Many thanks to Josh Levy for making a guest appearance in the class today. He talked about a lot of interesting aspects of social software and how they might be used to address health issues.
One thing he talked about that I want to think about more is the difference between WebMD and a health-focused wiki as sources of health information. Which do you trust more? Why?
I was also intrigued by Josh's discussion of the Tsunami Blog and Wiki.
More about this later....
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I actually do not trust WebMD, since the afilliation of the doctors with pharm giants is either not disclosed or if it is, just in a short statement. Wikis are interesting and the ones that are edited by many peers are more precise. After all Wikis undergo greater scrutiny than the pharma sponsored website of WebMD.
I feel scared of all information from the internet and I don't really trust anyone. Perhaps, those from the government are quite trusted.
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