Regional Dialects on Twitter, and Other Things You Gotta Know
I was listening to All Things Considered yesterday while preparing dinner. A short, interesting story came on: You Have An Accent Even On Twitter. The NPR host, Robert Siegel, interviewed Jacob...
View ArticleOn My Mind
Yesterday I checked in on the Cancer Culture Chronicles, a thoughtful and sometimes funny blog by Anna Rachnel, who lives with metastatic breast cancer. There I learned that the author of Living With...
View ArticleBlogging Addiction Disorder
The author has been concerned for a while that she might be addicted to blogging. Symptoms include wanting to post instead of working on a book proposal and other, likely more important projects. She...
View ArticleOn Media Snobs and Darwinism in the Blogosphere
Last week Aaron Sorkin wrote for The Atlantic a piece in which he details his daily news feed, in What I Read. He’s not into blogs: When I read the Times or The Wall Street Journal, I know those...
View ArticleWhy Should Physicians Blog or Use Twitter?
Is a question I ask myself almost every day. When I started this blog, it was partly a response to what I perceived an unbalanced attack on the value of breast cancer screening by the mainstream news...
View ArticleAre Doctors Necessary?
Ten years ago, my colleagues and I squirmed in our swivel chairs when a few tech-savvy patients filed in bearing reams of articles they’d discovered, downloaded and printed for our perusal. Some of us...
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Twitter, The Notificator, and Old Social Media News
A series of clicks this morning brought me to an interesting web finding in a Wiki-like Dead Media Archive that links to NYU’s Steinhart School of Media, Culture, and Communication. Dead Media Archive,...
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Internet Surpasses TV as Prime News Source for Young Adults
I must have been reading a magazine when Mashable reported on new findings about the news from the Pew Research Center. A December 2010 survey confirmed that Americans are turning away from newspapers...
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Boobstagram Collects and Displays Breast Photos, Says Aim is to Boost Cancer...
Boobstagram (Twitter) I’m not sure what to make of Boobstagram. The French company breaches most cancer culture norms, if such exist. A headline in the UK’s Daily Mail reads: Women capture their...
View ArticleMoms Tweet About Blood and Cancer
This afternoon I found a Tweet from a colleague, a journalist who happens to be a mom in my community: Tweet from SuSaw: “RT @JenSinger: Hey, baby. What’s your blood type? Nothing against the Big Pink...
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