Miscellaneous Links
- Tony Blair gives a great speech criticizing today’s media (sorry I don’t remember where I found this link):
The result is a media that increasingly and to a dangerous degree is driven by “impact”. Impact is what matters. It is all that can distinguish, can rise above the clamour, can get noticed. Impact gives competitive edge. Of course the accuracy of a story counts. But it is secondary to impact.
- Here’s someone trying to do something positive about autism — arrange for more treatment — rather than playing the blame game.
- And a medical story too shocking to be believed… a patient writing on the floor of an ER, vomiting blood, ignored by ER staff yet looking sick enough for two people to call 911 from the ER, dies when nobody comes to help.
In the 40 minutes before a woman’s death last month at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, two separate callers pleaded with 911 dispatchers to send help because the hospital staff was ignoring her as she writhed on the floor, according to audio recordings of the calls.
(via Kevin MD)
- More talk of going to a pay-for-use model for Internet access. I think this would be great — provided that they stop telling me what to do with the bits I pay for. Rogers, although capping their customers’ monthly bandwidth use at 100 GB, still block a number of protocols (e.g. BitTorrent) that is pretty much the only reason to need 100 GB.
- A neat mini-documentary on teenagers’ spending in LA. And I mean spending… (via Over My Med Body)
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