Trade in your clunker data for new data
You can download data on 677,081 cars traded in the Cash for Clunkers program from Cars.gov. The AP has already analyzed it and found that one in seven of the new vehicles purchased in exchange get...
#depth on Twitter
You can find links I used to share more often on this blog by searching for the #depth hashtag on Twitter.
Follow me on Twitter, Delicious and Google Reader
If you’re interested in the kinds of things that interest me on this blog, you can follow me on Twitter, Delicious and Google Reader. I serve an unsteady stream of links that often never make ...
Interactive public data from Google
You can now type "unemployment rate Kentucky" or "population indiana" in the Google search box and get an interactive chart that allows you to do comparisons with other states. Says Google: ...
Spreadtweet
If your boss scolds you for Tweeting at work, consider Spreadtweet: So, you work at a big corporate, huh? And you're not allowed to use Twitter... Wouldn't it be awesome if there were a T...
Glassdoor.com
… offers “Salaries, Ratings, and Reviews posted anonymously by employees” about the companies they work for. Glassdoor is completely free — there are no subscription or report fees. Instead...
Little Red Riding Hood, reinterpreted
Slagsmålsklubben - Sponsored by destiny from Tomas Nilsson on Vimeo.
Jack Shafer: “The pharm-party meme refuses to die”
A lack of evidence never stops a journalist from declaring a trend. Slate’s Jack Shafer makes the point about alleged pharm parties, a “drug bacchanalia in which teenagers meet up to dump the p...
“100 Free Open Courseware Classes on Journalism, Blogging and New Media”
… from Online Degree World (“Education for Everyone”): There was a time when writers and artists were at the mercy of a few decision-makers who said what was published and what was cast asi...
ChangeTracker
Last week ProPublica launched ChangeTracker, �??an experimental new tool that watches pages on whitehouse.gov, recovery.gov and financialstability.gov so you don�??t have to.�?? Every time a pa...
The Crime Report
… is a new project by Criminal Justice Journalists and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. It promises to be “the nation’s only comprehensive guide to all facets of the criminal justice sy...
The Most Wanted Federal Government Documents
You have until March 9 to tell Show Us the Data which federal government documents you hunger for the most: Is the federal government putting the information you need online? Are there categ...
StimulusWatch.org
… is a volunteer Web site for tracking economic stimulus spending. An introductory email sent to the Open Government forum says the goal is “to chronicle and rate the thousands of ‘shovel-ready’...
StimulusWatch.org
�?� is a volunteer Web site for tracking economic stimulus spending. An introductory email sent to the Open Government forum says the goal is �??to chronicle and rate the thousands of �??shovel-...
The Journalism Now Podcast
… is “a new weekly discussion covering multimedia, data and social aspects of modern news.” It’s a partnership between the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications and Th...
The Journalism Now Podcast
�?� is �??a new weekly discussion covering multimedia, data and social aspects of modern news.�?? It�??s a partnership between the University of Florida�??s College of Journalism and Communicati...
The Financial Services Fact Book
The 2009 version is out and can be viewed online or downloaded for free as a PDF. It’s by the Insurance Information Institute and is stuffed with data on banks, brokerages and other pariahs of t...
The Financial Services Fact Book
The 2009 version is out and can be viewed online or downloaded for free as a PDF. It�??s by the Insurance Information Institute and is stuffed with data on banks, brokerages and other pariahs of...
AwardsandHonors.com
AwardsandHonors.com says it’s “the Web's first and only awards portal” that “provides you with everything you could possibly want to know about hundreds upon hundreds of key awards and honors.” F...
Go back to the 16th century to improve your handwriting
My handwriting has always been so poor I tried to teach myself Gregg shorthand so I could read my notebooks and take long, verbatim quotes (though I never became very good at it). Maybe I should...
I swear I’ve never hated an online ad more than this one
… and I’m seeing it everywhere.
I swear I’ve never hated an online ad more than this one
… and I’m seeing it everywhere.
Can you make a profit with local data?
Adrian Holovaty and the EveryBlock team are about to find out. Their $1.1 million Knight Foundation grant runs out June 30. They’re going to make the code that runs their local news and data aggreg...
Can you make a profit with local data?
Adrian Holovaty and the EveryBlock team are about to find out. Their $1.1 million Knight Foundation grant runs out June 30. They�??re going to make the code that runs their local news and data aggr...
