Live Slideshow Today May 15, 2007
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in About me, Medicine 2.0.trackback
I’m going to present my slideshow for a bigger audience on Tuesday at the Department of Urology in Debrecen, so if you happen to travel to Hungary these days, don’t miss it! 
I’ve already talked about web 2.0 and medicine at the department of human genetics; biochemistry, nephrology.
I try to convince Hungarian physicians and scientists about how useful these webtools can be for them. How can it save time and make it easier to follow the changes of their field of interest.
And what is the best reward? When a physician tells you the next day that how much he liked his RSS feedreader.
RSS stands to me as a shining example of 1) something hyped that still can be useful, 2) the failure of an awful design trend to use RDF where XML would be appropriate. See OWL for another example.
And, by the way, I was disappointed by my realization that ‘Web 2.0′ failed to include the earlier (late 90s) aim of the Web community (that is to mean W3C) to separate content from format? Ever tried to machine parse anything that came off WordPress? It’s awful, skins rule over ‘es, so it’s essentially hopeless. RSS is the answer to this problem, and it is indeed an elegant one (RSS 2.0, at least).