A great disturbance in the Force of medical blogs May 17, 2007
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Medicine, Policy and Law.trackback
We don’t know why, but many medical bloggers have stopped blogging. Here is a list of them:
We’ll miss these great bloggers! The best commentaries can be found at Kevin and at Tales from the womb.
Why am I writing about it now? Let Neo of the Matrix say some words:
I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid. You’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin.
I don’t want to lose more incredible bloggers. So far, I’ve been using the NCurse nickname for my posts and comments (while I’ve been using my real name in the About me page). From now, I’m going to be Bertalan Meskó everywhere, in my posts, in my comments. Maybe, it’s not a big difference for you, dear readers, but it is for me. This week’s sentence of truth belongs to Kevin:
With blogs being at the forefront of the Web 2.0 advance, traditional medical institutions are again slow to adapt to the openness that defines the heart of the blogosphere.
My opinion is that blogging is simply and plainly boring after a certain time. If you don’t have anything special to say, adding your daily post to your flat and neglected blog is nothing more than a daunting chore. The result is an abandoned blog.
Consider a blog as something that has a start, a duration and an end. So many things have started recently that you just can’t seriously expect them to last long.
Dear Berci:
Keep going with your work. This is not a fad as Dean Giustini says. But it is a long process. I know by my own experience that for sure you have learned a lot by working on your blog.
A blog is just the tip of an iceberg of all the things that are possible to do with the internet and not all the people is aware of that. Critiques are always good, even when we do not like how do they sound.
Do what you want, do what you like, and if in the process of doing that you feel your soul and mind enriched, maybe it means that you are doing the right thing.
There is typically a large turn-over of bloggers. Some people stick around others try it and stop posting after a while. Some people prefer just to participate in the comment discussions and the vast majority just reads. As long as you enjoy it don’t stop. Other will join in with time.
Blogging makes learning a lot more fun. Blogging is my personal time to celebrate my inward smiles and learn actively at the same time.
I love reading your blogs Berci. You’re brilliant at this. Your blogs prove it so. Keep it up.
Thank you all for the very kind words! I keep on posting (this weekend is going to be a short-post weekend).
I am a reader of the medical technology blog on scribd.com – there are still new blogs that might be worth while…
ps: May my blog be added in your blogroll?
I have added you as well. Thanks!
I’ve already subscribed to your blog and added your feed to my feedreader, but of course, I add you to my blogroll as well.