Reading your newspaper on your computer isn’t as far-fetched as it seems
So says this 1981 video, making the point, once again, that just because you can see the future, doesn’t mean you can profit from it.[via TechCrunch]
Reading your newspaper on your computer isn�??t as far-fetched as it seems
So says this 1981 video, making the point, once again, that just because you can see the future, doesn�??t mean you can profit from it.[via TechCrunch]
Reading your newspaper on your computer isn’t as far-fetched as it seems
So says this 1981 video, making the point, once again, that just because you can see the future, doesn’t mean you can profit from it.[via TechCrunch]
Do we need a National Data Agency?
Robert Kosara of EagerEyes.org lauds Obama’s promises of more open government but says he needs to do more: All these great developments notwithstanding, there is still a piece of the puzzle...
Compilation of Presidential Documents now online
As of the new administration, the official "Compilation of Presidential Documents" will be published daily online. This replaces a weekly printed version that has been published since 1965.The com...
Compilation of Presidential Documents now online
As of the new administration, the official "Compilation of Presidential Documents" will be published daily online. This replaces a weekly printed version that has been published since 1965.The com...
Financial Crisis Timeline
The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank regularly updates its "Timeline of Events and Policy Actions" on the financial crisis. Writes St. Louis Fed President James Bullard: The Federal Reserve an...
Financial Crisis Timeline
The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank regularly updates its "Timeline of Events and Policy Actions" on the financial crisis. Writes St. Louis Fed President James Bullard: The Federal Reserve an...
“The way to make government accountable is to make it transparent”
Every president in my adulthood has been a disappointment on the subject of open government. Let's hope Obama lives up to this promise, which is all the more significant because it was one of his f...
SciTopics
... offers "Research summaries by experts." From the scientific publisher Elsevier, it "is a free, wiki-like service for the scientific community, where scientific experts summarize specific sci...
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several universities, including Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley. Do you know your online right...
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
The Chilling Effects Clearinghouse is a joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several universities, including Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley. Do you know your online right...
How not to misoverestimate crowds
The Obama coronation is journalism professor Steve Doig's opportunity to take on laughable crowd estimates: When it comes to accurately counting crowds, the slogan should be "No, we can't." ...
FAA's National Wildlife Strike Database
Want to know how many times aircraft have struck blue-gray gnatcathers in your state since 1990? The FAA's National Wildlife Strike Database can tell you. The database, maintained by Embry-Riddl...
Association of Public Data Users
Didn't know this organization existed. Its members include government agencies, universities and non-profit organizations, including Investigative Reporters and Editors, according to its members...
The Obameter
A newly refreshed PolitiFact this week unveiled "The Obameter" to track Obama's campaign promises: PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tra...
Fake Steve Jobs says CNBC reporter got punked
Say you whiffed on a big story and discounted obvious red flags, like a company's shifting explanations and the visible wasting away of its CEO -- it's generally not a good to then go on air and tr...
GenderAnalyzer
The GenderAnalyzer uses artificial intelligence “to determine if a homepage is written by a man or woman.” I’m proud to say that I’m in touch with my feminine side, because the site guessed that...
Writing 20 minutes a day = 1 book a year
Cory Doctorow, a science fiction writer and co-editor of Boing Boing, offers tips for "Writing in the Age of Distraction": The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away fr...
Pixel perfect disasters
I had only just finished reading an old New Yorker and its article on master digital photo retoucher Pascal Dangin when I came across PhotoshopDisasters, a blog devoted to Dangin’s bungling breth...
GradeGuru
GradeGuru is a site for “Notes sharing by students, for students.” In a sentence: GradeGuru is a notes sharing website where students who need relevant, course-specific study notes can find ...
Mail merge fail
Reports the AP: The Army said Wednesday that 7,000 family members of soldiers killed in the Iraq or Afghan wars mistakenly were sent letters addressing them as "John Doe." … The 7,000 origin...
Like, uh, ya know, we, uh, uh, have, umm, like, wutchyacallem, uh, double standards, ya know
Polysigh says: Caroline Kennedy has gotten bad reviews for repeatedly saying "you know" in a New York Times interview. This case points out a little-noted aspect of journalism. Unlike court ...
Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia
Reporters aren’t the only people who tape record their phone calls: Between 1940 and 1973, six American presidents from both political parties secretly recorded just under 5,000 hours of the...
