MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'feeds'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:04:55 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4414546&cid=t_167439_107_f&fid=36672&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencebase.com%2Fscience-blog%2Fseven-slices-of-science-stuff.html from David Bradley Vuja de – Thinking outside the box with new eyes? Haven't we see this managerial psychobabble before or is it just vuja de? Alchemist Newsletter – An element close to every Alchemist's heart, quicksilver, or more properly mercury, featured in the chemistry news roundup this week, as does the creation of life from the primordial soup and how that may have begun. In the world of agrichemicals there is a possible sting in the tale for a relatively new class of pesticides, although no definitive evidence is yet available. In materials science tiny, but microscopic particles can undergo self-assembly it seems, while depressing news emerges from Europe regarding the lack of efficacy of an antidepressant drug marketed there. Finally, a new, free chemical... Sciencebase Science Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4414546 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:00:08 +0100 4414546 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4065337&cid=t_167439_87_f&fid=36069&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrankiespeakingfrankly.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fmedworm-business-model-tough-descisions.html Prompted by @markhawker via Twitter I had another look at the MedWorm 'enterprise design pattern'. Clearly it is essential that I find a way of ensuring that MedWorm's processing capability is used to maximum efficiency, to ensure that MedWorm can pay for itself as it grows. So I had another think about where most of the processing power is getting used up on MedWorm, and came to the tough conclusion that I will have to bring in a subscription model.MedWorm will remain completely free to use, except for one bit of functionality, that of customized RSS feeds. At the moment there are (many) hundreds of RSS feeds for you to pull out of MedWorm that are precompiled every day, based on optimised queries for individual topics and data types. You can find them simply by browsing MedWorm - every p... Frankie Speaking Frankly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4065337 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 08:25:00 +0100 4065337 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4045065&cid=t_167439_87_f&fid=36069&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrankiespeakingfrankly.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F10%2Fmedworm-googlereader-video-demo.html This is the first video demo I have made of MedWorm. It shows you how to export a bunch of feeds from MedWorm into GoogleReader, grouped by medical specialty, or by topic such as a medical condition (in this case diabetes).I should probably start with a 'What is MedWorm' video, but I was too excited to show you the OPML export which I have been working on recently, so the introductory MedWorm video will just have to come later.There's a better quality video that I uploaded to Screencast here, but since I can't afford a Pro account yet you won't be able to view it there once it has gone over my 2GB bandwidth limit. (Honest, really can't afford to spend another penny more until I find some money from somewhere, see MedWorm Goes Bust).I produced it using Camtasia Studio. Let me know what you ... Frankie Speaking Frankly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4045065 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 12:37:00 +0100 4045065 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4013262&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2Fugg0sXF6bZI%2F URL: http://www.hopetocope.com/A colorful magazine on how to deal with anxiety and depression. For: Anyone, Clinicians, Consumers, Anyone, ConsumersTopics: General Psychology, Life, Mental Health, Mental Health Promotion, Personality, Personality disorders, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Academia, Anxiety, Clinical Psychology, DepressionFeatures: Advertising, Articles, Collaborative News, Community and Social Networking, Conferences, Forums, Information, Links, Societal or Organizational Membership, Advertising, Articles, Collaborative News, Commentary and Blogs, Information, Interviews, Links, Multimedia, RSS Feeds, e-learning A colorful magazine on how to deal with anxiety and depression.  Communicate with others about your depression and/or anxiety and you can be included in a new... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4013262 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:00:48 +0100 4013262 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3721766&cid=t_167439_87_f&fid=39187&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgetbetterhealth.com%2Fhow-to-get-involved-in-social-media%2F2010.07.02 When healthcare reform became law, HR and benefits professionals I spoke with had two reactions: surprise and annoyance. Surprise, because they thought reform was dead; annoyed, because the law was full of provisions that didn’t make sense to them. But it was partly their own fault. Blogs and other social media were buzzing with healthcare reform talk for more than a year, and were more influential than ever. But HR and benefits professionals –- experts in the topic –- were mostly on the sidelines. They didn’t shape the debate, didn’t point out when people didn’t know what they were talking about, didn’t talk about how what was proposed would affect what they did for a living. Don’t take my word for it. A study last year on social media use by HR professionals revealed ... Better Health blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3721766 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:00:30 +0100 3721766 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3612054&cid=t_167439_147_f&fid=39202&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnicolaziady.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F29%2Fsocial-media-optimization%2F According to Wikipedia Social Media Optimization is the methodization of social media activity with the intent of attracting unique visitors to website content. SMO is one of two online methods of website optimization; the other method is search engine optimization or SEO. There are two categories of SMO methods: (a) Social media features added to the content itself, including: RSS feeds, social news and sharing buttons, user rating and polling tools, and incorporating third-party community functionalities like images and videos (b) Promotional activities in social media aside from the content being promoted, including: blogging, commenting on other blogs, participating in discussion groups, and posting status updates on social networking profiles Social media optimization is related to se... Nicola Ziady blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3612054 Sat, 29 May 2010 18:09:59 +0100 3612054 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3552358&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=38950&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shockmd.com%2F2010%2F05%2F11%2F10-reasons-why-i-still-use-rss-feeds%2F I still use RSS Feeds for reading my favorite blogs, as inspiration for writing my own blog, for staying up to date with PubMed, collecting information on several searches and from several sources, and for monitoring my blog and tweets. For reading RSS Feeds I use Google Reader because it’s an online reader which I can read from any PC as long as there’s an Internet connection, it’s fast to navigate with keyboard shortcuts, you can share your content, and create your own tags. Other google reader fans have switched to twitter to stay up to date especially since twitter has lists, for a short comparison of gReader and twitter read Scobleizer: Why I don’t use Greader anymore. I think twitter and google reader for rss feeds are two different apps, both with their own a... Dr Shock MD PhD blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3552358 Tue, 11 May 2010 06:31:44 +0100 3552358 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3545476&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FGDx_G3p3jwY%2F URL: http://www.socialworker.com/home/index.phpWelcome, social work students and professionals! Read articles from the Spring 2010 edition of The New Social Worker magazine, now in its 17th year! Welcome, social work students and professionals! Read articles from the Spring 2010 edition of The New Social Worker magazine, now in its 17th year! While you’re here–we have job listings, a lively discussion forum , our Calendar of Events, and more for you and your social work career! For: Clinicians, Researchers, Students, TeachersTopics: Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Educational Psychology, General Psychology, Social Psychology, Social SupportFeatures: Articles, Commentary and Blogs, Forums, Information, Journals, Links, RSS Feeds Welcome, social work students and... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3545476 Sat, 08 May 2010 13:13:28 +0100 3545476 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3239514&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2FoEUk64nvyZI%2F So a reader writes to NYT technology columnist David Pogue, saying he wishes there was one button he could push to receive all Pogue’s writings and videos. The reader even suggests a name for this: “David Pogue Direct.” It’s a great idea. But David Pogue says there’s no “one-click Pogue subscription” and that to catch all his content online, one has to subscribe to multiple sources in multiple formats. I think that stinks. I think there should be a one-click way to keep up with Pogue. After all, he’s one of my favorite writers on technology. So…let’s see if we CAN make a one-click Pogue Subscription. We already have an RSS feed for Pogue’s Posts (his NYT blog): http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/feed/ To get his columns, Pogue ... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3239514 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:36:26 +0100 3239514 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3123359&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2FMsc_OH5HXx4%2F 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 intell... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3123359 Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:28:38 +0100 3123359 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3092749&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F3317501%2Fx2nyl%2Fneuromarketing%7EA-New-Look-for-Neuromarketing.htm Here at Neuromarketing, we’ve had the same look (shown above) since we launched in 2006. We’ve installed a new look with some additional advanced features, like a dynamic list of our most popular posts, a tag cloud, avatars for authors and commenters, and more. We’ll be tweaking this going forward, and would enjoy [...] CommentsWe might make some changes along those lines, Ty. Initially, ... by Roger DooleyGive the neuromarketing content of the site I thought you would ... by TyPlus 5 more... (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3092749 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:17:55 +0100 3092749 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2851838&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FpjezNbTfgvo%2F URL: http://www.socialpsychology.org/Welcome to Social Psychology Network, one of the largest Internet sites devoted to psychological research and teaching. In these pages, you’ll find more than 16,000 links related to psychology. For: AnyoneTopics: Abnormal, Academia, Behaviour Management, General Psychology, Social Psychology, Social SupportFeatures: Articles, Careers, Clinical Tools, File Sharing, Forums, Information, Links, RSS Aggregator, RSS Feeds, Research, e-learning if (isNS && isMajor <= 4) { document.writeln('<font color=red>Note: Netscape 4 users may encounter problems viewing this site. We highly recommend that you use <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/">Firefox<\/a> as an alternative. Firefox is a free web browser that in... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2851838 Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:00:19 +0100 2851838 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2803842&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.podbean.com%2Fmf%2Fweb%2Fjgkziu%2FTheCommissioner04-08-09.mp3 Improving access to child and adolescent mental health services WCC summer update – July/August 2009 Health Inequalities Intervention Tools How to use NICE guidance to commission high-quality service: consultation Prevention package for older people resources Commissioning for carers Transfer of Learning Disability Social Care Funding and Commissioning from the NHS to local Government Aiming high for disabled children: delivering improved health services Other documents and conferences Also available as RSS (BBC What is RSS?), the easiest way to keep up to date with new material on web pages without any effort. If you don’t know how to use RSS ask your local health Librarian to show you… Feed for Podcast Standard Podcasts [ 7:14m] The Commi... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2803842 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:48:54 +0100 2803842 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2375789&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F1Ado2Rj3paA%2F A friend who is a medical librarian emailed me. She writes: “I’ve been setting up local RSS pages with Feedburner [for email distribution] and Feed2JS [for dislaying the content of feeds on Web pages] for our most popular journals, to allow for TOCs. … It seems the publishers have gotten wise to this and are not allowing their feeds to be resyndicated. It started with EbscoHost — I noticed their feeds never seemed to refresh themselves (which totally defeats the purpose of having a feed). Now it seems ScienceDirect is also blocking re-syndication. FeedBurner can’t pick up the feeds; Feed2JS gives an error, yet the feed validator says it’s a valid feed. SD is providing it’s own source-code to paste into local web pages, but it takes so long to loa... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2375789 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:44:49 +0100 2375789 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2348527&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2FxTzvRizvLzs%2F URL: http://www.conductdisorders.com/Personal stories, articles, links, and information for oppositional defiant and other conduct disorders. Oriented toward the teens who suffer from these problems. For: ConsumersTopics: Anger, Anxiety, Attachment, Behaviour Management, Child and Adolescent, Emotional Health, Family Therapy, Parenting, Personality disorders, YouthFeatures: Articles, Forums, Information, RSS Feeds Personal stories, articles, links, and information for oppositional defiant and other conduct disorders. Oriented toward the teens who suffer from these problems. This site started in the mid-90’s when a parent, in desperation, reached out to other parents by starting a message board for parents of difficult to parent children parents who are committed to helping our ch... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2348527 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:00:47 +0100 2348527 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2163426&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2Fo8MjkjH_pwo%2F New to me- and a good idea to put all of this on one page. http://www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/ I didn’t know the CDC was on MySpace or that the FDA had a recall Twitter feed. I decided I should definitely follow the CDC’s Twitter feed for Health Professionals, which is for “…Health Professionals interested in staying up-to-date with CDC’s interactive media activities…” They’ve also got a widget to help consumers search for products impacted by the Peanut-Containing Product Recall (embedded below). Includes: Blogs eMail Subscriptions Health-e-Cards Mobile Information Online Video Phone/Email Podcasts RSS Feeds Social Networks Badges for Social Networks Twitter Virtual Worlds Web Sites Widgets Go check it out. Hat tip: Maura So... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2163426 Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:35:18 +0100 2163426 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2125026&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2FiPGv5iZVA9k%2F This study suggests that Wikipedia may be a useful point of engagement for consumers looking for drug information, but that it should be supplementary to, rather than the sole source of, drug information. This is due, in part, to our findings that Wikipedia has a more narrow scope, is less complete, and has more errors of omission versus the comparator database.” And I loved this: “…health professionals should not use user-edited sites as authoritative sources in their clinical practice, nor should they recommend them to patients without knowing the limitations and providing sufficient additional information and counsel. If these sites are recommended, it should be in the form of a permanent link pointing to the specific recommended version of an entry. Finally, the issue... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2125026 Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:01:31 +0100 2125026 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2107456&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2FvB1ImKMcYBg%2F So the book is getting some attention! Internet Cool Tools for Physicians is in Google Book Search Stephen Francoeur made this little video: The Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the MLA mentioned it on their blog. The MLA’s Taskforce on Social Networking Software posted about it, calling it “…an accessible, illustrated and contemporary guide to online tools in medicine.” Laika, whose blog has quickly become one of my favorite MedLib blogs, mentioned it, as did Creaky. I’m watching WorldCat.org with interest to see which libraries are getting it (though Duke’s copy doesn’t show up yet). Dr. Shock (MD, PhD) gave it a very nice review. I’m lucky to count as friends people like Meredith Farkas and Michael Stephens, both of whom thought the book worthy o... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2107456 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:56:58 +0100 2107456 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2092198&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2FgnMbSEj6Pgw%2F Google Reader is my favorite aggregator for RSS feeds by a huge margin, so I’m pleased to see Google is making videos for visual learners to help them get started. Other helpful videos about Google Reader Google Reader “Getting Started Guide” [via] (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2092198 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:06:24 +0100 2092198 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2083922&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F01%2F06%2Fnlh-basic-search-videos%2F Basic Searching National Library for Health in a Minute Flash Video 1 Min Quicktime Video 1 Min Avi Video 1 Min RSS and News Search in a Minute Flash Video 1 Min Quicktime Video 1 Min Avi Video 1 Min Find Your Local Health Library in Under a Minute Flash Video 53s Quicktime Video 53s Avi Video 53s Posted in Access from Home, Access from Work, Access in the Library, Databases, E-Books, E-Journals, Electronic Resources, Multimedia Link, National Library for Health, RSS Feeds, Search Engines, Searching, Study Skills       (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2083922 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:11:55 +0100 2083922 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2065204&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F12%2F24%2Fbeginning-of-the-nlh-front-page-videos%2F Beginning a series of guides based on the front page of  NLH. NLH Health News in a Minute Flash Video 1 Min Quicktime Video 1 Min Avi Video 1 Min Posted in Access from Home, Access from Work, Access in the Library, Current Awareness, National Library for Health, RSS Feeds, Staying Up-to-Date   Tagged: Multimedia, NLH    (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2065204 Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:39:12 +0100 2065204 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2026257&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdavidrothman.net%2F2008%2F12%2F08%2Fthe-book%2F Got my hands on my copies of the book today! How exciting! Yay! You can buy a copy from: Springer Publishing or here: I’m looking forward to eventually seeing it WorldCat. Congratulations to Melissa Rethlefsen (who wrote a heck of a lot more than I did)! You should really go email Melissa now and tell her how much she rocks. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2026257 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:48:08 +0100 2026257 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1975043&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F460276385%2F URL: http://counsellingresource.com/I have had a few people on Psych Central Answers ask me about therapies online… For: Researchers, Teachers, AnyoneTopics: Teaching, Counselling, Mental Health, Psychotherapy, VariedFeatures: Questionnaires, Research Tools, e-learning, Articles, Assessment Instruments, Books, Collaborative News, Commentary and Blogs, Forums, Information, Online Counselling, Portals, RSS Feeds, Resources, Self-quizzes, Symptoms GuidesI have had a few people on Psych Central Answers ask me about therapies online.  These people wanted to be able to access this kind of therapy without leaving their homes.  I was looking through Gareth’s archives, and found the “Counselling Resource,” which entails online therapy, counselling and mental health resourc... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1975043 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:44:45 +0100 1975043 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1942869&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2FwESjuw21uOE%2F My apologies to the awfully nice folks who attended the CE course I taught at UNYOC a couple of weeks ago! I’ve taken far too long to get these slides posted: Also: I’ll be on a panel at NYLA tomorrow (Friday, 11/6/2008) afternoon at 4:00 PM- please say hello if you’re going to be there! As usual at these sorts of things, I’ll know almost nobody. But hey- I might get to meet Polly Farrington! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1942869 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:27:47 +0100 1942869 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1834596&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F404788926%2F URL: http://answers.psychcentral.com/Psych Central Answers is a person to person answering service with anyone pitching in their ideas or advice to your most desired answers to your psychology questions. Ask a question, and others will answer you, and hopefully, help you out along the road to feeling better. For: AnyoneTopics: General Psychology, Self-help, VariedFeatures: Question and Answer Service, RSS FeedsPsych Central Answers is a person to person answering service with anyone pitching in their ideas or advice to your most desired answers to your psychology questions.  Ask a question, and others will answer you, and hopefully, help you out along the road to feeling better. Psych Central Answers, is of course, a Psych Central product, included with all that extra-special Psych Centra... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1834596 Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:00:59 +0100 1834596 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1834597&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F403936909%2F URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/Medical News Today claims to be the largest independent health and medical news website on the internet. With news across multiple categories, psychology-specific news is well represented with many, many, many categories of various things. For: Anyone, Clinicians, Consumers, Researchers, StudentsTopics: General Psychology, Self-help, Varied, General Science, Medicine, Varied, Varied DisordersFeatures: Question and Answer Service, RSS Feeds, Articles, Forums, Newsletter, RSS Feeds Medical News Today claims to be the largest independent health and medical news website on the internet. With news across multiple categories, psychology-specific news is well represented with many, many, many categories of various things–ADHD, addiction, anxiety, aut... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1834597 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:00:52 +0100 1834597 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1785895&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F390122595%2F URL: http://www.curetogether.com/CureTogether is a place where people share their health knowledge, to help each other feel better and to make new discoveries. For: AnyoneTopics: Academia, Addiction, Clinical Psychology, Self-helpFeatures: Collaborative News, Community and Social Networking, RSS Feeds, e-learningCureTogether is a place where people share their health knowledge, to help each other feel better and to make new discoveries. It’s as private as you want it to be, it’s open and it’s free. Together we can work to end suffering for millions of people living in daily pain. CureTogether included Bipolar Disorder and Depression among other conditions. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1785895 Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:40:57 +0100 1785895 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1971066&cid=t_167439_125_f&fid=38161&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fdentalheroes%2F%7E3%2F342125062%2F Over the past several months the Dental Heroes blog has enjoyed significant growth and popularity within the dental community. It was not too long ago that Dental Heroes was a small side project of mine - slowly dying due to neglect. However, a burst of inspiration revived Dental Heroes, and turned what was a passing thought into a vision for the future. As readership has grown over the past several months, I’ve discovered that a significant number of visitors are interested in engaging with Dental Heroes on a regular basis, but simply aren’t aware of all the ways they can do this. Hopefully, this post will help those of you who would like to contribute to the Dental Heroes Community, but just don’t know how. Bookmark Dental Heroes Many readers simply bookmark Dental Heroes or set ... Dental Heroes blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1971066 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:06:22 +0100 1971066 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1544752&cid=t_167439_123_f&fid=37052&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2Fpediatric-pda-blog%2F%7E3%2F319128498%2F If you go to the pediatric RSS feeds list in pda4peds website you will see a number of services that offer news and updates in the form of RSS feeds. Of all these services Medworm stands out, for a... This is just a summery, visit pda4peds.com for more details and for everything about PDAs in clinical pediatrics! (Source: The Pediatric PDA Blog) The Pediatric PDA Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1544752 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:41:57 +0100 1544752 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1508306&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F309159929%2F URL: http://www.terkko.helsinki.fi/feednavigator/“Create a personal MyFeed ‘river of news’ front page loaded with the freshest medical information about the subjects you are interested in. Search and browse 3984 medical sources updated continuously”. For: Anyone, Clinicians, Researchers, Students, TeachersTopics: Life, Lifestyle, Academia, General Psychology, General Science, MedicineFeatures: Articles, Commentary and Blogs, Community and Social Networking, Information, Newsletter, Resources, Self-quizzes, RSS Aggregator, RSS Feeds (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1508306 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:36:36 +0100 1508306 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1508307&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F309150008%2F URL: http://ebling.library.wisc.edu/rss/index.cfm?panel=1Ebling Library for the Health Sciences has created a neat little RSS Portal that provides easy access to bundles of journal feeds in the health sciences (psychology included). For: Anyone, Clinicians, Researchers, Students, Teachers, Clinicians, Researchers, Students, TeachersTopics: Life, Lifestyle, Academia, General Psychology, General Science, Medicine, Academia, General Psychology, General ScienceFeatures: Articles, Commentary and Blogs, Community and Social Networking, Information, Newsletter, Resources, Self-quizzes, RSS Aggregator, RSS Feeds, Journals, RSS Feeds (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1508307 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:32:28 +0100 1508307 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1477637&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F300986593%2F (I don’t care that Ratcatcher beats me to posting cool stuff. I’m gonna’ post ‘em anyway- they’re cool and deserve multiple mentions from MedLib blogs.) From the Ebling Library at the University of Wisconsin Madison: Also available as PDF. I also really enjoyed this poster from Ebling1: (Fair Warning: PDF is about 7 MBs) Lots more on this project from Ebling here 1 Pronounced “EEEEEbling.” I’d like to take a moment to thank the person who helped me look really dumb (as if I needed help) in front of Erika Sevetson (who is very nice) by assuring me in a wholly confident tone of voice that it was pronounced “Ebbling.” You know who you are. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1477637 Fri, 30 May 2008 04:02:35 +0100 1477637 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1469346&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F298569055%2F David Rothman | View | Upload your own Amanda Etches-Johnson | View | Upload your own Melissa Rethlefsen | View | Upload your own Bart Ragon | View | Upload your own (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1469346 Mon, 26 May 2008 19:08:48 +0100 1469346 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1397643&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F277383146%2F SciFeeds delivers to you the most recent life science literature as it is published direct from RSS feeds. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1397643 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 04:38:53 +0100 1397643 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1370680&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.podbean.com%2Fmedias%2Fweb%2FaHR0cDovL21lZGlhMi5wb2RiZWFuLmNvbS8zNzc4Ni91L1RoZUNvbW1pc3Npb25lclBvZGNhc3RWb2x1bWUzSXNzdWUzLm1wMw%2FTheCommissionerPodcastVolume3Issue3.mp3 Updated Child Health Promotion Programme Towards World Class Commissioning Competency Education Commissioning Briefing National Dementia Strategy More strategic, timely information needed in primary healthcare Putting you in the picture Choice at referral Refocusing the care programme approach: Policy and positive practice guidance National Primary Care Research & Development Centre: Practice Based Commissioning Other documents and conferences To listen to this podcast (click here) or to download this episode (right click and save). To listen to this podcast (click here) or to download this episode (right click and save). Feed for Podcast Standard Podcasts [6:22m] Powered by Podbean.com (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1370680 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:41:47 +0100 1370680 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1360233&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F267118209%2F 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 designed to facilitate the search for funding sources to enhance individual and community health. The funding sources listed here may be of interest to virtually anyone associated with the health field – medical researchers, social workers, nurses, students, community-based health educators, academics and others. Funding sources most frequently listed here include those of private foundations, corporations, businesses, and not-for profit organizations. Finding an... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1360233 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:33:42 +0100 1360233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1358382&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F266771416%2F 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 I’d miss other, more important emails from inside our organization. So I subscribe to lists using a Gmail account. Here’s why: Separating list emails into a separate account allows me to treat them, as a whole, in a different manner than emails from higher-priority senders (patrons, co-workers, etc.). This lets me keep my attention focused where it needs to be. Because list emails are in a separate account, I also never have to annoy other list subscribers... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1358382 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 04:02:09 +0100 1358382 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1343775&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F262405901%2F [edit] 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) [/edit] To make sure I don’t miss any online chatter about Computers in Libraries 2008 (which starts next Monday), I’m subscribed to the following feeds: LibWorm [LibWorm feed] Feed for Twitter “CIL2008″ http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/10313522.rss This feed aggregates all tweets from CIL08 and from various CIL-related searches in tweetscan.com: http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllCil2008Tweets CIL 2008 Wiki feed http://cil2008.pbwiki.com/rss2.php Technorati tag: CIL2008 http://feeds.technorati.com/tag/CIL2008 del.icio.us tag: CIL2008 http://del.ici... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1343775 Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:21:32 +0100 1343775 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1336208&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F260273814%2F 6 months old, but new to me (dang it): Check out this helpful screencast on how to use Yahoo! Pipes to translate a feed from one language to another. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1336208 Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:30:14 +0100 1336208 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1321037&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F03%2F22%2Fscience-watch%2F from Thomson combines newsletter, regularly updated data, analysiscommentary and interviews on latest scientific developments.  Keep an eye on What’s hot in medicine - to keep up to date with the latest hot topics in the field.  Feeds and podcasts are available and planned on this open web resource. (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1321037 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:03:45 +0100 1321037 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1316528&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F255045671%2F In the middle of an attempt to explain RSS to a Facebook user (who is already uniwittingly making use of RSS feeds), this exchange cracked me up: the_dude: I haven’t heard of those Facebook apps. Tumblr? Reddit? Digg? engtech: Those aren’t Facebook apps. They’re different websites. You don’t have to login to Facebook to read them. They’re out there in the great wilds of the Internet. They’re outside of Facebook. the_dude: Man, internet people are horrible spellers. What’s up with those website names? engtech: Web 2.0 means spell check is optional. http://internetducttape.com/2008/02/28/explain-rss-using-facebook/ (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1316528 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:30:53 +0100 1316528 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1294281&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.podbean.com%2Fmedias%2Fweb%2FaHR0cDovL21lZGlhMi5wb2RiZWFuLmNvbS8zNzc4Ni91L1RoZUNvbW1pc3Npb25lclBvZGNhc3RWb2x1bWUzSXNzdWUzLm1wMw%2FTheCommissionerPodcastVolume3Issue3.mp3 The Commissioner Volume 3 Issue 3 from the North West Primary Care Librarian’s Group was published today with its podcast ( Standard Podcasts [6:22m]) contents are: PBC: Personalise your Improvement with the No Delays Achiever Dental Commissioning and Contract Monitoring - Tendering, Procurement & Contracting Evaluation of One-Stop Shop (Oss) Models of Sexual Health Provision Improving Access to Psychological Therapies implementation plan National Infarct Angioplasty Project (NIAP) interim report Practice-based commissioning : tips for preparing and pitching a proposal Strategic commissioning for older people Apply for Beacon Status Other documents and conferences Also available as RSS (BBC What is RSS?), the easiest way to keep up to date with new material on ... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1294281 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:37:47 +0100 1294281 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1271283&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F244060524%2F URL: http://clinicaltrialsfeeds.org/ Generate custom RSS feeds of the status of clinical trials from the NIH clinical trials database. For: Clinicians, Researchers, AnyoneTopics: Diagnosis, Clinicial TrialsFeatures: Search Engine, RSS Feeds (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1271283 Sat, 01 Mar 2008 23:03:19 +0100 1271283 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1266567&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F242959109%2F URL: http://www.mentalhelp.net/RSS: http://www.mentalhelp.net/images/root/rss/www.mentalhelp.net.rss Mental Help Net is a portal website that provides mental health news, commentary, services and advocacy. For: ConsumersTopics: Counselling, Mental Health, Psychotherapy, VariedFeatures: Articles, Books, Commentary and Blogs, Interviews, Links, Podcasts, Portals, Question and Answer Service, RSS Feeds, Therapist Directory Mark Dombeck (director at Mental Help Net) contacted me regarding his site. Online since 1995, Mental Help net has thousands of articles on numerous topics in mental health/illness, wellness, life events and lifespan development, divided into topic centers. In addition the site also provides book reviews, daily updated health news, blogs, podcasts, question and answer ... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1266567 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:45:50 +0100 1266567 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1241576&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F237717108%2F LibWorm has been bookmarked 700 times in del.icio.us. :) (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1241576 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:30:06 +0100 1241576 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1229099&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F234483636%2F CollegeDegree.com lists LibWorm as one of its “25 Awesome Beta Research Tools from Libraries Around the World.” 24. LibWorm: This beta helps you “search the biblioblogosphere and beyond.” When you want to start your search on the Internet but only want to find library-related material, this tool can help. By pulling information from over 1500 RSS feeds in categories like academic libraries, government libraries, law libraries, podcasts: librarianship, medical libraries and more. Thanks to Paul Pival for the heads-up! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1229099 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:00:06 +0100 1229099 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1226557&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F234162624%2F Guus van den Brekel used Feed43 and the tutorial I wrote to create an RSS feed for journals recently added to PubMed Central. Here’s the feed’s URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PmcJournalListnew A preview: Great idea, Guus! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1226557 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:02:14 +0100 1226557 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1221233&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F10%2Fnew-pages%2F A few new pages adorn this blog as of today.  Fade Feeds is a list of the key RSS feeds Fade as a library creates as a result of the Another 15 … Minutes Health News from Fade piece of Current Awareness (so if you want to know what the mass media are saying about a particular topic give these a go), the feeds from E-journals we subscribe to and in time will include the feeds we generate for people from Pubmed. To make the whole business of locating e-journals that Fade subscribe to a whole bunch easier, we’ve added the Fade E-Journals Page. For fun we’ve also published the Guest Faders page, which will list the sort of stupid question we ask about ourselves in Who’s Who of people we think of as honourary Faders!  We will of course include all of our library monito... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1221233 Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:48:57 +0100 1221233 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1213232&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F230681567%2F Directory of psychology-related sites that utilize RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to broadcast their content. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1213232 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:56:23 +0100 1213232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1194700&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F01%2Fathens-and-ingenta%2F With the new journals available from  Ingenta online, we  thought it would be useful to share with you the secret of  where to type in your Athen’s password if you go there direct!  On the right hand side of the screen you’ll see the login. The Athens login link is hidden below the Go button. Likewise if the journal you are trying to use is stubborn and tries to claim your hard earned money from you and you know that the Fade Library subscribe to it and you have an Athens password from us, use this link to remind it you have legitimate access. While you’re on Ingenta, check out the RSS Feed options for the journals.  As ever we’re excited about that kind of thing but do realise that not everyone else is.  Don’t know anything about RSS, check out our post... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1194700 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:03:04 +0100 1194700 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1192799&cid=t_167439_132_f&fid=35006&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnsaunders.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F02%2F01%2Fgoogle-reader-subscribers-greasemonkey-script%2F Via Google Operating System: a useful Greasemonkey script, Google Reader subscriber count. For any page with a feed, overlays a clickable count (click to subscribe) of GReader users subscribed to the feed. Of course, people use services other than GReader for their feeds. Go on though, admit it - you still want to know how many subscribers you have (Source: What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate) What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1192799 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:54:16 +0100 1192799 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1188357&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F225965180%2F You’ve probably heard about ReadBurner by now. The idea behind ReadBurner is that it aggregates counts of items that are frequently shared in Google Reader. First a point of clarification: ReadBurner doesn’t get its data directly from Google Reader in aggregate via an API- it gets the data from the RSS feeds of public linkblogs fed by Google Reader. This is explained on ReadBurner’s About page: “ReadBurner aggregates items that are shared on the Google Reader. This works by constantly updating RSS feeds of currently several hundred linkblogs. In order to filter out the best stuff ReadBurner counts, whenever an item is shared by multiple persons.” ReadBurner’s creator, Alexander Marktl, allows users to submit new linkblogs (or does he?), but he can&#821... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1188357 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:43:06 +0100 1188357 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1169551&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2008%2F01%2F22%2Fpodbean%2F Fade has recently relaunched our podcasts of ‘Another 15 Minutes…Health News from the Fade Library’ using the Podbean service. The service in its free format offers 100Mb of storage for the podcasts that you wish to publish and uses Wordpress as a content management system to publish them. The podcast blogs created have integrated streaming players in addition to the feeds for podcast dissemination. For cheap and chearful podcast hosting it’s a good service and the paid for options seem affordable too. If you want to know how podcasts work, or how to make best use of electronic resources and you work for Liverpool PCT, contact us using the form below. [contact-form] (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1169551 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:47:59 +0100 1169551 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1166966&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F220715025%2F Marcus Banks has closed and posted the results of his survey (previously mentioned here) for “librarians who read blogs that are written by health sciences librarians and targeted to other professionals.” Check out the results here. I loved seeing the results of Question 5: 5. How do you follow blogs?: 256 responses (1o people skipped this question) A. Bookmark/check periodically: 61/256 (23.8% of 256) B. Subscribe via RSS: 188/256 (73.4% of 256) C. Subscribe via email: 7/256 (2.7% of 256) So glad to see that so many are sensibly using RSS. Also interesting: 6. Of the choices below, what BEST describes the reason you read blogs?: 243 responses (23 people skipped this question) A. Current awareness about new technologies and tools: 185/243 (76.1% of 243) B. Source of discussion... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1166966 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:38:27 +0100 1166966 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1159321&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F218652550%2F I got a great email from a friend who is currently in library school months ago that I never posted about. Bad, BAD David! I love her description of how she used LibWorm to search the biblioblogosphere as a part of her research for a library school assignment: …I was required to write a brief piece related to an assigned search tool. The point was to share with the class the latest news related to a particular site (I had the Librarians’ Internet Index). I used LibWorm to see what people were saying about LII. Julie Shen’s blog pointed me to a piece about Wikipedia’s plan to start Search Wikia, a community-based search service. I ended up using the article from the blog to discuss the niche LII has created in the market. Your site was really useful because the BBC a... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1159321 Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:01:02 +0100 1159321 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1156756&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F218073502%2F Readers are well aware that I do quite a bit of promotion on PsychSplash regarding my RSS & Psychology Project “PsychAntenna“. Just yesterday the PsychAntenna database, which contains psychology websites, journals, blogs and podcasts that publish RSS feeds hit the 200 mark. As predicted previously, I believe I still have a long way to go and expect the final tally will be around 500-600 (maybe more!) but the ongoing growth and support for the site has really spurred me on. Users can look forward to a development/RSS blog appearing soon on PsychAntenna as well as some collaborative work with Frankie over at Medworm. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1156756 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:54:00 +0100 1156756 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1148119&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Ffile%2Fget%2FSociallibrary-UsingRSSToAddCurrencyToTheLibraryWebSiteScreencast592.mov (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 List of Aggregator Options 20 Free Aggregators Reviewed and Compared (My favorite is Google Reader) RSS Plugins for Outlook (2003 or earlier- Outlook 2007 has a feed aggregator built-in) RSS Popper BlogBot for Outlook Inclue! IntaVnews Google Reader Tips and Plug-ins Two more ways to trick out Google Reader (Includes Greasemonkey Userscript for Google Reader Subscribe and Google Reader Notif... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1148119 Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:01:53 +0100 1148119 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1143311&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F214769011%2F Well, I was pretty hard on Dean Giustini’s BMJ Editorial. I have believed in the value of the dialectical process since long before I knew there was a term for it and have always believed that honest criticism serves the criticized, the critic, and those witnessing the process. So I LOVE that Dean decided to specifically address one of my criticisms. I questioned Dean’s assertion that “Google’s search results are emblematic of an approaching crisis with information overload”. Dean writes: Google most certainly is emblematic (a visible symbol) of information overload, and in fact is the information specialist’s laboratory for it. I see honest disagreement here. I think Google is emblematic of the way that the clever application of technology overcomes &#822... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1143311 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 05:01:38 +0100 1143311 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1134482&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F212989950%2F 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,” “Medicine” or “Health.” This answer was lame and incomplete, something I’m not proud of. Even though I’m not entirely happy with it, maybe this one will be better. The term “Web 2.0″ is a metaphor representing the idea that the Web is in it’s “second version”. It is not, in my view, a particularly good metaphor. Some trends co... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1134482 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:23:49 +0100 1134482 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1076162&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F12%2F07%2Fsounds-healthy%2F - Internet Radio for the 3rd Healthcare Revolution, a podcasting service bringing evidence based health information to you in an audio format. Voiced by Sir Muir Grey and extremely well produced - it’s definitely worth a listen.  With audio based e-learning and glossary it’s mightily impressive. Mind you as the corner of the library with unimpeachably indie tastes, I could have done without the Queen on the about cast! (Source: Fade Library) Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1076162 Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:22:12 +0100 1076162 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1057065&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F191983411%2F Gaétan Kerdelhué, a medical librarian at Rouen University Hospital and author of this list of French-language medical wikis has translated entries into English so I could add them to my list. Thanks so much, Gaétan! The list of medical wikis is up to 56 entries now. Also- Gaétan blogs here- so if you read French you’ll want to check it out. If you don’t read French, you read a version translated into English by Yahoo Pipes. Heck, you can do what I just did and subscribe to this English language version of its feed. Below is a little preview you can browse to preview the sort of stuff Gaétan blogs about: davidrothman.net is looking for sponsorship. If you’d like to place a text link here in the feed or an advertisement in the sidebar, please get in touch! (Source... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1057065 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:01:36 +0100 1057065 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1051081&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F190942485%2F I knew that the The JAMA Report, “a weekly video and audio medical news service from the Journal of the American Medical Association,” was available from its home page at thejamareport.org, but The MARquee points out that JAMA also posts episodes to Blip.tv at thejamareport.blip.tv. Even better, you can subscribe to these videos as an RSS feed. If you want, you can even embed Blip.tv’s player in your Web site and let your library’s patrons watch these videos from the comfort of your library’s own intranet presence. Easy instructions on how to do this are here. Edit: Sorry! I failed at first to link the post at The MARquee! This has been remedied above. davidrothman.net is looking for sponsorship. If you’d like to place a text link here in the feed or an... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1051081 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:30:07 +0100 1051081 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1049809&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F190709125%2F Berci asked: David, do you know how can we subscribe to searches on Youtube? I mean, I’d like to follow the RSS feed of the search term genetics on Youtube, for example. Jan answered: You can create RSS feeds for tags. FI: rss for genetics will be http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/genetic.rss. For search related rss-feeds on YouTube you could try referd.info. The feed that Jan suggests will only contain videos that have been tagged “genetic.” It won’t contain videos that have the word “genetics” elsewhere in their metadata. To capture videos that have “genetics” anywhere in their metadata, try this feed: http://www.youtube.com/rss/search/genetics.rss Unfortunately, this simple way of creating a search-based YouTube feed (http&#5... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1049809 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:43:00 +0100 1049809 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1049810&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F190516848%2F BioMed Central announced on Friday that they’ve launched a YouTube Channel. In addition to our YouTube channel, we are working with SciVee to ensure the visibility and linking of PubCasts featuring BioMed Central articles. For example, SciVee currently features a pubcast by Apostol Gramada in which he describes the research he published in BMC Bioinformatics. Berci seems pretty excited about the prospect of more publishers doing the same, but I find myself wondering how much money and time publishers (or writers/editors) are going to invest in producing video content to compliment or promote their written works. Should be interesting to keep an eye on, regardless. Fun Little Hack: If you’d like to describe to new videos that are posted in this channel without having to log into... