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Aaron Swartz’s Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
Largely credited to Aaron Swartz, this has also found an in depth criticism in Peter Suber’s now archived, Earlham.edu blog on Open Access. I am reproducing it, in memory of the deceased Swartz, as a reminder of the duty that befalls us all. Guerilla Open Access Manifesto Information is power. But like all power, there […]
#Anonymous Hack MIT Sites: In Memoriam, Aaron Swartz
The online vigilante justice group, anonymous, has hit out at the MIT for the role they purportedly played in bringing about the demise of Aaron Swartz. They took down the Cogeneration Project page and another page which seems to not be loading now. They apologized for taking the Cogen project page down and launched the […]
eThesis: A Continuous Narrative Experience
Our thesis protocols were submitted today and most of us had a bit of running around in circles to do before the closing bells chimed at 1 PM. I was especially peeved at the amount of paper that goes into the making of such a protocol. And given the fact that we had to submit […]
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger
When Chris Rumble, an American Hockey player aged all of 22 years was diagnosed with Leukemia, he was, understandably crushed. But, he brought together the Hemato-Oncology floor of the Seattle Children’s Hospital together for a fantastic remake of the fantastic Kelly Clarkson number, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. It has already gone viral, […]
Landmark Order: JIPMER Asked to Reveal Test Paper and Keys
One of the biggest bones that the Indian post graduate entrance examinees had to pick with the system was the (?apparent) lack of transparency in the examination system, One of the things that could have easily ensured a transparent and clean exam would be if the students were handed the question papers and answer keys […]
Facebook won’t pay anybody. STOP reposting these images!
Warning: Graphic Images In the last couple of days my Facebook feed has been overrun with images of sick kids from hospital who need super-specialized medical care and their parents are too poor to afford it. I always dismissed it as faddists just spreading their brand of stupidity, but when I saw a couple of […]
Do you have an online presence? Then stop SOPA/PIPA Now!
in today’s world hardly anyone is bereft of an online presence. And hence, hardly anyone is in the dark about the outrageous Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act. While I am in no way condoning acts of piracy, I am just defending my right to speak out freely. I am not sure that […]
Tech Care of Your Health
Well, it took a massively thought provoking article by Vinod Khosla on TechCrunch to jerk me out of my inertia of lethargy with blogging. In his post “Do we need Doctors or Algorithms” VK embarks on a sci-fiesque prediction of a day when doctors will be replaced by automatons delivering care on the basis of […]
Up on Grand Rounds: Looking for Meaning
So just a little post to let all you readers (yes, all five of you!) know that I am alive, and to pipe in that the latest segment of the Grand Rounds is up at GlassHospital. One of my posts has been included in it. Do check it out, especially looking out for Dr. Grumpy’s […]
Why the Future of Medicine Should Not be Predicted Based on Recruiting Company Surveys
KevinMD has been the blogging guru of almost all the young medical bloggers out there. I am no exception. I have been reading Kevin Pho’s blog ever since he wrote it on blogspot with a grid-focus theme. Of late, his blog has become a mishmash of ideas, with a cornucopia of bloggers writing on his […]
The Business of Grand Rounds
Oh don’t read too much into the title. Its just an over-thought way of saying that Grand Rounds is up and running over at the Health Business Blog and one of my posts have been included! And some special thanks to the author David Williams for sending special love for my blog name! Thanks David. […]
TimeUse: What People Do On Twitter All Day
This is a quickie post before I run to the gym. Hat Tip: Jon Wilkins of Lost in Transcription (and the rather wordy Darwin Eats Cake webcomics). So this is a question that has plagued me so much: what DO people do on Twitter all day? Another curious soul, Scott Golder, decided to get off […]
Rhett Daniels, @EpiRen and The Streisand Effect: A Blog Round-up
Here is what Wikipedia defines the Streisand effect as: The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt in 2003 to suppress photographs of […]
After ImpactEDnurse, @Epiren’s Turn To Go: Pitfalls of #HCSM
I have not been able to spend much time online of late owing to a multitude of reasons, but when I came back online today, I was hit squarely by this: Epiren is not just a tweep I follow, but one of the most prolific bloggers around. LizDitz has outlined a detailed summary of the […]
Google+: After #TwitJC, Time for #VidJC? Proposing a Model!
