Notes on Medpedia’s changes
I first wrote about Medpedia in January. I noted in my post that Medpedia did not seem to specify what would qualify an applicant to become a contributor. Medpedia’s Angela Simmons addressed this in...
View ArticleA Question About Knol
Could someone please explain to me why Knol will be any more successful than Squidoo has been? _______________ Feed-only Footer: Twitter and similar tools have no innate value. The value is in the...
View ArticleMore Health Information Wikis
I’ve added a few new sites to the list of medical wikis. No, I’m not going to add Medpedia to it because Medpedia is still in beta. I’m flabbergasted how much press it is getting while not even visible...
View ArticlePam Dolan on Medpedia in American Medical News
Amidst all the coverage of Medpedia that has generally seemed to be derived from a press release is this more informative article from Pam Dolan at American Medical News. I’m quoted in the article:...
View ArticleUNYOC (CE slides) and NYLA Tomorrow
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...
View ArticleThe Book!
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 in WorldCat. Congratulations to Melissa...
View ArticleAdditions to the list of Medical Wikis
Added to the list: Clinical Research Informatics Wiki Self-description: “…devoted to topics in clinical research informatics…exists to facilitate collaborative development of articles covering the...
View ArticleAnnals of Pharmacotherapy on Wikipedia
I know I’m way behind on such things, but this article from the Annals of Pharmacotherapy deserves a mention, even one this belated: Scope, completeness, and accuracy of drug information in Wikipedia....
View ArticleRadiopaedia for the iPhone
Radiopaedia (previously mentioned here) has made available (at no charge via the iPhone App Store) a Radiopaedia Radiology Teaching File of “50 CNS cases comprising 170 images, questions and detailed...
View ArticleP Younger: “Beyond Wikipedia: how good a reference source are medical wikis?”
(Paula Younger is Electronic Resources Librarian, Exeter Health Library, Exeter, UK.) Abstract: Purpose – - The purpose of this paper is to examine the case for using subject (medical) wikis as a...
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