Weekend update: Other things found this week:
Politics dominates this week, of course. Many of these links have already been posted to the Herald blog, but are repeated here for reference purposes.
More links....
Reference :
Oxymoron Dictionary
SchoolResults.org get comparative test result by state.
Governments, Politics:
9-11 Report from National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
9-11 Report: search and cluster: Vivisimo search engine makes it easy to find stuff within the report. Also:
The executive summary, in HTML created by Jason Kottke.
Inexcusable Failure: report on the training of Iraqi security forces, from Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Official DNC blog.
Democratic National Convention Guide, Boston '04
Feedster Politics: Feedster offers links to all the blogs from the DNC.
Convention Bloggers: a community site.
Librarian.net DNC Blog; Jessamyn West, a prominent librarian blogger, has credentials to the DNC next week. She's writing about it in this blog.
Electoral Vote Predictor: predictions based on polls. Shows Kerry way ahead.
Real Clear Politics is tracking all the polls.
TRAC study of immigration enforcement
Don't believe Michael Moore? Here's his factchecking on the statements in the movie.
Catholic? KerryWatch is monitoring the criticisms of Kerry on religious grounds.
Now here's an unusual political campaign: Outraged Moderates. They've started a campaign called Download for Democracy, encouraging citizens to gather government memos, documents, and communications to make them available to all. Here's what they've gathered so far. (via The Guardian.)
Statistics:
National Jewish Population Survey covers 2000-2001 population.
Journalism:
Technology and the newsroom: presentation by Jeff Jarvis to The Aspen Institute.
"Sad decline of the news business", column in Ad Age.
Sports Shooter a site for sports photographers. Has an article on the NFL photo library.
Reportage: archive online magazine of photojournalism, great photos from around the world, including some great photos of a rural mountain village in Cuba.
Tools:
Better WHOIS: find owner of a domain name. This one searches ALL domain registrars, it claims.
New Vivismo form also lets you search news, individual papers, lots of other Web sites, by clicking on the pulldown menu.
Excel ate my DNA: scary story about relying on Excel as a database tool (at least the later versions).
People: Alexander Hamilton: the man who made modern America, exhibit from The Museum of New York.
Jimmy Carter's presidential diaries, online at the Carter Library.
Doonesbury goes to war: a interview with Garry Trudeau in Rolling Stone.
Anyone remember JFK satirist Vaughn Meader? He's living in Gulfport, Fla and reminiscing about his hit 1962 album, The First Family.
Public Records, Florida, Business, News: no links this week.
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
We the Media: Blog accompanying Dan Gillmor's new book on Grassroots Journalism.
This is Rumor Control" "News and analysis on the appalling mess we're in".
Sudan: Passion of the Present a blog on news and activism.
Hating America: an opinion from Europe, in Hudson Review.
Why Farenheit 9/11 didn't end with "We Won't be Fooled Again", according to Pete Townshend. In The Guardian.
Looking for music online? MP3 blogs aggregator finds links to music from blogs.
Funfurde: a gadget review blog. (I want that Aga, British racing green.)
Fun/Entertaining:
This land...great political parody, Flash with music.
Wear Yellow: buy a yellow wristband to support the Lance Armstrong Foundation (sponsored by Nike).
Story of a very expensive mistake in choosing a vanity tag, from Snopes.
Politics dominates this week, of course. Many of these links have already been posted to the Herald blog, but are repeated here for reference purposes.
More links....
Reference :
Governments, Politics:
Statistics:
Journalism:
Tools:
People:
Public Records, Florida, Business, News: no links this week.
Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:
Fun/Entertaining:
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