Dr. Ves Dimov asks an important question via When are you starting a Journal Club on Google Plus?. And I am interested because using social media for medical education is one of my prime areas of interest. In response to one of my posts, Dr. Arin Basu left his proposal to use Google + hangouts […]
Tabula Rasa Seeks Your Opinion
Tabula Rasa is four years old now. And we need to know how you have felt about it in these years. For that purpose, we have developed a short survey that will hardly take 2 minutes to fill out. Please fill it out HERE. Tabula Rasa has had an interesting history. Started in our medical […]
The Post Where I Finally Get Political
So I was discussing about the contents of this document forwarded to me by a mentor of mine and I was surprised when my friend suddenly said that she did not think that goold, ol’ materialistic me was so left leaning! That was when I realized that I had to get this post out there. […]
Social Media for Medical Education
The brilliant Neil Mehta, on his blog Technology in (Medical) Education, has presented a wonderful way of using Google reader and Facebook as a tool for medical education, in the form of a Journal Club. Here is an outline: And here is a summary of the method: Steps: Faculty member/Chief Residents set up Google Reader […]
Lost for Words!
Fair warning: this is going to be one of those posts which makes my readers (yes, you three, I am talking to you) wonder why I choose to keep up the pretense of calling this a medical blog! Kaise batayein, Kyun tujhko chahe Yaara batha na paayeinBaatein dil o ki Dekho jo baki Aake tujhe […]
The Final Status
First up, listen to this awesome TED talk: Now, Hindu mythology and scriptures deal extensively with life after death, but this talk brings out a totally new horizon! What happens to our online persona after we die? We are creating hundred of thousands of pieces of ourselves all over the world wide web as we […]
At-Taq of the Clones: @ZDoggMD Beware!
So you thought that science communication was all droll and boring lectures by nerdy looking professors who spout big words which work better than any sleeping pills man has made till date? Well, I am sure your fears had been dispelled by the awesome ZDoggMD and crew. I was also limited to his brand of […]
Baba Ramdev on Facebook
For the FB-meme enthusiasts like me, this has been a long awaited dream. Click on the pics to embiggen! At times like these, I feel so glad that my mom does not read my blog!
Now Syria Stops the Internet
Following in the footsteps of one Hosni Mubarak, the Syrian supremo, Bashar Al-Assaad has shut down access to internet to stem the growing tide of resentment against him, and to quell another rebellion in the state. Image from Amnesty USA According to the article in Mashable: “Starting at 3:35 UTC today, approximately two thirds of […]
@Doctor_V vs @mommy_doctor: Storm in a #Tweetcup or #HCSM Debate
This is a scary position I am going to take. Contradicting someone of Dr. Brian Vartabedian’s stature is bound to have some repercussions: I hope they are not too profound! Also, hat tip to the awesom @scanman for coming up with the “storm in a tweetcup” comment. I am using it! Anyways. So here goes nothing! […]
Hat Tip: ScienceBase
David Bradley is one of those people who I look at and wonder when they get some sleep. I have been reading his blog, Sciencebase, for sometime and I must say I enjoyed reading it a lot. Also, just recently, I signed up for email alerts of a new and interesting blog, called Sciencetext, which […]
CDC: Learning from TV Shows–Preventing the Zombie Apocalypse
So, there was this TV Show, The Walking Dead, which spoke of a Zombie Apocalypse befalling the earth, destroying most of human civilization. The show follows a group of survivors who try to find their way to survival. And, towards the end of the season that was airing, they go to the CDC and there […]
#IndiCal Blogger Meetup
I attended the Indiblogger meet up that was organized by Indiblogger in collaboration with Akshaya Patra and others in Kolkata, at the Suresh Neotia Center for Excellence in Leadership last Sunday. Here are some of the memories as captured by my Blogger Buddy Nipon, himself a doctor, with his mobicam. The meet was attended by […]
Did the HIFA2015 Save HINARI?
Alongwith a multitude of other health bloggers, I blogged about publishers pulling out nearly 2500 titles from the HINARI. You can read more about that here. Now, it was followed by an article in the BMJ which raised a storm in the email discussion forum called HIFA 2015 (Health Information for All by 2015). Now […]
PLoS vs Nature: The Open Access Showdown
So, remember, a few days ago I had talked about the launch of an Open Access journal from the NPG stable? If you were too busy having a life, go, check out the post here. Anyways, in what seems like an almost sarcastic repetition of history, PLoS welcomes the latest addition to the OA field. […]
Blog Buddies: How is it Working Out For You?
Its been over a week since Scott over at Daily Post announced the blog buddy issue. I jumped in headlong and managed to garner a lot of friends. And since I am a bit of a number cruncher (blame the amateur researcher in me), I decided to see how it has been going for me. […]
