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Health Blogs Observatory

You should know by now that every time my posts are slower, I am creating something in the dark corner of my room . This was the case when I introduced the OpenECGproject, and it is the case now, when I am introducing the Health Blogs Observatory.
Health Blogs Observatory is an online research [...]

31 January 2009 | internet, medicine, science | 5 Comments

Medical Bloggers Follow-up Study

In our recently published article regarding medical bloggers, we have announced that we will be conducting a follow up study. So we did. We have visited again all of the health/medical blogs which we originally identified to see if they are still active. Also, we have invited the participants of the survey to take part [...]

3 October 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments

Medical Bloggers Survey Resume

It has been ten days since our “Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers” article was published in Journal of Medical Internet Research. During this period we have received numerous supportive e-mails from various bloggers and researchers. Also, many bloggers have written about our research, posted our abstract or slideshow presentation on [...]

3 October 2008 | internet, medicine, science | No Comments

Slideshow featured on the SlideShare homepage

I woke up this morning only to find the following message in my inbox:
Hey ikovic!
Your slideshow Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical
Bloggers has been featured on the SlideShare homepage by our editorial team.
Cheers,
- the SlideShare team

What a great way to start a day. Thanks to everybody who whatched the slideshow. [...]

24 September 2008 | internet, medicine | No Comments

Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers

I am very proud to announce that my colleagues Ileana Lulic, MD and Gordana Brumini, Phd from Rijeka University School of Medicine and myself have published a new scientific paper. Title of the paper is “Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers” and it was published in the Journal of Medical Internet [...]

23 September 2008 | internet, medicine, science | 4 Comments