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...World Health Organization (WHO) uses a similar on-the-ground surveillance strategy - a text-mining system of media reports, called the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN), designed to suss out mentions of unusual illness. And the CDC has a network of physicians who routinely sample and test patients to see what bugs they have and might be circulating in the community. But these systems have many moving parts, relying on state, local and even community health-care workers to both recognize and report anything out of the ordinary. Once a community doctor sees what he thinks might...
Veratect's tracking method includes analyzing Internet data (blogs and other sources), maintaining on-the-ground contact with health officials, text-mining news reports and government resources for keywords related to infectious-disease outbreaks and using satellite images of weather patterns to detect and predict the progress of global events like disease and civil unrest. Veratect sources first picked up reports of human respiratory disease at a pig farm in Mexico on April 6; additional reports of a similar illness surfaced on April 16, which is when the company got concerned enough to e-mail officials...
...Bomb is something else. There's a lot of text and some artsy/strange pictures to go along with it—not exactly what FlyBy expected when he cracked the issue open. The pdf available online takes a little while to load (116!), but go ahead, angle your computer away from wandering eyes and open it up. Despite the dearth of pure smut, there are at least a few not-so-private parts to be seen...
...signed up about two weeks ago. Some kind soul named “harvarddhall” posts HUDS menu listings for lunch and dinner in concise posts, and I use Twitter’s mobile messaging tool to get those listings sent to my phone via text message. It’s great since I’m usually too lazy to type “huds” into my browser...
...Advani, as its prime-ministerial candidate. In one now infamous image, Advani was photographed lifting dumbbells at a gym in Gandhinagar, his home constituency, as if to demonstrate his vigor. The party has set up a website and blog for Advani and is relying heavily on Internet and text-message advertising. "My young colleagues who have created this website told me that a political portal without a blog is like a letter without a signature," Advani wrote in his first post, noting that he has campaigned in every national election held since independence. "There's been a very conscious attempt...