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1049810 Mon, 26 Nov 2007 04:05:41 +0100 1049810 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1040969&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F188113024%2F Melissa Rethlefsen sent me a nifty graphic from Cloudalicio.us that shows the tags del.icio.us users have most frequently used when bookmarking LibWorm: (Click thumbnail for full-size image) There’s nothing very surprising here, but it sure is interesting. Thanks, Melissa! davidrothman.net is looking for sponsorship. If you’d like to place a text link here in the feed or an advertisement in the sidebar, please get in touch! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1040969 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:49:23 +0100 1040969 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1032873&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=36669&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffadelibrary.wordpress.com%2F2007%2F11%2F16%2Fmedworm%2F It’s always useful to remember that Google isn’t the only search engine on the block.  There are loads of them out  there and you should always use more than one for an internet search.  When we come across one we’ve not used before and like the look of we’ll let you know.  MedWorm is a search engine and RSS provider service. It collects updates from over 4500 authoritative data sources (growing each day) via RSS feeds. From the data collected, MedWorm provides new outgoing RSS feeds on various medical categories that you can subscribe to, via the free MedWorm online service, or another RSS reader of your choice like MyUpdate on NLH. The advantage of haveing a search tool using RSS is the speed of update and the ability to create a feed from a search makes this ... Fade Library blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1032873 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:19:33 +0100 1032873 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1013236&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F181397647%2F LibWorm has been bookmarked by 600 different del.icio.us users: This makes us smile. :) You received this this post because you’re subscribed to davidrothman.net. Thanks! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1013236 Thu, 08 Nov 2007 02:13:23 +0100 1013236 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=985798&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F176302957%2F Need a hand keeping up with everything posted about Internet Librarian 2007? Use this search and/or this feed. You received this this post because you’re subscribed to davidrothman.net. Thanks! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=985798 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:09:55 +0100 985798 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=980410&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F175289789%2F I’ve been meaning to post a few notes about MedWorm for a while now. First, my friend and LibWorm partner Frankie Dolan1 has been blogging at Frankie Speaking Frankly and you should subscribe to its feed. Second, registered users can now make use of MedWorm’s new subscribe-by-email feature. Writes Frankie: It is now possible to receive updates to your favourite MedWorm medical feeds via email. First register with MedWorm by giving an email address, user name and password of your choice. Then subscribe to any of the thousands of feeds you see listed in MedWorm, by clicking on the My MedWorm chicklet next to a feed listing. Finally click on My Account to select how often you would like updates emailed to you. Frankie has some thoughts on this feature that are worth reading. Thir... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=980410 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:03:45 +0100 980410 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=959696&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F171561091%2F I’ve posted previously about the concerns I have about attempts to rank blogs (healthcare blogs, biblioblogs or any other sort of blogs). Please keep those concerns in mind when you read at eDrugsearch.com that, if measured by the number of subscribers via Google Reader or iGoogle, davidrothman.net is (just barely) ranked in the top 10 healthcare blogs. You received this this post because you’re subscribed to davidrothman.net. Thanks! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=959696 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:26:54 +0100 959696 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=926210&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F165097091%2F MedBlog.nl has one of the biggest list of medical blogs I have seen in my travels. The list of over 600 blogs includes links to the blogs as well as the RSS feeds (which is going to make my job over at PsychAntenna much easier). Details of how the blogs are ranked are included here. An excellent companion or addition to the Healthcare 100 which is maintained over at edrugsearch.com. Fire up your RSS reader and start collecting. Bloggers who write in the area of healthcare might consider participating in the Envision Solutions survey of the health blogosphere. You better get cracking though, survey ends October 15th 2007. (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=926210 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:14:37 +0100 926210 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=907028&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F161860744%2F Just a quick update that might interest blog and RSS junkies. Frankie over at Medworm (profiled previously) has now unrolled commenting functionality at the site, meaning that when you are logged in to your account and reading news items from within medworm, you can comment on items the same way you would leave comments on blogs and new sites. This simple feature allows medworm members the opportunity to start conversations around specific news-worthy items. From what Frankie tells me, this certainly isn’t the last feature you will see out of the medworm stable! (Source: PsychSplash) PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=907028 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:55:11 +0100 907028 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=864399&cid=t_167439_87_f&fid=36069&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffrankiespeakingfrankly.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F09%2Fcopywriting-rss-feeds.html Whilst 'feed fishing' for MedWorm, I came across several cancer blogs that I would have liked to add to the cancer category on MedWorm, but was saddened to see the following copywrite notice at the bottom of the feed items:Copyright © 2007 (blog title removed) This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@monica.healthblogs.org so we can take legal action immediately.Legal action immediately - ouch - some people just love their lawyers don't they? So I didn't add those feeds. I wonder if the cancer patients writing those blogs realise that their feeds are now being left out? Of course I respect that an individual may want their feed remov... Frankie Speaking Frankly blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=864399 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:38:00 +0100 864399 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=853122&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F154116160%2F again brings you a range of sites from the psychology web! Thanks again to those website owners or readers who have submitted sites over the last couple of months. Personality Disorders at Suite101: Part of the growing presence of mental health blogs/resources over at Suite 101, “Personality Disorders” is a subsite of Suite 101, managed by Tami Port (masters in psychology) that focuses on Personality Disorders (that wasn’t a surprise was it?). The site is a collection of blogs, articles (by Tami and other contributors) and discussions on the topic of personality disorders. Content ranges from summaries of recent publications to contributed case descriptions and is aimed at consumer level. Miscarriage Support: Miscarriage Support is a Scottish organization offering inform... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=853122 Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:34:14 +0100 853122 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=848247&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F153385710%2F This article seeks to walk the less technologically inclined health science library staffer through the necessary steps to begin reaping the benefits of utilizing RSS feeds, including setting up an aggregator, finding useful feeds, subscribing to feeds, and managing them. This is accomplished with only an absolute minimum of geekspeak or technobabble. You received this this post because you’re subscribed to davidrothman.net. Thanks! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=848247 Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:45:34 +0100 848247 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=841569&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F152454585%2F I think it was a little over a year ago that I gave up on the idea of building my own portal for medical information RSS feeds because I had started chatting with Frankie Dolan (of MedWorm and LibWorm fame) and suggesting ideas to her instead. I still get most of my medical RSS feeds from MedWorm, but I’m enjoying seeing how others are building medical RSS portals. Today I’m looking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Ebling Library for Health Sciences RSS E-Journal Feeds by Subject and at the Harvey-Semester JournalBot. I learned that UW-M libraries were up to good RSS-ish things from Ratcatcher’s post the other day that contained an abstract of an upcoming paper: Developing and Marketing an RSS Journal Service for your Library Authors: Erika L. Sevetson, MS, Christop... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=841569 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:59:26 +0100 841569 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=835115&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F150708451%2F Check out which blogs the biblioblogsphere is recommending via this LibWorm query. Of course, BlogDay isn’t over and there are usually late participants, so you might want to subscribe to this query’s feed. You received this this post because you’re subscribed to davidrothman.net. Thanks! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=835115 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:22:34 +0100 835115 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=821914&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F148080306%2F It isn’t any secret that I’m a big fan of Google Reader, but Firefox and Greasemonkey can make it even better as they tailor it precisely for your preferences and needs. Mashable has posted a list of 50+ Google Reader Extensions & Scripts for Firefox that is worth checking out. There are several here that I use and enjoy: Because my list of feeds and folders is large, I really like Google Reader Optimized because it makes better use of screen space than the default display. (Requires Stylish or Greasemonkey) Smart Google Reader Subscribe is awesome. A small button in the corner of the screen notes that a page has a feed and will subscribe to that feed in your Google Reader account if you click on it. Even better, it indicates visually whether or not you’ve already su... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=821914 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:14:18 +0100 821914 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=817792&cid=t_167439_158_f&fid=36018&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcaregiversbeacon.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F08%2Fcaregivers-can-subscribe-to-medworm-for.html http://medworm.com is the medical RSS (real simple syndication) filter engine for over 4000 authoritative "feeds" and where hundreds of new RSS feeds go out.The directions walk you through the steps to subscribe and it is very easy. If you are not a computer whiz or not familiar with RSS feeds, don't hesitate to try it due to worrying that it will be complicated.After entering your name, email, and password, you will go to a screen to select information by clicking on topics that you would like to receive, or that you would like to read now.Subscribing to get ongoing information about a medical condition can help the caregiver keep up with the latest medical treatments and help available.There is a new Caregivers Blog category at medworm.com, and medworm is seeking additional blogs to add ... The Caregiver's Beacon - Resources, Links, Ideas, News blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=817792 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 01:44:00 +0100 817792 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=791248&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F142694305%2F I know it’s goofy, but I was tickled to see that LibWorm has been bookmarked just over 500 times in del.icio.us since the end of November 2006. This makes me smile. :) (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=791248 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:37:17 +0100 791248 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=728294&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F132884249%2F Eugene Barsky gave a presentation on Monday at Vancouver Coastal Health on social software and health libraries. As always, Eugene has generously made his presentation slides available via PDF and via Slideshare (embedded below). I have to admit how much I enjoyed slide three… …not only because it appears as though Eugene may have read and liked this post, but because it is flattering to see one’s own name in such good company. Thanks as always, Eugene. