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Infographic on Youth Sports Concussion Laws.

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:20:58 -0400

Infographic on Youth Sports Concussion Laws.

FDA says mobile health apps will need to be regulated

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:01:00 -0400

Mobile health apps, like the Breathometer, will need to be regulated, according to the FDA.

The agency is currently holding hearings aimed at clarifying the types of apps it will regulate, and plans to release its final guidelines in October.

Personal wellness apps such as pedometers or heart-rate monitors would not be regulated, but an app that collects and analyzes heart and brain signals would.

The market for mobile health (or mHealth) services will likely reach $26 billion globally by 2017.

Source: Chicago Tribune.

"…the single most important lesson in mHealth: the technology is the easy part.” ..."

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:40:26 -0400

““…the single most important lesson in mHealth: the technology is the easy part.” — Tina Rosenberg, in the NY Times Opinionator.”

futurejournalismproject: 90 Years of TIME Magazine Covers in...

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:35:18 -0500

futurejournalismproject:

90 Years of TIME Magazine Covers in 120 Seconds

via.

Managing Students with Apps

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:30:00 -0500

Managing Students with Apps:

world-shaker:

There are some solid options in here. This one is my favorite:

The last useful behavior app is called TeacherKit. This app focuses less on rewarding students for behavior, but keeping track of a student’s overall progress. Like the other apps this is great for tracking a student’s behavior and allows a teacher to email a report of the student’s progress. What’s great about this app is that a teacher can keep all the information they need about the student on one profile. Some of the features include a gradebook, attendance, behavior and health notes, and allows a teacher to back up their database to DropBox so that you can restore your data anytime from the cloud.

Happiest and saddest states in America according to...

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:18:00 -0500

Happiest and saddest states in America according to Twitter.

States in red have the highest average amount of happy tweets. States in blue states have more sad tweets.

poptech: PopTech and the Rockefeller Foundation are proud to...

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:40:51 -0500

poptech:

PopTech and the Rockefeller Foundation are proud to announce the call for nominations for a unique joint Fellows program focused on unconventional collaboration.

The Bellagio/PopTech Fellows program will bring together four to six individuals from diverse backgrounds for a two-week immersion residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s renowned Bellagio Center on the shores of Lake Como, Italy.

This year’s program will focus on building community resilience through the use of data science, visualization, and distributed information technologies. Fellows will explore the extent to which big data and related technology can be used to enhance psychological, social and systemic resilience worldwide. This effort will be creative, interdisciplinary and collaborative – providing an environment where emerging tools, approaches and solutions are viewed as an art as much as a science.

The program is seeking candidates from the fields of data and data visualization, technology, design, art, social and natural sciences, resilience research, and other social domains. A diverse cohort of Fellows will be chosen for their technical and creative excellence and their demonstrated ability to work and think across disciplines.

Candidates may self-nominate or be nominated by someone else. Eligibility details are available on the call for nominations web page.

Know someone who might be a good fit? Nominations will be accepted through March 1, 2013, and can be submitted via the online nomination form.

pewinternet: Comparing e-book readers to book readers...

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:23:12 -0500

pewinternet:

Comparing e-book readers to book readers …

(via http://pewrsr.ch/ZDqqKD)

Is there hope for SMS health alerts?

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:12:16 -0500

Is there hope for SMS health alerts?

Symbolia is a new magazine that combines news and comics. Meant...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:16:49 -0500

Symbolia is a new magazine that combines news and comics. Meant for iPads, it’s also available in PDF.

futurejournalismproject:

New Journalism Startup Combines News, Comics

Symbolia’s a new magazine that tells the news through illustrations. Sources are drawn, and quotes get their own speech balloons.

Their first issue is available for free download now, covering the Zambian Psychadelic Rock, Iraqi Kurds, zoology in the Congo and California’s Salton Sea. They feel, in most cases, like longform reads.

It’s really meant for iPads, though you can download a PDF version. Future issues will be priced at $1.99, and Symbolia plans to publish six a year. Android fans will have to wait, Symbolia people said today, but they’ll begin publishing Ebooks in the Android Marketplace.

Top tech used by software developers. See full image.

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:37:00 -0500

Top tech used by software developers. See full image.

"He won’t follow anyone for now. He will be followed."

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:21:39 -0500

“He won’t follow anyone for now. He will be followed.”

