Putting health care online

August 15, 2007 at 8:23 pm | In healthcare, privacy, technology | Leave a Comment

Both Microsoft and Google are looking at ways to improve medicine.

The bottled water blues

August 14, 2007 at 4:57 pm | In culture, economics, food, marketing, trends | Leave a Comment

In the wake of the Fast Company article that we covered earlier, there’s been a lot written and discussed in the media about the state of bottled water.

In recent months, San Francisco took bottled water out of government offices. New York City launched a campaign to convince people to drink its municipal tap water (some of the best in the word, it’s pumped in from a spring in the Catskills). And trend-setting chefs like Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California made a point to pull bottled water from their menus.

Now the New York Times looks at the next wave of movement against bottled water.

The top newspapers on the web

August 14, 2007 at 4:35 pm | In design, journalism, media, technology | Leave a Comment

The Bivings Report ranks the top 10 newspaper websites — and its a list with which I don’t have much disagreement. Notice the absence of all North Carolina’s (notably bad online) papers.

– matt

Pulling Elvis out of history

August 14, 2007 at 4:18 pm | In culture, history, music, people, race | Leave a Comment

I was struck by this column, from the New York Times this weekend, which looks at the way that Elvis Presley viewed race. In it, the author, Peter Guralnick (a Presley biographer), offers a convincing argument for an egalitarian Elvis.

I don’t have much perspective to offer other than this — when you listen to other music from that time period, by musicians white and black, and then you hear the King, it’s hard not to notice that a) he’s doing something that’s completely new; and b) that though different, his music draws heavily from both hillbilly music and blues.

– matt

Red Oak tries to grow

August 14, 2007 at 3:48 pm | In business, food, government, law, north carolina, politics | Leave a Comment

Red Oak — maker of one of my favorite kinds of beer — has been trying to expand its distribution for years, but legislation dating back to Prohibition stands in its way. WUNC looks at the company’s plight and plans for the future.

– matt

Reminder: ETHL discussion tomorrow

August 6, 2007 at 6:00 pm | In ETHL | Leave a Comment

Folks in the Triangle can meet tomorrow at Carolina Cafe & Bakery, 401 Daniels Street (Cameron Village) in Raleigh to discuss this column, from the Washington Post.

Fact of the week

August 6, 2007 at 5:53 pm | In fact of the week, technology, trends | Leave a Comment

Microsoft’s email service, Hotmail, processes four billion e-mails every day. Six hundred million are delivered — the rest are spam. (via)

Blog at WordPress.com. | Theme: Pool by Borja Fernandez.
Entries and comments feeds.