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...Confessional Art PostSecret postsecret.blogspot.com A fascinating public airing of private thoughts-some dark, others funny, endearing or disturbing-written on homemade postcards and collected by blogger Frank Warren of Germantown, Maryland. Anyone can contribute, and thousands have. Just make a card and mail it to Warren-he suggests that you be brief, legible and creative-and, if he likes it, he'll scan it and post it on his site. The range of efforts (meticulous, sloppy, artful, ponderous) will astound...
...exclusive on top-flight matches. "We bought the whole cake, which has now become just a slice," a Sky executive griped. Mediaset paid nearly $146.5 million to secure the terrestrial rights for the top Italian clubs for the next three years. Viewers watch the games by inserting a prepaid card (six matches for $22) into a digital box. Since January, the company has sold more than 1.5 million cards. The idea is catching on: the Telecom Italia-owned La7 station sells a similar card that lets viewers see smaller teams play. --By Jeff Israely/Milan
...called Medem, which introduced a website in May called iHealthRecord.com The site lets you store all your family's medical information--prescriptions, allergies, health histories, etc.--and share them with physicians, as long as the doctors are on the system. You can also download vital information onto a smart card to carry with you. The software is free; Medem charges doctors who get the benefit of the record keeping. Linked to insurers, these so-called personal- health-record systems could also pave the way for "mouse calls," arrangements by which doctors can consult patients over...
...bottom line is that better health care may not happen in the U.S. without better health-care information technology. Sooner or later all of us will probably be carrying around our medical history in a key-ring device or an ATM-type card or maybe even a surgically implanted chip. The benefits could be extraordinary. IBM sees opportunities to apply massive computing power to help doctors make diagnoses and treatment decisions. New standard practices could be communicated to doctors within months rather than 15 years, the current lag between discovery and practice. Pharmaceutical companies with access to anonymous health data...
...iHealthRecord.com run by Medem, you can download personal information such as allergies, previous surgeries, chronic conditions and the drugs you are taking onto a smart card. If you are ever hit by a bus in a strange city, this card could save your life...