Weekend update: More research links from the week

Wow, another busy week (and weekend), but also, some really interesting new research sites made their appearance last week.

The links:

Reports:

The Relationship Between Crude Oil and Natural Gas Prices, from EIA. (PDF)

North American Power Plant Emissions, data from 2002 in PDF format.

Statistics:

World Population Data Sheet, 2006 from Population Reference Bureau.

Electric Power Annual, data from 2005, EIA.

Immigration prosecutions for June 2006, from TRAC.

Governments, Politics:

Country Report on Cuba, just updated, from Library of Congress.

Elections around the world, 2006 from Australian parliamentary library.

Abramoff Ties to White House, report from Committee on Govt Reform.

Good story on Tracking politics with blogs, aggregators and tracking tools from Searcher magazine.

Business:

100 Leading Media Companies Report from Ad Age. Includes downloadable media company family tree poster, and data.

Well Connected, a Center for Public Integrity report on the Broadcast, Cable, and Telecommunications industry. Includes information about state influence, federal lobbying/influence, and a media tracker.

FDA News and Recalls Archive, updated daily, from AskSam. It's searchable. Note AskSam can create a database from any RSS feed, according to their newsletter. Contact them for info on setting one up.

Tools:

Chicago Manual of Style is now online, by subscription ($25/yr now, $30 later).

Reporters Cookbook, a Wiki for reporters and others interested in Computer-Assisted Reporting and Research, where participants are encourange to post their tips, instructions, and guides to better research and database usage. Under construction, contributors are encouraged.

I had linked to, and looked at, Google Reader once, but never really tried it. Last week I set Reader up to read a few news feeds for a project I'm working on and I'm finding it to be pretty efficient. I may like this better than any other RSS reader/newsfeed aggregator I've tried. What do you think?