udell: blogging health care
When I started this blog, I wanted to focus (vaguely at first) on the exciting possibilities offered by the combination of social technology, free software, and low-cost media production technologies. Roughly, I wanted to examine and document the possibility of these new technologies to forward “anarchist” projects (meaning projects undertaken by free individuals, without hirearchy, to contribute to the improvement of people’s lives and civic society), and to look at the success of these “new” ways of doing things as an alternative to our religious belief in commercial transactions as the only real way to get things done. For instance, what happens when the people become the media? Or when our time and energy go towards using tools to create, rather than buying, consuming and marketing?
But I wanted to stay away for the most part from specific political issues (eg Iraq!).
All that as a long and digressive intro to a very interesting post by Jon Udell, uber-geek, who normally posts on technology, but here has a long post on the blogging of health care reform, and the impacts that blogging could have on this particular debate.
a good read, and let’s hope the publishers of Overdosed America don’t take him to court for crossing over the “fair use” line!
