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It is possible that I’m punchy from being up too late, but this advertisement set in a library amused me:

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Every now and then, something reminds me that most of the world doesn’t spend as much time as I do staring at a computer monitor. Case in point: This story from NPR’s All Things Considered about YouTube. I caught myself thinking: Lonelygirl15 is NEWS? That was MONTHS ago! […]

Update: Be sure to check out the List of Medical Wikis.
Welcome, Medical College of Wisconsin Librarians!
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When it comes to clinical information, I’m very wary of Wikis. Not necessarily opposed to them, but extremely hesitant. I find myself nodding when reading the Rapid Response to Dean Giustini’s How Web 2.0 is changing medicine […]

Whoa.
Warren Ellis, one of my favorite writers of comics and graphic novels writers, will be authoring a weekly column about Second Life for Reuters.
I’m hopeful that he may spare at least a little attention to the library efforts going on there.
If you like Sci-Fi, do yourself a favor and read Ellis’ Transmetropolitan. You can […]

All holiday obligations have been met. Yay!
Regular blogging will now resume ahead of schedule.
:)

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I was tagged by my friend Marjolein.
1. My father is a geek’s geek. A retired IBM programmer, he is mentioned in Wikipeda for developing CGIDEV2. I have a distinct recollection of what happened when I asked him to teach me to program in BASIC. He said “sure!” …and handed me […]

It really was my intention to not blog again before the end of the year, but I couldn’t wait that long to share news about these new tag-based features at LibWorm that Frankie has been working hard on.
First is that if any individual search result has tags, LibWorm finds the tags and shows ‘em to […]

Holy cow. I’ve only been blogging at davidrothman.net for a little over 5 months. It seems like a lot longer. Why is that?
Anyway, I have a lot I need to get done (both personal and professional) before the end of the year, so I’m taking the next few weeks off from blogging. […]

A few weeks ago, a little badge appeared for MedLib blogs that links back to the masterlist to indicate membership in the growing community (and sense of community) of MedLib blogs(/bloggers).

Here is where it has appeared so far:
Biomedbiblog

Clinical Evidence, Searching Tidbits, and Other Minutiae

DigiCMB

JMLA Case Studies in Health Sciences Librarianship

medinfo

Professional Notes

Adam Bosworth, Google’s VP of Engineering, continues his thoughts on health care at his blog:
As I indicated in my post last week, I’ve been interested in the issue of health care and health information for a while. I just spoke at a conference about some of the challenges in the health care system that we […]

I learned via David’s Random Stuff that the Consumer Health and Patient Education CSE I made was mentioned by Tim Daniels, Learning Commons Coordinator at Georgia State University when he gave a presentation last Friday at a meeting of the Atlanta Health Science Library Consortium called “Exploring Blogs, Wikis, and other social software applications.”
Neat! […]

I’ve been waiting weeks for permission from Dr. Craig Dalton to blog about this! Finally just got that permission.

Neat! Listen to abstracts from Annals of Internal Medicine, Archives of Internal Medicine, BMJ, Circulation, JAMA, NEJM, PLoS, The Lancet and more.
Journal Junkie provides medical professionals with immediate audio access to abstracts from the latest […]

Got the Google Librarian Newsletter today via email.
One-word review: “Meh.”
The only thing that really jumped out at me was a really decent Google Reader Tutorial by Yukon College Reference Librarian Laurie Prange.

Nicely done, Laurie!

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It’s loads of fun to watch mentions of LibWorm pop up, but one appeared recently that I thought was particularly enjoyable. Not only does it describe LibWorm well, but it’s also funny. Check it out at the blog of the ALA Student Chapter at Simmons College.
Thanks so much for the kind […]

A presentation by Mary Madden, Senior Research Specialist at the Pew Internet & American Life Project on “How today’s young tech elite will influence the libraries of tomorrow.”
May be of particular interest to school and academic librarians.

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This article at Informit.com would be a great way for a search amateur to start building up his/her Google-Fu. It not only introduces the use of specific Google operators, but even introduces the idea of a search strategy. Here’s a taste:

Tip #1: Use the Correct Methodology
Whether you’re conducting a basic or advanced Google […]

Hope Leman dropped me an email to let me know about a nifty epidemiology mashup, EpiSpider. (Edit: Linked URL corrected. Thanks, Karen Harker!)

EpiSPIDER (Semantic Processing and Integration of Distributed Electronic Resources) is an application that integrates disparate electronic resources like news wires, RSS feeds and mailing lists to provide an integrated view of reported […]

I really love that everything that has improved about LibWorm has been motivated by a whole lot of enthusiastic input from a wide range of users.

We started loading our first really big batch of new, user-submitted feeds a few days ago (as well as addressing an issue that was preventing some feeds from parsing properly) […]

First:
Jasper’s Google Reader Subscribe (User Script)
This Greasemonkey User Script for Firefox adds a little icon to the top right of every page to let you know if a feed has been auto-detected and if you’ve already subscribed to it.

If the page has multiple feed options, it’ll display them on rollover so you can subscribe […]

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