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=728294 Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:53:00 +0100 728294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=692583&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F127379883%2F LibWorm can help with that. This query should show all blog posts about ALA 2007: +(ALA2007 “ALA 2007″ ALA07 “ALA 07″) Even easier, you can subscribe to a feed for this search and have new posts delivered to you as LibWorm indexes them. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=692583 Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:12:48 +0100 692583 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=687618&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F126729891%2F LibWorm Booked My copy of Phil Bradley’s How to Use Web 2.0 in Your Library arrived recently and it was loads of fun to find LibWorm in the index, mentioned on pages 36-37 and page 201. Above: Scan from the top of page 37 (Chapter Three: Weblogs). I figure that Phil won’t mind my reproducing the image he kindly asked our permission to reproduce- but Facet or Phil should please let me know if this is a problem and I’ll take it right down. It might make me look foolish, but I can’t really contain how (perhaps inappropriately) pleased I am that the tool Frankie and I created is mentioned in a book authored by a Web guru like Phil and published by CILIP (Facet) Performance improvement As LibWorm’s database grows and usage increases, we’re noticing (as you m... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=687618 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:44:34 +0100 687618 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=672123&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F124474619%2F Presentation slides by the University of Michigan’s Patricia Anderson: There’s some good stuff here, but I’m a little surprised that a presentation on RSS for medical libraries doesn’t mention MedWorm or LibWorm. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=672123 Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:23:34 +0100 672123 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=649232&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F121455332%2F PsychSplash posted an interview today with my LibWorm parter-in-geekery, Frankie Dolan, about MedWorm and RSS for clinicians. Have I mentioned recently that Frankie rocks? (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=649232 Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:11:30 +0100 649232 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=650823&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F121226297%2F Medworm makes RSS for health professionals easy and practical. From a huge directory of health and medical news sources and journals, Medworm provides readers with the latest up-to-date news and research across multiple medical disciplines, including Psychology/Psychiatry. As a new visitor to the site you have a few choices: 1) Enter some keywords into the search box to search through the news archives. Think of it as a medically focused search engine. The cool thing is that RSS feeds are generated for your search query, so if you like the results you get back from your search, you can subscribe to that search query in an ongoing way. 2) Browse through current news items and their sources from a variety of categories provided on the front page: Publications, Blogs, Consumer Health, Medical... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=650823 Thu, 31 May 2007 23:42:09 +0100 650823 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=622366&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F117752675%2F Okay, Feedgit is a good way of quickly creating search-based feeds from news sources. But if you really want to catch online mentions of a particular topic from a whole ton of sources, check out MonitorThis. With MonitorThis you can subscribe to 22 different search engine feeds at the same time. Enter a search term and click the ‘make monitor.opml’ button to get a list of rss feeds in OPML format. Just plug in your search term and copy the output, paste it into notepad and save the file as monitor.opml, then import into your favorite aggregator. My only complaint is that I get a LOT of duplicate hits. I’d like to load this OPML into Yahoo Pipes and filter for duplicates, but (the otherwise excellent) Yahoo Pipes doesn’t import OPML yet (dagnabbit). (Source: davidrot... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=622366 Fri, 18 May 2007 16:48:45 +0100 622366 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=610454&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F116533380%2F Dr. Ves Dimov at Clinical Cases and Images writes: It would be nice to have feed “pipes” (similar to Yahoo Pipes) of blogs in different specialties: - A feed pipe with general medicine blogs - A feed pipe with hospitalist blogs - A feed pipe with cardiology blogs - A feed pipe with nephrology blogs, etc. What are medical libraries for if not attempting to fulfill the information wants of clinicians? We’ll do this with help from MedWorm. A feed pipe with general medicine blogs MedWorm Blog Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Feed A feed pipe with hospitalist blogs MedWorm Query: hospitalist* OR “hospital medicine” Feed A feed pipe with cardiology blogs MedWorm Query: cardiolog* Feed A feed pipe with nephrology blogs MedWorm Blog Category: Urolog... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=610454 Mon, 14 May 2007 10:05:52 +0100 610454 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=598379&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F114968219%2F 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 techi enough to want an RSS feed are using a browser that automatically detects them. If you visit any of our specialty pages with a browser capable of detecting an RSS feed… you will see ours throughout the site. When I first checked out JournalReview, I was at work using IE6 and could not have known there were feeds available unless I viewed the source. I strongly urge Jeff to clearly advertise the presence of RSS feeds... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=598379 Tue, 08 May 2007 12:46:47 +0100 598379 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=586156&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F113951567%2F 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. The chapter on mashups is written by Michelle Kraft. The chapter on Wikis is by Mary Chimato (formerly of Medlibrarian.net, now making waves at Circ and Serve). The chapter on social networking is written by Five Weeks to a Social Library instructor Melissa Rethlefsen. Contents Introduction (M. Sandra Wood) Library 2.0: An Overview (Elizabeth Connor) Virtual Reference Services for the Academic Health Sciences Librar... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=586156 Thu, 03 May 2007 19:50:05 +0100 586156 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=586158&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F113669825%2F Conclusion bubbles: Just click the little icon in the list of search results for an article and get a quick look at the conclusion! The Snippets feature is hard to illustrate with screen captures that will display properly here, so I’ll describe/simulate it in text instead. Here’s a search result without the Snippets feature turned on: Transdermal Nicotine for Ulcerative Colitis Bandolier. 1997 Here’s the same search result with the Snippets feature turned on, giving a taste of the item’s content: Transdermal Nicotine for Ulcerative Colitis Bandolier. 1997 Nicotine for Ulcerative Colitis Case-control study Transdermal nicotine treatment Comment Ulcerative colitis has an…-control study One hundred patients with ulcerative colitis were matched for age and sex... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=586158 Wed, 02 May 2007 17:49:35 +0100 586158 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=581560&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F113147117%2F Got email from EBSCO’s Kathleen McEvoy who says that the policies I criticized yesterday have been miscommunicated and misunderstood. The user doesn’t have to click on an item and go to EBSCO to prevent a feed from expiring. What keeps the feed active is that EBSCO notes it is still being polled regularly by your aggregator. The feeds that disappear after a week are those that have been created but not subscribed to. It is reasonably assumed by EBSCO that feeds that are created and not polled by any aggregators were created by accident and deleted. Kathleen also notes: These limits only apply to users who aren’t signed in. If you’re logged into your My EBSCOhost account, one-click alerts follow the normal with regular renewal notices. EBSCO has posted an updated exp... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=581560 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:01:45 +0100 581560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=577986&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F112960375%2F I was in the process of writing detailed instructions on how to use the new RSS features in EBSCOhost when I saw Paul Pival’s kick-butt screencast. Paul has posted a larger, higher-quality version here. EBSCO’s announcement: EBSCOhost RSS Feed and Search/Journal Alert Upgrades Okay, this is an improved interface for feeds, mostly because the feeds are easier to find. However, Ken Varnum and Paul both point out the regrettable policy EBSCO has put in place by which feeds will be deleted if they are inactive for two months or if they are not accessed within a week of creation. With apologies to the very nice people I know at EBSCO, this is an extremely unwise policy. The POINT of search-based feeds is that the user doesn’t have to come back and CHECK every two weeks fo... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=577986 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:08:34 +0100 577986 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=577988&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F112853795%2F Have I mentioned recently how much MedWorm creator and LibWorm co-creator Frankie Dolan rocks? Let’s just make sure I cover that bit of housekeeping: Frankie Dolan Rocks. Moving on… Okay, say we want to search MedWorm for mentions of Ulcerative Colitis. When we get the search results, we now see a new option to “filter.” This produces a breakdown of the search results by feed category with a number in parenthesis showing how many search results come from each feed category. So if I’m primarily interested in getting updates on Ulcerative Colitis from sources mainly concerned with drug therapies, I might select Drugs & Pharmacology and Pharmaceuticals, then click the Apply Filter button. We’ve now filtered the search results to just those from fee... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=577988 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:32:10 +0100 577988 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=571746&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F112229396%2F Alan points out an article from the Health Information and Libraries Journal (UK) worth checking out (especially for those new to these technologies) that I somehow completely missed: Maged N. Kamel Boulos, Steve Wheeler (2007) The emerging Web 2.0 social software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health and health care education1 Health Information and Libraries Journal 24 (1), 2–23. doi:10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00701.x Free full text currently available: HTML | PDF Thank you, Alan! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=571746 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:30:12 +0100 571746 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=568806&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F111859572%2F I’ve mentioned before that I switched from Bloglines as my feed aggregator to Google Reader, but it occurred to me recently that I should’ve provided instructions on how others can do this quickly and easily. Try using the instructions below to import your feeds into Google Reader in just a couple of minutes and take Google Reader for a test drive. Images below are from my computer’s installation of Firefox 2 and its particular add-ons. Yours will probably look a little different, but not much. Step 1: Create a Google Reader Account (If you already have a Google Account, skip down to Step 2) Go to http://reader.google.com/ Click “Create an account now.” Plug in an email address, a password, your location, and the word verification- then accept the terms of ... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=568806 Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:58:04 +0100 568806 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=565981&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblip.tv%2Ffile%2Fget%2FLeelefever-RSSInPlainEnglish369.flv Great, simple explanation of what RSS can do for the user. Click To Play There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start. I love the reversal of the arrows and the “Netflix vs. Video Store” analogy. [via] (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=565981 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 06:31:20 +0100 565981 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=554034&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F110226524%2F Dean Giustini’s slides from his presentation last week at the 2007 Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing seminar, National Press Club, Washington, D.C. Be sure to keep an eye on the Open Medicine blog Dean is going to be writing. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=554034 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 03:25:54 +0100 554034 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=550466&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F109883881%2F From the InfoToday Blog: * LibWorm search: +(CIL2007 “computers in libraries”) Feed for this search… That’s really great that the organizers of CIL2007 like the idea, but I’m a little surprised that there was no link to the post they borrowed it from: Even weirder, Connie Crosby blogged about Steven Cohen’s presentation on RSS today: LIBWORM is cool - David Bigwood and developer created this site - searching only library feeds. He conducts a live search for CIL2007. Then you can throw the search into your Google Reader. Picture me blinking, confused. “David Bigwood“? I figured that maybe this was a transcription error, as Steven definitely knows my name and knows who created LibWorm. He was the first person (outside of Frankie) with whom I discu... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=550466 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 23:13:11 +0100 550466 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=549294&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F109720013%2F Its great that so many bibliobloggers are posting about Computers in Libraries 2007, but it can be a lot to keep up with. An easy way to keep up with all the posts is to use LibWorm searches and feeds. If you just want to catch all posts about CIL2007: LibWorm search: +(CIL2007 “computers in libraries”) Feed for this search But what if you only want to see mentions of gaming at CIL2007? LibWorm Search: +(CIL2007 “computers in libraries”) +gaming Feed for this search (Be sure to check out the videos) You get the idea. Have fun! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=549294 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:35:28 +0100 549294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=547043&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F109515212%2F 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 Judy notes are new to me. Many thanks, Judy! [Via MEDLIB-L] (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=547043 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:17:05 +0100 547043 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=539673&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F108616371%2F In the new issue of the MLA News, President-Elect Mark Funk presents a list of Presidential priorities, including: Upgrade the association’s use of technology so that we are regarded as a technology leader. Make MLA more of a virtual association. Create new avenues for communication. … Establish RSS feeds from headquarters, sections, the Governmental Relations Committee, task forces, and other units, so that members can more easily become aware of new developments. Allow members to customize which feeds they want to receive. … Establish wikis for sections, councils, committees, task forces, and other units in order to increase collaboration and participation. Allow units to enact their own rules for access and editing. … Study the effectiveness of the Academy of Hea... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=539673 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:54:57 +0100 539673 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=530663&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F107770077%2F It seems that Harvard Pilgrim President and CEO Charlie Baker has followed Paul Levy (President and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) into the blogosphere. Let’s Talk Health Care appears to have launched on 4/6/2007: It’s a WordPress blog (as is davidrothman.net) with a nice custom template, but I think it is unfortunate that the syndication options (both RSS feed and email subscription) were placed somewhere other than above-the-fold on the landing page. I subscribed. I’m betting we should expect more like this to appear. [via] (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=530663 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:45:28 +0100 530663 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=509225&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F105129271%2F Medical News Today (MNT) claims to be the largest independent health and medical news website on the internet. With news across multiple categories, psychology-specific news is well represented with categories aplenty (ADHD, addiction, anxiety, autism, bipolar, depression, mental health, psychology/psychiatry and more….). You can read your news online, subscribe to the multiple RSS feeds (MNT provide a simple, free RSS reader “medreader“) or sign-up for the weekly/daily newsletter services. Website owners can take advantage of free tools for displaying MNT feeds on their own website (a simple way to supplement the content on your blog/website). While news is the main focus of the site, readers can also access a range of health articles and engage in the opinion forums. I ... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=509225 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 11:01:19 +0100 509225 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=509226&cid=t_167439_109_f&fid=34752&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FPsychsplash%2F%7E3%2F105126304%2F HITSphere is a network of blogs on the intersection between healthcare and information technology. Compiled and managed by Shahid N. Shah (otherwise known as the Healthcare IT guy), an enterprise architect and IT consultant, HITSphere is a single page aggregation of over 40 blogs in the area of Healthcare IT. Healthcare IT is fundamentally the application of computer hardware, networking and software to improving the delivery of healthcare. This collection of blogs is going to appeal mostly to IT professionals who work in the area of healthcare, but clinicians may also find it interesting to see how technology is being used to enhance patient treatment, file management, and information delivery. The front page of HITSphere shows the most recent headlines from each of the blogs in the netwo... PsychSplash blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=509226 Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:39:00 +0100 509226 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=505092&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F104720056%2F Sweet! Frankie Dolan has also added a Tag Cloud built from the tags MedWorm reads from Medical Blogs. As with Libworm’s Tag Cloud, there are five ways to view this data: Small Cloud, Storm Cloud, Popularity List and Alphabetical List. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=505092 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:52:39 +0100 505092 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=503334&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F104680660%2F Two VERY cool enhancements at MedWorm, sister site of LibWorm. First, MedWorm now indexes feeds from categorized medical blogs. Second, the MedWorm search interface now lets you limit your search to just a subset of the feeds MedWorm indexes. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=503334 Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:00:50 +0100 503334 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=491082&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F103583773%2F I somehow missed this a few weeks ago: I admit to having special fondness for slide #19. This gets me thinking about how I’d present the ideas of Web/Library 2.0 to medical librarians. I think my structure and focus would be quite different. Now that I’m thinking about it, I’ll have to map it out. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=491082 Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:50:07 +0100 491082 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=485930&cid=t_167439_132_f&fid=35037&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.isavoir.com%2Fpost%2F2007%2F03%2F11%2FOpen-Text-Mining-Interface Nature might not quite be in the Open Publishing business like PLoS, but they are an important player nevertheless. I hope the OTMI gets picked up by other publications. It would be nice to have a publication data standard and as one of the top two scientific journals, Nature has the clout to make this happen. Being able to mine journals and search for information is invaluable (open or otherwise), and using standard formats like OPML is an excellent idea. Being able to share The Open Text Mining Interface (OTMI) is an initiative from Nature Publishing Group (NPG). It aims to enable scholarly publishers, among others, to disclose their full text for indexing and text-mining purposes but without giving it away in a form that is readily human-readable. Here is their wiki page. The Open Text... DNA MANIA blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=485930 Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:33:02 +0100 485930 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=457210&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F100253635%2F Randy Morin points out this interesting video in which people are stopped on the street and asked “What is RSS?” While this illustrates very clearly the fact that most do not know what RSS is, Randy points out that this doesn’t really matter. Randy says that if you ask the very same people what TCP/IP is, “..you’ll get the same response. But they use it everyday. It’s the protocol of the Internet. Or for that matter, what is HTTP? It’s the protocol of the Web. The average person doesn’t need to know what RSS is, they only need to know what My Yahoo! is.” (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=457210 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:02:50 +0100 457210 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=438036&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F97466152%2F Just a heads-up: LibWorm is being moved to a new server over the next couple of days. This should result in improved performance when you use LibWorm. While the server migration is going on, you may notice a few records disappearing (and then reappearing) or feeds not working, but this is temporary and should last only a very short while. Thanks! (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=438036 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 19:33:46 +0100 438036 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=438039&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F97347271%2F Want to follow online talk about the 2008-2009 ALA Presidential election? +(ALA “american library association”) +President +(”2008-2009″ Rettig Davenport) (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=438039 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:07:14 +0100 438039 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=437393&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F95796868%2F I have nothing new to add on the story of school media librarians expressing hesitation about the inclusion of The Higher Power of Lucky in their libraries, but I’m using LibWorm to keep up with the ongoing (and often funny) discussion. LibWorm Query: +(scrotum* scrota) +lucky LibWorm RSS Feed (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=437393 Sun, 25 Feb 2007 20:00:36 +0100 437393 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=432887&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F94901192%2F Interesting article from Information World Review. Some excerpts: Tom Coates, a technologist from Yahoo Technology Development, kicks off by summing up the disruption in attitude that is affecting information providers. “It’s in your interests as an author, researcher or scientist to get your work read, so you slap it on the internet, but that is not in the interests of your publisher,” he points out. [My emphasis] […snip…] Coates divides Web 2.0 usage into two areas: “Collective intelligence and social software is one clump; the reuse and openness with data is a second theme of Web 2.0.” Put another way, the first clump he’s talking about contains things like del.icio.us and Wikis. The “second theme” is exemplified by RSS and mashups. Paul Miller, ... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=432887 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 19:52:29 +0100 432887 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=430956&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F94286146%2F As a part of the 5 Weeks to a Social Library course, Melissa L. Rethlefsen prepared this great screencast to demonstrate some of the nifty things one can do with RSS for a Library’s Web site. Melissa is the Education Technology Librarian at the Learning Resource Center of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in my home town, Rochester, MN. Melissa’s related syndication resources and tools page Nicely done, Melissa! Previous posts about Melissa’s work: MN Medicine: Google, RSS, Podcasts, Oh My! I’m in Library Journal (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=430956 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:53:40 +0100 430956 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=430959&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F94238938%2F We’ve gotten a handful of requests for permission to add LibWorm searching to other Web pages. Please consider this post permission granted to any and all who want it. We’ll even show you how to do it. Just copy and paste this code into your Web page… &#60p&#62Search LibWorm:&#60/p&#62 &#60form action="http://www.libworm.com/rss/search.php" method="get"&#62 &#60p&#62 &#60inp&#117... