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Have you heard about Veropedia yet?

Veropedia is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia’s content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited, The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, […]

Presentation slides worth flipping through:
Eugene Barsky (who has recently been recognized for his work as an outreach physiotherapy librarian) posted slides from his presentation to the BC Ministry of Health and Ministry of Children and Family Development, providing a nice overview of how free Web tools are (or might be) used in healthcare.

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I’ve previously mentioned VisualDxHealth and liked what they were doing, but I wasn’t expecting this:
ROCHESTER, NY, October 30, 2007 - The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will partner with VisualDxHealth, a unique online consumer health resource developed by the doctors and health care professionals at Logical Images. The NLM Web site, www.MedlinePlus.gov , will […]

I think that Dean Giustini’s Google Scholar Blog was the first MedLib blog I ever subscribed to- so I’m pretty tickled that it now features the MedLib Blog Badge on its sidebar:

Why is David always on about this badgey stuff?
Previously, I’ve noted the following blogs that display the MedLib Blog badge in their sidebars:

MedLib Blog […]

Need a hand keeping up with everything posted about Internet Librarian 2007?
Use this search and/or this feed.

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I’ve been meaning to post a few notes about MedWorm for a while now.
First, my friend and LibWorm partner Frankie Dolan1 has been blogging at Frankie Speaking Frankly and you should subscribe to its feed.
Second, registered users can now make use of MedWorm’s new subscribe-by-email feature. Writes Frankie:
It is now possible to receive […]

…should have one of these.
This nifty tool from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center makes it extra easy to search PubMed for articles by authors affiliated with the institution.

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Fathom, a search engine marketing firm, pitches its expertise in healthcare marketing by producing a free report titled Check Yourself: The 6 Best Free Web 2.0 Healthcare Tools.
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Short review of this report: Meh.

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This will probably interest libraryfolk more than medicalfolk- but if you like art and design, you might forgive me this off-topic post.
My wife, Dr. Elizabeth J. Fowler, is a professor of art and design history at Syracuse University and is currently teaching a course on 20th and 21st-Century Design. She decided she wanted to […]

[EDIT]Thanks, folks! I think I’ve had enough responses to confirm that any problems were temporary or not originating from the site. Again, thank you![/EDIT]
I got an email from a reader who tells me she’s had some problems viewing davidrothman.net today. I’m not able, it seems, to replicate the problems she has had.
If […]

Melissa Rethlefsen sees some interesting trends in her analysis of the results of the MLA’s social networking survey.
It appears that hospital librarians are not especially fond of blogs.
And so many MedLib bloggers are hospital librarians! Mark Rabnett, Dean Giustini and Michelle Kraft are just a few favorites who come to mind […]

A whole lot of people like to write about the application of a popular “Web 2.0″ site’s model to a specialized interest, purpose, or population.
I’m as guilty of this as anyone else.

I’ve written (approximately) a bajillion posts about sites which seek to be “Digg for medical literature.”
I wrote a post called “Facebook for Scientists“
I even […]

A few days ago, Berci Meskó posted at ScienceRoll more of his advocacy for Wikipedia as a credible resource for medical information. Berci argues that if Wikipedia has increased external links and increased references, it must be seen as having increased credibility.
This isn’t this first time Berci made this fallacious argument, and it isn’t […]

The Information Resources Section of the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) at the University of Sheffield has put together a Google Custom Search Engine of interest to medical libraryfolk. According to Andrew Booth, Director of Information Resources & Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice, the Netting the Evidence Google Search Engine “…searches […]

I’ve posted previously about the concerns I have about attempts to rank blogs (healthcare blogs, biblioblogs or any other sort of blogs).
Please keep those concerns in mind when you read at eDrugsearch.com that, if measured by the number of subscribers via Google Reader or iGoogle, davidrothman.net is (just barely) ranked in the top 10 healthcare […]

So I’m very glad to be back at work full-time after my recent fun with a spontaneous pneumothorax and thoracic surgery, but I’m also really, really tired.
This is very inconvenient because I have a lot on my plate at the moment and I’m feeling a little overwhelmed.
So, I plan to blog significantly less for the […]

Searching at MedlinePlus and other NLM sites) is now powered by Vivisimo (remember this post?).

Am I alone in feeling…underwhelmed? The faceted options on the left are nice, but I was sort of hoping for more.
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Knowing that I recently had a chest tube, Rachel thought (correctly) that I’d be interested to know that the latest video from NEJM is on Chest-Tube Insertion.
I was under conscious sedation for mine, so I learned a lot from this.
The most important thing that I learned from the video is immense […]

Two resources I stumbled across recently:

The Multi-Dimensional Human Embryo is a collaboration funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to produce and make available over the internet a three-dimensional image reference of the Human Embryo based on magnetic resonance imaging. The collection of images is intended to serve students, researchers, […]

This looks like another article that I want to read but don’t have access to.
Ophthalmology. 2007 Oct;114(10):1801-3.
Web 2.0, library 2.0, physician learning 2.0.Liesegang TJ.
PMID: 17908589
(This blog would be a lot better if publishers would just give me free subscriptions- or at least send me copies of articles like this one. I know- it’d be […]