Lessons learned from Deep Throat
Notes I took while reflecting on the passing of Deep Throat: Introduce yourself. Woodward first met FBI man Mark Felt at the White House while a Navy courier. Woodward didn't just sit in ...
Sunshine Government Initiative
Sunshine Government Inititative is "a coalition of media groups promoting policies that help ensure the government is accessible, accountable and open." The coalition wants president-elect Obam...
Guide to economic indicators
Investopedia offers a nice guide to what it deems to be the most important economic indicators, including where to find them online and a summary of what they mean. You can download the guide fo...
Liz Donovan
I didn’t know Liz Donovan, who had been a news researcher at The Washington Post and The Miami Herald, but a lot of luminaries in the world of computer-assisted reporting did because she was an ...
The economics of graphics
Amanda Cox of The New York Times graphics department gave a talk at Harvard yesterday and mentioned that the newspaper spends $500,000 a month on the department, according to the Social Science ...
IDEAS
In my Googling for information about the financial crisis I keep coming across IDEAS by the University of Connecticut Department of Economics, which claims to be "the largest bibliographic datab...
Map Hawk
… watches “How the Media Communicates with Maps”: This blog will cover the use of maps, mapping technology and location-based information in the media as well as its use by others who are u...
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
My beat once included Fort Campbell during the Gulf War, so I know it isn’t easy for those of us who have never served to get military terminology right. The Department of Defense maintains a ha...
Stuff journalists like
Stuff journalists like is a humorous look at just that.The list includes free food, bylines, awards, coffee and swag, which pretty much sums up the journalists I've known. Holograms is a stretch...
Get me Mr. Rewrite
Mr. Rewrite offers "Spelling, grammar and usage tips served with a dash of humor." A recent post discussed soon-to-be White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel: Or, as many in the media call hi...
Under the Influence
… is a new blog from the National Journal that promises “An Inside View of the Lobbying and Advocacy Industry.” [via the Sunlight Foundation blog]
Federal Register Electronic Public Inspection Desk
This is terrific: The Office of the Federal Register has created an Electronic Public Inspection Desk to provide free worldwide electronic access to public documents. For the first time in t...
A Digital Guide for Tracking Corruption
… is a “handbook designed to help investigative journalists track corruption across borders.” The free handbook, in PDF format, is published by the Romanian Center for Investigative Journalism ...
James Fallows on Terry Gross’ prowess as an interviewer
The Atlantic writer blogs that the “conventional chattering-class wisdom” Fresh Air hostess Terry Gross is a great interviewer is in fact true. He points to her interview with William Ayers as p...
An element of Malcolm Gladwell’s method
… from “The man who can’t stop thinking”: … a couple of times a year … he spends a day in the periodicals section of the New York Public Library just scanning through several hundred medical...
"Investigative Dream Team"
I'm not saying Barlett & Steele aren't great reporters, but I'd like to read more about them than hagiography: It was almost as if they were destined to someday fuse together. They grew up in d...
Schmuck Alert!
... memorializes verbal and physical assaults on news people. A recent incident involved Louisville's Fox 41, when a businessman "attacked in a determined attempt to throw a $50,000 camera to th...
Measuring Worth
Here's a useful guide to "Six Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.S. Dollar Amount, 1774 to Present." Two economics professors founded the site, which is devoted to offering "the highest q...
Challenged ballots: You be the judge
This Minnesota Public Radio feature showing challenged ballots in the U.S. Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken is a nice example of an online poll where you actually learn something ...
The Hoax Project
If you're a journalist, a blogger or Joe the Plumber and you think you're not vulnerable to falling for a hoax, you're fooling yourself. I say this as someone who in my early 20s, while trave...
To the victor goes the spoils
The U.S. Government Printing Office has just released the wonderfully named Plum Book. In the words of the Washington Post, it's "Washington's Hottest Read": To the untrained eye, this paperbac...
"Extremely complex" or "astoundingly basic," it didn't matter
Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com was the breakout geek star of the election. He was profiled in New York magazine and The New York Times, chatted on the Colbert Report, analyzed the election for ...
Investigative Reporter's Handbook
The latest edition of The Investigative Reporter's Handbook, the 5th, is out. From the announcement email: Published with Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. (IRE), The Investigative Repor...
Early voting numbers
Dr. Michael McDonald, an associate professor at George Mason University who runs a Web site called The United States Election Project, is compiling state-by-state statistics on early voting this ...
CIA archive search
By law the CIA is required to declassify "nonexempt historically-valuable records 25 years or older." The spy agency now offers an online tool to find out which such records have been declassifie...
The Bradley-Wilder-Dinkins Effect
The belief that there's a hidden racist vote against Obama not reflected in the polls is a constant of this election. It's been variously called the Bradley Effect, the Wilder Effect, the Dinkins...
Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to transcribe interview tapes
Surely there are few tasks as tedious as transcribing interview tapes. A Portland journalist and programmer explains how he used Amazon's Mechanical Turk to transcribe a 36-minute tape. Cost: $15...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s entire FBI file online
... courtesy of The Memory Hole. That's 16,659 pages. [via Michael Ravnitzky on FOI-L]
Bailout bill on PublicMarkup.org
You can read and comment on the Wall Street bailout bill at PublicMarkup.org. PublicMarkup.org, from the Sunlight Foundation, is "an ongoing experiment in preparing legislation more inclusively b...
Less money = fewer houses sold = crash?
The Great Depression is one of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's academic specialities: What caused the Depression? This question is a difficult one, but answering it is important if w...
What Crisis?
David Cay Johnston is justifiably outraged by the shallow and unquestioning reporting on the bailout: For a week now I have been urging fellow journalists to be skeptical of the assertion th...
The Living Room Candidate
The Museum of the Moving Image maintains an archive of presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to the present. This 1960 Kennedy ad, a 4-minute excerpt from his debate with Nixon, is especiall...
Why I hate tag clouds
What do you learn from this one by The Washington Post? Nothing.
How Economic News Moves Markets
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York published an article yesterday on "How Economic News Moves Markets": Exploring how the release of new economic data affects asset prices in the stock, bond, a...
Stormpulse
My last direct experience with a hurricane was nearly two decades ago, when I covered the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo for the Wilmington Star-News. Nevertheless, I've been visiting Stormpulse a l...
If one million monkeys blog, eventually they write about computer-assisted reporting
I have a perverse admiration for spam blogs that combine snippets from dozens of genuine blogs to improve their search engine cred. This one showed up in a Google Alert over the weekend: Year old ...
Disciplined Attorneys Search
PI Buzz's Tamara Thompson has created a Google Custom search engine to make it easier to find information about disciplined attorneys. She writes: This is a search tool to assist in finding lawye...
FiveThirtyEight.com
... offers "Electoral Projections Done Right." 538 is the number of electors in the electoral college and FiveThirtyEight's mission is "to give you the best possible objective assessment of the l...
Big city advice for journalists in flyover country
Jay Rosen, an associate professor of journalism at New York University and author of the blog PressThink, gives his take on "If you were a print reporter at a mid-sized newspaper in a mid-sized Ame...
Eight Ways to Get Interactive Data on Your Site
... from The Uncharted Backwaters of the Unfashionable.
Freebase Parallax
... is "A new way to browse and explore data" by David Huynh. Watch the video on the site -- someday, perhaps far, far in the future, the way it's going, we will be able to browse data gathered by ...
Justia legal directory
The fine legal site Justia has a new legal directory. It's still in "pre beta," whatever that means. Here's what you get if you search for Louisville criminal lawyers.[via Robert Ambrogi's LawSite...
The law on journalists' privilege
The Federation of American Scientists has put online a recent Congressional Research Service report (PDF) about the law governing journalists' privilege and legislation before Congress dealing with...
Researchers say government should focus on making its data easily available, not build its own Web sites
Four Princeton University researchers say government should devote its time to making its data easily available rather than building its own Web sites. They say "Private actors, either nonprofit or...
Open Car Price
Recently I wrote about Web sites that help you get better repair estimates for your car. After I wrote that I heard from one of the people behind Open Car Price, which lets you share and compare ca...
Videos of significant and noteworthy Kentucky trials
Two legal blogs have teamed up to post videos online "of opening and closings of the more significant and noteworthy Kentucky cases." The Kentucky Trial Court Review, a newsletter that summarizes t...
CongressionalBadBoys
... tracks public servants who serve themselves: Over 11,700 Members of Congress have served this great Nation. Overwhelmingly, they have been hard working, dedicated, intelligent, and deserving o...
