Web 2.0 101: Introduction to Second Generation Web Tools

I've embarked on a new little adventure by enrolling in an eight week online continuing education (CE) course offered by the Medical Library Association called Web 2.0 101: Introduction to Second Generation Web Tools. So, I'll be documenting my progress here on my existing blog.

The tasks for week 1 are all things I've been doing for a while. I've had the blog for about a year, but have never figured out exactly what I want to do with it; recently, I've pretty much ignored it. Perhaps this course will be an opportunity for me to revitalize it. Also, I already have numerous (147!) feeds in my Bloglines account, including feeds from journals and all kinds of blogs from Libraryland.

By the way, there has been some discussion amongst course participants about subscribing to PubMed feeds. If I am already in PubMed via my proxy server, I get the open url links to full text content via my library when I click on the link in my Bloglines. The order is important; I have to go into PubMed via my library's Web site first and authenticate via the proxy server in order to get the links. Also, as I already commented to the listserv (sorry about that, by the way), the PubMed support folks told me that there is a known bug that causes problems with RSS feeds from searches constructed from combining set numbers in the History tab. If you log into your MyNCBI account before you try to save the RSS feed, it seems to work fine.

I'm looking forward to learning some new skills as the course progresses. Stay tuned!