- – Vatican spokesman, about the pope on Twitter. (via officialssay)

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie tweeted a YouTube video...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:02:00 -0500

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie tweeted a YouTube video urging residents to evacuate areas in the path of Superstorm Sandy in October.

Superstorm Sandy sparked the transition from traditional media to social media for emergency communications — using a press conference to announce an evacuation may not be as effective as sending the order out via Twitter. Read more.

Why, Radiolab?

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:50:49 -0400

From Hyphen — an account by award-winning author and activist Kao Kalia Yang on her treatment by Radiolab.

On September 24, NPR show Radiolab aired a 25-minute segment on Yellow Rain. In the 1960s, most Hmong had sided with America in a secret war against the Pathet Lao and its allies. More than 100,000 Hmong died in this conflict, and when American troops pulled out, the rest were left to face brutal repercussions. Those who survived the perilous journey to Thailand carried horrific stories of an ongoing genocide, among them accounts of chemical warfare. Their stories provoked a scientific controversy that still hasn’t been resolved. In its podcast, Radiolab set out to find the “fact of the matter”. Yet its relentless badgering of Hmong refugee Eng Yang and his niece, award-winning author and activist Kao Kalia Yang, provoked an outcry among its listeners, and its ongoing callous, racist handling of the issue has since been criticized in several places, including Hyphen. When Hyphen’s R.J. Lozada reached out to Kao Kalia Yang, she graciously agreed to share her side of the story for the first time. What follows are her words, and those of her uncle.

ilovecharts: Trying, unsuccessfully, to figure out the flow of...

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:27:03 -0400

ilovecharts:

Trying, unsuccessfully, to figure out the flow of things.

-sarahlcomics

Federal regulators tightening web privacy rules to protect children online

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:17:00 -0400

The New York Times reports that the data gathering practices of corporations, apps developers and data miners have so alarmed officials at the Federal Trade Commission, that the agency is “moving to overhaul rules that many experts say have not kept pace with the explosive growth of the Web and innovations like mobile apps.”

Some current online activities, like getting children under 13 to submit photos of themselves, would require parental consent under the FTC’s new rules.

One example of this practice is McDonald’s HappyMeal.com, where kids upload photos of themselves in order to “get in the picture with Ronald McDonald.” More.

Image: McDonald’s invites children who visit HappyMeal.com to upload their photos so they can make collages or videos. From the New York Times.

futurejournalismproject: On Non-profits Becoming the...

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:14:01 -0400

futurejournalismproject:

On Non-profits Becoming the Media

Human Rights Watch is beginning to bypass the middle man (i.e. the press) in favor of making their own approachable content.

From the MIT Media Lab:

The organization now produces multimedia releases, with edited and disaggregated formats of video available. News editors can grab finished, produced pieces, or take and use raw footage for their own pieces. We watch a BBC story that makes use of HRW-provided video as well as a live interview with a HRW correspondent.

Nieman Lab published a story today on HRW’s deputy executive director for external relations, Carrol Bogert, a former journalist for Newsweek.

Here’s what Justin Ellis wrote:

Mimicking the look and quality of journalism increases the chances of their message getting across, Bogert said. “It’s meant to look like a wire service story, so that when it arrives in the inbox of a wire service reporter, it moves seamlessly into the mainstream media,” she said.

And it’s working. Bogert said HRW’s media mentions rose steadily in 2012, appearing in The New York Times almost daily. Stories from Human Rights Watch appear in Google News alongside other headlines. Broadcasters like the BBC and Britain’s Channel 4 have aired its video. They’ve also won a Peabody award for their multimedia.

Here’s an example, and it’s a good one: an interactive on Syrian torture centers that includes a video with interviews of former detainees, a map highlighting specific torture centers, and a full report on researcher and reporter findings.

FJP: Bravo!

So is this a good thing or a bad thing for journalism?

barackobama: Employer: The United States of America....

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:08:10 -0400

barackobama:

Employer: The United States of America. Occupation: President. (POTUS donates.)

Well done, Mr. President — a great way to get the attention of Tumblr people.

In which Soledad O’Brien exemplifies great journalism.

Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:06:01 -0400

In which Soledad O’Brien exemplifies great journalism.

hatefulatheist: I would almost be worried about his statement...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 13:50:30 -0400

hatefulatheist:

I would almost be worried about his statement if he actually worked for a news channel.

So concerned for all the people who watch this show and are grossly misinformed.