This week in blog land…

• David Pogue reviewed the new Mac operating system Lion in the NY Times
• An online tool to help estimate medical costs is expected in August from FAIR Health
• Lancet Oncology had a piece on smartphones as clinical tools in oncology
• A study about using Powerpoint in medical education to work with the way we learn has been written about by Dr. Shock and Michelle Lin at Academic Life in Emergency Medicine
• Google announced Google Scholar Citations, a tool to track your citation metrics

Just a few items of note from blogs this past two weeks:

• In a post on KevinMD.com, George Lundberg, MD says “Journals need to explain the reasons for a retraction“
• Neal Mehta wrote several blog posts about Google+. Why not read them all, starting with “Google+ Early Impressions – Lots to Like – A Few Things to Tweak” ? (via Krafty Librarian)
• ScienceRoll discusses the new online health community from the Mayo Clinic
• In one of a series of posts on healthcare innovation, Forbes’ David Shaywitz discussed UpToDate, asking “Why is Medicine’s Killer App an E-textbook?“