Wednesday 10:14

RT @christianvonm: A la cama que mañana me tengo que levantar a las 3 de la mañana =S ... un abrazo a todos y ¡¡¡¡FUERZA CHILE!!!!

Monday 23:05

Re: http://is.gd/9tUm7 -- oh c'mon. NYT's Harwood ignored that Democrats didn't stick together to stand up against anything 2001-08.

Monday 23:01