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Friday 21st of November 2008 10:33:24 AM
Medicine 2.0 is a bi-weekly blog carnival which collects some of the most interesting posts about Web 2.0 and Medicine. The archive is available here.
A blog carnival is a blog event similar to a magazine dedicated to a particular topic. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains links to other blog articles on the particular topic. According to Wikipedia, "Web 2.0 is a trend in World Wide Web technology, and web design, a second generation of web-based communities and hosted services such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies, which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing among users. "
I will be hosting the next edition of Medicine 2.0 at Clinical Cases and Images - Blog. Please submit your links to clinicalcases@gmail.com.
My last hosting is here: Medicine 2.0, Blog Carnival About Web 2.0 and Medicine, Year 1, Issue 9
Last time, I used Google Presentations to show the links (see below) and I will add a word cloud to plug in all blog submissions this time.
An example of word cloud:
The word cloud of food allergen avoidance shows the frequency of term use in that article.
I added a #Medicine2.0 hash tag on Twitter and you can find all related post there as well.
References:
Medicine 2.0, Blog Carnival About Web 2.0 and Medicine, Year 1, Issue 9
Food Allergen Avoidance. Allergy Cases.
Wordle is a website for generating ?word clouds?
Image source: ScienceRoll, a Creative Commons License.
From casesblog.blogspot.com by noreply@blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Research This Blog Entry
Friday 21st of November 2008 06:47:17 AM
According to Google, "SearchWiki is a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users. We store your changes in your Google Account."
SearchWiki sounds like a good idea and I am planning to use it. I run 2 browsers most of the time:
1. Firefox with Gmail, Blogger, Reader, and other Google services, and Twitter. I am logged in a Google account in Firefox which means that I will see the SearchWiki results.
2. Opera for general browsing such as CNN, YouTube, etc. I am not logged in a Google account in Opera which means I will be able to see the "generic" Google results that are available to most users.
References:
SearchWiki: make search your own. Google Official Blog.
From casesblog.blogspot.com by noreply@blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Research This Blog Entry
Thursday 20th of November 2008 07:06:38 PM
From sumerdoc.blogspot.com by Sumer Sethi Research This Blog Entry
Thursday 20th of November 2008 03:21:00 AM
Screenshot of Renal Fellow Network
Renal Fellow Network (http://renalfellow.blogspot.com) is "a website written for renal fellows by renal fellows with one new "Nephrology Teaching Point" posted on a daily basis.
It is a forum with the intention of making Nephrology fellowship everywhere a more educational experience."
The blog was started in April 2008 and most articles are signed by Dr. Nathan Hellman who also has a personal blog.
Nathan links to the Nephrolog y Cases section at Clinical Cases and Images.
I wish more fellows had the time, energy, and skills to maintain a specialty blog. Good luck to the founders in this new endeavor.
References:
Nephrolog y Cases. Clinical Cases and Images.
Using a Blog to Build an Educational Portfolio
How to write a medical blog and not get fired?
Why Do I Blog?
A Doctor's Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter
Why I Blog: Andrew Sullivan from The Atlantic Shares His Thoughts on Blogging
From casesblog.blogspot.com by noreply@blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Research This Blog Entry
Thursday 20th of November 2008 03:11:00 AM
Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question "What are you doing?" via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages you find useful, amusing, or both. Here is the 14th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top):
 | fredwilson Just wrapped up a meeting with someone who lit up a cigarette during the meeting. That hasn't happened to me in maybe ten years | |
 | AllergyNotes Video: Google Trends predicts flu activity better than CDC data? http://www.google.org/about... | |
 | steverubel Google Flu Trends is totally awesome (note the CDC is a client) http://ff.im/-1ZTI | |
| | AllergyNotes Considering data mining Twitter for "allergy" -- we may see some interesting trends: http://tinyurl.com/5b39vo | |
| | AllergyNotes Twitter has just passed the one-billion Tweet mark. I helped a bit w 2k posts http://tinyurl.com/6plxuy | |
 | pkedrosky @fredwilson the absence of "hedge" in hedge funds has been true for decades. name is a misnomer. always has been. | |
| | fredwilson Hedge fund manager: where is the 'hedge' in hedge funds? | |
| | steverubel I wonder if Gmail video chat will become video email next. Bet it will. http://ff.im/-1FBi | |
 | progressnotes ...and anxiety about getting "pimped" by my attending when I present the patient... | |
