The News Review:
- Blogosphere gives hospitals medical talk an outlet
- BlogHer ’09: I CSS’d a girl and I liked it
- Exploring The Blogosphere
- Q & A with a Twilight blogger: Letters to Twilight
Blogosphere gives hospitals medical talk an outlet
Houston Chronicle
hospitals using social networking tools 142 have YouTube channels 213 have Twitter accounts 109 have Facebook pages 26 have blogs Source: ebennett. org GruntDoc as he’s known in cyberspace blogs about everything from Michael Jackson’s autopsy to the agony of giving patients bad news. The Fort Worth physician who started blogging two years ago has lots of company. Today doctors and patients are blogging about their experiences hospitals are uploading videos of surgeries and nurses are tweeting from the operating room. In the last year a growing number of hospitals have discovered social media and they’re using it to educate the public market their services and address health issues. “It’s not about seeing how many Facebook friends we can make or how many Twitter followers we can get” said Tim Hanners senior vice president of corporate and community affairs for Cook Children’s Medical Center. “It’s a communication tool.
BlogHer ’09: I CSS’d a girl and I liked it
Chicago Tribune
But they provid fodder for an otherwise genial get-together at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers where mommy bloggers and lesbian-issue bloggers and bloggers advocating cloth diapers converged for the fifth annual conference. Trying to string together a narrative thread about a conference with such varying topics and trends is difficult. But certain themes emerged:–”There’s a lot of hugging that goes on here” said Jory Des Jardins a co-founder of the BlogHer conference.
Exploring The Blogosphere
Wall Street Journal
” And reading about blogs? In “Say Everything” his history and analysis of blogging Scott Rosenberg assigns himself a difficult task. Like Tom Wolfe chronicling the early space program in “The Right Stuff” Mr. Rosenberg wants to describe pioneers venturing out into a new world each building on the feats of the ones before. But without Chuck Yeager and John Glenn he is obliged to turn to such smaller-than-life figures as Justin Hall the proprietor of a mid-1990s proto-blog who “presented an open window on his life” and wrote about things like “a mustache-growing competition with a friend. ” And then there is Jorn Barger who in 1997 momentously applied the term WebLog (which had been used in other contexts) to his techie links site Robot Wisdom but who by 2000 was delivering anti-Semitic rants.
Q & A with a Twilight blogger: Letters to Twilight
Examiner.com
Moon: But in my heart of hearts I’ll always be Team Edward. UC: Yes — he’s the reason for the stress in my life and lack of time to do anything because I waste it blogging. K now that that’s out of the way on the rest of the questions. What is your favorite moment(s) in the Twilight series?Moon: mg.
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