The Opposition Research Training Blog
... offers "Tips and Resources for Opposition Researchers." The blog is written by Larry Zilliox, a Virginia private investigator and the author of "The Opposition Research Handbook: A Guide to Pol...
GeoCommons Finder!
... is a Web site for finding and sharing freely available geographic data. [via Tech Crunch]
ZipWho.com
... claims to be "The Most fun you can legally have with ZIP codes": We started this ZIP code demographics site in April 2008 because existing census statistics tools failed to satisfy the need...
Map the Mess
Ellen Miller at the Sunlight Foundation blog writes about "Map the Mess": A group of citizen journalists in the Cleveland metro, so outraged by corruption within their local government, have taken ...
Computers are for reporting, not Donkey Kong
In his farewell column after taking a buyout from The Baltimore Sun, Mike Himowitz recalls buying his first computer in 1983 - an $800 TRS-80 from RadioShack: ... I learned how to do some useful t...
Assessing Partisan Bias in Federal Public Corruption Prosecutions
... is a new paper by Sanford C. Gordon of New York University's Department of Politics. The abstract: The 2007 U.S. Attorney firing scandal has raised the specter of political bias in the prosec...
Monica Goodling on how to do Web and database research
The U.S. Justice Department report (PDF) on how former Justice Department staffer Monica Goodling vetted potential employees for proof they were "good Americans" summarizes how she used the Web and...
Google tries to organize the world's knowledge with Knol
Google says a Knol is "A unit of knowledge." It's the name Google's chosen for its new Wikipedia-like site, where anyone can write "an authoritative article about a specific topic" and theoreticall...
Breitbart.com: "Get connected to the news as fast as possible."
While scanning the latest list of top 50 online news sources, I noticed Breitbart.com, which ranks 50 and which I hadn't heard of before in spite of the excessive time I already spend on the Web: ...
Cogmap, an organization chart wiki
This site calls itself "the Wikipedia of organization charts." This means that it is a collection of organization charts online that anyone can edit, add to, and help maintain. Cogmap is a tool fo...
Just how stupid, shortsighted and out-of-touch are newspaper executives?
Last week I read the book Burn Rate. A great read. Burn Rate ruthlessly but hilariously chronicles author Michael Wolff's attempt to cash in on the early days of the Internet. One scene that grab...
Google Elections Video Search Gadget
It uses " speech recognition software to automatically produce rough transcripts of presidential campaign videos." You can get it here. Using the gadget you can search not only the titles and de...
The Daily Cartoonist
The Daily Cartoonist is "The SOURCE for industry news for the professional cartoonist." Naturally it's blogged the New Yorker/Obama cartoon kerfluffle.
Reporters' Guide to Covering the Olympics
... from Human Rights Watch (PDF): Sports journalists who may be unaccustomed to government monitoring should know that even the most basic reporting activities may be of interest to the Chinese...
100 Useful Web Tools for Writers
... from CollegeDegrees.com. [via Librarians' Internet Index]
Free Medical Dictionary
... at Medical-Dictionaries.org. The dictionary is by Babylon.com "the world's leading provider of translation software," the site says. Today's term of the day is "inflammation": [in-fla-MAY-shun...
Free book on data wrestling
Paul Murrell, a senior lecturer in statistics at New Zealand's University of Auckland, has published a working draft of his upcoming book, opaquely titled "Introduction to Data Technologies," onlin...
Rating conflicts of interest at medical centers
The American Medical Student Association scorecard rates the conflict of interest policies at academic medical centers. The scorecard rates 151 medical colleges on such things as policies for acc...
In search of hard numbers on mass newspaper layoffs
Last week an anonymous reader commented on my post about the newspaper layoff map: All this fuss over some layoffs. What a bunch of cry babies. Now that the newspapers are going through what th...
"Speechology. Political rhetoric examined."
Speechology offers "User-powered analysis of political debates, speeches and campaign ads." Speechology is an archive of videos that show politicians stumping for your vote. If a candidate or ...
Taking the stand
I don’t know about you, but I always take the stand with me, because the case might get lost…
Basics of fact checking
The Infotoday blog summarizes what Brooks Jackson of FactCheck.org had to say at a conference: Look for expert agreement Check primary sources Know what counts (with statistics) Know who is ta...
Newspaper layoff map
graphicdesignr plots "paper cuts". - i.e. buyouts and layoffs in the newspaper industry. The closest to home recently was the Lexington Herald-Leader, which is cutting its work force 4 percent. g...
