Motivation

The HealthCare GPO (Group Purchasing) industry was created for good reasons, but the Incentive-s were badly designed. Now it serves largely to reduce competition (esp Innovative new entrants), because the GPO organizations (Middle Man) are serving their own finances rather than their purchasing customers. (more)

Gary Panter wrote the Rozz Tox Manifesto in 1980. (more)

Aggregate scores on the Torrance Creativity Test have been declining since 1990.

Question And Answer, QuestionsAndAnswers (more)

Adina Levin examines the Design Trade-Off-s in various Rat Ing systems (include the FaceBook "LikeButton").

Low Glycemic Index Foods: (more)

"reason" (Emotion) to do/think something (more)

page was renamed from z2010-07-14-TweetScream (more)

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Paul Saffo says the Bay Area should start acting like a City State. (more)

Landmark Digital, makers of Shazam software, are threatening Roy Van Rijn over Patent infringement. (more)

Stowe Boyd notes a post by Tim Kastelle describing a David Lazer talk: *Lazer asked how many people there were under 30 years old – about 40% of the people raised their hands. Then he asked how many of those people had a Land Line – and not one of them did. He repeated the exercise with people over 45, and about 2/3 of us still have a landline. (more)

Futurist? (more)

Tele Phone that isn't Mobile.

part of California including San Francisco and Silicon Valley

Zed Shaw has been working on Mongrel2, a complete redesign of the Mongrel Web Server to be an application, language, and network architecture agnostic web server. It's written by the original author of Mongrel, and uses the Mongrel HTTP parser, but everything else is new. The goal is to create a web server specifically designed for web applications (WebApp-s) over serving files. (more)

Google is releasing an App Inventor for Android. It seems like they're positioning it as Educational Technology to be coded by students and teachers. Is this closest to Scratch, HyperCard, VisualBasic, or Pro Graph? Will this be a good Language For Learning Programming? (more)

Epic Win turns your To-Do List into a Real World Game.

Marc Barrot's Web Outliner is being actively built on top of by Dave Winer now.