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Every single person in the world has a health story. As a doctor, my job is to help people edit the story that your health is telling and to treat your story as unique to make you healthier. It's our signature challenge to become more efficient and accurate editors as digital healthcare begins to scale worldwide, which can create 8 billion health stories.

Google is talking about a new world of search at the I/O developer conference. The biggest change is called Google Now. It's a new generation of semantic-style search. Google Now figures out where you commute to work and how. It gives you a faster route if there is a lot of traffic. When you're at a public transit stop, Google Now tells you when the next one arrives This is a developing story. Refresh for updates.

This documentary is about people from vibrant cities across Europe and North America, sharing resources, knowledge, skills, facilities and amazing experiences.People who build and participate in education, food, mobility, housing, work, and finance services and projects are reinventing the world we live in. We want to tell their stories.

"Drawing on an entirely new set of original research conducted with countless collaborators in fields such as healthcare, science, education, energy, government and the media, we tell the stories of some of the world's most dynamic innovators, from a global citizen's movement working to reverse the tide of disruptive climate change to for-profit startups that are turning industries ranging from music to transportation on their head. We argue that collaborative innovation is not only transforming our economy but all of society and its many institutions. Now the onus is now on each of us to lead the transformation in our households, communities and workplaces. After all, the potential for new models of collaboration does not end with the production of software, media, entertainment and culture. Why not open source government, education, science, the production of energy, and even health care?"

AAUP has continued to survey its member presses about the extent to which various digital publishing strategies are being adopted within the community. The 2012 Survey updates information gathered in Spring 2011 and Winter 2009-10. In addition to gathering data about e-book revenue, digital marketing and discovery  strategies, and format and channel availability, we also asked respondents to share their opinions about major concerns or hurdles they are facing, and to tell us more about their presses' e-book goals. 

he online project Cowbird is a place where storytellers can keep audio-visual diaries, write stories and collaborate with others in documenting "sagas" taking place in the world, like the Occupy movement. Artist and programmer Jonathan Harris's labor of love, Cowbird aims to grow as a community and focus on long-lasting and personal storytelling.

Google is getting into the Internet Service Provider (ISP) game, as you might have heard. Its new offering, Google Fiber was announced today in Kansas City. Right now, the service is only available there, but from what we can tell, it's ridiculously fast. For $70 a month you'll get "gigabit" Internet service, which is 100 times faster than your standard cable modem. Kick in an extra $50 a month and you'll get cable-TV-like-service as well.