Medical Blogosphere Article in Searcher

The May 2009 issue of Searcher contains a useful article on medical blogging, The Medical Blogosphere: How Social Networking Platforms Are Changing Medical Searching. The author, Stephanie Ardito, examines how social networking is impacting the way the media monitors medical news and evaluates how this change is affecting searching methods and search results. The article is not freely available online, but is available in the ASC Library. What is available without a subscription is the bibliography and useful list of links mentioned in the article, including several top medical blog ranking lists.

These URLs appear in the article: THE MEDICAL BLOGOSPHERE: HOW SOCIAL NETWORKING PLATFORMS ARE CHANGING MEDICAL SEARCHING by Stephanie C. Ardito Ardito Information & Research, Inc. Searcher, the Magazine for Database Professionals Vol. 17, No. 5 • May 2009

http://blogs.wsj.com/health/ http://www.pharmalot.com/ http://www.diabetesmine.com/ http://sayingnotovaccines.blogspot.com/ http://www.patientslikeme.com/ http://www.technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/ http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=937 http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/ http://www.rosie.com/blog/ http://www.myspace.com/parishilton http://www.nytimes.whsites.net/mediakit/online/ audience/audience_profile.php Further Reading http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/ 08_50/b4112058194219.htm http://www.brandweek.com/bw/content_display/news-and-features/ packaged-goods/e3ideada6994c7b92e7f67e8f8804394a08 http://www.icrossing.com/articles/How%20America%20Searches %20-%20Health%20and%20Wellness.pdf http://www.envisionsolutionsnow.com/pdf/Studies/ Health_Blogosphere_Final_sm_doc.pdf http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Health_Aug08.pdf http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=937 http://www.jmir.org/2008/3/e28/ http://www.pharmalot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/medical-blogs.pdf http://cms.carepages.com/export/sites/default/CarePages/en/ Press/white_papers/online_health_care_gets_personal.pdf http://www.manhattanresearch.com/files/White_Papers/ Catch_the_New_Pharmaceutical_Marketing_Wave.pdf http://www.manhattanresearch.com/newsroom/Press_Releases/ over-60-million-health-20-consumers.aspx http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/ top-us-newspaper-sites-see-more-visitors-shorter-stays http://www.pharmalive.com/magazines/ medad/view.cfm?articleID=3686# http://www.chcf.org/documents/chronicdisease/ HealthCareSocialMedia.pdf http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2008/07/ should-doctors-blog-can-blogge.html http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/07/ doctor-blogs-reveal-patient-info-endorse-products/ http://www.technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/ Blog Rankings http://northxeast.com/blogging/nxes-fifty-most-influential-bloggers/ http://edrugsearch.com/edsblog/healthcare100/index.php http://medblog.nl/2007/07/31/medblogformule-toegepast-op-engelstalige-medblogs/ http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/0,28757,1725323,00.html http://www.rncentral.com/nursing-library/careplans/top_50_health_2.0_blog http://www.rncentral.com/nursing-library/careplans/100_best_health_care_policy_blog http://www.ondd.org/the-top-100-academic-medical-blogs/ http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/ Blog Search Engines http://www.blogsearchengine.com/ http://www.bloglines.com/ http://www.blogpulse.com/index.html http://www.blogscope.net/ http://www.blogsearchengine.com/ http://blogsearch.google.com/ http://www.icerocket.com/ http://www.searchalert.net/ http://www.technorati.com/