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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 […]

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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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 […]

Added to the List of Medical Wikis:
Wiki Doc

Self-description: “WikiDoc is intended to be a shared resource for housestaff (in preparation for morning report), medical students (in preparation for morning rounds) and fellows (in preparation for conferences). Nurses and attending physicians may find it valuable to share and improve upon their fund of general medical knowledge.”
Intended […]

But PatientsLikeMe seeks to go a mile deeper than health-information sites like WebMD or online support groups like Daily Strength. The members of PatientsLikeMe don’t just share their experiences anecdotally; they quantify them, breaking down their symptoms and treatments into hard data. They note what hurts, where and for how long. They list their drugs […]

I got a number of interesting responses to my post on Susannah Fox’s brief speech.
Susannah’s work at the Pew Internet & American Life Project is really good stuff and I enthusiastically recommend reading all of it- but I gave her a hard time for elements of her remarks at the Health 2.0 (non-)conference […]

Patricia Anderson (whose slides I always find worth a look) put up a new presentation yesterday:

Above: Embedded slides. If you’re reading this in an aggregator, you may need to visit the site to view the slides

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This is a good example of the kind of “Health 2.0″ stuff that baffles me. The speaker in this video is Susannah Fox of the Pew Internet and American Life Project. She is speaking at the Health 2.0 Conference. You can watch the embedded video or read the text of her remarks […]

Michelle already elaborated a bit on Microblogging in a follow-up from the MLA Webcast last week, but this great video from CommonCraft provides a good, short explanation of the most popular microblogging platform, Twitter:

I have a Twitter account, I sometimes update my Facebook status, and I have a Pownce account that I don’t use. […]

Photos from rehearsal for the Webcast:

Dale Prince really likes his iPhone. So do I, actually.

What may not be immediately obvious to those who have not met him is that Bart actually has a halo that is visible in person.

Michelle agrees with me that Dale rocks.

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Gerry McKiernan points out two Facebook applications for searching PubMed, PubFace and PubMed Search.
PubFace Results:

PubMed Search Results:

It’s sort of neat to be able to quickly share a PubMed citation with another Facebook user (see the link in the PubFace results above for “Send to a friend” or PubMed Search’s “Share this” button) and it is […]

Chris Wilson’s article in Slate last Friday argues that social media like Digg and Wikipedia aren’t really “democratic”.
Phil Bradley sums up the article really nicely:
1% of Wikipedia users are responsible for about half of the sites edits.
In 2007 the top 100 diggers submitted 44% of the sites top stories, and in 2006 it was 56%.
The […]

In response to this post about Marcus Banks’ assertion that Professional Librarian Journals Should Evolve into Blogs, Rachel Walden (a medical librarian, a blogger and an editor at the JMLA) left the following comments:
…I tend to agree with T. Scott on these matters1, for several reasons. I don’t see any reason why librarianship journals as […]

Not new, but seemingly new to YouTube:
Please join us in congratulating in Loretta Merlo, Head of Circulation, on her award-winning video display screen promotion celebrating the contributions and importance of health sciences information professionals. The promotion highlighted Mark Funk, Head of Resource Management-Collections, who is currently the President of the Medical Library Association (MLA) and […]

Welcome. radRounds is a new professional networking tool for radiologists, created by radiologists. Think LinkedIN, Facebook, or MySpace but just for us radiologists. Connections matter - enrich your clinical or academic career by joining our rapidly growing radiologist-focused community.
radRounds is built on the Ning platform, so anyone who has used a Ning network social network […]

I read something interesting the other day on a blog about social media.
I believe Facebook will transform networking on the web from a largely social, recreational activity to one that has serious implications for business.
I enjoyed reading this belief about the future and decided I’d try one of my own.
I don’t believe Facebook will transform […]

Web 2.0 Principles and Best Practices: Discovering the Participatory Web
MLA’s Educational Webcast
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 1:00 p.m., central time
As a part of this Webcast, I get to present about 30 minutes of practical tips with Michelle Kraft (which is a real treat because Michelle’s was one of the first blogs I ever subscribed to). […]

The Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries has a new issue out.
On page 41 of the PDF, check out an article by Ioana Robu (”Semantic Web applications in biology and medicine”) that updates “An introduction to the Semantic Web for health sciences librarians” (J Med Libr Assoc. 2006;94(2):198-205.) with information […]

New to me, The Doctor’s Channel appears to be another video site for clinicians and scientists. Berci has a list of similar sites here.

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