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I checked my traffic logs today and my nice daily double digit visitor count had ballooned to about 1,750 visitors since midnight. What the heck?
Then I checked my referrers...apparently, my post from March 9 about docs who don't wash their hands when they use the restroom is now the top result for the phrase "wish I hadn't seen that."
Behold, the power of Google.
Interesting to see John Hagel finally launch an "official" blog. John was my boss for most of the time that I was at McKinsey (although I can hear the McKinsey-ites shuddering now at the word "boss"...after all it's a non-hierarchical organization, right?). Very smart guy on a wide variety of topics. If you want deep thoughts, John's the one to go with. Welcome to the blogosphere, John.
I'm often asked how to get Medscape articles onto a PDA. You can always subscribe to Medscape Medical News via AvantGo. But over at Palmdoc, they've posted a nice little tutorial on how you can use some publicly available tools to download any Medscape article to your Palm. Very nice.
"The Drugs I Need". What do you think? Effective advocacy? Or have they jumped the shark?
Here's one for Thisisbroken.com. The hotel I'm at uses the Wayport service for Net access. I signed up for multiple day's use in my hotel room and it works just fine. Yesterday, however, after checking out (but before the 3pm net access cutoff I was informed of when I signed up) I was in the hotel lobby and slapped in my wireless card. Whoopee! Wayport also had wireless access in the hotel. But here's the catch...it's not connected with the wired in-room access that I already paid for. So, I had to pay all over again in order to get wireless access. This is broken. And lame. And cheap.
I'm supposed to be home by now, but I'm writing this from my hotel room as weather back in NY has kept me in Orlando for another full day. Hopefully, the airports will get their act together by tonight. I'm ready to go home.
The ACC meeting was fine. Met some great docs and some docs who just wanted a free pen. Tell me really, is there some great pen shortage out there that I don't know about? Because you would think we were putting out small sticks of gold boullion the way these guys (and gals) were flocking around our booth and picking up two and three at a time. sigh.
Anyway, on to the thing I wish I hadn't seen. How can it be that with all their training and knowledge about infection and transmission of disease that there are docs who do not wash their hands after using the Men's room? What's that all about? Now, I know that these guys are at a conference and they aren't getting ready to do a procedure at the Olrando Convention Center, but -- excuse me -- they are getting ready to shake my hand. Geez, are you sure you're a doctor?
...for the next few days. Yup, I'm at the ACC Meeting.
Boy, I have quite a backup of stuff to post. I'm going to try to get to it over the next few days, but here's a rough update. Spent the last few days at the Jupiter Search Engine Strategies conference...That's where I'm posting from today No Wi-Fi in most of the conference rooms, but I found some here in the "keynote" hall where I'm about to hear about something they are dubbing "search convergence." I'm dubious. By the way, since most of the sessions are being blogged at the Search Engine Watch site and they are one of the major sponsors, let me just say that if they are restricting wi-fi to a spot far from the conference rooms in order to preserve some kind of monopoly on breaking info for Danny Sullivan's site, that's pretty lame. Anyway, if anything interesting is said, I'll throw it up here. If you are interested, a lot of the sessions are being blogged here
Other sessions this week I would dub as "useful" but not "life changing". As many have said, once you get the technical basics of SEO down (let spiders see your stuff, don't do anything to make them angry, etc.), it truly is about providing the best experience for your users. In 9.9 times out of 10 making the best decision, design and content-wise for your users is also the best decision you can make from the SEO side of the equation.
Let's see...other cool stuff...tomorrow Jacob comes to the Medscape offices as part of our external speaker series to regale us with his tales of wired doc-dom I'm really looking forward to that.
And Tales of Hoffman hits the road again with our semi-annual trip to a major medical conference. This weekend I'll be taking off for Orlando to man the Medscape booth at the ACC. If you are planning on being there, please come by the Medscape booth and say hi. I think it would be very cool to meet some more readers in person. I'll be there through Tuesday.
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