Medical Outcomes – Finding Out What Works
Anecdotal medicine or evidence-based medicine, that is the question. When you go see your trusted doctor, do you want him to diagnose and prescribe based on his or her decades of experience? Not to say there are not great doctors out there that have great experience, but there is a better way. How about if […]
Game Changers
The New York Times reported that massive open online courses (MOOCs) are not dead (see After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought). Although not the most positive article, it made the important point that MOOCs are evolving. I stick by my view that MOOCs are Web-1994. In that year, I gave a speech in Paris at an International Data […]
Floppy Disks
The New York Times reported today that the Federal government is using floppy disks for data transfer to the Federal Registry (see Slowly They Modernize – A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks for the full story). The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) jointly administer the […]
The Physical Internet
In August 2008, I had the pleasure to visit Greenland for the Konference Sarfarissoq in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. The conference was hosted by Tele-Post Greenland, and the focus was the impact of the submarine cable which would soon bring broadband Internet to Greenland. A traditional kayak enabled the symbolic landing. A month after my […]
ACA Feedback – 2
Thanks to my friend Tony for pointing out that I made a significant typo in the ACA story of last week. I used the word appeal instead of repeal! That has been fixed. My friend Irving has posted a story about the ACA that adds some depth to what I had written. Irving’s post is […]