Changes coming to HealthCare.gov, the op-eds that outraged many cancer patients on social media, and Copyright Week…all catching my attention this past week!
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is sponsoring a six day Copyright Week, highlighting principles they believe “should guide copyright policy and practice” as Kevin Smith of the Scholarly Communications @ Duke blog explains.
If you haven’t heard about the flap on twitter and other social media over two recent op-ed pieces by a husband and wife in the Guardian and NY Times (the first was retracted and the other is here) criticizing metastatic breast cancer patient and blogger, Lisa Bonchek Adams, I want to give readers here a sense of what happened without trying to round up all the responses. The op-ed pieces have been criticized for breaches of journalistic ethics, factual inaccuracies, and a failure to understand what Adams was trying to communicate. Many of the criticisms are expressed clearly in Social Media is a conversation, not a press release, The NY Time’s Public Editor Margaret Sullivan responded with Readers lash out about Bill Keller’s column on a woman with cancer.
Following the decision on FCC rules this week here are a few views… from Tim Wu on The New Yorker’s Elements, Who killed net neutrality?. Over on WonkBlog John Blevins tells everyone to Relax…
From iHealthBeat, a round-up of reports that Accenture will take over Healthcare.gov.