links for 2008-07-30
links for 2008-07-29
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Skim is a PDF reader and note-taker for OS X. It is designed to help you read and annotate scientific papers in PDF, but is also great for viewing any PDF file.
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Bring Firebug to IE and Opera!
links for 2008-07-25
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Edit Content lists content by edit status and provides an “edit” link for each piece of content.
Wex for the Medical World
With the backing of some top medical schools, a foundation is calling on physicians and scientists to help them build a huge online encyclopedia of medicine, called Medpedia. Today the Medpedia Foundation raised the curtain slightly on their Web site, giving prospective collaborators a peek.
This sounds a lot like the medical version of the Wex project at LII, a nifty effort at building a collaborative, open law dictionary and encyclopedia. For some reason, Wex was never heralded in a press release like this:
The Medpedia Project today announced the formation of the world’s largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine called Medpedia. Physicians, medical schools, hospitals, health organizations and public health professionals are now volunteering to collaboratively build the most comprehensive medical clearinghouse in the world for information about health, medicine and the body.
Nor does Wex have direct support from “Harvard Medical School, Stanford School of Medicine, the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health, the University of Michigan Medical School and dozens of health organizations around the world” as Medpedia does. I certainly hope it lives up to its press release.
Anyway, it does make me wonder why more law schools don’t support efforts like Wex directly. Time and energy put into making more legal information freely available would be a great investment in our communities and may even result in a greater demand for legal services by a more informed public.
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links for 2008-07-23
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A Family Oriented Content Management System (CMS). Family Connections makes it easy for people with little to no web design experience to create a fully functional, feature packed, family website.
Money for eLangdell? or DrupalEd?
13. Online learning. US schools are often bad. A lot of parents realize it, and would be interested in ways for their kids to learn more. Till recently, schools, like newspapers, had geographical monopolies. But the web changes that. How can you teach kids now that you can reach them through the web? The possible answers are a lot more interesting than just putting books online.One route would be to start with test prep services, for which there’s already demand, and then expand into teaching kids more than just how to score high on tests. Another would be to start with games and gradually make them more thoughtful. Another, particularly for younger kids, would be to let them learn by watching one another (anonymously) solve problems.
Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We’d Like to Fund
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