Weekend update: Other things found this week:
Still following the public records search companies and wondering what's going to happen there. Some discussion on the Electronic Privacy Information Center site, which also breaks down the privacy news by company: here's Choicepoint news; and on the Public Domain Progress blog. Also see When your identity is their commodity in the Washington Post. Then, of course, there's 'Patriot Act-Diebold-Choicepoint', from Daily Kos.


More links....

Reference:

New York Public Library's Digital Gallery: thousands of images scanned and searchable.

College accreditation search from Dept. of Ed.

Report Card on America's Infrastructure, from Am. Soc. of Engineers.
Tools:

New weather search: Go to Google and search 'weather' + place (eg: weather 33132 or weather fort lauderdale.
Journalism:

Ethical Journalism: A Handbook of Values and Practices for the News and Editorial Departments, of the New York Times. 57-page PDF.

Romenesko in RSS!

SPJ on blogging: report in Quill.
Statistics:

Many Languages, One America: report on languages spoken in U.S. from US English Foundation. Get data by state, county, metro area, or by language.
News:

Watching America compiles news from around the world about the U.S.
Governments, Politics:

2006 U.S. Budget analysis by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, finds latest Bush budget would increase the deficit considerably.
Florida:

The Insurance Storm, Florida Today/Gannett special report on insurance companies profiting from hurricanes; includes database of insurance insiders' campaign contributions.

Devil Rays: What Went Wrong, special report in St. Pete Times covering 10 years.

Miami-Dade County Schools' Office of Strategic Planning, has lots of data about schools.

Some Interesting stories/Weblogs:

Blogger Buzz.