As Chancellor of Social Media University, Global I enjoy getting to do Extension Classes, on-site presentations with organizations interested in getting involved in social media.  read more »

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1. Seattle Car-Sharing in Gets a Boost - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 08/19/2008  read more »

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In 2007, 41 percent of working-age Americans -- 72 million people -- reported having medical bill problems or trouble paying off medical debts, up from 34 percent in 2005.

About a month ago, an analyst was asking me about the e-prescribing legislation and trends and how that would impact the financials of the PBMs. I told her that I remained a little bit of a skeptic for several reasons:

[Basically e-prescribing is the use of a handheld device or personal computer to automate the generation of prescriptions to eliminate hand writing errors and streamline the process which is a great concept.]  read more »

I am playing in a golf tournament this weekend and was talking with a couple of golf pros about handicaps and rules. They were talking about people "sandbagging" their handicaps which to me implies directly trying to influence their handicaps by not recording good scores or intentionally scoring poorly. (Your handicap is basically how many strokes on average you score above par.) Since I only play 9-holes a week on average, my handicap hasn't moved in the 3 years I have been tracking it although I have scored anywhere from an 86 to a 116 on the same course that I play.  read more »

First, the 63rd Carnival of Feminists is up at The Mind of Genevieve.  Genevieve has picked out some excellent articles for your feminist reading enjoyment.  I'll be hosting the 64th Carnival, appearing on September 10th.

In other writing/publishing news, there's a feminism zine looking for submissions.  read more »

The Baltimore-Washington corridor is quickly becoming “Boomer Alley” (Silicon Valley has nothing on us). Think about it. Driven by health care and the aging population, business is booming (by 2016 health care is expected to be 20% of GDP).  read more »

Kissing or nibbling another man’s ear is enough to ban gay men from donating blood for life, a Red Cross expert has claimed.

The blood supply agency has clung to AIDS myths dispelled more than 20 years ago to defend its blood ban in the Tasmanian anti-discrimination case brought by 25-year-old Michael Cain.

...When asked if that included gay men who had done nothing more than kissing, Holland replied, “Yes, sir, because they increase their chance of transmitting an infection such as HIV.”  read more »

But, according to Yahoo News, lawmakers in 12 states have proposed legislation in the past year that would require businesses to provide them.  read more »

Maggie Gallagher annoys me. She annoys me a great big heap. Of course, that means I read her column with a religious devotion. Most weeks, I start some kind of post rebutting her latest  insanity. Usually I get so irritated that I can't finish it.

This week, however, I can't let it pass.  read more »