Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground

GOOGLE HEALTH . . . Is Google dropping Google Health, its online medical-records project? An article in the Wall Street Journal implies its days might be numbered, as Larry Page resumes his role as CEO--

Some managers believe Mr. Page will eliminate or downgrade projects he doesn't believe are worthwhile, freeing up employees to work on more important initiatives, these people said. One project expected to get less support is Google Health, which lets people store medical records and other health data on Google's servers, said people familiar with the matter.

Three years ago, I wrote about Google Health for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. I wasn't in favor of the idea: "Will Google Transform Medicine? Inevitable Advertising, Privacy Issues Make Google Health a Bad Prescription." I won't be sad to see it go.

OVER THE PAYWALL . . . From Gizmodo, "How To Keep Reading the NY Times For Free."

THE PALE KING . . . There's news about the first review of David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel The Pale King, as well as a list of excerpts, at Brow Beat.

NEW . . . A new literary/culture blog called Plumb features contributions from Matt Baker, Matt Briggs, Charles Dodd White, Laura Ellen Scott, Kirby Gann, Robert Kloss, Sheldon’s Lee Compton, Lavinia Ludlow, P. H. Madore, and Cynthia Reeser.