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=430959 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:10:05 +0100 430959 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=429269&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F93775473%2F Ever notice that once you’ve decided on your query in PubMed and made an RSS feed from it, you can’t make any changes to the query? If you want to adjust it, just make one small tweak, you have to start from scratch, make a new search, and output a new feed. This could be especially unwelcome if you’re doing something more than reading the feed in an aggregator. What if you’ve created it FOR a clinician and the clinician is already subscribed to it? What if you’re using the feed in another application or Web page? PubMed Reader allows some flexibility that can be handy in these circumstances. You can run your search from PubMed Reader and export your RSS feed from PubMed Reader. Should you want to change the query that generates the feed, you can do so withou... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=429269 Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:43:02 +0100 429269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=411857&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F90109129%2F I’m been really tickled lately to see bibliobloggers using LibWorm to keep track of conversation on particular topics in the biblioblogosphere. This post will give a little detail on how to do that most effectively. Important: You might have noticed your existing search-based feeds from LibWorm behaving a little strangely while we made changes that enable search-generated feeds to work better (This is why it is called a “beta.” We’re still identifying bugs while expanding features). AAP and Open Access Iris at Pegasus Librarian has been blogging on the topic of the American Association of Publishers and Open Access, wants others to follow the news, and suggests using LibWorm to do it. Here’s the query Iris uses: +(aap “association of american publishers&... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=411857 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:15:22 +0100 411857 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=400103&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F87166788%2F Amanda Etches-Johnson recently posted about the presentation that she gave on “Heath Library 2.0″ at the OLA Superconference at the invitation of the OHLA, and included a link to a PDF of her presentation slides. She made great choices about what tools and technologies to highlight and how. Amanda also says very nice things about me that I don’t deserve, but enjoy reading anyway. (Source: davidrothman.net) davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=400103 Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:24:18 +0100 400103 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=396017&cid=t_167439_86_f&fid=34464&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FDavidrothmannet%2F%7E3%2F83891487%2F Since we first announced LibWorm’s new tag clouds in December, Frankie and I have been talking about how they could be made more useful in helping to describe the zeitgeist of the biblioblogosphere. One of the problems with the tag clouds was that they only represented tags from ALL items indexed by LibWorm. If they were really going to be useful in helping us understand what bibliobloggers are tagging about, the clouds would need to be date-sensitive to specific periods. Now there are three time periods to choose from for each cloud: This Week (frequently-used tags from the previous seven days), This Month (frequently used tags from the last 31 days), and This Year (frequently used tags from the last 365 days). (Note: The Alphabetical list does not have this function, but instead... davidrothman.net blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=396017 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:35:27 +0100 396017 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479937&cid=t_167439_130_f&fid=34940&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphysicaltherapyblog.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F09%2F18%2Fbasic-mri-information%2F I just wanted to put up a little basic information about the purpose of MRI’s and other investigations which can be done in addition to more standard proceedures (ie - xrays). Many of my patients have an injury and want to know why the doctor only ordered xrays when they think they should have an MRI. Xrays will show only the bones - no soft tissue. Therefore x-rays will only show a fracture, dislocation or other bony injury. X-rays will show the spaces where the discs in the spine are but not the actual discs - whatever anyone may tell you, a “slipped disc” cannot be seen on an xray. Probably 80-90% of people will recover from their injuries without needing surgery or any other intervention. In most cases, the doctor will rule out a fracture and then send the patient to ... Alison's Physical Therapy Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479937 Mon, 18 Sep 2006 20:30:19 +0100 479937 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479938&cid=t_167439_130_f&fid=34940&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphysicaltherapyblog.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F09%2F15%2Fexercise-tips%2F I took some of my own advice with my workout this morning and I put on my heart rate monitor while I exercised. I have a tendency to overdo things in the gym and I wanted to see just how hard I have to work on the treadmill to maintain my heart rate in the desired range. For those of you who don’t know the formula - your maximum heart rate is 220-your age. Then, to improve cardio fitness, you should be at 85% of your max and for increased fat burning, you should be around 70%. I adjusted the speed and incline of the treadmill every couple of minutes so that I stayed in the right range and I burned 700 calories in an hour, broke out a good sweat but didn’t feel like I was about to pass out!!! I’ve added a link for the heart rate monitor I use at the side of this page -chec... Alison's Physical Therapy Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479938 Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:34:22 +0100 479938 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479939&cid=t_167439_130_f&fid=34940&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphysicaltherapyblog.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F09%2F14%2Ffunctional-capacity-evaluations%2F This morning I performed an FCE on a Hispanic man who  had a devastating work injury. An 18-wheeler rolled over his leg causing a traumatic amputation. When I asked him what his goals are as far as work, he replied “I don’t know, I can’t do anything now”. He is a 24 year old, otherwise fit and healthy young man. Whilst I am completely sympathetic to the trauma he has suffered, both mentally and physically, I am still left wondering why people are so willing to just sit back and essentially write off the rest of their lives. He did really well during the FCE testing and was able to lift 30# and demonstrated good upper extremity strength and good eye-hand co-ordination. There are many, many jobs this man could now do. Has no-one sat down and educated him on his optio... Alison's Physical Therapy Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479939 Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:00:25 +0100 479939 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479940&cid=t_167439_130_f&fid=34940&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphysicaltherapyblog.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F09%2F08%2Fbusy-day%2F Wow - another busy day at work today. It seems there’s no end to the people who hurt themselves at work. Saw a lady today who had a bad back, she’d had a spinal injection and developed a facial drop and partial paralysis afterwards. She was seen urgently by a neurologist who decided she was basically faking….the facial droop was unconvincing and she smiled evenly…what a give away. A private detective got some interesting footage of her running around with her grandchildren without a care in the world!!! Her case was closed and she was sent packing. This is so annoying - 99% of my patients are genuinely injured, well motivated and driven - it is the 1% like this faker that give all the others a bad name. Anyone thinking of faking a work comp injury needs to realize t... Alison's Physical Therapy Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479940 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 03:13:29 +0100 479940 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479941&cid=t_167439_130_f&fid=34940&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphysicaltherapyblog.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F09%2F05%2Frehab-challenges%2F Having been a physical therapist for almost 20 years now, one of the biggest rehab challenges I have seen my patients struggle with is the “why me” mindset. Having a catastrophic accident is life altering - no 2 ways about it - but you have to dedicate yourself to rehab, give it all you’ve got and not sit around moping day after day. It’s the very rare rehab patient who doesn’t have a bad day mentally - but try to stay in control and look forward towards recovering and not backwards to the way things were. Life can be altered, sometimes irreversibly, in a split second - you are dealing with the consequences for months, years or sometimes for the rest of your life. There are plenty of people out there to help you - don’t be afraid to ask for help - a care... Alison's Physical Therapy Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479941 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 19:43:18 +0100 479941 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479943&cid=t_167439_130_f&fid=34940&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphysicaltherapyblog.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F08%2F31%2Fhealth-is-everything%2F Wow - busy day at work today. I work in a worker’s compensation out patient clinic treating exclusively injured workers. One of my patients lost a leg in an horrific work related accident and has been sinking into a deeper and deeper depression. He told me today that he is on the verge of losing his house as he cannot work and therefore cannot make the payments. He has 5 young kids and his wife cannot work due to the cost of day care. It’s at times like this that I realize that I am very lucky - I have a husband who loves me, 2 great kids a challenging job and a roof over my head - I’ll never complain again…Worker’s comp sucks - the law is written to protect the employer and not the injured worker and it’s not until you get hurt that you realize how th... Alison's Physical Therapy Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479943 Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:20:43 +0100 479943 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479944&cid=t_167439_130_f&fid=34940&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphysicaltherapyblog.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F08%2F29%2Fback-pain-tip-of-the-day%2F Prevent back pain by using a lumbar roll - this will support the lumbar lordosis and maintain the alignment of your entire spine in the normal anatomical position. Lumbar rolls are cheap (don’t pay more than $10) and easy to find. When you buy one, get one with a strap so that you can fix it’s position on your seat so every time you move, it doesn’t end up on the floor. I use a lumbar roll all the time and it really does work…..let me know how it works for you. (Source: Alison's Physical Therapy Blog) Alison's Physical Therapy Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479944 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:44:35 +0100 479944 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479945&cid=t_167439_130_f&fid=34940&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphysicaltherapyblog.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F08%2F28%2Fmy-fitness-routine%2F I get asked all the time what I do to keep myself in shape - so here goes… Monday, Wednesday, Friday 30mins upper body weights 30 minutes lower body 30 minutes cardio Tuesday, Thursday 60-90 minutes cardio - treadmill walk 4mph, 15% incline 60mins followed by bike or elliptical 30minutes. This may seem like a lot but I am not one of those lucky people who can eat what they like and still stay thin - all I need to do to gain weight is to walk past a donut!!! Sometimes I don’t even need to be in the same room and just thinking about chocolate will make me gain a couple of pounds!!! Anyone who wants more specific info about my weights program please just let me know….. (Source: Alison's Physical Therapy Blog) Alison's Physical Therapy Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479945 Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:46:10 +0100 479945 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=479946&cid=t_167439_130_f&fid=34940&url=http%3A%2F%2Fphysicaltherapyblog.wordpress.com%2F2006%2F08%2F26%2Foffice-chair-to-relieve-back-pain%2F I just found this ball chair and I wanted to share it with you - it’s not the only one on  the market but it is the best one I’ve seen and the best priced. Switch out your regular office chair and try this one for a couple of weeks - it’ll relieve a lot of your pain.  Click the picture, visit the site and give it a try - let me know how you get along….. (Source: Alison's Physical Therapy Blog) Alison's Physical Therapy Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=479946 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:14:38 +0100 479946