Monthly Archives: June 2009

links for 2009-06-24

Forbes reporter has never heard of HIPAA Brian Caulfield rants about Methodist University Hospital telling Forbes that Jobs had never been a patient. Is that what reporting is to Caufield? Calling a hospital and expecting them to violate federal laws … Continue reading

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The 9 Steps of a Political Scandal

Les Jones wonders if Le’Affaire Sanford will follow my “10 Steps of Political Scandals” from April 28, 2007. If you don’t remember the steps (I didn’t), here they are (except there are only nine because I mis-counted). Just fill in … Continue reading

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Airing Nashville geek laundry

If you’re in the Nashville “geek” community or would like to see a debate over whether or not Nashville even has a geek community, check out the comment thread on this Venture Nashville blog post (the blog is part of … Continue reading

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Technology (first) is not what social media is about

Dylan Stableford of Foliomag.com interviewed me recently about some work Hammock Inc. does in helping associations incorporate social media tools and approaches into events and publishing activities. He was nice enough to excerpt some of it and post it yesterday. … Continue reading

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Newsweek.com’s Topics is a great idea, not executed

With its recent re-design (which I like), Newsweek.com cloned one of the lesser known, but truly incredible, parts of the New York Times website: an encyclopedia-like organization of its archives — including in most cases, an introductory overview — called … Continue reading

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