Additional Resources
- ReadWriteWeb
http://www.readwriteweb.com/
- Chocolate & Zucchini Blog
http://chocolateandzucchini.com/
- Top Blogs for June 5, 2008
http://www.blogpulse.com/08_06_05/topWeblogGroup.html
- The Best Medical Blogs from
Forbes.com
http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/02/cx_mh_medblogslide.html?thisSpeed=15000
- Insensible Gains
Medical Education Blog
http://insensiblegains.com/
- Medgadget.com - Internet Journal of
Emerging Medical Technologies
http://www.medgadget.com/
- Healthcare 100
http://www.edrugsearch.com/top100/
- Open Thinking Wiki Page on Blogging
http://couros.wikispaces.com/Blogging
- Photography's Photoblogging Future
http://ddunleavy.typepad.com/the_big_picture/2006/12/photographys_ph.html
Class 1 Assignments
Reading Assignment:
Please review at least some of the additional resources
listed above as well as some of the following online articles:
- What is Web 2.0?
http://www.mikestopforth.com/2006/08/05/what-is-web-20/
- What Comes After Web 2.0?
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/17845/
- What are blogs, and how did they
become so popular?
http://ask.yahoo.com/20021115.html
- The Use of Blogs, Wikis and RSS in
Education: A Conversation of Possibilities
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/archive/00005398/01/5398.pdf
- Family Medicine Meets the
Blogosphere -requires free online
registration
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/557348
- How Web 2.0 is Changing Medicine
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7582/1283
- 10 Tips for How to Use Web 2.0 in
Medicine
http://scienceroll.com/2007/06/08/10-tips-for-how-to-use-web-20-in-medicine/
Hands-On Assignment:
- For this week's assignment, conduct
some research on the web to see if you can find at least one
example of how a blog is successfully being used in a
health-care related area and another one that demonstrates
an unsuccessful use of a blog. Once you have selected the blogs, go to the CUIN 7376m blog at
http://cuin7376m.blogspot.com/ and post your comments under
the Class One Assignment. In your posting, you should discuss the following:
- Who created and is maintaining the blog?
- What is its purpose and who is the intended audience?
- Who is participating in the blog?
- Do you think the information is accurate? Why or why not?
- What do you think are some of the characteristics of the blog that make it successful or not successful?
- Are there any characteristics of the blog that you feel could be used in your health-care related area? Please elaborate.
- Is there anything else you
would like to add about the blog (or blogs) you found?

