By now many of us know about Google Wave and have watched the truly epic introductory video. I won’t try to summarize the OMG!PONIES effect – you’ve got to see it to believe it. What I will say is this: Wave has been framed as the technology that could kill email, IM, photo/music/video sharing, [...]

A 2.0 service that I’ve been enjoying a lot is LibraryThing. Like GoodReads and Shelfari, it’s based around the idea of a personal library or reading list. Users maintain a catalogue by adding books from a wide range (660+ from around the world) of available databases, although Amazon will usually have what you’re looking for. [...]

  “Shut up about Twitter.” Twitter is the service at the head of the microblogging movement. We’ve heard it all before. Twitter is over-hyped. It smacks too much of the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king. And there are days when I concur. There’s an awful lot of rubbish to wade through – especially if you’re new to the service and [...]

Update (June 9th, 2009): Thanks to ReliefInsite for featuring this post on their Press page! ReliefInsite is an interesting service that aims to facilitate patient logging of pain and connection of the information with health care providers. This is a brief overview of how it works and a commentary on my personal experience with fibromyalgia. [...]