Tag Archive | Blogging
Kashi Katha: Row Row Row Your Boat…
I went on a trip to Benares to take an exam and it turned out to be a journey of introspection and self-criticism for me. I was going through a really tough phase in life when I went out to Benares and this trip became a catharsis. There were so many things I realized I […]
Twitter Acquires Posterous: The End of A Good Thing?
As someone who uses email a lot, Posterous was the best way for me to get an online, no fuss site up and running. Writing and keeping up with comments on Scepticemia takes up a large amount of my free time and since blogging is just a hobby for me, Posterous was the ideal no-frills, […]
Blog-Gone Crazy!
Another blog has been silenced thanks to bureaucratic interference! I first came to know of it from Those Emergency Blues and then read the “main” obituary on White Coat’s Call Room. Here is what WC writes via Tex, the author of the freshly dead blog Weird Nursing Tales: From Tex … After nearly 20 years […]
MediQuiz Gets Its OWN Site!
As any reader of this blog will know by now I am a MediQuizzing enthusiast (though that does not quite describe the reasons for the debacle last week at the reunion quiz at my medical school), and have been posting MediQuiz questions from time to time on this blog. However now I have decided to […]
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 […]
Happy World AIDS Day
I usually tend to write a series or two on the occasion of this event but several events have coincided this year to cause an immense crisis where blogging has to take a bit of a back seat. The wrist problem that I was having has got worse and typing is a pain and a […]
Grand Rounds Comes to INDIA!
Guess what, grand rounds is in India, hosted over at Radiologist Dr. Sumer Sethi’s blog. He has several great posts in it. Check out the whole deal here. One of my posts has also got in. I mailed it in to him today, and he was kind enough to put it up! I have been […]
Interesting Blog Post
Just ran across an interesting blog discussing issues around Public Health, and especially, Masters in Public Health. This post on interesting facts about the History of Vaccinations caught my attention. Just a post to let my readers know of potential source of questions for future Mediquizzes!
Blogger’s “Dynamic Views”: 10 Things I Learnt From Using it For A Day
Oh well, Google is finally paying some attention to its vastly overrated blogging service, Blogger aka Blogspot (where my Cargo Cult Medicine blog is hosted). Blogger has come up with “Dynamic Views”, 7 new and snazzy ways of making your blog look so very web 2.0ey. Image Credit I have just started using the Dynamic […]
Grand Rounds 7-50 Over at Dr. Rich’s
Go on to read the latest summary of the best in medical blogging over at the Covert Rationing Blog written by Dr. Rich. I am glad that he found one of my posts fit to be included in his write up. Though initially it was not themed, Dr Rich decided on the theme of Jobs […]
Grand Rounds on Health 3.0 Blog
This week’s Grand Rounds is up at Health 3.0 Blog on Tumblr. Check it out here. One of my posts has gone into this week’s round up. The next edition is due to go up on Dr. Rich’s blog, The Covert Rationing Blog. Check out his call for posts here. In other news, I have […]
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 […]
I’m on Grand Rounds!
My first submission to the Grand Rounds, Vol 7, No. 47 has been accepted. It was hosted over at Dr. Edward Pullen’s blog. While I keep wondering why everyone mis-spells my name, I do not take an issue with respect to Dr. P because he has taken the trouble of giving a face to me […]
Impacted Nurse, No More?
A shocking tweet: Popular health blog "Impactednurse" written by ER nurse closes down "due to problems with his employer" goo.gl/speJs Tw/FB removed 2— Ves Dimov, M.D. (@DrVes) August 14, 2011 According to The Riot Act, Ian Miller’s very popular blog, ImpactEDnurse, has been shut down owing to problems with his employer, The Canberra Hospital. Since […]
When the Shit Hit the Pan!
WhiteCoat’s Call Room is one of my most favorite blogs and I just went all ROTFLMAO when I read this: How Betadine Almost Got Me Arrested. Now is he becoming the Dick Feynman of Medicine, eh? And a pic of the poopy brilliance:
Reassessing Readability of My Blog
I started blogging here around December last year. After about 70 odd posts, on January 19, I checked the readability of my blog. Here is what it looked like: And today, after about 8 months of blogging, with 260+ posts, a lot of them geared towards medical research articles, here is what my readability score […]
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 […]
Google Page Rank Love!
8 months into blogging and finally, that bit of Googlized love that every domain owner craves for: Page Rank! I figured out that since it had been several days since I had obsessed over my stats, it was time that I re-executed this exercise in futility. Little did I know unknown to me, The Big […]
My F1000/PLoS Bag of Swag
So remember how I was the winner of the May Blogging Contest of Science3point0.com? It was on Open Science and I got a bag of goodies from PLoS and F1000 and they contained a bunch of awesome stuff. Here is a pic of me in my lair. Please don’t get all over on me, I […]
She’s Got The Looks: Google Blogger’s New Look!
A series of screen grabs to show what it looks like: 1. The Main Home Page: 2. The Blog Dashboard: 3. The Stats look cool: 4. A drop down list for the posts tab: 5. The posting interface: All said and done, here are my thoughts on the new look: 1. It looks spiffy and […]
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 […]
Science 3.o Blogging Contest #WIN!
Thanks to the wonderful folks over at Science 3.0 for selecting my blog post as the winner for the Open Science themed contest for May! It is an especially gratifying win because this is a topic that I feel about strongly. Open Access and Open science are the way forward if we have to make […]
The New Kids on the PLoS Blogs
A new PLos Blog is being launched and involves a couple of my favorite science bloggers, Ben Good and David Robertson, along with Lizzie Crouch (no relation of Barty Crouch) and Anna Perman. So, go check out the Inside Knowledge blog. I just wish they had an email subscription option!
Gleeking Out!
OK. I can already feel the snark coming on. Anyways. Despite that, I am going to go ahead and write this post! As with all other shows, Glee, season 2, arrives to my part of the world literally an aeon after it was launched in the other side of the world. And I just simply […]
6 Months of Blogging: Looking Back, and Forward
So I guess I am now no longer the new kid on the blog, eh? Considering the fact that I have been writing consistently for half-a-year, I maybe considered to have wet my feet more than adequately! But, to be honest, the journey did not start here. My now archived blog RXtar, which I started […]
Happy Birthday WordPress!
My favorite blogging platform turns 8 today. Happy birthday WordPress. Although I have been blogging here for less than even 8 months, wordpress has me irreversibly in love. The beautiful blogging system, the easy user interface, the friendly developer community, and over and above all, a community of bloggers who are as vibrant and active […]
New Look for Google’s Blogger
Google Blogger has been around for quite some time and is supposedly the largest weblogging system around. The hype around wordpress is however much larger. As a WP.com blogger myself, I have found this service to be pretty reliable and comfortable. There are literally tons of people blogging about wordpress vs blogger out there, but […]
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 […]
Vagus Journalis: My New Science3point0 Blog
Thanks to the amazing people over at Science3point0, I have been able to set up my new science blog over there. However, the focus of writing will remain on this blog. The new blog, which I am calling Vagus Journalis, is intended to have short and brief posts indicating which journal articles of general medical […]
