Diabetes blogs: One down, many more up
As a former employee, sometime source and Type 1 shooter, I’m a little disappointed that AOL has killed the Weblogs Inc. Diabetes Blog. While I have no doubt that the shuttering was done for purely economic reasons, I can’t help but think that the blog could have thrived with a little more effort. After all, as AOL founder Steve Case knows, health is one of the hottest areas on the web. The good news is that, while AOL may not have any idea how to serve/make money from the db community, others have stepped in to fill the gap. In the past couple of weeks alone, new blogs were launched by diabetes megasite dLife and the nonprofit American Association of Diabetes Educators. So, yeah, I’m sorry to see The Diabetes Blog go. But I won’t miss it a whole lot, given the plethora of other resources out there.
