Archives for March 2013

Hey, Pandora! Let My Data Go!

I sent an email to Pandora today. Is there some way I can download a list of my information from Pandora? – My channels? – My thumbs? – My social follows? – My listening behavior? (what I actually hear, for how long, and when?) How about some of the music genome conclusions Pandora draws about my listening? […]

Introduction to Mydex CIC Personal Data Stores

Mydec CIC CEO David Alexander gives an hour talk about the Mydex Personal Data Stores.

JAMA: A case for community health record banks

A JAMA opinion piece explains why community-based health record banks are a better path for health IT than monolithic data brokers like health information exchanges.

Field notes: What’s In A Name? Anonymity, Then and Now. SXSW

SXSWi 2013 session: “What’s In A Name? Anonymity, Then and Now“ “Anonymity” is a much-ballyhooed buzzword. But the complex issues of anonymity and authorship are far from unique to the Internet age. We’ve been here before.Turn back to 17th century Europe, when publishing was a less-than-classy enterprise. How uncouth! Still, anonymous works were circulated and […]