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Health Care, Meet Foursquare

I’ve been using Foursquare for almost two years now, and have amassed nearly 2000 checkins, 40 badges, and (at my peak) nearly 20 mayorships.  As a result, Foursquare knows where I’ve been, how often I go out to bars, my favorite restaurants, where I work, and what I do for fun.  It knows more about [...]

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Redefining How You Have Sex

HIV rates have increased over 300% in the last 5 years.  Syphilis rates have increased 87% in the last year (PDF).  The traditional approach to addressing these problems has been to run a media campaign, remind people to use condoms, trace contacts of partners, and maybe hand out a brochure.  These are the same approaches [...]

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High Schoolers on Twitter

One of the three high schools I attended (don’t ask) is apparently jumping on the Web 2.0 bandwagon with the help of the U of Mn. Roosevelt High School is somehow integrating Twitter and other social media websites with their English class to help engage students. Very interesting idea. Perhaps most interesting for me was [...]

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