If any of you are using firefox, there is now a remote posting option for word press blogs.
It’s called Deepest Sender and it gives you a full edit screen along with offline writing abilities.
It works with my personal blog and appears to work with the slis blog as well.
A’Llyn took a different approach than most of us by concentrating on the my ncbi feature of Pubmed. Actually I think this can be used for other db’s besides PM but I digress. She shows us the basic functions on how to save searches and citations for later retrival. Both are very useful functions that I currently use but probably the most important part of her demo was the section on filters. When she described and demo’ed the my ncbi filter feature, I realized how useful this could be. It appears to work in the same manner as a unix VFS! A better known example would be Itunes virtual playlist. That is each group is virtual and can be independant or have multiple overlaps. Bottom line is it gives the user “classification” power which makes things easy to retrive. The linkout filter group is certainly useful for those hard to find articles. Great job on describing this feature A’Llyn! And thanks for adding the humor, something that graduate school is sorely lacking 
Congrats on your escape and good luck on your future endevors…
And happy summer too!
And with that folks, I am signing off for LS590. I hope all of you have a great summer!
Brian showed us tips on how to retrieve only ebm type articles by use of limits. He also showed how to take mesh terms and make pubmed searches from them In the second part he shows us how to search by author then limit that search to a particular type of article written by the author. I had never thought of doing a search that way. I have noticed that everyone doing these presentations has a slightly different way of doing things and it’s great to pick up new tricks. Good job Brian and happy summer to ya!
Teresa did a good general pubmed demo but still had specifics like starting searches using Mesh and what to do when the word you pick doesn’t match the index (which happens to most of us I am sure ). Here last module was more on the finer details such as limiting your search to complementary medicine and the like.
Oh and while I generally have not commented on the technical aspects, since we were all Adobe prisoners, I did notice Teresa had a nice feature that allowed the end user to start the demo at their convience by way of mouse click. Nice Job Teresa! Happy summer as well.
Just a quick note to the class: I didn’t turn in the old pub med assignment till around 230pm today so have been a bit slow getting out the reviews. The rest should pop up over the weekend, promise.
Teresa, Brian- You may ask Dr. MacCall if he wishes to archive your presentations and if so I will send them to him.
You can leave them on my server as long as you like or I can delete them..your call. I will be doing an upgrade to the server OS but probably not till mid June and there is a small chance I could lose them if I don’t back them up (whichI can do if needed). Just let me know what you want to do…Happy summer!
Cathy gave a general but very complete overview of pubmed. The points that stood out to me:
Good tips on how to use the author search, something I normally don’t use.
Very complete review on how to save your results. Clipboard, email and of course RSS. I believe RSS is one of the more important features of the web 2.0 era and will gain greater importance once it gains the maturity of email (that is latency issues are resolved). Cathy also went into good detail on the linkout feature, something very useful if you are on-site or using a vpn. And lastly, she also demonstrates her savvy as a *medical* librarian by explaining the Lonesome Doc feature, something only a medical librarian can appreciate. Great job Cathy!!! Have fun at MLA and hope you have a great summer!
Beth had several great examples of how to use some of the more advanced functions of the interface. The use of boolean operators to combine mesh and general search was both a great idea and a very useful tool when one gets too many hits.
The first part showed good use of the limits functions and she noticed and pointed out the refresh problem Pubmed has with their interface. Old limits that are from older searches…good catch!
Oh and finally…she must have threatened those adobe programmers with castration as I did not detect one single craptivate error! Good Job Beth and happy summer!
Note: I am doing this in parts as I listen to the modules. I am also working on finishing the old pubmed assignment so I listen between breaks.
Good introduction giving background on medline. I did not know about the special url feature for local holdings of her hospital. Also doing the module route was the way to go even if you had to do some overdubing (or looping as they call it in television production)
I say part 1 because I didn’t want to listen to the whole thing till I have my own in the can-too hard NOT to be a scavenger of good ideas 
So far:
Good overview of who she is targeting the presentation for and I may have to scavenge that idea
Good demonstration of limits features-this was easy to follow and I think that is important to understand since it makes such a big difference in the results you will get. I stopped around this point for reasons mentioned above.
Good clarity- Beth’s voice was easy to understand and I had no problems understanding any of her words.
More after mine is done.
Here is a post on tools for watching old-school type web sites that don’t support RSS .
What they do is alert you when the site you want to watch is updated.
One is a fat client, that is it resides on your computer (plug-in for ffox) and the other is thin client. It runs on the tools web site.
The last one is for alerting you when an offline web site comes back online (Great tool for Elearning/Mybama
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