ACTA:The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement Needs Senate Review and Public Availability Now!
International trade agreements rarely make front page news, and even then only when the agreements are signed, binding the signatory countries to them. Because of this, the standard practice for negotiating these trade agreements is extraordinarily opaque due to press disinterest and the lack of the same open-government laws that many nations have regulating how legislation is negotiated. The ACTA negotiations are much, much more secretive than this standard, and yet wi

How to use online social networking to get the most out of your network
The Journal of the American Medical Association has recently published a study on Medical School student’s use of social networking that gives a general warning about social networking that all professionals should heed. The study found that 60% of medical students used social networking unprofessionally, including unprofessional language, suggestive photos, or discriminatory language. There is little real information available regarding the repercussions of acting unprofessionally online, and in the information age, sullying your pers

Follow me on Twitter
Microblogging has really caught my attention, as that it allows me to share many more links and interesting ideas that I find without the need to write a full blog post. However, the flip-side is that it also lets me consider the links dealt with, and I rarely return to them to write a new post. I have added a Twitter feed to the left side, right at the top, so that you can see my last few tweets. If you’d like, please consider following me at @chrisleger1.