What’s on the web? (29 April 2009) April 29, 2009

• Grand rounds, the blog carnival of the best of the medical blogosphere is up at Sixuntilme.com.

• Twitter Telepathy: Researchers Turn Thoughts Into Tweets (Wired)

• Four Steps In Using Twitter for Research (Heidi Allen)

• Medical Crowdsourcing on Twitter (33 charts)

There are 60,000 Fellows in the American Academy of Pediatrics, for example. Assuming all maintained Twitter accounts, at any given time there would be a boatload of babydocs available for dialogue. Then consider the case of a solo doc the Texas Panhandle who finds himself with a simple dilemma or question that needs immediate feedback. Depending on the human filter tailored by that pediatrician, consensus would be close at hand.

• Mayo Clinic Health Manager Website Launched (Medgadget)

• Purdue creates first virtual clean room for training pharmacists (Lafayette Online)