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Too buried to write much about it, but I suspect I’ll blog very little between now and the end of May. I decided today that rather than feeling guilty (as I have for the last couple weeks) about not blogging, I would consider this a well-deserved vacation after averaging about 1.5 posts per day […]

I have (no joke) 20 posts that are half-written, and have ideas for another dozen or so that I want to get to- but they’ll need to wait until next week.
Reason 1:
I must try to finish a writing project (about which I’ll write more soon).
Reason 2:
I must make sure I’m well-prepared for my visit to […]

Hakia says they’re tapping the expertise of librarians. As CEO Dr. Riza C Berkan writes on the Hakia blog:
Every Web search starts with two queries. One is X. The other one is “who knows X the best?” Because finding X is not enough if the author of that page does not know X himself/herself. […]

Via Dale Prince: This Science Friday segment about PubMed Central from last Friday includes free streaming audio and appearance by Harold Varmus.

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I think I may take the week off from blogging.
Until Tuesday afternoon, I need to get some writing projects done and make preparations to be away from work for the rest of the week.
I’m flying to San Diego Tuesday afternoon for the American Medical Association’s 28th Annual Medical Communications Conference. I’m excited about serving on […]

Dr. Alan Cann made a very decent SlideCast to help explain Twitter (embedded below):

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Patricia Anderson and Jill Hurst-Wahl convinced me to give Twitter a third try, and I’m glad they did.
Twitter is fun and I enjoy it, but wouldn’t enjoy it nearly as much if I wasn’t using Twhirl […]

This site went down for about an hour a couple of weeks ago (my host’s database server had problems, I’m told). Fortunately, I didn’t have to wait for someone to email me and tell me my site was down because a free service I’ve been using for more than a year alerted me promptly […]

Hope Leman and I first got in touch in June 2006 and we jabbered about RSS for a while. By September of 2006, Hope had rolled out MedGrab, where clinicians could easily find and subscribe to TOC updates of their favorite journals via email.
Just recently, Hope has rolled out another neat project called ScanGrants.

ScanGrants is […]

I subscribe to a bunch of mailing lists because they frequently contain useful information, but being subscribed to these lists using the email account provided by our hospital would be problematic. The volume of postings on some lists would clutter up the acount, making it more difficult to manage and making it more likely […]

This NLM promotional video from 1996 “…[d]escribes current NLM services using vignettes from actual case histories of the Library’s online and other service offerings.”

Also available for download here.

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The idea behind Pubget is that it speeds up the process of grabbing the full-text PDFs from PubMed search results. The video below illustrates the idea:

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If you’re at one of the following […]

Added to the list of medical wikis:
WikiEcho

Self-description: “Wikiecho is a project to create a free, up-to-date and reliable online resource covering the rapidly advancing field of echocardiography.”
Intended Audience/Users: “This website is intended to be used by medical students, residents, physicians, cardiology fellows, cardiologists and cardiac sonographers.”
Contributors: Anyone who registers.
Editors/Administrators: Not listed.
Editorial Policies: Minimal, available here.

These […]

If you’re looking for an excellent introduction to Nature’s social bookmarking service for scientists, check out Melissa Rethlefsen’s review in the April 2008 JMLA. [HTML] [PDF]

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I cracked up when I saw this last night and rewound/rewatched it three times.

Have a great weekend!

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J Am Coll Radiol. 2008 Apr;5(4):593-7.
Quality of CT colonography-related web sites for consumers.
Sheran J, Dachman AH.
Department of Radiology, University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
PURPOSE: Patients often request to undergo computed tomographic colonography (CTC) from radiologists or referring physicians on the basis of their personal examination of information on the Web. Therefore, the authors […]

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Added a feed from Google Blog Search (which uses a fairly narrow search) to the Superfeed.
Added filters to the Superfeed to screen out a handful of false positives.
Embedded Grazr widget (see end of post)

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Wouter has made the Superfeed available in Dutch.
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To make sure I don’t miss any online chatter about Computers in Libraries 2008 […]

When I posted in February about JANE, I should also have mentioned eTBLAST(previously mentioned here):

Our service is very different from PubMed. While PubMed searches for “keywords”, our search engine lets you input an entire paragraph and returns MEDLINE abstracts that are similar to it. This is something like PubMed’s “Related Articles” feature, only better because […]