Leading health "blog" closes with sad end
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One of the world's most-read weblogs, a "tumour diary" written by a BBC journalist stricken with brain cancer, has come to an end, after its author became too sick to continue with the journal.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has lost the services of Adam Bosworth, a vice president of engineering who was in charge of the company's Google Health project, focused on helping people research medicines, illnesses, treatments and related healthcare topics. "Adam is a great talent and was instrumental in starting Google Health. He is now on vacation and has decided to pursue other opportunities after that," Google spokesman Steve Langdon said. Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience, will step in to oversee the Google Health team on an interim basis until a permanent replacement for Bosworth is found. His departure will not detract from the company's efforts in the health space, the company said. "Google is moving forward with work on our health products," Langdon wrote. Google Health hasn't yet yielded a specific service or product. However, in August, The New York Times reported that Google has shown a Google Health prototype to health professionals. According to the Times, the Google Health prototype is geared at consumers and designed to let people create a health profile for themselves that includes information about medications and conditions. Google Health also features a "health guide" with suggested treatments and drug interaction warnings, pages with health-related reminders and health provider directories, the Times reported. Google has given regular updates about the Google Health efforts. In March, Bosworth authored a blog post in which he outlined a series of issues and concerns related to finding and trusting health information on the Internet. "There is a lot of material out there about drugs, diseases, procedures, and treatments. How do you know what is trustworthy and what isnât? Search is great at finding us places with relevant information, but it is hard to know which links are reliable and which are less so. Honestly, this is a hard problem," he wrote. In June, Google announced the formation of the Google Health Advisory Council. In that blog posting, a Google official explained: "We want to help users make more empowered and informed healthcare decisions, and have been steadily developing our ability to make our search results more medically relevant and more helpful to users." Bosworth was BEA Systems' chief architect and senior vice president of advanced development when he joined Google in July 2004 in what was at the time seen as a recruitment coup for the search company. Bosworth arrived at BEA in 2001 when BEA bought Crossgain, a company he co-founded. Prior to founding Crossgain, Bosworth worked at Microsoft as a senior manager, and managed Microsoft's XML program between 1997 and 1999. Bosworth's departure follows the announcement in late August thatÂ Google's CFO, George Reyes, will retire from the company by the end of the year.
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BEIJING -- The Chinese government has shut down an influential publication that had helped promote the country's burgeoning nonprofit sector, the newsletter's founder said yesterday. The China Development Brief tracked politically sensitive issues such as AIDS and the environment, and served as a crucial link between Chinese nonprofit groups and potential foreign funders. Its closure, critics say, could deal a ...
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An unexpected number of deaths among patients receiving intense therapy to lower their blood sugar forced the National Institutes of Health to abruptly cut short part of a major study on diabetes and heart disease
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Travel: News that Facebook's Scrabulous may be shut down is being met with dismay by one Lakeland hotel
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A note posted on Suprnova.org, which facilitated file sharing among users of the BitTorrent program, says the site is &quot;closing down for good.
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The most painful kind of generosity are the promises you cannot fulfill. The people who were once so grateful then turn on you, and your self-esteem is sure to take a beating.  Many years ago, in a fit of generosity, Dave Winer offered to host all early-bird adopters of editthispage.com free hosting of their weblogs. This included php.weblogs.com. Well Dave Winer recently announced that he was closing down the weblogs.com and editthispage.com websites. He no longer runs a company that can support these sites and they are a personal and financial strain on him.   I was disappointed, but I had no expectations that Dave would do this in perpetuity.  My momma taught me to keep my expectations low when it comes to free things. After all, Dave and I have never met, and I've only exchanged a couple of emails with him.   I had a feeling that something like this was going to happen because the site has suffering from poor performance this past month. So my contingency plan was to ship the weblog to a commercial hosting service like weblogger if need be. During the weekend, just before the site was cut off, and before any announcement by Dave, I moved my most important open source project to sourceforge, to http://adodb.sourceforge.net/.  Today I got an email from Lawrence, Userland's webmaster:  Subject:   php.weblogs.com  From:      "Lawrence Lee" deleted#userland.com Date:      Wed, June 16, 2004 1:46 am  To:        jlim#natsoft.com Priority:  Normal  Mailer:    Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510   We'll be continuing to host php.weblogs.com, we made special arrangements with Dave to keep it running.  Lawrence   I didn't ask for special treatment, so this is a pleasant surprise. Apparently the people at Userland decided to host this weblog and Dave emailed me, saying he had nothing to do with this decision. Of course I don't expect this offer to be permanent either, and I will deal with that when the time comes. The website's performance is still terrible though, and I have no expectations about this either.  For those who ever wondered what the icon below each post means, it's a graphic emoticon of how i feel. I think the jazz singer Billie Holiday is an appropriate image for this post; her songs are always bitter-sweet. It sure feels like Stormy Weather or Come Rain or Shine.  I would also like to thank those of you who emailed me privately about this issue. RSS seems the best  way to access this web-site at the moment, as it continues to go down at random times.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Midtown Infectious Disease Clinic closed its doors Tuesday evening when a funding promise fell through, KMBC&#39;s Kelly Eckerman reported.
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Before me lies the patient, a Gateway computer running Windows 98. It is suffering from extremely clogged Internet arteries, unable to reach the Web. As one of The Washington Post's digital doctors, my task is to nurse the machine back to health so my colleague Kathleen Day can access her e-mail and file stories from home.
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The co-founder of Blogger, one of the original Weblogging services and now owned by Google Inc., is leaving the company by the end of the week.
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A pharming attack that targeted online banking customers in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific has been shut down.
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A warning for us all A prominent IT security consultant has issued a mea culpa after learning an blog he set up on Blogspot and later abandoned was being used to push crudware.â¦
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Ziff Davis - A sudden power outage has knocked millions of Six Apart Ltd.'s LiveJournal blogs offline.
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Blog: Both FeedBurner's Stats PRO and MyBrand are no longer paid services.
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Blogger is now surprisingly cool  I have had a love hate relation with Googleâs Blogger service. I started blogging with it. It just stopped working for me one day and I moved on. But since then I have had minor brushes with the updates that Google added with time and it ...
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Capital Medical Center will close its Lilly Road radiation oncology service Nov. 16, a hospital spokeswoman said Monday. Spokeswoman Susan Kent cited a drop in the number of patients since the Western Washington
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All for one A community driven project for Ruby source code to run natively on Microsoft's .NET framework has shut down, faced by progress from an official Microsoft effort.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing