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If you have been following news stories for the past few days, you'd have read about the earthquake in Haiti and the amount of destruction that it has caused. Every now and then, such tragedies strike and at times like these I think it is our collective responsibility to help fellow humans beings out as much as possible.
What is truly shocking is how little aid was able to reach to the island nation in the first few days since the earthquake struck. News reports showing bulldozers piling up corpses and riots over single cans of water make for disturbing viewing.
So choose a charitable organization working in relief operations there, and donate now. Even if it's a small amount, it counts. A country like Haiti is hit harder because it is so poor and has less resources already. I'll be donating what I get from part-time work this month to Doctors Without Borders and the World Food Programme operations in Haiti. Take your pick, and donate now.
This brings me a to odd juncture in this blog post. Readers from UK have access to multiple charities they can donate to for the cause (including the ones I mentioned). I initially thought of sharing links to sites where readers from India could donate too. Surprisingly, as far as I see it there isn't a single website based out of India that allows to donate to emergency relief funds. Not even the Indian Red Cross! (Having a single paragraph saying donations are tax-deductible is useless.)
Furthermore, Indian news sites seem to be paying hardly any attention to this 'story'. Forget the front page, there isn't a single reference to the Haiti earthquake on the world news page of hindustantimes.com (when I saw it). And on Times of India's website, a link to a story on Haiti is buried deep beneath stories about some UN weapons inspector being caught in a sex sting. Times of India then goes to reach heights of tactlessness by displaying keyword ads in its news article for 'Haiti' and 'emergency situation'.
At least world leaders are pledging aid and the media is paying attention here. Not so encouraging on the streets, where the attitude here is – to a large extent – "don't care". I just hope that enough people chip in, in whatever way they can in times of humanitarian crisis.
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Direct-to-consumer telehealth services promise a convenient and less expensive way to get care, enabling around-the-clock access to physicians via telephone or videoconferencing on their smartphone, tablet or laptop. The use of such technologies has been growing rapidly, with over 50% of hospitals in the US utilizing them, and consumer interest and acceptance exploding. In fact, one study found that over 70% of U.S. consumers are comfortable communicating with their health care providers via telehealth solutions.
Now a study published in Health Affairs finds that the cost-saving promise of telehealth may not be realized. Analyzing the behavior of over 300,000 people who sought care for acute respiratory infections, the study found that telehealth may drive up spending rather than trimming costs. Although the cost of telehealth services were about 50 percent lower than a physician office visit and 5 percent the cost of a visit to an emergency department, the savings was outweighed by increased spending on new use of medical services. In fact, only 12 percent of telehealth visits replaced doctor's offices or emergency rooms, while 88 percent represented new use of medical services.
The healthcare system is changing and current models are becoming unsustainable. Telehealth has long been viewed as one possible solution to address these changes, redesigning business and care delivery. Its promise of more convenient care options for patients is one of the main reasons why it is becoming increasingly vital to our healthcare system. However, as the study in Health Affairs points out, the very same convenience lower the threshold for seeking care, driving up medical spending.
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Kate Lee, "Introducing The Message", 22nd April 2014:
"One of the tenets underpinning Medium is that people write better together – or, as Ev has written, "Don't write alone."
In that spirit, The Message is a new collection for collaborative writing. We've gathered twelve writers and thinkers across technology, media, culture, and academia to publish together in one place—and demonstrate that the sum is greater than its parts. Think of it as a modern version of Dorothy Parker's Algonquin Round Table, whose members, in the course of conversing on a constant basis, collaborated on creative projects. We hope that, like the Round Table, The Message will allow for a flowering of ideas, robust debate, and thoughtful discourse."
And so it did. Over the next year and a half, The Message published such things as the story of Tilde.Club, forcing your child to play old videogames, or how to scale Kim Kardashian's backend. And while it never became a must-visit publication for me, I often found myself on there without even realising it.
And then, in 2016, it spluttered to a halt. Three articles about the Berenstain Bears in January, a piece about Zuckerberg and India in February, and then finally a piece about some fellow called Alexander Heffner on May 22nd. That was two years ago to the very day.
Since then: nothing. Not a single article published. Crucially: not a "we're closing, goodbye, but there's loads of other cool stuff on Medium". Absolutely sod all. The Twitter feed is silent too. The project just… stopped.
OK, so it's not exactly hard to find out exactly what happened, at least in vague terms. See this article on Business Insider, from June 2015:
"Two weeks ago, publishing platform Medium — which has become known for tech and culture blogs like Matter, Backchannel, The Nib, and The Message — announced a change in its direction.
Medium now wants to become more of a social network rather than a publishing platform. But this comes at a great cost to its full-time and freelance staff, people familiar with the matter told Business Insider."
And although the article goes on to state that The Message was undergoing some "reshuffling", rather than shutting down entirely… clearly plans changed. And the mention of budget cuts probably tell you all you need to know.
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Medium itself is still going strong, of course. Here's a blog about their latest developments. Which – and let me be absolutely clear about this – I couldn't give a rat's ass about.
Because I can't forget how they dealt with the death of The Message. How they didn't have respect for the publication's readers, how they didn't bother to do an official goodbye post. How they just abandoned it, and moved on to whatever the company set its eyes upon next.
How frankly, they couldn't be bothered to do something like this. Wind up the project respectfully, and move on.
And why do I care so much? Because communication with your readers is everything when it comes to ending projects like this. I can deal with it on a personal blog, which is often just one person with far too much going on in their life. It's not ideal, but it's at least understandable. But Medium is a commercial company, and there are simply higher expectations. If you have an audience who is bothering to read what you're putting out there, you owe it to them to actually tell them your publication is closing. As far as I can tell, Medium has made absolutely no official statement about The Message whatsoever. As much as anything else: it's just rude.
There's also some rather unpleasant implications which come from not shutting down The Message correctly: it gives the distinct impression that the company never cared about this set of writing in the first place, despite the words quoted at the top of this article. Because if they cared, they'd want to give it a dignified end. So if they didn't care about this, how do I know they actually give a stuff about what they say they care about now?
Finally, and perhaps worst of all: it gives me absolutely no confidence that Medium will treat its current readers and writers with any respect whatsoever. If the company wants to change tack, they'll change tack, perhaps silently, and damn everything else.
That's their right, of course, and good luck to them. But I don't trust a company like that with my words.


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