Dr. Deb is a psychologist and practicing psychoanalyst who just published her book: Living with Depression: Why Biology and Biography Matter along the Path to Hope and Healing. She also did a wonderful job with the new grand round of medblogs. Grand Rounds is a weekly round up of the best health blog posts on the Internet. Each week a different blogger takes turns hosting - me this time around - and summarizes the submissions of the week. As a music lover, I thought I'd give Grand Rounds a vintage vinyl feel. So please make sure your phonographs are ready to go. .....read more »

From my funny colleagues over at ZDoggMD, slightly funnier than placebo. Talented guys, find their songs improving very fast. Be sure to vote for them on Medgadget vote's for Best New Medical Weblog of 2010Related posts: The 2007 Medical Weblog Awards Medical Weblog Awards 2007 List of Tweeting Journals, Vote Please ..read more »

How do you experience, perceive your blogging? This is a different question from why do you blog, or your motivation for blogging. This question is more about your blogging style. Well they have an questionnaire for that and it's recently validated. A total of 182 bloggers (87 males, 95 females; age range 18–64 years) recruited from MySpace.com participated in the study. So I'm not in it. And this is what they found: 4 styles to choose from: The Therapeutic Blogging style is a style that is open and expressive, focused on affective exchange and symptom relief, and more directed to the concerns of .....read more »

This is an excellent post on MedCrunch, a new kid on the blogosphere. But they're so true I couldn't resist reposting them, for the full story please visit MedCrunch These 5 things are: Always double check Follow and respect guidelines (evidence based medicine vs. eminence based medicine) Training, training, training Do what you can do best and ask others for the rest Respect your collegues A new kind of online magazine covering health, medicine, entrepreneurship and technology all centered around new trends and the challenge of being a physician For more on MedCrunch and their topics, authors please read here Related posts: 10 Things You can Learn from a Digital .....read more »

The new edition of this excellent blog carnival is up at Providentia. the best science, medical, and environmental writing on the web Related posts: Scientia Pro Publica #14 is up at Genetic Inference Scientia Pro Publica 24 is up Scientia Pro Publica 39 ..read more »

The Thanksgiving 2010 edition of Grand Rounds is up at Amanda Brown's facebook page. The theme is gratitude. It's probably the first time the Grand Round is on a Facebook page. So go over to Amanda Brown for an excellent read and selection of posts from Medblogs. At this time of year, I always stop and think about what I'm thankful for, and this year I'd say the medical blogging community is definitely on my list. Related posts: Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 30 is up at The Sterile Eye Grand Rounds Vol 6 No 3 is up at Pallimed Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No.2 .....read more »

When I started blogging I used Google Notebook a lot. Whenever coming across an interesting website, blogpost, video, with just one click it was saved into Google Notebook. Used it for blogging but also for the other aspects of my live such as work, science and education. Unfortunately Google decided to stop the development of Google Notebook. They're starting something new, a Chrome extension for Web Clipboard, but to late and to buggy for my taste to even try it. Moreover, my work flow has changed a lot since than and I am not switching again. Started using Evernote first .....read more »

Why does someone write a personal blog and not simply use the Internet for taking in media content? Personal blogs are composed of shorter posts concerning the blogger’s life in contrast to filter blog. Filter blogs are devoted to external information, such as politics or news and are far better researched than personal blogs. From recent research the following motives in order of importance were discovered for personal blogging: motivate, help, and encourage others by sharing information, as well as to communicate their knowledge and skills to share information with and communicate with friends and family members with whom they may not talk .....read more »

On the list of active blogs on ResearchBlogging.org as of Friday, September 17, sorted by gender of authors, Dr Shock is number two on Blogs with male authors. First is Research Digest Blog. Dr Shock number 2 on Active ResearchBlogging blogs. Very proud and honored. More on gender disparities in science blogging on Seed Magazine. Despite the fact that women are getting science PhDs in nearly the same numbers as men, they are blogging much less. I even looked at the average number of posts about peer-reviewed research they had done, and again, men outpaced women by nearly 50 percent, which means .....read more »

The new Grand Rounds is up at Bedside Manner. The theme of this week’s Grand Rounds is hot topics in health care communication. It's accompanied by nice photos from Yellowstone National Park, a hotbed of geothermal activity. Related posts: Grand Rounds 5.47 is up: Cost Containment In Healthcare Grand Rounds Vol. 6 No. 30 is up at The Sterile Eye Grand Rounds 5:1 – In Your Own Words ..read more »