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If you’re new to this site, checking out the stuff on this page can give you a pretty good idea what others might like about it.
- The List of Medical Wikis is quite popular and has been mentioned in the American Medical Association News, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Medical Journal of Australia, Ophathamology and ACP Internist. If you’d like to read everything I’ve written here about wikis, you can dig into this category.
- The Future of the Hospital Librarian got more attention than I expected. On review, I find it a reasonably well-written rant that would probably benefit from some editing.
- The Consumer Health and Patient Education Information Search Engine that I made with Google’s Custom Search Engine tools gets a lot of traffic and I’m told that it is frequently used in at least a handful of medical libraries. I only regret that I gave it such an unwieldy name. You can see other stuff I’ve written about CSEs here.
- A number of items I’ve written about RSS and online tools for playing with feeds have been well-received.
- I wrote a fairly detailed tutorial on using Feed43 to create a feed for a Web page that doesn’t have one that gets a fairly steady stream of visitors and even got a nice compliment from the folks at Feed43.
- I’ve written about how Yahoo Pipes can be used to translate feeds from one language to another and Webware credited me with the idea when they wrote about it (thanks, Rafe!). LifeHacker and LifeHack picked it up from Webware, and WIRED got it from LifeHacker, but LifeHacker, LifeHack and WIRED all declined to link to my original post. Dangit.
- I made a live demonstration of about 20 different free services for posting the contents of of an RSS feed on a Web page.
- If you’d like to see more of what I’ve written here about RSS, you can check out this category.
- Sometimes I post lists of things that appear to be useful to a number of people. Examples include:
- Sometimes I enjoy posting fun and goofy stuff, like my poll (mentioned in Library Journal) for what sexier title could replace the word “librarian.” For all the goofy stuff, you can check out this category.
