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Things were hopping over the past week in San Diego. Get into the rhythm here.

San Diegos West Wireless Health Institute named Donald Casey chief executive officer. Casey was formerly worldwide chairman of Johnson & Johnsons comprehensive care group. The Institute was founded last year with a $45 million gift from telemarketing and communications entrepreneurs Gary and Mary West.

Tocagen raised nearly $7.8 million in a Series D round that began Fe...

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1. China's Cyberposse (NY Times) -- is vigilante justice ok if the cause is right? Is it okay if there wouldn't be justice without it? Does the end justify the means? Many interesting questions raised by this large-scale Internet-based "human-flesh-search" in China. In the future we are all 4chan. (via waxy, who also recommended this article on the same subject)
2. Questioning "Born Digital" (The Economist) -- an interesting collection of healthy skepticism about how the "born digital" folks will change ever...

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I just got interesting email from Amazon: the Colorado government recently enacted a law to impose sales tax regulations on online retailers [...] We and many others strongly opposed this legislation, known as HB 10-1193, but it was enacted anyway. Regrettably, as a result of the new law, we have decided to stop advertising through Associates based in Colorado. We plan to continue to sell to Colorado residents, however, and will advertise through other channels, including through Associates based in other s...

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No need to duck out of work early, now you can watch March Madness games live over your iPhone, and for the first timeanywhere over AT&Ts 3G network.

The application, which is expected to be available Monday on iTunes, will cost $9.99twice as much as last years version that was limited wi-fi networks. Rob Gelick, the SVP and GM of CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile, expects the demand to be there for live streaming video: Last year, we were the first to do a live sporting event with the March Madness app, and since the...

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Apples iPad made its TV advertising debut at the Oscars just now. Heres the clip (via Engadget and Alley Insider):

Disney (NYSE: DIS) says it has reached an agreement in principle with Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) that recognizes the fair value of ABC7 with deal points that we expect to finalize with Cablevision. Translation: Cablevision subs are watching the Oscars after all. The agreementwhich Cablevision didnt even mention in its terse statementcame more than 19 hours after Disney shut off the signal to WABC for some 3.1 million New York-area subs.

WABC explained: Given this movement, we’re pleased to announce that ABC7...

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New investment bank Code Advisors has picked up some senior banking expertise with the hiring of Chris Scarborough, an 11-year vet of Credit Suisse with significant Silicon Valley tech-media experience. Scarborough doesnt have a formal titlethe next-gen firm co-founded by for CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) CEO Quincy Smith, Fred Davis and Michael Marquez is playing down titles for the most partbut Smith tells me he will assemble the analyst-associate team. Scarborough also will be working with clients on busin...

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I'm in Atlanta for the biggest US conference in health care IT, run by
the Healthcare Information and
Management Systems Society (HIMSS). This organization, along with
the branch of the federal government responsible for dispersing funds
for a medical records overhaul, has to do a huge job in an extremely
short time. I'll report what I hear (and how I interpret it) over the
next few days, aiming both at people who care in general about the
future of health care at particularly at readers who are wondering

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1. Visualising Time Series Data in Tweets -- builds sparklines from Twitter Data tweets.
2. GPL Inadequate for Open Source Voting Software -- the GPL prohibits "additional restrictions", but the US Government has requirements for its voting software that fall into that category. An interesting read. The solution will be a new open source license (sigh) but one that meets their specific and real needs. (via Glyn Moody)
3. SatScan -- free software that analyzes spatial, temporal and space-time data using the spatia...

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During last months earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger couldnt have been clearer about his willingness to shut off access to distributors unwilling to pay retrans fees. We’re pretty resolute, Iger told analystsand by extension, cable and satellite operators. Just three weeks later, Disney (NYSE: DIS) is trying to show that resolution, launching an intense campaign today to warn Cablevision (NYSE: CVC) subscribers that they could lose access to local station WABC-TV, Ch. 7, at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.

In an open ...

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