Weekend update: Other things found last week:


In one of the most interesting new media stories this week, Geoff Dougherty had to change the name of his Chicago Daily News website because Sun-Times owns the name of the old (once a Knight) newspaper now. Hmm. So now the Website is the Chi-Town Daily News. I'm not surprised; seems those old trademarks are still currency. I guess you might not be able to use use Miami News or Washington Star, either.

And, another Google Maps mashup: AP/Google Maps mashup, where you can find location of a story on Google Maps.

The other links:

Reference:

Some good military/war/conflict links: Project Ploughshares, includes Armed Conflicts Report, 2005; Human Security Report, 2005; Center for International Development and Conflict Management at UMd, with several conflict research datasets.

Transformation for What: 2005 Quadrennial Defense Review
fromStrategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Military, study (PDF) from Army War College.

What, When, and Where America Eats: A State-of-the-Industry Report.

Hurricane Digital Memory Bank has archives on Katrina, Rita and Wilma; from Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans.

1906 San Francisco Earthquake from Berkeley's Bancroft Library.

Our Bodies, Our Selves, resources for women's health in this companion to the classic book.

Global Health Facts, statistics from around the world from Kaiser Family Foundation.

2005 Computer Crime Survey from FBI.

News:

Hot Topics: Samuel Alito: lots of good links from U.Mich's law library.

Martin Luther King Jr. Newspaper Archive: free access to newspaper pages of historical significance: over 50,000 pages in this collection.

Statistics:

Foreign-Born Population of the United States from the American Community Survey: 2003

New features on the Census' American Factfinder.

Governments, Politics:

The Sales Tax Clearinghouse has info on sales tax in all the states. (need to register)

Tools:

Downloadable Nautical Charts from NOAA.

Business:

SBC Yellow Pages available with registration in scanned pages. The SBC books include cities in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Arkansas, Kansas, Missour, Oklahoma, Texas, California and Nevada.

Journalism:

How I got the story: several alternative weekly writers and designers give background on some of their best pieces.

Some interesting stories/blogs:

Washingtonian on Washington Post blogs.

Blogophile: CBSNews.com watches the blogs and reports interesting comments.