Bruce Sterling imagines potential Disruptive Innovation-s in the HealthCare world. Let's consider a few scenarios... Medical Tourism takes off... Alternative Medicine gets serious... Diagnostix "R" Us... Oldsters join the Extropian-s.

Tim Worstall on the Hidden Cost-s of Single Payer HealthCare systems. We're finally getting to where we can start to put these numbers together now. Health care spending in the UK next year will be 9.4 % of GDP and GDP itself last year was £ 1,224 billion (I said I would be mixing and matching years). Add our costs of £31.5 billion for the queues (2.6% of GDP) and we get to 12% of GDP.

There has been a lot of Police State crackdown on the Occupy Wall Street activities across the country. (more)

Fred Wilson anticipates Network Effect-s in the Disruptive Innovation around Education and now HealthCare. It is likely that we'll be doing more looking and studying and less investing in healthcare for a while (as we did in education). But I'm hopeful that entrepreneurs, industry observers, and of course all of you, will help us develop a thesis that allows us to start investing in healthcare. Like education, it feels like a market where you can make strong returns and also help facilitate important and needed changes.

see Universal Inbox, Universal Toolbox, Identity Hub (more)

Jon Udell-adopted term from Microsoft meaning the need for a rich GUI editor for XML Compound Document-s. (more)

Google announced it's killing a number of offerings: Google Wave, Google Knol, Google Gears, etc.

Dave Gray explains the Empathy Mapping process. He focuses here on the context of Business Model exploration: The goal of the game is to gain a deeper level of understanding of a Stakeholder in your business ecosystem, which may be a client, prospect, partner, etc., within a given context, such as a buying decision or an experience using a product or service. The exercise can be as simple or complex as you want to make it. You should be able to make a rough empathy map in about 20 minutes, provided you have a decent understanding of the person and context you want to map. Others have found it good for history students (Educating Kids).

Someone recently voiced the concern to me about "wikis are hard to organize", so in addition to the notes I already have at TeamWiki, I decided to dump a Sample Team Wiki Page List.

Larry Lessig book about Corruption. ISBN:0446576433 (more)

Fred Wilson has a good post/thread on Writing. School teachers (and students, and parents) should read it.

Venkatesh Rao on the evolution of the American Dream (Life Style Paradigm). You can compare Pig Narrative-s on the basis of the degree of prey liberty (or conversely, predator control) they represent, allowing you to plot the evolution over time. If you plot the course of the American Dream through its many rewrites (9 so far by my count, each associated with a major coming-of-age event that defined a generation), you get something like the picture above... Fortunately for the Pigs, Pig narratives are naturally hard to shift. We imprint (Imprinting) on the dominant one during the crucial coming-of-age window of 15-21 say, just as baby ducks imprint on the first thing they see as “Mommy.” And like Mommy Ducks, Pig Narratives are essentially sources of authoritative and trusted parental guidance. Unfortunately for the Pigs, there is also a dynamic which forces rapid shifts despite their best efforts. This is the impact of the defining events for each generation, which provide the motivation and raw material for each rewrite, and therefore constrain the level of spin achievable. For the generations that came of age during the Great Depression or the 2000-01 boom-bust/9-11 period, the pig narrative had to shift rapidly, even with the most creative damage control on the part of the Pigs. Things get garbled during such times, leading to widespread anomie among those waiting and expecting to be programmed by a Pig.

Mind Mapping ASP. (more)

My totally worthless advice on Parent-Hood - see Raising Kids (more)

Mark Pesce received a Shuttleworth Flash Grant to continue development of Plexus.

taking advantage of energy differential between the surface and the near-surface (more)

Phil Jones pondered Disruptive Innovation in the Restaurant Industry. (more)

Cheap Hosting provider I use for my MoinMoin-based WikiLog. See Cloning Zwiki With Moinmoin.

The DOJ subpoenaed Twitter data about multiple WikiLeaks insiders. (more)

Photo Sharing app behind lots of Ash Maurya's Lean Startup history.