Comments on: Perspectives on Blogging about HIV/AIDS (Part 3 on Blogging)

By: Dr. Tamal Chanda

Dr. Tamal Chanda — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:53:04 +0000

First of all I must congratulate all of you for such wonderful innovative work. It’s very good that David’s student discuss on AIDS and write about it on the blog. But I think the parameters on which David measure the success is inappropiate. He says “As long as the blog or podcast is fulfilling your personal goals, it should be considered a success” , and I presume his personal goal is to educate his students. But with such brilliant work, he should push it a bit harder so that people who generally avoid speaking on the matter are also motivated to ask questions and clarify their doubts. AIDS is not only the subject of biological research, but studying about AIDS patient and society’s approach towards them is of immense interest because only by understanding human behavior in a better way,we can control the disease until a proper drug is developed.

By: don warner saklad

don warner saklad — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:36:46 +0000

AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts blog http://blog.aac.org should encourage people with different points of view to participate instead the censoring that has been done on comments. The idea is to encourage participation rather than sidelining.

By: savaş şahin

savaş şahin — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:03:39 +0000

Social networks are not new. Humans have probably organized into social networks around the time we began walking upright, or sometime soon thereafter. Scholarship and analysis on social networks are not new either. A quick search for social-networks on Google Scholar reveals about 97,000 listings going back decades.
What is new and novel in the world of social networks, however, are “social network services,” made possible by the internet and the countless applications and sites that connect people with each other electronically. Online social network services like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, are wildly popular and used daily by millions of people to share information within networks of friends and acquaintances. CDC believes social networks offer great potential to protect health when accurate and relevant information is shared between trusted peers to support positive and healthy decision making. For this reason, CDC has its own MySpace page and maintains a dialogue with health-oriented sites like Sermo, Daily Strength, and Patients Like Me.

By: Mike Tate

Mike Tate — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:14:12 +0000

I think it’s great that more people discussing AID/HIV more openly. Education is the key to control. I lived in a community where lots of young people died to AIDs and mostly because they were not very knowledgable of the subject.