Is it me or is the Swine Flu waaay overrated? A case of the Availability Heuristic.

I think it’s a bit like terrorism. It scares the shit out of you but there’s next to zero chance it will actually happen to you. Seriously… you have a much much higher chance of choking on a twinky (even if you’ve never eaten one) than catching the … [...]

How to tell if you have swine flu

Go here to tell with 100% accuracy. Read the comments on this post… [...]

New News Coverage Status NewsCodes

The News Coverage Status NewsCodes pertain to the IPTC G2-Standard EventsML-G2. Version 1.1 of this standard provided a feature to indicate the planned coverage of an event by the news provider. These NewsCodes provide a formal set of status values for… [...]

New World Region NewsCodes

The new World Region NewsCodes provide formal identifiers for the most widely used and highly uncontentious partitioning of the world, the continents. [...]

Controlled Vocabularies Catalog for G2-Standards: Version 7

Version 7 of the G2-Standards CV Catalog adds:The World Region NewsCodes – for geo-tagging at a high levelThe News Coverage Status NewsCodes  for EventsML-G2 to indicate the planned coverage of an event [...]