A blog written by Ivor Kovic.....about medicine, science, internet, soap bubbles, design, imaginary friends, books, music for robots, uncreative taglines...

Webicina smartphone app

My dear colleague dr. Bertalan Mesko, better known as Berci, who just happens to be one of the best medical bloggers out there, has recently published his own smartphone app. You see, apart from running a super successful blog called ScienceRoll, Berci is the founder and managing director of Webicina, a site that has been […]

15 March 2011 | iphone, medicine, science | 2 Comments

Interview with Lee Aase

Maybe you read the post I recently wrote about a slideshow describing how Mayo Clinic utilizes social media in fantastic ways. This slideshow was created by Lee Aase (@LeeAase), who happens to be manager of Syndication and Social Media for Mayo Clinic (@mayoclinic). Mr. Aase, despite his busy schedule, was kind enough to answer some […]

2 June 2009 | interview, medicine | 2 Comments

Wasting your life online

Are we all spending too much time on the Internet? It seams that a lot of people I know, the people whose blogs I am reading, the people who I follow on Twitter, are actually some kind of electrical beings living inside the biggest web of all. They are constantly online. Seriously, when they are […]

11 December 2008 | humor, internet, interview | 1 Comment

Promote the openECGproject

You visited the openECGproject, and you think the idea behind it is honorable. Well then, why not promote it. We designed some pretty good looking badges you could add to your web site. Simply copy and paste the code of the badge you want into your web page, forum or e-mail signature. 7 December 2008 | design, internet, medicine, science | 4 Comments

Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival Edition #33

Welcome to the 33rd edition of Medicine 2.0 blog carnival that focuses on the integration of web 2.0 with our current practice of medicine. I am delighted to be your host this time around and would like to thank Berci Mesko for this opportunity. I love numbers and 33 is a very beautiful number with […]

19 October 2008 | internet, interview, iphone, medicine, science | 23 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