One more powerful piece on the lack of foresight and sensitivities exhibited by the current healthcare professionals and patients when it come to dying. The practice of needlessly and fruitlessly pre-longing terminal patients’ lives with no regard for the quality of lives was also covered here.
The UK is more than capable of making good drama series. Although some self-reflection is never a bad thing.
What the Kosovo recognition means for other restive regions in the world.
Moving in the opposite direction as its Atlantic cousin: Britain looks to decentralize health care.
Milestone for Russia indeed. A town looks past his skin colour and elects a black mayor.
All those knowledge, skills and war stories, what happens once people retire? Not everyone can nor want to go into teaching, how do we capture and aggregate the knowledge?
Japan does love a craze.
Applying the type-A vigilance and zeal to parenting has created a whole industry that’s come up with the kind of ingenious products that warms up baby wipes.
UAE basically declares BlackBerry enemy of the state.
A generation of Little Emperors now part of the Ant Tribe, what does it mean for China’s future?
The most over-represented nationalities on Twitter are the Brazilian and the Japanese. And over a quarter of Twitter users in the US is African American. Our world isn’t flat, it’s just more densely interconnected in certain parts than others.
The writer makes the argument that more security doesn’t necessarily make us safer. But doing nothing will most certainly make us less safe, because inaction is not an option, right?
Chop Chop Square in Riyadh. This is how public beheadings are done in Saudi Arabia.
The man behind Ryanair. Some of his bright food for thought include: fat people should pay for their seats if it wasn’t for the long time it’d take to weigh them, and business-class customers would receive oral sex.
Downturns discourage new flows of migrants but does not spur the mass return of existing ones.
Would’ve been a good piece to read before watching The Last Station. Tolstoy’s death resulted in one of the first mass media frenzies.
Some life strategies.
Is this really any surprise given what we already know about North Korea?
I’m cross-posting a pretty link-rich post from our corporate blog, in case you are interested in the Shanghai World Expo and want more info.
Short background: it’s a 6-month long extravaganza kicking off May 1st in Shanghai. It’s such a big deal inside the country that citizens of Shanghai are getting a few days off work as a way of clearing people off the street and channeling all resources into maintaining order and ensuring smooth running of the event.
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All week here on Viewsflow, we are following the 2010 World Expo in China.
- Flickr photostreams of various Pavilions are here, and the official Expo site introduces five themes of the exhibition.
- Pavilion overview from ChinaSmack: Computer generated graphics of what various pavilions look like. Walk through one, and walk through two.
- Pictures of when trial runs turn away crowds courtesy of LostLaowai.
And don’t forget to follow our Twitter account as we update you with real time links all week on the Expo, and follow our Twitter Expo list too!
The Economist explores the world of social networking in a special issue, everything from Twitter to Yammer.
When I’m not blogging, my day job is at Viewsflow – a startup that aggregates economic and financial analysis. We also have an impressive technology platform behind it that obsessively tracks all those that dare to leave their footprints in blogs and the Twitter-sphere.
Impressed yet? Or maybe just a bit scared?
Anyway, with all that Apple iPad madness and all, at Viewsflow, we’ve decided to give away an Apple iPad in the coming three weeks.
I’m pretty sure working for Viewsflow will disqualify me from ever winning, so readers of my blog, go forth and snatch the prize! Seriously, I am giving up my wages for this, go get it!
Seriously.
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Here’s more about Viewsflow. And, against all odds, we are actually based in London.
Many have argued that content aggregation is the way to go for the internet. Some have gone so far as to claim “aggregate, or be aggregated”. So far, no one’s disputing the inevitability of such a future. Under the radar, WSJ owns All Things Digital, and NTY runs Blogrunner. Both are experimenting with those ventures to hopefully work out some kind of business model.
This is done, despite venom spouted in the background that claim those aggregators tapeworms or parasite, siphoning off the hard labour of old media whose only mistake is playing by the rules. Aggregators in the meantime, have taken off.
Digg started the trend off, by promoting a system of voter-sourced news that is real time, streaming, and democratic. A slew came on board soon after. Stumbleupon, Reddit, Sphinn, and many topic and industry-specific Diggs have sprung up to varying degrees of success. In the last few years, Twitter – broadcasted in 140 characters or less, is the service that keeps on giving. It is now becoming the tool people turn to break news, do status updates, and my favourite use: alternative social bookmarking service.
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The news media is now scrambling to find a feasible business plan that could replace its print readers, and to stop the cannibalization of its content, indexed and marketed by Google, without any monetary compensation. Media moguls have blasted everything from Google, bloggers, to those aggregators for egregious use of their content. The proponents have told those old guards to bugger off. Those old men retorted by threatening to cut access.
This carries about as little weight as the paper it’s printed on. People that used to make a decent living from writing and reporting, have of course, been squeezed between a rock and a hard place. No one likes to talk to themselves. So the goal of any self-respecting reporter is to get exposure, and engage with readers. Blogging has taken much of the prestige of reporting away. Nowadays, anyone who has the patience to sit down and write may win a sizeable audience in due course. Read more...
In 1966, the Harvard Business Review introduced the idea of “paperless clearing houses”, in reference to the emergence of digital data storage. Since then, the microprocessor industry emerged, personal computers were introduced, and before we knew it, everyone is connected by the web. The delivery and the digitization of data is no longer a fantasy.
But the implementation and eventual realization of this inevitable “paperless” world, however, is taking longer than expected. Ten years ago, we were told that every participant in the information age is marching towards the digital world in more or less uniformity. But despite the obvious technological leaps, we are still far from a paperless world.
Paperless for some
So far, we have managed to scrape a layer off of perfunctory bookkeeping. In areas such as online tax filing and the digitization of our numerous monthly financial statements, the quick and convenient source-to-records applications have surely saved both cost and time for all parties involved. In the case of communication, personal letters are replaced by the superior email deliveries. In those cases, paper as the medium of communication has been eliminated.
Now with various access points for information, cheap storage devices, accessible scanners and various other forms of affordable technology, all of which are competing to drive paper out of our lives for good, what is the outlook for paper?
Professional uses
The term “paper-pusher” was coined for a reason. Knowing that, it should not be surprising that paper is far from disappearing, particularly within some of the older professions. In legal and business communities, for example, cyber security risks, as well as legal concerns still mandate paper record-keeping for a period of time.
From my own experience in a corporate setting, printing is not something you can move away from quickly. Most businesses operate from desktops, thus short of sharing your desktop – which many more tech savvy businesses do on a regular basis, one need to print off documents in order to discuss and demonstrate. Plus, even when performing numbers-related tasks, where computer applications are assets, printing documents for review is deemed mandatory as a last check-up. Read more...
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