davidrothman.net » Fun http://davidrothman.net Exploring Medical Librarianship and Web Geekery Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:31:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 eBooks, Audiobooks, Overdrive and DRM http://davidrothman.net/2010/03/03/ebooks-audiobooks-overdrive-and-drm/ http://davidrothman.net/2010/03/03/ebooks-audiobooks-overdrive-and-drm/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:03:05 +0000 David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/?p=3004 I love these solely based on my experience as a patron of a public library, trying (and failing) to enjoy the ebooks and audiobooks they offer.

Shelf Check 373

I’m sure the good folks at the Cleveland Public Library have seen this by now:

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A few books I think are essential. What else should I add to this list? What are the books that no medlib geek should be without?

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Gawande talks with Stewart about The Checklist Manifesto (video embedded below).

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Steven Levitt calls this “…the best book I’ve read in ages.”

Dagnabbit. Now I need to read it.

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]]> http://davidrothman.net/2010/02/08/atul-gawande-on-the-daily-show/feed/ 1 A Lovely Use of RSS http://davidrothman.net/2009/12/26/a-lovely-use-of-rss/ http://davidrothman.net/2009/12/26/a-lovely-use-of-rss/#comments Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:28:38 +0000 David Rothman http://davidrothman.net/?p=2867 My brother, Andrew, a Web developer, is a very clever guy and a fan of woot.com.

Recently, he bought a digital picture frame from Woot that can be fed photos via RSS- as a gift to my parents.

The clever bit is where each of my siblings created a Flickr or Photobucket account in which to post photos of grandchildren. The feeds from each of these accounts was combined in Yahoo Pipes so that, once the frame is set up on my folks’ WiFi network, any new photos posted appear in their digital photo frame.

What a great way for a geographically dispersed family to keep grandparents updated.

My mom called to tell me how much she liked it, and I made a point of noting it was Andrew’s clever idea. All I did was mash the feed together in Yahoo Pipes.

I love technology when it is used intelligently.

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I continue to be surprised by how many otherwise rational people (including health professionals) are frightened by the prospect.

For the record: If New York State law did not require me to get both the seasonal and the H1N1 vaccine, I would get both anyway.

I’ve avoided commenting on the media coverage of Swine Flu. Why bother when Jon Stewart does it better?

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via: http://leavesamark.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/lolpharma/
(Thanks to Sarah for pointing this out.)

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I’d be interested to hear response from this library…or from other public libraryfolk.

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Edit: D’oh! Nikki posted about this yesterday and Berci before that!

I have become a truly lame blogger.

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How timely that a friend sent me the link to this game just when I needed a fun break from Swine Flu panic.

In Sneeze, you are an influenza virus in one human and have the opportunity the spread yourself in various environments by having your human sneeze just once on each level.

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