Official Google Reader Blog: A welcome and a look back
These charts should be extremely scary especially to folks in the newspaper and media businesses. If you wanted some hard evidence on consumer preferences for news outlets shifting to the Internet, here you go. The top chart is the number of people who use Google Reader at least once a week. The bottom chart is the number of items read on Google Reader.
Personally, we still buy a daily newspaper.
Guest Post: What’s Going On In The Gulf? « naked capitalism
Oil? What oil?
There are two links near the bottom of this article concerning possible human health consequences from the spill. We now know about the respiratory and possible cancer issues of 9/11 survivors and workers having inhaled lots of stuff. Pay attention to your Gulf Shore applicants for unusual rashes or symptoms.
Lost Decade for American Income – WSJ.com
For your Scary Charts check out the article link below.
Or see what Yves Smith is writing about real estate.
Medical News: FDA Approves New Gout Drug – in Product Alert, Prescriptions from MedPage Today
Say that five times fast.
Almost one-fourth of patients hospitalized for heart failure had a history of cocaine use as a potential contributing factor, a retrospective chart review showed.
Medical News: HFSA: Vitamin D Marker for HF Deaths – in Meeting Coverage, HFSA from MedPage Today
Heart failure death occurred two to three times more often in people with vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency compared with those who had normal levels of the vitamin, according to data from a government survey.
I know dead fish in the Gulf is not exactly a life mortality risk issue. Well, not yet. I am thinking in terms of human consumption. What if people are eating this seafood thinking that it is safe to eat? I have also been monitoring sporadic reports of blood chemistry abnormalities in some residents of the Gulf shore region. No definite conclusions yet, but this may eventually become a mortality risk issue. Stay tuned.
Massive fish kill reported in Louisiana | The Upshot Yahoo! News – Yahoo! News
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