Peer-to-peer Healthcare: Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. Obvious.  Susannah Fox, May 25 Here’s my simple definition of peer-to-peer healthcare:
Patients and caregivers know things — about themselves, about each other, about treatments — and they want to share what they know to help other people. Technology helps to surface and organize that knowledge to make it useful for as many people as possible.
An idea whose time has come? Let’s think that through... A quick guide to data resources on pewintenret.org, including recent additions to our data sets page. (Hint: One of them is spelled c-s-v...) Recent presentations New Video: The Networked Librarian | Presentation
Lee Rainie, May 6 Lee Rainie describes our latest research findings about how Americans use the internet and cell phones. He explores how libraries can be actors in building and participating in social networks through their use of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and blogging and through delivering their time-tested—and trusted—services to their patrons. (Video and slides available)
Future of the Internet: Anonymity “Even the Wild West was tamed with laws, schools, and societal norms. So too the web.” — Tom Wolzien, longtime telecommunications analyst, Chairman, Wolzien LLC “'It will be an archipelago of named users, who get a lot of value from participating in that part of the ecosystem, but still set in an ocean of anonymity.” — Clay Shirky, professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University “Anonymity online will gradually become a lot like anonymity in the real world. When we encounter it, we'll take a firm grip on our wallet and leave the neighborhood as soon as possible—unless we're doing something we're ashamed of.” — Stewart Baker, internet legal specialist at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson Read more in our recent Future of the Internet report Pew Internet research in the news Hispanics lead U.S. embrace of mobile technology
CNN, May 20 One in Four Tracks Health Data Online, Survey Finds
ABC News Radio, May 12 Parsing a new Pew report: 3 ways the Internet is shaping healthcare
O'Reilly Radar, May 12 | Introducing... We're tumbling! (Tumblring? Tumbl-blogging?) Whatever it is, we're on Tumblr now, so take a moment to check us out: http://pewinternet.tumblr.com
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