DISQUS

I think I did an even-handed job here, if convoluted, Bill. I'll take this as a compliment. Dave

Sorry, Louise, Medicare doesn't pay for service from naturopaths. Queries to the medicare.gov Website returned no hits. My "medicare naturopathy" Google search brought back quite a few references, though, including a pretty good article from the "Medscape" US government archive about the "state of naturopathic medicine. From this I learned that President Bush appointed leaders of Bastyr University, the most visible naturopathic school in the country, to the Medicare coverage advisory board, which I would expect, is a step in the coverage direction. And, the search returned another interesting article from the Connecticut legislative Website...below are the links.

Medscape report

Connecticut article

I think you're onto something here. I think Scoble is right about techie blogging. And, parenthetically, techie blogging and newsflow is really a special interest ghetto -- a disproportionally large niche, since young, tech-oriented people dominate the fastest-moving traffic on the Internet. There are too many blogs to even start to get around to, and as a result, like in all pop-tech, a few blogs dominate the influence. I'm afraid that with the butterfly-attention-spanned young-tech audience, tiny blog-bursts will continue to dominate this in-the-moment medium. Nobody in this group has time for essays, even mini ones. ("mini-essay" is an oxymoron, anyway.)