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ICE your cell phone

The ICE Campaign was started by East Anglian Ambulance in the UK, whose staff often found themselves trying to figure out who to contact when they were called to an emergency and the patient was unable to tell them. If you were unable to tell others, who would you want others to contact you "In Case of Emergency"? Vodafone jumped on board the campaign in April, and PC Magazine explains why it's better to ICE your phone than just expect emergency workers to look for mom's number.

Is Apple the Borg in disguise?

Both Michael and Alex have been telling me that I have to get a Mac , and while I've held out so far, watching Steve Jobs giving the keynote speech at Apple 's World Wide Developers Conference made it clear that resistence truly is futile . If only Steve Jobs looked like Seven of Nine !

Is there money to be made from podcasting?

One of the great questions around Podcasting is whether there is money to be made from the podcasts themselves. Wharton's Managing Technology does a good job putting some of the pieces together in this article.
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International White Band Day

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Today is the first official International White Band Day , and tomorrow is the Live-8 Concert , being held in 10 cities around the world (London, Edinburg, Paris, Philadelphia, Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, Rome, Toronto, and Johannesburg). With the concert accessible to 5.5 billion of the 6.5 billion people on the planet, the question isn't who's participating, but rather who isn't? See also The One Campaign , the Millennium Campaign , DATA , and Denver for Africa