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   ExtraBITS for 9 June 2014

   TidBITS Staff

   In this week's ExtraBITS, Josh Centers talked about WWDC on The Tech
   Night Owl podcast; our own Tonya Engst, Michael Cohen, and Glenn
   Fleishman discussed digital publishing; HBO's John Oliver crashed the
   FCC's commenting system; and Apple turns out to have a powerful ally in
   the battle for the quantified self.

   [1]Josh Centers Discusses WWDC Announcements on The Tech Night Owl --
   Managing Editor Josh Centers joined host Gene Steinberg on The Tech
   Night Owl podcast to discuss the flood of new products and features
   Apple announced at this year's WWDC, including OS X Yosemite, iOS 8,
   iCloud Drive, and Swift.

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   [3]The Ins and Outs of Digital Publishing Discussed -- Digital
   publisher and podcaster Glenn Fleishman has a new podcast, The
   Periodicalist, and its second episode (though the first to be recorded)
   features our own Tonya Engst and Michael Cohen, and Macworld's Serenity
   Caldwell discussing how you go about making digital books these days.
   Insights and war stories sprinkle the conversation as it ranges over
   all the things you need to know and do to be an epublisher.

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   [5]John Oliver Crashes the FCC for Net Neutrality -- Daily Show alumnus
   John Oliver, who now hosts HBO's 'Last Week Tonight,' crashed the FCC's
   comment system after encouraging viewers to pelt the commission with
   comments about its latest 'net neutrality' proposal, which would enable
   'fast lanes' for content providers who pay ISPs. The FCC's comment
   system was down for much of the day on 2 June 2014, but still managed
   to log 1,414 comments about the proposed regulations. Be sure to follow
   the link in the article for Oliver's hilarious (though explicit 'this
   is HBO, after all) video explaining net neutrality.

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   [7]Apple's New Health App Could be Epic -- During this year's WWDC
   keynote, Apple announced Health, a new app in iOS 8 that will aggregate
   data from various health trackers like the Fitbit in one place. But the
   real trick up Apple's sleeve might be its partnership with Epic
   Systems, the leading electronic health records company in the United
   States, holding about 40 percent of U.S. health records. The Health app
   will be able to interface directly with Epic's health records.

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References

   1. http://www.technightowl.com/radio/podcast/now-playing-june-7-2014-kirk-mcelhearn-and-josh-centers/
   2. http://tidbits.com/article/14817#comments
   3. http://www.periodicalist.com/the-periodicalist/2014/6/4/2-the-ins-and-outs-of-epub/
   4. http://tidbits.com/article/14808#comments
   5. http://recode.net/2014/06/03/fccs-system-crashes-after-net-neutrality-video-goes-viral/
   6. http://tidbits.com/article/14806#comments
   7. http://www.vox.com/2014/6/3/5773118/apples-most-important-health-news-has-nothing-to-do-with-fitness
   8. http://tidbits.com/article/14805#comments

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