Comments on: Favorite RSS Resources and Tools http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/ Health Information | Geekery Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:49:12 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-127267 David Rothman Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:04:11 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/#comment-127267 Aw, man. I left Grazr out? That's a really nice one, too. Thanks, Steve. I'll add it now. Aw, man. I left Grazr out? That’s a really nice one, too. Thanks, Steve. I’ll add it now.

]]> By: steve t http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-127266 steve t Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:01:42 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/#comment-127266 how about grazr? how about grazr?

]]> By: Berci Mesko http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-126570 Berci Mesko Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:00:06 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/#comment-126570 One of the best collections you've ever come up with, David! Great job! One of the best collections you’ve ever come up with, David! Great job!

]]> By: Welcome to the 17th Edition of Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival! « the story of healing http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-126436 Welcome to the 17th Edition of Medicine 2.0 Blog Carnival! « the story of healing Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:40:02 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/#comment-126436 [...] Setting Medical Information Free, Softwares and Tools Here is Hamza Emadeen M.’s say on “Medical and Healthcare related software at Software Repositories/Directories“. There is a need that force us , or inspire us to create, invent, design and develop Medical software. Here, he emphasizes addressing and understanding the needs of the heath care providers and the importance of these products being open source, updated, and supported. More light on the open source call is MedGadget’s “Collection of Active Open Source Projects for Health Care“. Open source software has been extremely successful in various technology sectors but has been slow to grow in the health care industry. However, OSS serves a vital role by breeding innovation at a break neck pace. A new blog has a decent summary of active OSS programs for the health care market. A blog called Web 2.0 and Semantic Web for Bioinformatics:Web technologies applied in data-intensive Life Science research, has a take this week involving “Tools for (data) mashups and remixes“. These are a few tools on my radar, to experiment with for trying to easily scrape data from webpages and see how it works mashing them up. David Rothman’s “Favorite RSS Resources and Tools“. This is a personal favorite as it took time to explain RSS and many many more wonderful inclusions on RSS. Let me usher you in beginning with some of the cocktails below. Explaining RSS Introduction to RSS for Librarians by Luke Rosenberger How to Explain RSS the Oprah Way by Stephanie Quilao Five Best Tips for Reducing RSS Information Overload by David Rothman Video: RSS in Plain English And, of course, it is never too early to say, “hats off!” to Dan In’s “New Journal Ranking Tool” on Bitesize Bio. Thompson Scientific is great for gaging the impact factors of various journals, but it has had a bit of a monopoly on journal rankings. As with any ranking scheme, there can be more than one valid way of comparing alternatives.Enter a new ranking tool - that’s free - the SCImago Journal Rank database. Information In Your Hands, Now What? There are kinds of information that we can opt to toss away almost instantly. And there are kinds that are vital to our study, research, and work. Some information are personal and/or special that we want to know how to obtain them and/or handle them. Patients first. Here is The International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics presents a 16-minute video on “Record Acces in practice“. A very good resource. Recently Dr. Amir Hannan from Haughton Thornley Medical in the UK has produced a video on how Record Access works. “This short video has been produced to help you, the patient, to get the best from the services that this practice is offering. Please watch the video carefully”. [...] [...] Setting Medical Information Free, Softwares and Tools Here is Hamza Emadeen M.’s say on “Medical and Healthcare related software at Software Repositories/Directories“. There is a need that force us , or inspire us to create, invent, design and develop Medical software. Here, he emphasizes addressing and understanding the needs of the heath care providers and the importance of these products being open source, updated, and supported. More light on the open source call is MedGadget’s “Collection of Active Open Source Projects for Health Care“. Open source software has been extremely successful in various technology sectors but has been slow to grow in the health care industry. However, OSS serves a vital role by breeding innovation at a break neck pace. A new blog has a decent summary of active OSS programs for the health care market. A blog called Web 2.0 and Semantic Web for Bioinformatics:Web technologies applied in data-intensive Life Science research, has a take this week involving “Tools for (data) mashups and remixes“. These are a few tools on my radar, to experiment with for trying to easily scrape data from webpages and see how it works mashing them up. David Rothman’s “Favorite RSS Resources and Tools“. This is a personal favorite as it took time to explain RSS and many many more wonderful inclusions on RSS. Let me usher you in beginning with some of the cocktails below. Explaining RSS Introduction to RSS for Librarians by Luke Rosenberger How to Explain RSS the Oprah Way by Stephanie Quilao Five Best Tips for Reducing RSS Information Overload by David Rothman Video: RSS in Plain English And, of course, it is never too early to say, “hats off!” to Dan In’s “New Journal Ranking Tool” on Bitesize Bio. Thompson Scientific is great for gaging the impact factors of various journals, but it has had a bit of a monopoly on journal rankings. As with any ranking scheme, there can be more than one valid way of comparing alternatives.Enter a new ranking tool – that’s free – the SCImago Journal Rank database. Information In Your Hands, Now What? There are kinds of information that we can opt to toss away almost instantly. And there are kinds that are vital to our study, research, and work. Some information are personal and/or special that we want to know how to obtain them and/or handle them. Patients first. Here is The International Council on Medical & Care Compunetics presents a 16-minute video on “Record Acces in practice“. A very good resource. Recently Dr. Amir Hannan from Haughton Thornley Medical in the UK has produced a video on how Record Access works. “This short video has been produced to help you, the patient, to get the best from the services that this practice is offering. Please watch the video carefully”. [...]

]]> By: David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-125885 David Rothman Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:50:22 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/#comment-125885 Thanks, Mark! I'm aware of RollSense, but haven't played with it much- I'll need to do that now. If I were to use it, I'd want to create a separate OPML, not just output my subscriptions from Google Reader... Thanks, Mark! I’m aware of RollSense, but haven’t played with it much- I’ll need to do that now.

If I were to use it, I’d want to create a separate OPML, not just output my subscriptions from Google Reader…

]]> By: Mark Rabnett http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-125874 Mark Rabnett Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:00:30 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/#comment-125874 Lots of goodies to check out. Thank you, David. Have a look at http://www.rollsense.com for adding relevant RSS content to your blog. I found it very easy to set up. Lots of goodies to check out. Thank you, David. Have a look at http://www.rollsense.com for adding relevant RSS content to your blog. I found it very easy to set up.

]]> By: David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-125863 David Rothman Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:50:19 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/#comment-125863 Thanks, Eugene- I've added it to the post! :) Thanks, Eugene- I’ve added it to the post! :)

]]> By: Eugene Barsky http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-125862 Eugene Barsky Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:39:02 +0000 http://davidrothman.net/2008/01/14/favorite-rss-resources-and-tools/#comment-125862 David - an excellent overview, thank you! I use RSS2java to convert live RSS to a webpage content on our blog http://www.rss2java.com/ Super easy to use and works fine for the last two years or so :) David – an excellent overview, thank you!

I use RSS2java to convert live RSS to a webpage content on our blog http://www.rss2java.com/

Super easy to use and works fine for the last two years or so :)

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