Slow start...

1) After running out of time to have a make-shift blog up on my own site by week 2 of class, I am temporarily throwing in the towel and using blogsplot as a interim blogger for this assignment. Hopefully I'll have the new one up soon.

2) I'm really delighted to see how cohesive all the GHL courses are in unifying themes and ideas. Though there is somewhat of an overlap, I actually prefer it as it reminds one about the tidbits learned in other classes and allows us to not only add more detail to that topic, but helps us to see the bigger picture more easily.

3) I have to mention the TED video featuring Hans Rosling because it was so damn inspiring. Not only did it prove public health information can be disseminated in an entertaining manner, but it also demonstrated the effectiveness of intercalating such knowledge with Internet technology. The TED site itself is something I've never seen in the public health field in terms of its aesthetically pleasing nature and professional use of Flash. Though it requires ALOT of man hours, we need more sites of this caliber to deliver information to the public, especially in the manner of a global database as Hans was talking about. I currently do side work in Internet design and was just completely inspired by the ideas brought by this site. Zipandme.com is an endeavour I was going to begin this summer with a few art buddies just to showcase ideas and expression as an online art house and I was trying to think of a way to intercalate public health on the site. I may start earlier because of this video.