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Ground Rounds @ Health Blogs Observatory

Grand Rounds will be hosted next week at Health Blogs Observatory. Submissions are accepted until May 11. Hurry up and submit your best posts!

5 May 2009 | internet | No Comments

Two interviews

Recently I gave two interviews regarding my scientific research of medical blogs and the Health Blogs Observatory. The first one was conducted by Ed Silverman, a prize-winning journalist who used to maintain the extremely popular Pharmalot blog. He now contributes to the Association of Health Care Journalists blog, where the actual interview was published. The […]

6 March 2009 | internet, interview, medicine, science | 1 Comment

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 lab […]

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

Growing Number of Scientific Papers About Blogs

Number of articles about blogs published in journals indexed in Medline is constantly growing. The first article was published back in 2003, but in 2008 was a substantial step forward. Are blogs becoming a hot topic among medical researchers? Take a look at the chart > These 46 articles were written by 85 authors from […]

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

It’s Carnival Time!

My hometown of Rijeka, Croatia is famous for its carnival. Our carnival is one of the biggest in Europe. During the one held in 2001, there were 72 children carnival groups with 4.200 participants and 144 carnival groups of adults with 10.000 participants from 12 countries, watched by about 110.000 spectators. A special attraction are […]

12 October 2008 | internet | No 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