Posted: 15 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Since the workers' party won the Brazilian Presidential election in 2003, an open source movement has continued to grow in government and public spheres. Now, the country appears to be at the forefront of open source initiatives, which isn't news to most inside the community that, despite initial uncertainties, saw the movement growing each year. The workers' party has without a doubt signaled that open source should be included at the top of the government's agenda.

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Olympics Beats the Final Frontier for Social Mentions

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 12:00 AM PDT

(NYSE: AMD) – With 54,455,926 social mentions through the closing ceremonies, the Olympics dominated space explorer Mars Curiosity and other major world news over the last couple of weeks, as evidenced by the amount of social shares according to data from social sharing platform AddThis, the...

Big data in healthcare: Transparency is transformative

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT

The healthcare industry is experiencing off-the-charts growth in data generation. Growing numbers of clinical solutions generate more data every day--including electronic medical records, communication systems, and digital image archiving. On top of that, wearable sensor networks compile information on patients' heart rate, brain activity, sleep patterns, temperature, muscle motion, and numerous other clinically useful data points. This enhanced ability to capture data from everywhere generates massive sets of information. This information is invaluable for healthcare and modern clinical practices--as long as we can manage it properly.

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Mailing lists: Community or communication?

Posted: 14 Aug 2012 03:00 AM PDT

How many mailing lists or list-servs are you subscribed too?

None

1-10

11-30

31-50

More than 50

Mailing lists seem to be the life blood of many open source projects. Here at Red Hat, there seems to be a mailing list for everything. There's a company-wide memo-list to foster collaboration and connect with colleagues around the world and many special interest mailing lists like our home beer brewing list. Which got me thinking, are mailing lists only a way to communicate or are they essential to community building?