Comments for Biomedicine on Display

Comment on Love at a sniff — come on, ever heard about culture? by Alexia

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:11:22 +0000

I think this is just out of control. There is more to chemistry than “Smell” are people this desperate for money. By the way you should watch who you see on other dating web sites. I was quite surprised to see the founder/President of this site (scientificmatch.com) on numerous dating websites. Warning he uses multible user names even going so far to calling himself a “Love Doctor”. I would watchout and stay away from this one girls

Comment on Profiles in Science: both updated and outmoded — a review of National Library of Medicine’s website by Wes Kim

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10:46 +0000

Thanks for the kind mention of my film. I’m just glad I’m not in front of the NLM in the Google results, as that would possibly mean more researchers wondering what on earth they had walked into when the clicked on my film.

Best,
Wes

Comment on Using Wordle to create a blogroll cloud for my blog links by Thomas

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:49:23 +0000

Thanks for correcting me! The result is awesome:

What about clickability? Sometime in the future …

Comment on Using Wordle to create a blogroll cloud for my blog links by Jonathan Feinberg

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:04:49 +0000

Try increasing the “Maximum words” setting under the Layout menu.

Comment on Using Wordle to create a blogroll cloud for my blog links by Kim

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:13:54 +0000

Oh my! Thank you so much for including Emergiblog in your links. I have most certainly returned the favor! : )

Comment on Using Wordle to create a blogroll cloud for my blog links by patientanonymous

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:51:10 +0000

Thanks for adding me to your list of blogs. I am always amazed at where I show up and it always an honour.

Cheers,
PA

Comment on Using Wordle to create a blogroll cloud for my blog links by Laika

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:35:59 +0000

Looks great!
I especially like the red/blue/green and white/blue/green as a piece of “Art”. However, in terms of usability, I don’t find single words very handy. The “weighted” blogroll is also very nice. But as you said, it will only be functional when it is clickable. And readable. No problem with 30 favorites, but with the lot you have… ;)

At least I’m happy that you also placed an
alphabetical list of (potentially) useful life science and health/medical blogs so I could easily pick up mine from the list and was alerted to it by Google.

Well Let’s hope Jonathan is challenged by this and makes your beautiful clouds clickable and linkable.

You encouraged me to play with Wordle as well.

Cheers, “Laika”

Comment on Using Wordle to create a blogroll cloud for my blog links by Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:43:30 +0000

Nice post! Have you tried “Many Eyes” http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/

Comment on Public health on public display by Thomas

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:42:28 +0000

Oops — apparently I haven’t done my on-line homework. But the general problem is still interesting, I think. (And why does the municipality conscientiously put these announcements on the local billboard, if nobody can dechiffer them? Is this a case of public information atavism, a relic of the good old times when the public was informed via the local billboard?) And to add to your question about Denmark—do other countries outside the Public Health Paradise of Sweden put such data on-line?

Comment on Public health on public display by Gustav

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:24:17 +0000

Interesting post.

It seems that there is more to public display of bathing water quality in Sweden than the on-site billboard. At Badplatsen, run by the Swedish Institiute for Infectious Disease Control, such data from all over Sweden is available. Search for a particular place or use the Google Earth interface.

Time-series data is available (since 1996, the Kristianopel beach has had a couple of peaks in the amount of intestinal enterococci; July 23 2007 it was 210 (you were lucky!)).

The site doesn’t inform us about Hawaii’s stricter regulation, though. It also does not inform us about the quality of the data. That kind of contextualization is left to us, the informed biocitizens, to perform ourselves.

I will spend next week at Tisvildeleje, which makes me wonder: is there a Danish equivalent to Badplatsen?