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Just a heads-up:
LibWorm is being moved to a new server over the next couple of days. This should result in improved performance when you use LibWorm.
While the server migration is going on, you may notice a few records disappearing (and then reappearing) or feeds not working, but this is temporary and should last only […]

Want to follow online talk about the 2008-2009 ALA Presidential election?
+(ALA “american library association”) +President +(”2008-2009″ Rettig Davenport)

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Boredom does breed mischief.

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(Be sure to check out the List of Medical Wikis)

Great news from Stewart Brower:

Our first several completed and certified monographs are now up. Once a monograph completes the review process it is “locked down” to be protected from malicious edits. Our certified monographs are:

Alendronate
Amlodipine
Atorvastatin
Cholecalciferol
Escitalopram
Montelukast
Sertraline

This progress would not have […]

I’m not the first to blog about these and I certainly won’t be the last, but I wanted to say a few brief “me too’s”:
I’m going to order Social Software in Libraries…

…and not just because Meredith mentions LibWorm in Chapter Three, either! I’m going to order it because Meredith’s writings on […]

I’m clearly no fan of Medstory, but it still caught my attention to hear (via Resource Shelf) that Medstory will be acquired by Microsoft.
It isn’t the first time Microsoft has acquired a health care information technology company.
If Microsoft is getting into the health vortal business, lets hope they dramatically improve Medstory and make […]

Health Literacy is appallingly low in the U.S.
The Birmingham News reports on the “silent health epidemic” created by low health literacy, and mentions the Joint Commission white paper, ’What Did the Doctor Say?:’ Improving Health Literacy to Protect Patient Safety.
Wikipedia appallingly popular for health information
In a study from Envision Solutions titled Diving Deeper Into Online […]

I just learned today that Dissect Medicine is now available in both German and Spanish, and is working on a Japanese edition.

Dissect Medicine is currently available in English and German editions. It will soon be available in Spanish and Japanese. Each site is designed for the tagging and uploading of articles in the edition’s specific […]

WordSource actually reminds me a lot of Wiktionary.
Comparison Word: “Normative”
Wiktionary entry

WordSource entry

It will be interesting to see how this develops, but I still pretty much use Google or MetaGlosssary when I need a general online dictionary.
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As Steven says, more bad press.

Embedded video above. Depending on your aggregator, you may need to visit the site itself to view
Another great topic of discussion for LIS students- especially those who seek careers in public libraries.

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Can’t agree with everything he says, but it’s still funny:

Great sign language at the end, eh?
(Not related, I believe, to this project.)
Not Canadian? Confused? Check out this Wikipedia entry.
Tangent: I was tickled by William Shatner’s variation on the theme.

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I have nothing new to add on the story of school media librarians expressing hesitation about the inclusion of The Higher Power of Lucky in their libraries, but I’m using LibWorm to keep up with the ongoing (and often funny) discussion.
LibWorm Query: +(scrotum* scrota) +lucky
LibWorm RSS Feed

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If you’re confused about what Net Neutrality is and why it matters, this is a great, easy-to-understand explanation and call to action.

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This presentation by John Battelle* is from December of 2005, but is still absolutely worth reading through. This slide, for instance.

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* - If you’re not familiar with John Battelle, see his blog, his book and his company, Federated Media.

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Interesting article from Information World Review.
Some excerpts:
Tom Coates, a technologist from Yahoo Technology Development, kicks off by summing up the disruption in attitude that is affecting information providers. “It’s in your interests as an author, researcher or scientist to get your work read, so you slap it on the internet, but that is not in […]

Update: Rettig has posted the final version of his video.

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I read with interest Michael Stephens’ endorsement of Jim Rettig, and it looks like Rettig (with efforts like putting a campaign message on YouTube) is really trying to reach “blog people.”

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The mission of Pain Treatment Topics is to provide access to news, information, research, and education relating to the causes and effective management of pain. Along with that, we are dedicated to offering contents that are evidence-based, unbiased, non-commercial, and comply with the highest standards and principles of accrediting and other oversight organizations.
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Sophia is going to answer questions sent to her by email about information resources and research. She introduces the idea in a video here.
(Embedding of the video, to my disappointment, is disallowed)
Sophia has also set up a blog for the project.
It is an interesting idea. It would be especially neat if Sophia were […]

HEALTHMap Press Release
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HEALTHmap is really neat, though it reminds me a lot of a similar mashup, EpiSPIDER.

I don’t know nearly enough about epidemiology/infectious diseases to make a useful comparison, but I did notice that the data sources are similar.
EpiSPIDER gets its data from:

HEALTHmap gets its data from:

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As a part of the 5 Weeks to a Social Library course, Melissa L. Rethlefsen prepared this great screencast to demonstrate some of the nifty things one can do with RSS for a Library’s Web site.

Melissa is the Education Technology Librarian at the Learning Resource Center of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in my […]