IIW dev job: ListenLog

April 29, 2011 — Doc Searls

Craig Burton has a nice tutorial on developing VRM applications, using ListenLog as both an example and a challenge for next week at IIW. ListenLog is the brainchild of Keith Hopper and the collaborative result of efforts by folks from NPR, PRX and other public radio institutions, as well as the Berkman Center and volunteers [Read More →]

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Personal leverage for personal data

April 28, 2011 — Doc Searls

VRM is starting to snowball. You can see it in the Twitter scroll there on the right, and in Twitter searches for #VRM. Gaining velocity lately is personal data. To look down that vector, I’ll connect several links. The first is Show Us the Data. (It’s Ours, After All), by Richard H. Thaler in the New [Read More →]

Posted in Events, freedom, Horizontal ideas, Initiatives, Personal Data, Privacy, Problems, Technology, user-driven, Vertical ideas, VRM, Workshops. 1 Comment »

Patient-driven health care

April 22, 2011 — Doc Searls

VRM has been a cause in health care far longer than the term Vendor Relationship Management has been around. (For ProjectVRM, that’s been since late ’06.) And, as a category within VRM, health care could not be larger, more personal, or more contentious. Just yesterday Paul Krugman posted a column titled Patients are not consumers. Can’t [Read More →]

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Prepping for IIW

April 20, 2011 — Doc Searls

Code talks, talk walks, Craig Burton just said in a phone conversation about IIW #12, which is coming up in Mountain View in the first week of May: the week after next. I like the spirit of that statement. Lots of VRM and related development efforts will be present there. Same goes for lots of APIs, [Read More →]

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Fourth parties and VRM

April 13, 2011 — Doc Searls

One of my oldest jokes (from back when I used to write them) was “With the two party system you can clean up one while you’re having the other.” Well, I kind of raised the ante with VRM and the Four Party System, almost exactly two years ago. The idea was to label a category of [Read More →]

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