(This is a preview of a talk that I am going to give next week at Healthcare::Refactored, with Karen Herzog) There are two definitions of the word “Hacker”. One is an original and authentic term that the geekdom uses with respect. This … Continued
I love hackathons. I love winning them. I love competing in them. I love winning them. I love judging them. I also love not losing them. This weekend, I am acting as a mentor to the first Health 2.0 hackathon … Continued
As far as I know, I was the first person to publish a generalizable method for creating a QR code stencil or to even clearly document why such a method was difficult. However, since that time, I have realized that … Continued
Hi, I am preparing for my talk at Quantified Self about my work on Programmable Self. I was asked to make a “reading list” for the people who were interested in this subject so I wanted to create that here. … Continued
Here is my submission for the Local Children’s Data Health 2.0 developer challenge. The challenge was to make data available through kidsdata.org come alive. Generally, the red circles correspond to the percentage of child allergy suffers who had -seen- a … Continued
I love QR codes. I think the notion of simple graphical URLs is beautiful and elegant. If my wife were a graphical data object, I think she would be a 2D QR code. Think of it, you can put links … Continued
Today, Farrin Anne ‘Crane’ Gustafson, the manager of the social media strategy for the Clayton Trotter (my father) congressional campaign became the first person in history to use Facebook Places to check-in to a new kind of application: a social election … Continued
Soon, I will be making an announcement about some work that I have been doing with the Facebook places API. For now, I want to give a little tutorial on how to create a new place, in Facebook places, using … Continued
People often do not get why I am so convinced that only GPL Software should be used in Medicine. I can understand why. Without understanding the nature of Healthcare, people assume that I am being religious about the issue. This … Continued
I use vi for development. I keenly remember one of Dr. Eggen‘s early lectures to us. “There are other editors out there, but if you learn to use vi, you will have a powerful editor on every unix server you … Continued