The Healing Power of Web 2.0

Assorted thoughts on communication, personal photojournalism, new media and health. As if I could ever limit it to that.
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Test qik

Just Learning to post qik to posterous.

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IMDB can tell me that they take my complaint about a design flaw seriously, but not that seriously.

I’m having problems logging in
by - bg@bernardglassman.net (25 Aug 2008 06:24:35 PM)

Your reply did not respond to my complaint. You wrote “We
ask for a valid active credit card for security reasons: a
valid credit card lets us verify the user’s identity and
avoid multiple sign-ups for trial memberships. You can rest assured that for the duration of your free
trial you will not be charged and you may cancel anytime
within the trial period. If you decide that you like the
service and wish to stay on as a subscriber, you won’t have
to do anything; you will be automatically charged for the
selected membership level.”

My point was that you should let users know at the outset,
not after filling out several fields, that you want this
info. I also think that the default should be for the
membership to go on hold unless the person opts in.
Otherwise, there will be accidental memberships. Doubtless I’ll get another robo-response, but hope springs
eternal.

BG

Re: I’m having problems logging in
by - IMDbPro.com Help Desk (26 Aug 2008 03:03:21 AM)

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When the Insanity Lands at You Front Door, Even a Front Door from Years Ago,...

09/18/20093:30 PM - 4:00 PMNorman, OKHillel Jewish Student Center at OU - STOP lying to the kids 494 Elm Avenue WBC has looked at the faces of these pushy, arrogant, God-hating brat Jews and they are stinking up the atmosphere with their rotten figgishness. We will picket your children where they are, their high schools, elementary schools colleges and theological cloisters? The children need to see the face of good. You cloister them off, just like the catholic cult, and think you can pickle them in lies and filth! We know what you do, we know how to read the blogs about you abusers! Most, if not all, of them are good for nothing but the She Bear like the Jew children of Elisha’s day. Obama will shortly turn on you and cause you such distress you will be eating these lads. Stop now, and perhaps God will save you. That is our message, and that is all you get. Hey, it could be like the kids who messed with Elisha. Check it out, and fear and tremble at the power of God: 2 Kings 2:19 And the men of the city said unto Elisha, Behold, I pray thee, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord seeth: but the water is naught, and the ground barren. 20 And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him. 21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land. 22 So the waters were healed unto this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spake. 23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. 24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them. 25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel, and from thence he returned to Samaria. He did not so much as turn aside to the left or right to worry about those 42 rebels! You better pay attention when God sends a messenger to you, and you better BEHAVE! AMEN! 09/18/20095:00 PM - 5:30 PMOklahoma City, OKJewish Federation of Greater Oklahoma City - 710 W Wilshire Blvd # C Moses was learned in all the wisdom of Egypt, and until God showed him the truth he was dumb as dirt. Did you hear me? Read these words about that fact: Hebrews 11:23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king?s commandment. Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; 25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; 26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward. 27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. 28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them. 29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. 30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. 31 By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. That is the only history worth discussing! Are you of God? Or are you NOT of God! Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. Just like any other dirt worshiping, earth dweller - if the apostate, Christ-rejecting Jews do not believe the testimony written then this is what Isaiah had to say about that: Isaiah 8:20 To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. Since God took your light for your rebellion - you have only to wait now for Antichrist Obama (God’s servant) to come and DESTROY you and all that you have and worship this day. Praise God! AMEN! 09/18/20096:00 PM - 6:30 PMOklahoma City, OKTemple B’nai Israel - This Temple will be destroyed! 4901 N Pennsylvania THERE IS A KING OF ISRAEL alive THIS DAY. John 19:19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. 20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. 21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. 22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. WBC will be on-hand to tell you Jews a few things, not the least of which is that you have not submitted yourselves to God, and therefore are NO DIFFERENT than the billions of gentiles who are going to hell. You have NOT sanctified yourselves (Leviticus 20:7). You have NOT repented of the killing of Jesus Christ. The Beast Obama will make you so oppressed that you will eat your little babies. God’s promise is sure, to wit: Deuteronomy 28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:…58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD; AMEN! 09/18/20097:30 PM - 8:00 PMOklahoma City, OKEmanuel Synagogue - Synagogue of Satan 900 NW 47th Street Okay, so perhaps you do not understand that the HOLOCAUST WAS NOTHING compared to what the Lord God has done to Israel/Jews and compared to what the Lord Jesus Christ, Jehovah is fixing ready to do to all you unrepentant, apostate Jews. The tribe of Benjamin was nearly completely WIPED OUT (see Judges 19). Nine out of every 10 of the whole nation of Israel were destroyed by the Babylonians. That is 90%, people! Now, you understand that only 144,000 of the 12 tribes of Israel will survive and go to heaven. You should only be interested in one thing, to wit: will I be numbered amongst those 144,000? Instead you fill the air with your lying words and try to shut up ANYONE who dares remind you of the facts faithfully recorded by Jesus Christ (the Word). Zechariah 12:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. 11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. 12 And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; 13 The family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of Shimei apart, and their wives apart; 14 All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart. That is a VERY dismal scene, you see those wives and husbands removed from one another because of the siege that will besiege thee? Praise God and Fear Jesus Christ. Our continual prayer to Him is that Israel will be a praise in this earth. AMEN!

…it looks very different indeed.

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Twitter is Becoming Location Aware: Huge Public Health Implications

Cliché introduction alert: Social media offer an opportunity for near-real-time awareness of public health phenomena, including alerts and mapping.

Today, if I were to map the ocurrance of ‘swine flu’ (or “the swine” as it has already become known among students) by tracking tweets, I would be able to see where the tweeters’ accounts were registered, but not where they actually are. So, Bob from Des Moines arrives at school in St. Louis, becomes ill, tweets that he has “the swine,” after failing to update his account information, and the score, erroneously, is Des Moines 1, St. Louis 0.

When you get sick, or are in an earthquake, updating your account information may not be your highest priority.

However, Twitter is in the process of enabling developers to grab the actual location of its users, as long as those users voluntarily enable location awareness. iPhone and other smart-phone users are already familiar with the “____ would like to use your location information” request when they launch a GPS application, for example. Now a Twitter app will be able to make a similar request.

Here’s the Twitter blog entry on the subject: http://blog.twitter.com/2009/08/location-location-location.html

If I were a public health planner, or a public health researcher, I’d be gathering a few of my most creative thinkers to see what sorts of opportunities this might afford. Could we write an auto-responder that would be able to send a direct tweet about nearby resources to anyone posting about having “the swine?” (Don’t get caught up in whether that was a good idea or not; you’ll risk losing focus on this article. Let your people knock it around.) Could we begin developing a textual analysis algorithm that would be highly accurate at determinining whether the tweeter was saying he/she had the disease vs any of the other possible tweets in which one might use the phrase “the swine”? Could we look for others’ work in such textual analysis?

The point is, we are about to have access to a stream of millions of communications that will be able to tell us within, potentially, a few hundred yards, the actual physical location of the originator of that communication. It’s time, past time, actually, to think aggressively about what that stream of information can do for the public health, while equally aggressively respecting the privacy wishes of the tweeters.

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Wow, an entire day passes without a single request to follow me...

…from someone offering pictures of themselves nekkid. Do you suppose it’s because I’ve begun responding in kind with a free sample? (Not really. The Internet is not ready for that.)

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