Comments on: Web Geekery in Recent Literature – 1/4/2008

By: Adi Smith

Adi Smith — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:14:52 +0000

“So, armed with a little more information, I decided to repeat my search using the term retained surgical sponges on Google Scholar.”

After reading it in full it is more of a mea culpa. It seemed to be the case of an uninformed searcher using a just a hammer (Google), where a nail punch (Scholar) would have been more appropriate.

By: Jan Martens

Jan Martens — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:08:43 +0000

First of all best wishes for 2008!
I really would like to read the articles, but unfortunatelly our library is not subscribed to those journals. So if someone could e-mail (jan at medblog.nl) the articles I would be very happy.

By: pilgrimtinker

pilgrimtinker — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:48:55 +0000

Hi David,
two answers-

1. yes, this is a great feature and I would love to read the articles and have long conversations about them but
2. how dare you put such an enticing post up for me to find on friday afternnon when I have to force myself to get back to work?

By: Sandy Swanson

Sandy Swanson — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:46:57 +0000

Great idea!

By: HealthMap « MHSLA Blog

HealthMap « MHSLA Blog — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:43:10 +0000

[...] David Rothman’s new series, Web Geekery in Recent Literature, reports this new article describing “the design principles, software architecture and implementation of HealthMap and discusses key challenges and future plans.” [...]

By: barbara

barbara — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:48:49 +0000

Hi David
(and a happy new year)
I like your idea. And thanks for pointing out the third article which I will absoultely read.
Barbara