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From the same author (Dr. Darren Wheeler) who brought us Google as a Pathology Portal comes Pathology of Infectious Diseases (Adv Anat Pathol 2006;13:330–331), an article featuring an online pathology atlas based at Japan’s Fujita Health University School of Medicine created by Dr. Yutaka Tsutsumi. Due to its “focus on nonneoplastic disease,” Dr. Wheeler […]

No, no- not me. Wilson Rothman of Time Magazine (no relation I’m aware of). I try to avoid behaviors like speaking of myself in the third person…or being wrong. Anyway.
Wilson Rothman wrote an article for Time:
Why Two Browsers are Better than One
The just released Mozilla Firefox 2 may be better than Microsoft’s new […]

Dymphie over at biomedbiblog used the Google CSE to make a search engine of the blogs in the Masterlist of MedLib blogs.
Give it a try!
Previous posts on the Masterlist of MedLib Blogs

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Several bloggers have already posted today about the new study from the Pew Internet and American Life project, Online Health Search 2006, but Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion includes an interview with Susannah Fox, Associate Director at Pew, who says of the study:
The biggest surprise for me was the decreasing percentage of health seekers (internet […]

Yep, you can set up one-click feed subscription from IE7 to BlogLines, too, but you have to install an add-on first. Also, it takes two clicks and doesn’t work for me as advertised by BlogLines.

Go here: Download page for IE7 BlogLines Add-on
Click the Download link:

Click Run:

Click Run again:

Click Next:

Click I Agree (after, of […]

Amnesty International’s Irrepressible.info is great, and they’re offering an API lets a blogger (or other sort of site owner/administrator) add a snippet of javascript that’ll pull banned content from Amnesty’s database and display it in your choice of formats.
Irrepressible
Adj. 1) Impossible to repress or control.
Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. […]

Walt Crawford noted in a comment at davidrothman.net:
When I upgraded to FF2, it struck me as trivial to configure it so that a click on the new location-bar orange goodie brings up the Bloglines subscription page.
I felt the same way, but Walt and I are both fairly computer-savvy. Many users (and libraryfolk) don’t have […]

Article from ars technica:
ETS [Educational Testing Service] has developed an ICT Literacy Assessment (test a demo version) that gives students short tasks (3-5 minutes, testing one particular skill) and long tasks (15 minutes, testing skills in combination) to complete on a computer. These include things like sifting through e-mail and developing accurate search queries for […]

I usually try to avoid posting on topics that other bloggers on medical librarianship have covered, but it seems wrong not to mention this.
Today is MEDLINE’s 35th anniversary, and this item from the NLM Technical Bulletin compares “MEDLINE and what was happening in 1971 with events today.”
When people kvetch about federal income taxes, I (after […]

Update: THIS rocks. Garrett Hungerford used Google’s CSE to make LISZEN, a Library & Information Science Search Engine.
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(My “Librarianship Feed Finder” CSE is at the bottom of this post if you want to skip down to it.)
So when Google announced its new custom search engine tool, I pretty much ignored it. After all, […]

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I stand by my assertion that the landscape is changed by having the two most popular browsers (internet Explorer and Firefox) release versions that natively auto-detect and handle feeds, but Randy Morin is right when he says:
Of course, Firefox and IE are absolutely horrid RSS readers, which don’t compare to best of bread.
Not only is […]

This article at InformationWeek by David DeJean reviews and compares BlogLines, Google Reader, and Newsgator Online as web-based aggregators. It’s not a bad review of features, but I’m interested in DeJean’s view that “…there are three things that a good RSS reader must do well…”
First, it must make it easy to find RSS feeds and […]

So, reading all the posts from biblioblogs about Internet Librarian 2006 makes me sad that I’m not there. Ah well, maybe next year.
Anyway, Steven Cohen’s talk on What’s New in Social Software (in ABC format) is getting a lot of blogging coverage from, among others, Travelin’ Librarian and David Lee King.
The ‘R’ of Steven’s […]

Dan the Librarian talking about being a librarian at Piccolo’s in Westfield, MA
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I’m a big fan of George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Eddie Izzard, and Patton Oswalt- so suffice it to say that Dan’s work isn’t really my taste. Still, it is interesting to see a stand-up whose schtick is the fact that he has […]

From GIDEON Labs:
Have you ever wondered about how famous people died or what diseases they have? VIPatients (Very Important Patients) is an interactive database for famous people with fatal and non-fatal diseases. It lists the patients by profession, diseases, cause of death and dates of birth and death.
You’ve probably seen the work of Dr. Stephen […]

The Washington Post has a great article on the “Cartoon Medicine Show,” which features cartoons from the collection of the NLM (previously mentioned here).
“The Inside Story,” a short film that includes this animated segment on the unconscious, gives the government’s view of the Freudian mind and psychosomatic pain. Produced by Paramount Pictures in 1944, it […]

Great set of three flash-based tutorials with audio on RSS from the perspective of law librarianship by Jason Eiseman, Computer Automation Librarian at Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt.
Part 1: Introduction (approx. 6 min.)
Part 1 introduces RSS as a concept. This tutorial discusses why RSS is important, and looks at an RSS feed.
Part 2: Using an aggregator […]

MetaGlossary is pretty impressive. It appears to be a metasearch tool for online dictionaries, glossaries, and lexicons.
I decided to try looking up some specialized and/or ambiguous terms, like SDI (strategic dissemination of information), and it found the right definition at the bottom of this results page.
Next, I tried some slang by looking up the […]

UK-based SearchMedica, an advertising-supported search portal run by CMPMedica (part of United Business Media) bills itself as “The GP’s search engine.”
SearchMedica’s editorial policy explains from whence search results are drawn:
Our list of ‘medical sites chosen by GPs’ is exactly that. It contains around 1,200 websites - all of which have been selected by […]