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“Futurism doesn’t mean predicting an awesome wonder; rather it means recognizing and describing a small apparent oddity that is destined to become a great commonplace.”
Bruce Sterling
from http://semanticstudios.com/ 
img by Peter Morville // http://semanticstudios.com/
from twitter with love
Collected and presented by twopular.com
We’ve always been told that health is something one keeps to oneself. But we’ve always talked about how we feel as a part of finding understanding and togetherness with others. The social web makes this even easier: just a quick search..
landed in my inbox
Ni av ti vil treffe legen på nett
http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/04/20/nyheter/innenriks/helse/11361851/
Svar på blodprøver, oversikt over medisiner og innsyn i egen journal er blant de helsetjenestene som nordmenn etterspør på internett.
Det viser en undersøkelse av folks forventninger til helsetjenester på nett som Respons Analyse har utført på oppdrag fra Teknologirådet.
- Helsetjenester på nett er noe folk nå vil forvente mer av, sier Tore Tennøe i Teknologirådet til Aftenposten.
Tirsdag legger rådet fram sine anbefalinger for Stortinget, og Tennøe mener at helsevesenet må innse at internett blir stadig viktigere.
Undersøkelsen viser at det stort sett er private aktører som står bak informasjon om helse og sykdom på internett, og Teknologirådet mener derfor at det offentlige bør ta ansvar for å gi informasjon som også er tilpasset norsk lov.
- Tiden har kommet for en mer sentral regi, mener Tennøe.
1.098 personer har deltatt i undersøkelsen, og 85 prosent svarte at de ønsket mulighet til å bestille legetime på nett, 73 prosent ønsket å fornye sykmeldingen, 65 prosent å få svar på prøver, og 43 prosent ønsket mulighet til å stille spørsmål om sykdom og helse.
Roughly translated: Nine out of ten want to see their doctor online. “People expect to reach more of their own health (sickness) data on the internet.” ”The norwegian health service needs to realize that the internet is becoming increasingly important.”
-It doesn’t really change much, but it makes it more easily accessible -the future we should be living in 10 years ago.
There will not be a “uneven-distributed-future”-monolog from me.
Identity/voice
From Drawn! : Contributor S.britt’s favorite little orphan Eddy Broth is back and this time he talks (provided you do the talking for him)!
Throw your voice or simply hurl insults! Make Eddy say anything that you so desire – he is under YOUR command. Become the life of the party or impress your classmates and colleagues at the next school talent show or office party. You’re never completely alone with Eddy on your arm. Tell him your innermost secrets and confess all your depraved transgressions. He’ll never squeal, unless you make him! Soon you’ll ONLY communicate through Eddy. Your friends and family will worry themselves SICK with laughter!
Your 16-inch Eddy Broth puppet comes with a Best Friend Membership Card and free decal! Handmade in the U.S.A. Pick up your puppet here!
-Fantastic thing, and I think dolls like this has been used regularly by family-terapauts for a long time.. letting kids say what they feel is to hard or to personal to talk about; its somehow easier when you add a layer between your self and the words coming out, as if it is not actually about you, but rather the troubled doll.
//same as with the representation of you-concept/the you-tamagutchi (yes I’m that old!) where you play and manipulate a character that is yourself. “John haven’t been working out lately, you need to take him to a gym.” or “Kari haven’t been out socializing since …… Please find someone for her to talk to”
-rethinking that concept now; maybe possible to translate to the service.
(also this makes up for a lot of vinyl toy thoughts)
lovely to look at
img. found via image-sharing-platform; ffffound
Makes me curious to read it, just because it looks good.
what you find changes who you are
The internet has changed how we interact with each other with services and with products. It has changed our expectations of how things work, and let us work and it has changed how we consume and create.
-Dr. Jay Parkinson (/future well) talks about this in a resent blogpost:
…. It’s like TV but I’m the producer, the writer, and the director. I can connect to a ton of people. They can respond to me. We can engage in conversation with strangers. It’s a fascinating new world.
And I’m still sitting on my butt doing all of this, except when I’m out in the neighborhood trying to find the best way to walk from Park Slope to Williamsburg on my iPhone. Or maybe announcing to my Foursquare friends that I’m at the gym.
