Challenge Day 2.0 July 13, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Fun.add a comment
Do you ever find yourself checking your e-mail for the 20th time a day or updating Facebook for the 15th time the same day? Well, we all struggle with proper time management. The new media workout plan should help you out:
Every time you open a new tab to check out one of the following websites, stop. Get up from your computer and do the exercise associated with the site you were going to visit. After you complete the exercise, you can reward yourself by going to the website.
Emergency Medicine and Social Media July 12, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, Webicina.2 comments
Lisa Hoffman at Emergency Medicine News just published an entry about the Emergency Medicine collection on Webicina.com.
If you have ever tried to find emergency medicine content online, you know that the number of web sites is growing, and it’s becoming more and more difficult to stay up-to-date using only relevant, medically reliable resources. Webicina.com takes the guesswork out with Emergency Medicine in Social Media, a free collection of emergency medicine blogs, podcasts, mobile applications, Twitter accounts, and Youtube channels and communities, among others.
Although you can use RSS, that, too, takes time and energy, but PeRSSonalized Emergency Medicine is a simple medical information aggregator that features only selected emergency medicine blogs, peer-reviewed journals, news sites, and Twitter users.
She also listed some advantages of using these resources.
HealCam: Chatroulette in Medicine July 12, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Innovation, Medgadget, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.9 comments
The Team of Medgadget just launched HealCam, the medical alternative of Chatroulette, the 2010 internet sensation. Obviously, they need the critical mass in order to make it work. The idea is great, the only problem might be the willingness of patients to reveal their real identity online.
If you would like to talk to others with the same condition as yours, go to the site, press start and choose a health category, say diabetes, and you will be connected to a random person with diabetes. When your conversation is over, you press next and you are automatically connected to another person with diabetes. You can talk to as many people as you wish. We envision the site as a large meeting place, where people can exchange information, get or give moral support, and learn from others. No registration required to participate in the video chats. So please check it out, and spread the word!
Follow the improvements on their blog.
Future of Internet: Infographics and Slideshow July 12, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Infographics, Slideshow, Web 2.0.10 comments
First, here is a slideshow about the 2010 Internet trends.
Second, I just came across this great infographics focusing on what the internet would look like in 2020. Click on the image for the full version. Fascinating!
ToxSeek: meta-search engine in toxicology and environmental health July 9, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, science, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
ToxSeek is a meta-search engine in toxicology and environmental health created for the U.S. National Library of Medicine by the team that designed SciencerollSearch as well. Toxseek now has more new resources and even more detailed results:
ToxSeek uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to retrieve, integrate, rank, and present search results as coherent and dynamic sets. ToxSeek searches across diverse biomedical and environmental health resources and so provides a way to efficiently locate information resources on topics related to toxicology and environmental health.
In ToxSeek, select an information category (or choose to “view all categories”) and enter a search term/s in the box. Boolean operators should NOT be used as the search is run against sources which handle queries in different ways. The ToxSeek results page returns resources in relevance order; this can be changed via the pull-down box to either alphabetical or source order.
ToxSeek’s results “clustering” feature helps users to more easily identify particular concepts. These “clusters” are created from what is retrieved in the original query, and can be useful in uncovering a specific concept or focus for more in-depth searching.
Health 2.0 News: Sistine Chapel, Android and Biometric Sensors July 8, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Health, Health 2.0, Infographics, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, science, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.2 comments
- Brain stem hidden in Sistine Chapel painting? (Boing Boing)
- Detecting Depression in Blogs and Online Texts (Medgadget): “Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer-Sheva, Israel, have developed a program that detects depression in text without obvious terms like “depression” or “suicide”.”
- Here are two great infographics: Health-care spending in rich countries and The Truth About Quitting Smoking
- Disease and Patient-Level Statistics with Wolfram|Alpha: Nice additions, as usual.
- Printing Biometric Sensors on Clothing (The Quantified Self)
- Here comes Microsoft Academic Search (deja vu?) (The Search Principle Blog)
It would appear that Microsoft has (re)released Microsoft Academic Search (again) — a search engine (re)designed for the scholarly search space focussing on information and computer science. This version was designed by its Asian affiliate and is emblematic of MS’s work in developing search niche tools. In that sense, MAS is a vertical search tool or vortal.
Education Crisis on Video July 8, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Video.add a comment
A fantastic infrographics-based video about the crisis surrounding the US education system:
High Blood Pressure and Social Media July 7, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, PeRSSonalized Medicine, Web 2.0, Webicina.add a comment
As nearly one billion people have hypertension worldwide, it is crucial to help those who are looking for quality and medically reliable information online. That is why Webicina today launched High Blood Pressure and Social Media featuring only selected social media resources including blogs, podcasts, mobile apps, slideshows or community sites, among others.
If you also want to follow easily these selected resources in a personalized way, here is PeRSSonalized High Blood Pressure, the simplest medical information aggregator.
Where Do You Go? July 7, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Video, Visualization, Web 2.0.add a comment
If you combine Google Maps, the FourSquare API and the GHeat heat mapping library, you get Where do you go, an application that visualizes wherever you go. Steven Lehrburger explains it like that:
Where Do You Go provides Foursquare users with a dynamic heat map of the places they have visited on top of a standard Google Maps interface. Users can create snapshots of their maps and hotlink them as static URLs on their personal webpages, or they can use the simple WDYG wrapper pages to share their maps on Twitter. The maps will self-update automatically in the background as users continue to visit new places and checkin with Foursquare.
And does the same on video:
