Milestones
Some facts and milestones on the long road:
- More than 500,000 total views (1100 views a day). More than 400 medical blogs link to Scienceroll.
- Me or my blog have been mentioned in Nature Medicine, Medscape (twice), British Medical Journal Career Focus, British Medical Journal Student, British Medical Journal, JuniorDr.com, Cell and Medical Journal of Australia.
- I’ve launched two blog carnivals: Gene Genie is dedicated to human genetics and personalized medicine, while Medicine 2.0 is devoted to web 2.0 and medicine.
- I got special mention in Medgadget’s Weblog Awards in January, 2007.
- I won the Best Medical Technologies/Informatics Category in Medgadget’s Weblog Awards in January, 2008.
- I won the Best Health Blog category in Blogger’s Choice Awards in November, 2007.
- I won the Best Individualized Blog category in Edublog Awards.
- Some of my posts have been mentioned by Pharyngula, Blog Around the Clock, Medgadget, Neatorama, Mashable!, Read/Write web (twice) and The Scientist.
- I enjoy the support of HONcode, Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics and DNA Network.
- I’ve hosted some editions of Gene Genie, Medicine 2.0, Mendel’s Garden and Grand Rounds.
- I’ve had several behind-the-scenes interviews with famous medical bloggers and others as well.
- I helped promoting the medical education in Second Life. I made a weblog for the Ann Myers Medical Center and I also tried to be useful for Jean-Claude Bradley in organizing the sessions of SciFoo Lives On.
- I made my Medicine 2.0 slideshow public and started to maintain a collection for posts related to medicine 2.0.
- I started a series on personalized genetics and hope to become one of the most reliable and useful resources in this emerging field of medicine. I also tried to convince you to donate because my dream is to have my genome sequenced.

















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Amazing! You sure are a roll model in scientific blogging.
How do you manage to do all of this along with your studies??
GL to you all the way …
Thank you for the encouragement! Actually, I study all day long and work on my blog at night (I’m an owl…
Blogging is just like having a rest after a hard day. I still enjoy it so much!
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I found your site and alot goes with it! Congrats on all your accomplishements! I’m a believer in “they are far and few between”, and when one can accomplish what you have young man….you’ve got the support of this cancer patient MOM. I have 3 Beautiful Kids (my baby is 19 and my oldest is 30). I love them til the end of time, and if they can be as diligent in their studies & the “internet”, and be successful, all the more power to them!!! I’m proud of them regardless! Continue with your excellent topic/conversation/comments and all the best for continued success!
F. Perry
Dear F. Perry!
Thank you so much for the encouragement! I really appreciate it!
Hope to see you soon again on Scienceroll!
Berci Meskó