• Geography of Online Communities – Interesting visualization of the socialmediasphere, from Creative Class blog.

• Blog growth slows; more bloggers are bringing home the bacon – Latest on the growth of the blogosphere, it's slowing. That’s just blogs though, social media penetration is picking up.

• Technorati: State of the Blogosphere 2008 – Annual State of the Blogosphere Report From Technorati. It looks like they are changing the measurement of blog growth (or stopping to measure it), but there are less daily postings now than there were in 2007.

• Twitter is Growing Like Crazy: Up 422% in 12 Months –

Report Anticipates Cost Savings From Online Health Care Services – iHealthBeat – This sounds promising; however, like other estimates of cost-savings of health information technology, a careful examination of the methodology is necessary. Unfortunately, I cannot find the actual study online, but I did e-mail the folks at Milliman to see if I could examine it. if anyone else has (legal) access to it or has reviewed it, please feel free to post a comment.

update 10/09/08: I contacted Milliman and this report is not available for public review. If I am in a situation to review it, I will repost that information here. In the meantime, I am going to reserve judgement on the use of this study’s findings for future work. The conclusions certainly seem compelling, so I hope to get the opportunity to review it.

• Topics – e-Visits @ TransforMED – Transforming Medical Practices – Article on whether the tipping point has been reached for e-visits
• WordPress Plugin: SIMILE Timeline at freshlabs journal – Nice visualization tool
• Doctor-Patient ‘Web Visits’ Spur Privacy Concerns : NPR – Should the American Medical Association always present the contrarian view around patient access? I don’t agree with the implication that cell phone / telephone is “most secure.” Anyone who has been in an airport recently would probably agree.
• WSJ.com/Harris Interactive Study Asks: Are There Fair and Reliable Ways to Assess Healthcare Quality? – Patients are saying that having an EHR is a “fair” assessment of quality
• Expansion of CCHIT Certification for 2009 (PDF Presentation) – Overview of CCHIT’s work to date and future strategy. Disclaimer: I am on the Foundations Workgroup
• Meet the Press — Robert Scoble — The Blogosphere | Fast Company – How Tim Ferriss used the blogosphere to his advantage
• News – Diversity gap found among state’s doctors – sacbee.com – “Not just a civil rights issue, a public health issue”
• YouTube – Microsoft Surface Parody – Why not use the device the size of a small car? The peril and promise of on demand video in shaping your message.