My essay ” Virtual Medical Devices and Vendor Liabilities ” was published at the HisTalk website, a website that serves as a healthcare IT industry news/gossip/watchdog site. It addresses the hold-me-harmless, business IT-type claims made to Sen
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Making the jump from corporate worker to internet business entrepreneur requires a natural knack for decision making and time management. Pamela Slim, author of Escape From Cubicle Nation, “Most entrepreneurs go in thinking they just have to go in doing everything themselves, but that just isn’t true.” She says small business owners must have a
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We’ve all been there–so frustrated by an annoying co-worker or nagging spouse or whiny child or editor (ahem) that we feel like throwing whatever’s in our hands. These days, that something is often a smartphone (for 75% of Web-browsing men , it’s an iPhone). But before life’s frustrations leads you to hurl 3Gs worth of connectivity at the nearest brick wall, try putting your device to a more constructive use.
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C’Mon Get App-y! The Self-Help Section Comes to Your iPhone
John Scalzi, who has been one of the most listened-to voices on the Amazon/Macmillan feud, points out that Amazon has still not restored the ability to buy new copies of Macmillan authors’ works .
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John Scalzi: ‘Buy new’ option still not available for Macmillan titles on Amazon; please support Macmillan authors
Indie film buffs rejoice: Netflix announced it has secured agreements to stream films from several independent and foreign film companies, including The Criterion Collection, Gravitas Ventures, Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Oscilloscope Laboratories, and Regent Releasing. The move adds some 300 new films to the online streaming selection that tops more than 17,000 films and TV shows. It’s good news for indie film watchers and makers alike, especially with all the disheartening drama over at Miramax
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Netflix Adds New Streaming Indie Films, Moves Closer to Worldwide Streaming Domination
In the battle over health care reform, two ideas seems to bridge the divide between Democrats and Republicans: Private insurers should be required to cover Americans with pre-existing conditions and be banned from charging older, sicker people much more. But where the two camps jibe could also cause the most damage to health care.
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Old Masters New Perspectives considers some of the issues behind the apparent discoveries of two new works by Michelangelo and Velazquez, on view at the Met. … What makes these shows special is that they focus on a single work by two of the greatest artists of all time: Diego Velazquez and Michelangelo Buonarotti
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Lost and Found Again? The Dilemma of a new Michelangelo and …
Here are a couple of great posts from this day in 2009. Is College A Good Investment? Sell Boring Stuff that People Actually Need This blog has been updated almost every weekday since November 2001 — check out the archives , or use the search box on the top right.
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After reporting on the phenomenon of start-ups as virtual workplaces, telecommuting, the rise of the four-day work-week and other cost cutting workplace innovations made possible thanks in part to technological things like Google and the Internet and electricity, Inc. magazine is conducting its own experiment in the virtual workplace
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Working at Home in Pajamas Sounds A Lot Like Being Laid Off
Meet Matt Prager, a 42-year-old, Princeton-trained therapist who works as an “online dating facilitator” on the side. Think of him as the modern-day cyber-Cyrano: Just as the famous French poet took to his quill and parchment to woo Roxane on behalf of another, Prager hides behind the anonymity of his computer screen, seducing unsuspecting online daters on behalf of his male clients, reports The New York Post
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Scott Shane thinks universal coverage will increase the creation of new businesses. But he says health-care-reforms could result in a net loss of jobs
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Eliminating Health Care ‘Job Lock’ Will Generate Few Jobs (BusinessWeek)
In an article on their site entitled The Right Battle at the Right Time , The Authors Guild says that the Amazon/Macmillan fight is “… a necessary one for the industry”.
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The Authors Guild backs Macmillan in Amazon fracas
Emergency Medicine News : February 2010 – Volume 32 – Issue 2 – p 5, 24, 25, 26 Residents training in large urban centers typically see more than 200 patients a day. They have access to all subspecialty care, typically available 24 hours a day. Residents have around-the-clock access to angioplasty, interventional radiology, hand surgeons, neurosurgeons, and plastic surgeons
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The Obama Administration released its proposed 2011 budget this week, and, unsurprisingly, there is plenty of cash in store for sustainable initiatives–and not so much for oil and natural gas companies.
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Small business grants program is not an easy one. You have to see strictly all the possibilities to set up your business with the help of small business grant program. Just now – get the strongest arguments and facts why you have to deal with small business grants program to set up your kind of
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The plugin below is another small but important “must have” plugin in your WordPress plugin arsenal; Sociable The Sociable plugin is free, and it enables your readers to share your posts with the rest of the world through sites like Twitter (for Twitter we use the TweetMeMe plugin), Facebook, Delicio, MySpace, Tecnorati, Digg, Reddit etc etc. The plugin
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NASSCOM (The National Association of Software and Services Companies, India) today announced the winners of ‘Innovation Awards 2009′ . We had submitted our unique way of recruitment (recruiting & training bright students who were definitely not going to college for whatever reason, usually economic), in the Process Innovation category. And we have been selected as a Joint Runners up! We are honored by the recognition given and we hope this award will spur other companies to adopt a similar model of recruitment.
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Zoho Wins NASSCOM Innovation Award
The Register, out of the UK, got its hands on a Kindle DX and did a 4 page review in their usual excellent style. Here are some points I found especially interesting: the DX has a lower pixels per inch figure, but it is not apparent when comparing directly to a Kindle 2. The DX changes pages faster than the 2
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The Register reviews the Kindle DX
PlanOn’s new portable printer uses thermal technology to print without ink. If you’ve ever blogged, it’s probably happened to you: You’re in your coffee-shop office, typing away, when you need to print something–a contract, a transcript to read over–what do you do? Abandon your post and hoof it to that tenth circle of hell , Kinkos
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Ink-Free Printing, on the Go