• PDF Plugin now available for Firefox 3.0 on Mac - If you're a Firefox Mac user, you'll know what a huge thing this is. Finally, PDF's viewable in the browser using Mac's native PDF display functionality in Firefox. Thanks Google code!

• Emerging Technology | Computers | DISCOVER Magazine - Article on Valdis Krebs’ social networking mapping tool
• orgnet.com - Social network analysis software & services for organizations, communities, and their consultants - This came up today, a reminder of past explorations
• Regional Health Education Online Learning - The Permanente Medical Group - Online, freely available training around patient self-management, provided by the Kaiser Permanente Community benefit. I took a look at the video on chronic conditions. I think this is a good direction in terms of training. I think there are also opportunities, though, to better demonstrate patient-centered care in this medium, including use of the electronic health record (I’m supposed to think that, it’s what I do, after all).
• Portrait Professional - amazing photo enhancer - Could this be the next Internet maps craze?
• Rite Aid adds clinics in Washington, Baltimore - Washington Business Journal: - Rite Aid adds clinics in Washington, Baltimore, working with Medstar Health

April 5th through April 8th:

• Headzoo » WP Anti-Wares - Now it looks like we have to worry about insecure wordpress themes, too.
• Electronic Prevention - washingtonpost.com - Nice writeup of the New York PCIP program. What the writer doesn’t realize, is that a patient portal is coming, so a visit isn’t always going to be required….
• Jack and Suzy Welch: Leader vs. Manager - ‘We’d wager it only comes into play when you don’t want to offend an employee who crosses t’s and dots i’s but couldn’t excite a busload of kids bound for Disney World. In such a case, what do you say? You got it. “You’re a good manager.”‘
• Generation Y’s Bad Rap - It’s not really that bad, according to Jack Welch. I agree.
• The National Physicians Alliance encourages all doctors to join our Unbranded Doctor Campaign — a national network of physicians committed to reducing the influence of pharmaceutical marketing on our profession. - NPA appears to be a grown up version of AMSA. They include consumers in their governance
• Macworld | Mac OS X Hints | Add more power to 10.5’s screen sharing - Economical screen sharing alternatives using Leopard
• Total Value, Total Return: Invest in Health Management Programs -
• Office 2004 for Mac Solution Center - Office 2004 downloads for Mac. Time to upgrade

• Safari 3.1 includes hidden one-window preference - This is the holy grail of Safari as the browser of choice. That plus compatibility with blog authoring tools.
• Mac BU promises bibliography improvements to Office 2008 - Interesting discussion somewhat unrelated to the article’s title about the state of bibliographic software. I would look forward to further refinements of Zotero, and maybe a server version.
• QLPlugins - Quick Look Plugins - Great efficiency improver of one of my favorite Leopard features.
• Aetna Smartsource Demo - Aetna’s latest information tailoring system for patients. Getting closer to supporting the patient-provider relationship?
• Apple - Support - Discussions - Unresponsive Keyboard and Trackpad … - This is a real issue for MacBookPro owners - prepare yourself just in case this happens to you.
• A new snapshot of health consumerism from EBRI and The Commonwealth Fund - Nice overview from Jane Sarsohn-Kahn
• Roblog » Batch Categories - Another category management plugin, for Wordpress 2.3 and 2.5
• uwMike » WP-Cats - More preparation to migration to WP 2.5
• Disk Inventory X - Map your hard drive to avoid wasting space
• How to Fly Without ID and Skip Lines | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss - Just in case this happens to you, here is how you can fly and recover.