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e-Health

Posted on 6th June, by Cathy Wang in User Experience. Comments Off

eHealth Suite provides modern, web-based platforms for both healthcare providers and national healthcare authorities.



media content

Posted on 29th June, by Cathy Wang in web. No Comments

A while back, I had a great conversation with uncleweed about podcasting. Uncle weed is a podcaster with lots of personality who lives in Vancouver. (You should listen to his shows). At the end of the day, as he said, it’s all about the content you have.

In today’s web, to the recent two-tier internet talk, is about the struggle of content. When everything is about media, creating media content becomes a crucial element in the whole mesh-up of digital age. The media should suit the context of the content. Different styles of media deliveries and technology style determines the final communication of content. Looking at video as one example, all the different ways of recording videos, and putting videos online have changed in its own ways. The fact that everyone can put their video on youtube or any other places …


Fibonacci Series revisited.

Posted on 20th December, by Cathy Wang in Social Science. No Comments

Even after reading and creating a whole project relating to Fibonacci series, I never really got the real essence of it.

Finally here comes a great illustration from :
What the Hell is the Fibonacci Series?

so simple and yet so complicated.

It is even more valuable to apply Fibonacci Series in different social context.

(Via info design.)


open source media

Posted on 30th November, by Cathy Wang in Social Science. No Comments

If we have to talk about open source media, we would definitely have to look at pegasusnews

Pegasus News is a local news company that has reinvented the broken content and business model of daily newspapers. We are launching in Dallas, Texas, in 2005 with a hyper-local, news-rich website that will have as many editions as it does users. Within a month of launch, the most broadly interesting and immediate content from that site will be published in a daily tabloid print newspaper. Once we have achieved key benchmarks with the Dallas product, we will leverage our scalable systems to roll out in every top-25 U.S. market with a monopoly newspaper.

(link)

In a sense I feel like they are promoting a varieties of ways to get news to people. If we want to build our own open source media, I think it’s …


green chemistry in relation to open source?

Posted on 29th November, by Cathy Wang in Social Media. No Comments

USATODAY.com – Green chemistry takes root

(Via WorldChanging.)

If we look at the concept of green chemistry I think we can look at it as an open source technology going around in the field of nature laws. Chemistry and particles exist as a platform and scientists can make iteration of them. To have the person be responsible for the chemistry invented is a way of ensure responsibility boundaries.