Interesting reading for today…

Confessions of a cyberchondriac -I could see this happening, people self diagnose all the time. With all that medical information online it’s a gold mine for people who do that! That being said, the last time I did a bunch of online medical research was in between an initial diagnosis by my doctor and an ultrasound that showed him to be correct and having the online information gave me a good way to get information about what it was, and why it wasn’t what I had feared. (Warning, if you follow those links and think to yourself “wow that’s more information about Mike then I ever wanted”, well you were warned..*L*)

Also, in an unrelated article, this looks interesting in that “trolling for attention” sort of way, but it may have some slivers of truth to it, so I’ll read it later…..

Why your Movable Type Blog must die!

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