QDIS Blog

The QDIS Blog covers a variety of topics related to science and technology with a focus on chemistry and drug development. It also covers search engine tips and hints, chemistry articles, news, and other items that relate to science and technology.

Here’s a run down on the features of the blog. In the left column, the first section is called “Internal Links”. These links are for major areas of the blog and include a link to the primary website. QDIS Blog Home takes you to the main page for the blog. There also a page about myself and this one about the blog and its features.

Below that are the categories. This gives you only the posts in a certain category. this is useful if you only find certain post of interest to you.

Next is the section “Search Blog”. If you want to find something specifc in this blog this is the way to do it.

Next is “Archives” which will give you acess to all the older posts based on the date they were posted.

The final section on the left is “Subscribe”. This is the area to get the RSS 2.0 feeds. Web feeds are simply a way to subscribe and be notfied automatically when there is new content. The main feed is at the top followed by the comments feed; this feed includes all the comments to all the posts. Then there are the subscribe buttons so you can subscribe to the mani feed in the feed reader of your choice. If your favorite reader isn’t listed, you can right click (or control click on a Mac) and copy the link. Then paste this link into whatever RSS reader you use. Here is more information about the RSS feeds on this site. You can alos subscribe to posts via emial using FeedBlitz. just enter your email address, respond to an emial sent to you to verfiy and then enjoy a daily email with all that days posts.

In the right column at the top is the section “General Links”. This has links to websites of interest to readers of this blog such as the American Chemical Society and other chemistry related sites.

Next is the “Blog Links” section which has links to the web sites of some of the blogs I find interesting and read on a regular basis.

The next two sections are both collections of feeds. These are RSS feeds to either chemistry journals or other chemisdtry related feeds. Clicking on these in non-RSS aware browsers will give a site that doesn’t look friendly. however, you can right click (or control click on Macs) to copy that feed and then paste it into your favorite RSS reader.

The middle section is where the main content is. After each post there is a list of the Technorati tags for this entry. This will take you to Technorati and show what other blogs have used the same tag. after that is an email link to contact the Ed Vawter; it will open a new email in your email application with the title of the post as the subject of the email. Next is Yahoo’s Possibly Related Stuff. This will give you a yahoo search of similar items to the post. It doesn’t always work well but can give interesting results. Next is the possibly related posts. This gives other posts in the blog that are similar. Then there is the bookmarkit section. This is a list of popular social bookmarking sights and automates adding this post to your bookmarks. The last line gives several options. Print This Post gives a printer friendly copy of the post to print out. Email It gives you the opportunity to send the post to someone else you think might be interested in the post. The last two items give you comments and a permanent link to the post.

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