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I think Jon Udell started it.
Jon noted that science stories get released online and bookmarked, commented upon, and blogged about all over the Web.
It’s all happening on the web, but it’s happening in isolated ghettoes with few points of actual contact. How could we bring those worlds into closer contact?
Jon also suggests how this might […]

The new Social Graph API from Google might prove really interesting.

I added a bunch of XFN ‘rel’ attributes to this blog’s links so I can do a little more playing (if you’re using WordPress, you can do this quickly and easily).

Someday I’ll get around to writing about microformats here- but not […]

[Updated: 3/22/2008]
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(My emphasis here is on free and low-cost resources)
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

Resources to help you choose a feed aggregator

RSS Compendium-RSS Readers
A Directory of RSS Aggregators
Comprehensive […]

I was asked recently in an interview:
“You’ve written quite a bit about Web 2.0 tools and medical librarianship […snip…] Are there ways in which you see health sciences librarianship 2.0 as differing from Library 2.0?”
I answered that I’m actually not all that fond of the the “2.0″ suffix, whether it is applied to “Web,” “Library,” […]

This article points us to RadiologyInfo.org, a consumer-oriented site for information about radiology.
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J Am Coll Radiol. 2007 Nov;4(11):809-15.
RadiologyInfo: reaching out to touch patients.
Ellenbogen PH, Tashjian JH.
[PubMed]
RadiologyInfo is a public information Web site created and maintained as an unprecedented joint collaborative effort of the Radiological Society of North America and the American College of Radiology. Conceived […]

NetDoc’s Hospital Rankings prompts the user to enter his/her zip code and places markers on a Google Map that indicate the HHS Hospital Compare rankings for nearby hospitals.

[Via]

These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.

Where Papers, iPapers, Sente and BibDesk are personal PDF managers, Librarian is a server-side application to allow groups of people to collectively build an annotate a shared PDF library that is managed from inside their Web browsers.
Librarian was designed to enable a small trusted group of researchers to create an annotated virtual library of articles […]

ExpertMapper is similar in purpose to Authoratory. It uses bibliometric analysis of MEDLINE data.
ExpertMapper examines all medical publications that are indexed in the National Library of Medicine’s MEDLINE database. We rank the expertise of each author according to the number and type of articles that each expert has authored on the specific condition, disease, […]

The more I play with pmid.us, the more I like it.
Say you want to post a link to the PubMed abstract for PMID: 12472752. The appropriate gigantic URL would be:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=12472752&dopt=AbstractPlus
Yuck!
But Pmid.us lets us shorten that to:
http://pmid.us/12472752
(Get it? The URL is http://pmid.us/[Your PMID].)
If we want to fetch two abstracts, we can do that by […]

I’m grateful to Jeff Ellis for providing some clarification and additional information in response to my previous post on JournalReview.org.
I criticized JournalReview for not having feeds. It turns out that it DOES have feeds- the problem it that they’re hard to find. Jeff writes:
..it was our assumption (perhaps incorrectly)… that users who where […]

Now available for order from Haworth Press:
Medical Librarian 2.0: Use of Web 2.0 Technologies in Reference Services
Edited by M. Sandra Wood, MLS, MBA, AHIP, FMLA
Interesting, I think, that the experts sought out to write about Web technologies are disproportionately bloggers and/or people you’ve read about online.
Alexia Estabrook and I co-authored the chapter on RSS. […]

Zentation is pretty neat and could be very useful in making instructional materials.
Slideshare lets us upload a set of slides for sharing online, and Google Video lets us upload video for sharing online, but Zentation lets us display slides and a video together, and has tools to set the intervals of slide transitions […]

eTBLAST: a web server to identify expert reviewers, appropriate journals and similar publications.
Nucleic Acids Res. 2007 Apr 22
Errami M, Wren JD, Hicks JM, Garner HR.
PMID: 17452348
PubMed Citation
Free full text:
| HTML | PDF |
Try eTBLAST

Other posts about third-party PubMed tools:

CILIP HLG Newsletter on Third-Party PubMed Tools
Ali Baba (3rd Party PubMed tool)
FABLE (3rd Party PubMed Tool)
Managing […]

I often stumble across good and useful things by accident.

Case in point: While using Google to look for a document I had misplaced, a typo caused me to stumble across an article from the March 2007 issue of the CILIP Health Libraries Group Newsletter titled “Internet Sites of Interest,” featuring short descriptions […]

Okay, so far we have BioWizard, Dissect Medicine, MediNews and Onexamination- time for one more: JournalReview.org.

In conversations with friends, I have previously referred to sites like BioWizard and Dissect Medicine as a sort of “digital journal club,” so it is sort of neat to learn that’s how journalreview.org sees it, too:
In the academic world, “Journal […]

Resources from Judy Burnham, used to teach her class for the 2007 Medical Association of Alabama Meeting:

Web Page
PowerPoint
Cyber Cafe

These are definitely worth flipping through if you have even a casual interest in the application of Web technologies to medicine. I like to consider myself well-informed on the topic, but a handful of the resources […]

Where EpiSPIDER and HEALTHmap get the data for their mapping mashup endeavors from sources like WHO and ProMED, Who is Sick gets its data from YOU.

Users enter their location and their symptoms, then see how commonly those symptoms are by reported by other users by location and other simple demographics.
The site’s creator explains Who is […]

Have you seen news about WikiProfessional?
Its first project is WikiProteins.

Lots of details in this Nature article:
Key biology databases go wiki
Jim Giles
SUMMARY: Collaborative approach aims to keep pace with discoveries.
News@Nature 445, 691 - 691 (15 Feb 2007) News
Barend Mons, “a bioinformatician at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam,” seeks to “meld some of the most important […]

Ali Baba is pretty neat.

Ali Baba parses PubMed abstracts for biological objects and their relations as discussed in the texts. Ali Baba visualizes the resulting network in graphical form, thus presenting a quick overview over all information contained in the abstracts.
Perhaps the best way to explain what it does is with an example:
A patient with […]

FABLE = “Fast Automated Biomedical Literature Extraction”
Why FABLE?
FABLE currently tags only genes and proteins and only normalizes human genes. This allows us to design a customized tool that is tailored specifically for this task, rather than a generalized tool such as PubMed that provides broad search capabilities with less specificity.
FABLE mines the biomedical literature […]