| | progressnotes Woke up well before my alarm. Probably anxiety about seeing my first patient at the VA Hospital today. | |
 | JasonCalacanis how does oil go from 140 a barrel to 60 in three months? $2 a gallon gas a couple of months after $4? http://www.wtrg.com/daily/c... | |
 | Stammy "According to the numbers, for every year a person worked past the age of 55, he/she died two years earlier." #retirementfail | |
| | steverubel Sprint is tracking the global zeitgeist http://ff.im/-16Sf | |
 | chrisseper  Random Clinic doc walked up to me, called me Bill Gates, snapped my picture & walked off. | |
 | KidneyNotes Drug reps taking pains to ensure I understand their drug is called "Lovaza" -- not "Lavaza," which is a type of espresso. | |
| | KidneyNotes Patient just explained to me that his previous doctor smoked a cigar during the physical exam... | |
| | steverubel Gmail is like the Swiss Army Knife of the Web. Now I am using it as a feed reader. http://ff.im/-UgZ | |
 | davewiner I have 38725 emails in my inbox. I gave up a long time ago on going through all of them. Amazed some people try. :-) | |
 | ruraldoctoring @chrisseper @rlbates Jenny McCarthy is doing more harm than any dozen inept doctors could achieve in a lifetime. It's criminal. | |
| | chrisseper Consistently disappointed at how quickly Jenny McCarthy's autism group is becoming so trendy and popular. | |
Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be very useful and educational if you follow/subscribe to interesting people.
You can read more here: A Doctor's Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter and
visit my account at Twitter/AllergyNotes.
From casesblog.blogspot.com by noreply@blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Research This Blog Entry
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google includes millions of images, many historical medical photographs
Wednesday 19th of November 2008 03:32:00 AM
The LIFE photo archive is hosted by Google which allows you to search millions of photographs stretching from the 1750s to today.
According to Google, "only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. We're digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time. Today about 20 percent of the collection is online; during the next few months, we will be adding the entire LIFE archive ? about 10 million photos."
According to Google Blogoscoped, "as many photos are quite old, this also means many should have passed into the public domain zone, meaning you may be allowed to copy, edit, and republish that portion of the photos any way you like, including for commercial uses. Wikipedia says that ?the copyright in a published work expires in all countries ... when ... The work was created and first published before January 1, 1923, or at least 95 years before January 1 of the current year, whichever is later.?
A few examples of image searches for medical terms are linked below - click to see the photos:
- heart attack, for example, Vice President Richard M. Nixon visiting Senator Lyndon B. Johnson at Bethesda Naval Hospital after Johnson's heart attack.
- cough
- bronchitis
- allergy
- diabetes
- headache
References:
LIFE Photo Archive available on Google Image Search. Google Blog.
Google?s Life Photo Archive. Google Blogoscoped.
From casesblog.blogspot.com by noreply@blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Research This Blog Entry
Tuesday 18th of November 2008 03:40:00 AM
Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question "What are you doing?" via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages you find useful, amusing, or both. Here is the 13th edition of My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top):
| | KidneyNotes An MD with fever went to a lab, had blood cultures, found bacteria in his blood, & started himself on oral anbiotics. Tip: never do this. | |
 | leolaporte @davewiner I think it's far preferable to calling himself a "pure-bred." We'll be reading that quote for decades to come. | |
| | davewiner Now -- next topic -- is blogging dead? It's a question that's been coming up since 1998 or so. The answer is no. Next question. | |
| | davewiner Truth is -- we're all mutts. There are no purebred humans. One guy thought he could do it, but we fought a war over it and won. | |
| | davewiner I've never liked the idea of "summits" -- conferences that pretended to have the elite of the elite; they usually have the biggest jerks. | |
 | HowardKurtz Lawrence O'Donnell floats two-dog theory. Am I the only person in America who doesn't care what kind of dog Obama gets? | |
 | rdjfraser i love podcasts. how else can u attend Stanford, learn wine with @garyvee, learn mngment from @mauzenne and get it all done @GetItDoneGuy | |
| | AllergyNotes This is my 2,001 Twitter post. Using Twitter is more useful and fun than what I expected when I started in June 2008. Recommended. | |
 | scanman thinking that if I had written coherent, strung together sentences of 140 characters 6000 times, I would have a novel. hmmm! | |
