Daily Archive for April 19th, 2007

free, open, peer-reviewed online medical journal

Globeandmail.com posted an article on a new free open-source medical journal, launching in Canada.

Open Medicine is a peer-reviewed full-out medical journal with online publications immediately following the review process. Quite amazing, really. I think I will prepare something for them in the coming weeks, but more importantly I think we all should support the idea.

Anyway, below is the Globeandmail’s article on this, and don’t forget to check out Open Medicine.

Open Medicine launches Wednesday

Canadian Press

Posted AT 8:38 PM EDT ON 17/04/07

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spreadsheets with charts? how original!

I am a big Google supporter myself, but I am a conscientious objector to the hype surrounding Google office apps. What’s this with crappy online Word and not-any-better Excel? I mean it’s cool for Microsoft to have competition, but…

Well, this wonderful online toy Google created just got upgraded. Google spreadsheets now has charts. Very nice, actually. Perhaps Microsoft and others could learn from Google to create simple and clean interfaces. Of course, though, these apps are lacking severely in the usability department. What can I use this for? Excel has a million functions at my fingertips… but do I need those functions? Hmm… Perhaps not…

In any case, take a look at this article on PC World’s Techlog and decide for yourself. I’d also recommend subscribing to a Google account to see this beast for yourself.

Google Spreadsheets Gets Charts (Finally!)

Wednesday, April 18, 2007Â 8:09 PM PT Posted by Harry McCracken

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