• 20 ways Surgeons should use Evernote (AppleQuack): And here is a screencast about how to use the new version.

• Attending a virtual conference—and what it tells us about the future of scientific communication. (SEED)

• Web 2.0 revolution underway in healthcare (eHealthInsider)

Titled ‘Web 2.0 in the Health Sector: Industry Review with a UK perspective’ the report concludes that new applications based on social health networks and content generated by health service users themselves – such as reviews of doctors and hospitals – will rapidly evolve to challenge existing healthcare systems and create new ways of delivering our healthcare.

• Medical Uses of Wolfram|Alpha (Brian Ahier): I shared my thoughts with Brian on the medical uses of WolframAlpha:

He said “I use WolframAlpha because sometimes (if I know exactly what I want to find) it saves me plenty of time and clicks. If I want to calculate BMI, Google lists me several calculator. WolframAlpha calculates it itself.” He continued, “If I want to find information very fast about a clinical marker, Google gives me resources, WA gives me the best answer in one click. I also use it for ICD classification, as it’s more easily accessible than Wikipedia; for epidemiological data and other calculations.

To sum it up, I think WA is for those who perfectly know what they want to find and want to save time and clicks. For other search queries, Google still is the best.”

• Bioinformatics Tutorials

• AccessDNA has a new website: