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Dangit!
I finished writing this post last night, but hadn’t posted it yet. Since Berci has beat me to it, I’ll go ahead and post it now.
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Curehunter.com has a “visual medical dictionary” that I’m having lots of fun playing with, even though I’m not sure that it is best described as a “dictionary.”
Really, it’s a […]

It occurred to me out of nowhere in particular that a search engine for free Web resources on the History of Medicine might be awfully useful to some, so I scraped about 500 URLs from the History of the Health Sciences Section of the Medical Library Association and slapped together this History of Medicine Custom […]

So on Blog Day, a blogger is supposed to recommend 5 blogs to his or her readers. In order to make sure I’d stop at five, I decided to restrict myself to MedLib blogs that have come into existence only since the last Blog Day.
Among the MedLib blogs that have come into existence in […]

See, I had to abbreviate the name of the blog in post title because the blog’s real name, EBM and Clinical Support Librarians@UCHC, just wouldn’t fit properly in the title field.
Kathleen Crea’s new blogging effort for the Lyman Maynard Stowe Library at the University of Connecticut Health Center is off to a great start in […]

BMJ on Nature Network:
BMJ 2007;335:401 (25 August), doi:10.1136/bmj.39304.603148.59
Facebook for scientists?
Deborah Cohen, features editor, BMJ
[HTML] | [PDF]
Excerpt:
“So come on, people, pimp my coat! I’m tired of putting on the same old stained, shapeless one every morning,” writes cell biologist Jenny Rohn in her call out to potential collaborators on Nature Network.
Rohn, a cell […]

I’ve previously mentioned socially-created dictionaries WordSource and Wiktionary, but the dictionary at Biology-Online.org is a little more interesting because it is a biology dictionary which functions on the same principles.

Since it isn’t strictly medical, I won’t be adding it to the list of medical wikis.

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Whonamedit.com is a biographical dictionary of medical eponyms. It is our ambition to present a complete survey of all medical phenomena named for a person, with a biography of that person. Eventually, this will include more than 15.000 eponyms and more than 6.000 persons.
As I wrote this post, whonamedit.com contains:
“7988 eponyms described in 3938 main […]

Article in today’s Wall Street Journal:

Social Networking Goes Professional
Doctors, Salesmen, Executives Turn to New Sites to Consult, Commiserate With Peers; Weeding Out Impostors
By JESSICA E. VASCELLARO
August 28, 2007; Page D1
Excerpt:
“When radiation oncologist Michael Tomblyn recently saw a 21-year-old patient whose eye was protruding from its socket, he turned to his fellow physicians for help. Dozens […]

The screencast below (made with Screencast-O-Matic) shows how to make a screencast…with Screencast-O-Matic.
Viewing the embedded screencast below (and recording new ones) requires Java.

Why should libraryfolk care about screencasting? Let Paul Pival help answer that question.

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RadiologyWiki.org (previously mentioned here and here) is the topic of an article appearing in the most recent RadioGraphics:
Informatics in radiology: RadiologyWiki.org: the free radiology resource that anyone can edit.
Radiographics. 2007 Jul-Aug;27(4):1193-200.
Recent developments in online collaborative technologies such as Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) have demonstrated the potential usefulness of an online reference resource produced as the collective effort […]

London-based medical librarian Reinhard Wentz (previously mentioned here) and medical student Vipul Sharma have produced a a great handout to help introduce users to Wikipedia as a potential resource. The handout includes links for additional readings on background and issues such as bias, currency, reliability, and plagiarism.
I thought it was excellent and was very […]

It isn’t any secret that I’m a big fan of Google Reader, but Firefox and Greasemonkey can make it even better as they tailor it precisely for your preferences and needs.
Mashable has posted a list of 50+ Google Reader Extensions & Scripts for Firefox that is worth checking out. There are several here that […]

Not new, but new to me:
Have an existing Web page you want to add to a Wiki, but not looking forward to re-working it into wiki markup? HTML::WikiConverter to the rescue!
Paste in some HTML or specify a URL and HTML::WikiConverter will convert the HTML to the wiki markup used by your wiki platform.

It’ll even […]

Although he is best-known as an outspoken atheist, Richard Dawkins is a respected biologist.
Really, if you read his work or hear him speak, you get the sense that he isn’t actually hostile towards religious people, he’s hostile towards attacks on reason. So it isn’t really surprising that in his Channel 4 special, The Enemies […]

Susan Mayer has a great (and relatively new) MedLib blog focusing on “health literacy, patient education and consumer health issues.” As a full-time patient education librarian at an outstanding institution, Susan is an ideal person to write such a blog.

Check out Learn to Live at your soonest opportunity.
Why is David so into this badgey […]

When I first heard about Andrew Keen’s book (The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture), I assumed he was just looking to make a new career as contrarian pundit.
I mean, he came across as wrong in print “debates” (David Weinberger thoroughly and politely kicks Keen’s butt in the […]

NurseConnect is an online nursing community and networking site for nurses and other healthcare professionals interested in advancing their education, careers and personal lives by sharing experiences and knowledge with others. NurseConnect is owned and operated by AMN Healthcare, Inc.
The only other online social network specifically for nurses that I’m aware of is NurseLinkUp.
Previous posts […]

George Paterakis, MD has posted a handful of videos to YouTube that feature an 1801 anatomy atlas.
For example, embedded below is Dr. Paterakis’ video of head and neck anatomy from this atlas.

Check ‘em all out here.

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More vintage Sesame Street library fun:

Above: Embedded video

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