Comments on: Who is Sick? — tracks regional sickness

By: Rex Dixon

Rex Dixon — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:49:59 +0000

Yes, it’s starting to get some traction now. I see that WWD covered it today.

Rex

By: hypo

hypo — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:10:58 +0000

The CNET video on their site is great….”cough, cough, hack…uh, boss…I
think I’m coming down with something…no, really, I am sick – just check
out WhoIsSick…there is definitely something going around…cough,
sneeze…”

Hypochondriacs arise!

Seriously, I think the site is interesting – especially once it gets more
traction. Its definitely a very innovative approach to healthcare.

By: J

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:15:05 +0000

It is a little scary to see all these sickness postings but I guess I would rather know and have access to this than call my doctor to find out…Its a great interface though – really neat features with the live updating graphs and stuff.

By: Thad

Thad — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:30:05 +0000

I am not health buff but from technology perspective what I like about this site is that it is unlike any google map mashup that I have come across. Mashup usually take data feeds from different sources and then map it. However whoissick seems pretty much user driven, so that to me sounds like a very interesting experiment. Will watch to see how to flourishes or perishes.

By: Rex Dixon

Rex Dixon — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 03:11:50 +0000

Hey all – It’s not perfect, but neither are a lot of new sites. What will make a site better is user interaction and feedback to the ones building it.

Rex

By: Rakesh

Rakesh — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:07:06 +0000

Interesting, I agree that I might not myself submit but would definitely submit for somebody else in family! What I like is it so local and current, and user driven unlike CDC which is so dependent on only cases when somebody goes to hospital, and I hope their filters are decent in terms of spam. I have four year old son. My son got hand-mouth-foot infection which he acquired from another kid at school last week and is out of commission right now since it is very infectious and my wife is having hard time managing him at home.

By: WTF

WTF — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:01:39 +0000

if you’re sick are you really going to want to bother submitting your disease on this website? personally i’d prefer to get some sleep.

and what if you have something like The Clap? You going to put that on there?

By: Parent

Parent — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:37:24 +0000

as a parent, I love the site. its pretty basic but personally, would check this site often just to see what was going around. like an interactive weather map.

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:52:57 +0000

Looks totally useless to me. Nice graphs though.

By: cg

cg — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:09:40 +0000

you gotta be kidding me