| | Stammy "Based on student loan debt of $100,000.00 to be repaid over 10 years at 6.8 percent interest, my estimated monthly payment is $1,150.80" | |
| | steverubel I really wish Google would let me search across all of the services I use from them - eg GMail, Notebook, Reader,... http://ff.im/-7eb | |
 | DrGourmet I love living here in New Orleans. It's 5 blocks to WholeFoods, 3 to the grocery, 4 to vote, 5 to Audubon park, 6 to the movies. Beautiful! | |
| | ruraldoctoring Win, lose or draw, I'm glad Senator Obama got to see his grandma before she died. 20 yrs from now that will mean a lot to him. | |
| | AllergyNotes The 3-billionth photo on Flickr: http://tinyurl.com/5u7plb See the 2-billionth shot here: http://tinyurl.com/69w6eu | |
| | AllergyNotes @TechCrunch Re-tweet: 3 Billion Photos at Flickr http://tinyurl.com/6r94wl, behind Facebook, with 10 billion | |
| | DrGourmet You know, residents are pretty smart. Shame almost none of them are going to be general internists. | |
| | scanman wondering about number of blogs that I instantly associate w/ author's name rather than actual blog name. a direct consequence of twitter? | |
| | AllergyNotes Medical RSS aggregators -- compare this: http://health.alltop.com/ to this: http://medicalcavity.com/. You can use iGoogle to make your own. | |
| | DrGourmet In clinic this morning. Everyone on time because of the change in daylight savings time and they all woke up early. | |
 | GetItDoneGuy Deleted all messages in my Gmail account older than 3 weeks. (several gigabytes). Amazing. I haven't noticed them missing at all! | |
 | grahamwalker Patient Complaint: Drank bottle of hair product while drunk. I love my job. | |
Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be very useful and educational if you follow/subscribe to interesting people.
You can read more here: A Doctor's Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter and
visit my account at Twitter/AllergyNotes.
From casesblog.blogspot.com by noreply@blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Research This Blog Entry
Tuesday 18th of November 2008 03:09:00 AM
A physician blogger asks: "I would like to put a book review section in by itself. I would really like it to look more like sections on the front page of a newspaper that I could add to separately than one big long blog of such disparate topics."
There are several ways to do this:
1. "Future date" posts always show on the front page.
Fix the number of posts on the front page, for example, to seven (7). Only those posts will show on the front page and they will be your topic sections. Publish the "topic section" posts. Then go back to edit them and change the date to a year in the future, for example, 2011. Then you can keep posting to your blog as usual. The RSS feed will update but only the 7 fixed "future date" posts will show on the front page.
See an example here: http://allergycases.org/
More on the topic:
"I use Google Blogger to publish not only blogs (with posts in reverse chronological order) but also "regular" websites in which the article at the top of the page is not always the newest one. To do this, I often choose a date in the future (for example, 2010) which makes the desired post to stay on top. The "scheduled post" Blogger update eliminated this option but fortunately, there is a workaround:
"We know that some bloggers currently use future post dates in order to keep one post at the top of their blog for a while. Though we recommend that you use a Text page element for this, you can still get this old behavior with just one additional step. First, publish your post with the current date and time. This will publish it to your blog. Then, once it?s published, edit the post to change the date to the future and publish it again. We don?t re-schedule posts that are already published, so the post will stay on your blog but sort to the very top."
References:
How to Use (and Stop Using) Scheduled Posts in Google Blogger
2. Add "text element" to your Blogger sidebar. The text will always show in the sidebar:
References:
Layout Guide. Blogger Help.
3. Use a 3-column template.
To make your blog look more like a newspaper front page, you can use a 3-column template, in addition to the 2 tips explained above.
In any case, the use of a wider (stretch) template is recommended, for example, Minima Stretch.
References:
New blogger templates (XML) 3 columns
Where can I find more templates? Blogger Help
Related:
Tips for Blogs in Medical Education: How do I put a special section just for my students on my blog?
Tips for New Medical Bloggers: How to Get Noticed?
Image sources: public domain.
From casesblog.blogspot.com by noreply@blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Research This Blog Entry
Monday 17th of November 2008 04:30:00 AM
From sumerdoc.blogspot.com by Sumer Sethi Research This Blog Entry
Monday 17th of November 2008 04:30:00 AM
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