Facebook in major privacy clampdown

Over the next year Facebook will implement changes on how personal data is used.

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The overuse of the word "participatory"

Here’s a 2 minutes video from Kru Research (lobal think tank focused on "empowered patients") showing that the age of "participatory medicine" has begun.

I'm wondering if they can call this change on applied medicine "participatory" - they are not designing anything new and was there a lot of 'collaboration' with the patient? Offering websites that allow patients to inform themselves doesn't create consensus.

see video

Maybe it should be called: empower the patient to be able to read up on what they have been told by the doctor, but not necessarily understood or forgotten.

SMS PhD: 'pointless' text messages analysed

A PhD has just been completed looking at the language of txts. Interesting emphasis on pointlessness in the title of the article, though whether this is actually important in the PhD itself is unclear.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/5982272/SMS-Phd-pointless-text-messages-analysed.html

Why does pointlessness matter? It may be (or may not), as we have said before, that older users expect there to be an extrinsic purpose in electronic communication, whereas younger users do not. I don't know if this researcher looked at the age of the texters, but might be worth asking.

See that book I keep mentioning: Robin Dunbar, Grooming Gossip and the Evolution of Language.

Article in Interactions magazine

This might be useful in itself or have some useful pointers:

Supporting healthy aging with new technologies
Brian D. Jones
Claudia Rébola Winegarden
Wendy A. Rogers

interactions
Volume 16, Issue 4 (July + August 2009)
The Waste Manifesto

SECTION: The value of culture

Pages 48-51

Year of Publication: 2009

ISSN:1072-5520

http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1551986.1551996