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Short Sighted Advice on Medical Blogging

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Kevin, M.D. discusses the Canadian Medical Journal Association article quoted in my previous post in Canadians against medical blogging:

Rather than saying “no”, academia needs to find constructive ways to embrace to medium.

Canadian Marshall McLuhan said The message is the medium:

…the form of a medium imbeds itself in the message, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived, creating subtle change over time.

Blogging is part of the social web transformation. Revolution?

Medical blogs connect via hyperlinks and the commenting system and can use the content from social media sites such as Flickr and YouTube.

And don’t forget PubMed!


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