SAD - Drugs can be collaborative?

I red this article today from the NYT, and I was thinking... how sad... a drug company is not usually one that is lacking in funds, they get money from charities, from other drug companies, they get research funds (yeah, I know, the fund research temselves as well); and the more we become a panic based society, the more money we give them...
Now, based on a change in law (that might cut theiir profits), they go into a rampage raise in prices...

Once I finished reading it, I thought, what if we the public start pushing for a cooperative approach to drug usage? A group in Scotland (in Findhorn), created a self sustainable community which brought up together a lot of very good concepts... and Jeff Jarvis (I know, I am kinda stuck into WWGD) mentioned it already... let's try to get a self managed, public demand based drug company. As we will know what the researchers are going for, and will be a lot more transparency, we will be able to chose better which drugs to take, and channel research better as well... and at the end we should be able to see better pricing (or at least more sensible one) based on what the community needs.

Maybe I'm getting too far, but I really think that this drug companies are taking the p... anyhow, just my first brain dump for the day...

LoveArgentina Party - Sat' 14 Nov'

Association of Argentine Professionals in the United Kingdom

 

Dear Members,

 

If you haven't yet, you may still book tickets for:

LoveArgentina II' Charitable Party, Saturday 14 November - 5 pm

 

For booking information, please see below or attached file.

 

As to the our two other recently publicised events, let me share with you that the UK Premiere of Argentine Rock Legend - Litto Nebbia in Concert, Sat' 7 Nov' was a total SUCCESS while the Argentine Wine Tasting, Thurs' 12 Nov' is now SOLD OUT. 

 

 We look forward to seeing you at the LoveArgentina party and please accept my appreciation for your continued support.   

 

Judith A. Cherni

Chair

 

LoveArgentina II' Charitable Party

Saturday  14  November -   5pm till 11pm

This event is organized by Loveargentina in conjunction with APARU to raise funds for the "Fundacion Sicilia" a scholarship program for children in Salta, Argentina.

 

You will have an opportunity to enjoy live music, learn tango and have a taste or typical argentine food products, and fall in love with Argentina!. Tickets: £10 when purchased in advanced

 

Venue: 1 Ropermaker Street (Digress), London EC2Y 9UE

 

Get your tickets online at: http://aparu-loveargentina.eventbrite.com

 

ITIL - 100 questions you always wanted to ask...

I couldn’t help myself…really cool book:

“The Process of Six Sigma’s make-it-right-the-first-time, combined with CMM’s what-to-do, and ITIL’s how-to-do-it makes ITIL, CMM and SiX Sigma a powerful combination training tool for any organization. After all, quality products and services are still virtues any organization should have”

Control? was that says SI?

This is quite cool, and a very good indicative on how Control in the google era is not that easy anymore, anyone can publish a twitter, or even just say somethign to a friend that will blog it, etc... and the whole wide world know about it!!

Read on, very interesting (even though I don't particulary care if Agassi used drugs or not, as long it wasn't during the games) ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/business/media/09couric.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

cuac!!! When I  already finished this, I read a twitter from Jeff Jarvis on control again... really funny, I still get amazed how people cannot get it sometime.. really stupid!! read on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/09/murdoch-google

Twitter...

Yes I know, I'm an old geek, and can't help it... well no. i got into twitter now, I haven't been before because I've been very busy for the last ten years (polite way of saying that I was lazy)..

Anyhow, http://twitter.com/hache_the_boss will drop small bursts of greatness, or at least a bit of pain that we all suffer every day... (or fun, smiles, etc etc).

Pretty cool toys to access it on several platforms, really good. so, how's your day today? follow me... ;)

WWGD When “the hood” comes to the internet?

OK, I finished... I read WWGD, from Jeff Jarvis and I got into a lot of information... really interesting, estates loads of information (not only data, carefeul choice of words here). But I did something odd, I started in less than 5 minutes to read another book... ( I know... I do categorise myself as an information addict, and that includes books... and to make it even worse, I was on a plane.. so not much more to do), I started with "Barrio de Belgrano, Porque te quiero tanto?" (Belgrano Neighbourghood, why do I love you so much?, a book that my mum wrote and it is really cool... hehehe). the book goes into trying to describe the feelings and sense of pertinence of a neighbourhood, from definitions to songs, to places, and pictures in our minds... not only from enjoying the place, but from sharing those with friends, and not so much friends around the house where you grew, lived, etc.... Now I got into some themes:




- "the hood" gives a physical pertinence to a feeling of pertinence... (I hope it makes sense), basically, it keeps your mind in a particular set, and help you to share with a group of determined people that you already know they share your own “hood”…. So now that we get into a global hood, with people from different cultures, how are we going to relate with people (before we talk to them, you know those hints that they are from you side of the town…)

+ Physical pertinence is easy, you see people all the time, want it or not, you will have a relationship with this human beings around you, but hey! Let’s think a bit more… in a virtual environment, in a G era, in the internet, we don’t need to relate to everyone (thanks the lord, there are too many), but we choose who we relate to… so in the future (or now?) our hood, is made up of people that gets with us, because they have similar needs, wants, questions, or maybe is the people that gives us guidance and tells us what to do in life… So, to be decided, is our all concept of the hood, is that any better, because we learn from everyone (in the area) not only the people with similar mindsets, or the virtual hood is better because we get to know who we want to create our hood?

I think as we will see below, the virtual hood can only work based on openness, and great transparency….

- the second thought I got was linked but not directly to the first one, so we linked to people, and work with people, and share life with each others, and even have virtual relationships… but do we generate the group of friends from the neighbourhood? Can we really reate that group of friends that no matter how many years pass on, we are still going to be related to?

+ I think we can create our own virtual hood on the web, and live connected to people all the time, feeling connected at least, and at the same time, create that “cheekiness” when we relate to them, but as Jarvis says we need to based it all in openness if we don’t share everything, we miss everything…

Now what is better, I think it will depend on personality and mindset… for example, a shy guy that doesn’t believe on creating connections, etc….. Well, he might need to feel protected to start his own hood….And, yes, as you might guess by now, I don’t think it will be the same concept, we will share pictures, experiences, conversations, but the feeling of neighbourhood will only come from the collective feeling of share experiences, not from a location like it used to be…



Will this be a great virtual place? I don’t know, it will be a collection of the views of each others hoods, into a share view of the global hood… I have friends from places that are (literally) on the other side of the world, but I do still related to them, feel them close, and even oddest I still they are part of my hood…



Anyhow, my brain dump for today, and creating my virtual hood, with my friends, my store, my advisers, and the gossipers around ;)
 
Pablo
PS: Errors and mistakes have been deliverately dispersed on the test for enjoyment of the critics...