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Public Health News from Google.com

For those of you for whom current news is important, I'd like to introduce you to the Google News Search Engine located at <http://news.google.com/>. Here you can find articles from regional, national and international newspapers, radio stations and other news venues.

This is a beta site but seems to work quite well for getting at specific public health content in the news.

To get public health content, type "public health" into the address line of the Google News search engine located at the top of the page:

Note that I used quotes to reduce the number of hits from 21,000 to 8,770.

To get health administration content (64 articles when I did the search) type "health care administration" (with the quotes) into the news search engine.

Also try searching "health administration" (with the quotes) to get slightly different content.

Try other topics to see what you come up with.

Warning: Be aware that some news sites may charge you for content once that content has gone into their archives. Make a note of the newspaper and date to retrieve it from their archives once it has been taken off the newspaper's Web site.

What Do You Do With Spam?

We increasingly see our e-mail accounts jugged up with SPAM, and it seems to be getting worse. Not only is it costing our health departments and organizations money and filling up our e-mail queues, but it is also consuming our most precious resource, our time.

In a recent TechSoup article (TechSoup is a technology resource for non-profit organizations) the editors asked:

What do TechSoupers do with spam?

Do you

delete

reply (a VERY bad idea)

forward to uce@ftc.gov

track down and report abuse with Sam Spade (http://www.samspade.org)

other?

Rather than cut and paste the comments from the article here, I'll just give you the URL and if you are interested, you can see how other non-profit members are attempting to solve the problem of SPAM on this forum page.

It is worth poking around the TechSoup site for other useful computer information. This organization also sends out a free electronic newsletter you can sign up for.