“We still have our everyday behaviors, eat food, go to work, drive or walk home, stare at glowing rectangles, and sleep. For the most part, most of us have a few behaviors that aren’t that great for us:
Some of us smoke. Others of us eat twice as much as we should and gain too much weight. Some of us need to be more active. Some of us just need to look at the positive things in life instead of obsessing over the negatives.
In the end, this all boils down to a few everyday decisions that we each need to change. And these small decisions that make such a huge difference will only change by making up our minds to change and then having the courage and discipline to stick with new behaviors that are better for us. A web app may serve as a crutch at this stage…but maybe not. What are the motivations to change? Strangers via social networks? Or our children who want us to be around when they have children? Or our desire to simply pursue everyday happiness on our own?
Technology may be one component of change. And social networking and the internet are being treated as the panaceas of our time. But in reality, it’s still good old-fashioned human willpower to truly change our simple everyday behaviors for the better.”
Still, the information you find change what you think, which in turn affects the choices we make. (meaning from attitude to behavior.) -So.. a couple of crutches can help you walk in the beginning, until its changed the way you think.
the success-formula.
Trade Union banners: 8 hours labour 8 hours recreation 8 hours rest.
Date of creation: June 14, 1873. print : wood engraving.
(Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of Victoria)
WHO today can claim to find 8 hours for each? though this would be excellent use of a day.. the workday have evolved into something quite different since 1873. As a start, mothers are no longer at home taking care of the children and preparing food for the man whom this banner is made for. I asked a friend who is a working mother about this the other day and she quit spontaneously bursted into flames:
“After 8 hours of work there is not 8 hours of recreation, but picking up the kids in the kindergarden, spending time in a car, cueing to get to a grocery store to cue further to buy food, cueing in the car to get home, make dinner, and do house work (work!) get kids ready for the next day and put them to bed, and then you maybe have more stuff that needs to be done around the house, if its not gonna get completely stacked up, and maybe, maybe you have some time before you go to sleep or just pass out..”
(I hope this doesn’t apply for every working mother/father.)
-And thought I should be completely free to fulfill this 8h balance myself, I find myself spending far to much on work and far to little on sleep and recreation. Will try to test the 8hour rule during the coming week, starting tomorrow.
Scales vs. Diet
Mashable/Brian Solis
“In 2010, we’re entering a new era of social media marketing — one based on information, rationalization, and resolve.”
Early ROI Adaptations
Where the “I” in ROI represents investment, marketers have also explored ancillary elements to address the socialization of media, marketing, and the resulting dynamics of engagement.
Adaptations included:
Return on Engagement: The duration of time spent either in conversation or interacting with social objects, and in turn, what transpired that’s worthy of measurement.
Return on Participation: The metric tied to measuring and valuing the time spent participating in social media through conversations or the creation of social objects.
Return on Involvement: Similar to participation, marketers explored touchpoints for documenting states of interaction and tied metrics and potential return of each.
Return on Attention: In the attention economy, we assess the means to seize attention, hold it, and measure the response.
Return on Trust: A variant on measuring customer loyalty and the likelihood for referrals, a trust barometer establishes the state of trust earned in social media engagement and the prospect of generating advocacy and how it impacts future business.
But as we progress through the ten stages of social media integration, our views and techniques mature into more sophisticated strategies.
For many businesses, the case for new metrics can’t be made until we have an intrinsic understanding of how social media engagement affects us at every level. It’s not as simple as counting subscribers, followers, fans, conversation volume, reach, or traffic. While the size of the corporate social graph is a reflection of our participation behavior, it is not symbolic of brand stature, resonance, loyalty, advocacy, nor is it an indicator of business performance.
GE “take a new look at health”
“What are the major health issues facing Americans today? What are some of the most common conditions, and how are they related to one another? What can we do to improve our health?”
Found at http://www.ge.com/visualization/health_visualizer/
Looking at health from a disease-perspective is thus not new, but the data is visualized in such a simple and elegant manner, and playing with combining demographic datasets are extremely interesting and fun.
(thanks to S. for sharing)
Ingrid
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