Cross The Blogosphere - Part 2

Last week I wrote about Part 1 of a 2-part series at forbes.com regarding something called "biohacking". Today, Part 2, written by me, is now available. Hopefully I make a smidgeon of sense to you, dear readers, and that the team is successful.

Cross The Blogosphere

I would like to direct my readers to the blog of my friend Dan Munro. Dan writes, quite intelligently, about the healthcare space with a focus toward Information Technology (IT). As healthcare goes more and more digital in terms of research, treatment, and record-keeping, IT is critical to that development. As with the Internet boom, many gizmos and techniques will rise and fall away. Dan does a great job of sorting through it and his blog is worth a bookmark.

You might remember Dan from an earlier post featuring me. The earlier post was about the oral sodium chlorite project I created. Today Dan posted Part 1 of a 2-part series on "Biohacking". This is the result of his own research and some discussion we had about a project in which I am involved. Part 2 comes out next week, authored by yours truly, so stay tuned!

Residentiality

Last night (at time of writing) I was treated to a personal guided tour of the Steve Saling ALS Residence in Chelsea, MA. My tour guide, via laptop webcam, was my friend Lisa Jones-Wyhlidko, the dynamo who does such excellent volunteer work for ALS Guardian Angels. She dialed me up using Google Hangout (up to 9 people in a group teleconference - a really wonderful free tool!) and said she was going to walk me around and show off the Residence.

Rescuebook

Technology is extraordinary. The level of communication made possible today by technology is unprecedented. This ability is also available for people with extreme disability (I wrote this purely with eye movement to distribute to the world...).

Response-able

I was recently alerted to a blog called Science-Based Medicine which had a post that was rather critical of me. The post was written by David Gorski, a managing editor of Science-Based Medicine. If you read the post, you can probably understand why I took a little umbrage to Dr. Gorski's characterization of my efforts. Below is my response to him, shared here for my readers' convenience.

Tobii Or Not Tobii

As many readers may already know, I am really outraged by the pathetically weak computer systems that underlie the Tobii (and some other systems...). For a device costing $20K one would expect more than a low-power 32-bit CPU and 1-2GB of RAM. The computer hardware would fetch around $500 by itself. Is the software and eyegaze device really worth $19K? Having licensed high-end software for corporate development use in my career, I can comfortably say no.

Thomas Ohlson - Guest Blog

I would like to introduce to my readers my friend Tom Ohlson. He was diagnosed the same year I was and we are both "venterloquists". Although the circumstances suck, I am glad to have met him and am excited to present the following as a guest-blog entry. I feel exactly the same way.
Last week, on the 4th of July, scientists announced they may have discovered the Higgs boson. Frankly, I think if it were not a holiday and if there was nothing else newsworthy taking place, this announcement would have still have received little notice despite the significance of this discovery. This is unfortunate for a myriad of reasons, not the least of which is how American scientific curiosity has been replaced by a need for superficial sensationalism. Dont take my word for it--just look at the amount of major network news airtime devoted to the Higgs boson announcement vs. the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes divorce announcement. Still, the discovery of the Higgs boson sounded a clarion call across the planet--great discoveries are still out there to be made and with them, comes great hope.