MediNews: Digg for Medical Literature, Part IV
I’ve been over BioWizard a few times and covered Dissect Medicine, but didn’t know about MediNews.
Built with the Pligg content management system, MediNews can’t really compete with BioWizard in terms of features, and appears to have a fairly small user base- which matters because you can’t have a “wisdom of crowds” effect without a crowd. Still, it is interesting to note that there are now at least three separate efforts to create a “Digg for medical literature.” I’m betting there will be more.
[Thanks, Nnamdi!]
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April 4th, 2007 at 11:38 am
[...] Update 4/4/2007:David Rothman writes about 3 separate efforts to create a “Digg for medical literature”: MediNews: Digg for Medical Literature, Part IV. [...]
April 5th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Medinews is fairly new site and will take time to form community, which will further generate the “wisdom of crowds”.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
No problem David,
Here’s another one for you…
http://my.onexamination.com/Community/NewsPopular.aspx
April 6th, 2007 at 5:54 am
[...] Nnamdi Udezue has AGAIN shown me a social news site for medical literature that I wasn’t aware of. (Dr. Udezue is hereby invited to email me with leads absolutely any time the mood strikes.) [...]
April 23rd, 2007 at 6:02 am
[...] Okay, so far we have BioWizard, Dissect Medicine, MediNews and Onexamination- time for one more: JournalReview.org. [...]
June 22nd, 2007 at 6:24 am
[...] Created by Dr. Henry Wei, Admitt.com is another “Digg for Medical Literature” which, like Medinews, is built with the Pligg content management system. [...]