Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Blogs In Review

Being a Google blogger user I've been able to pretty easily integrate a few of my other Google tools with it and am rather fond of the result. On the right hand side of my blog you'll note a blogroll and newsreel. These are both imported automagically from my Google reader account that slurps up my favorite blog's articles. Articles that I flag with a star are automatically posted to the newsreel. I also like emailing some of the articles that are especially interesting to folks that I suspect will enjoy them. Here's a few of the characters that I follow these days...

Fred Trotter - I like to think as Fred as the Healthcare IT/FOSS curmudgeon of the group. Given the fact that my favorite comedian is Lewis Black this is definitely a compliment. He posts on lots of topics having to due with free and open source software (FOSS) as an enabler for Healthcare IT at reasonable cost.

Life as a Healthcare CIO - John Halamka's blog. He's sort of a celebrity healthcare CIO with tons of creds and experience. Some of the most interesting things that he blogs about come from his work as the Chair for HITSP (Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel) whose work has the potential to improve integration of HIT systems across the industry. His penchant for dressing in all black reminds me of Neil Diamond for some reason.

Candid CIO - This is the blog of Will Weider who is CIO for a rather large health system. I enjoy his insights on customer service and change management the most.

Not all of my Google reader subscriptions are listed on my blogroll. There are several others as well from places like TechRepublic and even Scientific American, either science and tech research or general industry mags. It's a pretty easy mechanism to catch mostly the news that I want and post it easily to Blueberrytech. Take a gander at the others out there and see what you think...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Billy, thanks for mentioning me. I consider that an honor. I hope to meet you in person one day.

Stacy said...

I also like those blogs and appreciate the links. I still think RSS is an amazing miracle - but that from a real technophobe posing as an IT director.