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After nine years continuous service, our beloved Daily Dose will be closing at the end of this week. Sadly, we have been unable to attract sufficient sponsorship to continue running the service.
Despite the large number of subscribers – over 8,000 at present – and continued appreciative comments from our readers, we have always had to work very hard to attract sponsors. This year our luck finally ran out.
As Editor and Founder of Daily Dose, I would like to take this opportunity of thanking all our subscribers for their continued support. We are sorry that we cannot continue to provide you with a service.
I would also like to thank our current sponsors for their support over the past year.
Thanks to Jim Young, Sarah Davies, Ash Whitney and Nathan Pitman (who developed our current website and content management system) for their help over the years in making Daily Dose such a success.
Finally, I would like to thank the Trustees of our charity Wired International Ltd – Mike Ashley, Tony Beddow, Wynford Ellis Owen, Canon Peter Williams and Jeff Zorko – for all their help and support during this time. You have my deepest gratitude.
Wired In will continue to maintain and further develop our online recovery community, which is going from strength to strength. We also intend to develop new services in the future.
Thank you.
My best wishes.
Sad news indeed.
In the words of Joni Mitchell, “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone….”
Really sorry to hear this. There will now be a big gap in my daily routine. Fortunately I will be able to fall back on Wired In which is indeed going from strength to strength. Thank You David for kicking all this off . I know you must be really disappointed but I think you can take a lot of comfort from this community and the exciting places it is going.
Take care.
For the whole of my recovery, my weekdays have started with Daily Dose and porridge; both representing a good start to the day in different ways.
Over the years I’ve learned so much from the links to important news, papers and opinion pieces. DD has helped me learn about what matters in addiction and recovery and I am so terribly sad that funding cannot be found.
Drugscope’s DS Daily, a similar service, is not so focussed on recovery and while it links to other blogs of interest, as far as I can see, has never once linked to a blog on Wired In, raising concerns about its editorial policy. It will not fill the gap for me.
In the newly recovery-oriented United Kingdom, it is hard to comprehend the reluctance to fund. I expect there are reasons and I suspect that not all of them will be healthy and wise.
As Alasdair says, Wired In goes from strength to strength despite the curious lack of coverage in the addiction press and media. DD may be going, but we have a new phoenix. The King is dead. Long live the King!
Sad sad sad. You must be so disappointed.
Yes David whilst it is sad I echo peapod sentiments when he says long live the king.
Wiredin is just the new DD for me as most of the relevant reasearch, discussions, and news are picked up on by the community and then highlighted in a way the DD could not, ie DD gave the access and introduction and wiredin does that too only wee get to savour the main course with relish, here on the site.
THANKYOU TO EVERYONE for their contributions over the years and I look forward to many more fruitful years of learning here on wiredin.
Indeed, very sad news indeed. As has already been said, my daily routine will not be the same without a fix of my Daily Dose, you will be missed.
Thank you, David, for your dedication and work over the years.
Thanks so much guys and girls. Yes, I am disappointed and sad (and will be broke). It does say something about the field.
But at the end of the day, the community is the major resource and I have other plans if I can get funding.
I really do appreciate the kind words. It is sometimes a lonely existence doing DD.
Something new will rise from the ashes…
Daily dose has been a very useful and informative tool. I
I hope your new plans will include the great information you provided on daily dose as many of the journals, news from abroad etc has helped me with my addiction course. So a big thank-you to you & your team. On wards & up wards for 2010 to all.