Research Recap
... highlights "the best equity, credit, market and economic research." Their latest post summarizes a Forrester report on newspapers' "Near-Death Spiral": The inability of print newspapers to prov...
Get car repair estimates from RepairPal or Driverside
TechCrunch reviews RepairPal, a service that promises to make it easier to know what car repairs should cost. TechCrunch summarizes the need: Going to the mechanic is like going to the doctor. Wh...
On the passing of Tim Russert
Certain stories are always untrustworthy. This includes stories written within hours of an event and stories about people who have died unexpectedly, as with Tim Russert. The first New...
Mark Schaver Created a Personal Lifestream on Dipity
Dipity, an interactive timeline maker
It took me less than two minutes to make this timeline of Depth Reporting posts using Dipity.All I did was register for the site and paste in the blog's feed. Nice. My feed isn't geotagged, so the ...
Google Maps adds Louisville Street View
Louisville is the latest city to get Google Maps Street View. If you're not familiar with it, Street View gives you a ground-level look at selected cities. You can take a virtual drive down any...
ProPublica: "Journalism in the Public Interest"
ProPublica is a New York-based non-profit dedicated to investigative journalism that has hired more than 20 experienced reporters and editors. This week it "quietly" opened its doors on the Web. ...
TagCrowd: "make your own tag cloud from any text"
I haven't been a big fan of tag clouds because to me they belabor the obvious and aren't a particularly useful way to navigate a Web site, but you may feel differently after checking out TagCrowd. ...
DesMoinesRegister.com Parkersburg Tornado Map
If you've ever ignored a tornado siren check out The Des Moines Register's map of the Parkersburg, Iowa, tornado, which killed seven people. It shows before and after pictures of the homes destroye...
Investigative Reporters and Editors conference blog
... is here. The conference is going on now in Miami.
Enhanced campaign finance maps from the FEC
The Federal Election Commission has improved its online maps showing contributions to presidential, House and Senate candidates. The FEC says "The latest changes make it easier to view contributi...
Kentucky State Police appeal sex offender database decision
The Kentucky State Police have gone to court to oppose giving us access to their sex offender database. You will recall the Kentucky Attorney General ruled in April that the KSP had violated the Ke...
Annotate your YouTube videos
... as reported by Google Blogoscoped:To add an annotation to one of your own videos, check your videos listing and hit the “Edit Annotations” button next to one. You will be able to insert three t...
Newspapers that Twitter
graphicdesignr summarizes May's activity. Hah, I was about to write that The Courier-Journal doesn't Twitter, at least officially, but in fact we do. Guess I need to get out of the office more. ...
Real-time water quality data
The U.S. Geological Survey now offers real-time maps and data on surface water quality across the U.S. We had a heavy downpour this morning, which is visible on one of the many graphs offered by th...
mediabistro.com
You can get a daily email summarizing media news from mediabistro.com: mediabistro.com is dedicated to anyone who creates or works with content, or who is a non-creative professional working in a ...
"Top 10 Essential Web Sites for Litigators"
... from The Virtual Chase. These are essential sites for reporters too.
From the Frontline: Top 10 journalistic uses for Twitter
"It's not all useless banter about cats and cookery," the blog says. (No, but the flood of disjointed trivia is the main reason I'm lukewarm about Twitter.)
HowDoYa
... is a search engine for finding explanations on how to do things -- like seal a driveway, grow a garden or buy a swimsuit. [via Phil Bradley's weblog]
Digital Research Tools
... or DiRT, is a new wiki by academic librarians that "collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) conduct research m...
PolicyMap
PolicyMap is yet another Web site that gathers multiple sources of data and promises to make it easier to access and analyze. Unlike Numbrary and Infochimps, however, wants to make money doing it...
Official Google Blog: Google Sites now open to everyone
This could be useful for anyone collaborating on a project: A few months ago we launched Google Sites exclusively as part of Google Apps for companies and organizations that wanted to use the ser...
TimesMachine
If you are a New York Times home subscriber you now have browsable access to electronic copies of every issue of The Times from September 18, 1851 to December 30, 1922. [via NICAR-L]
Glossary of Sausages and Prepared Meats
I just can't help but link to the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council's Glossary of Sausages and Prepared Meats, if only because it defines Goetta, which explains this blog's name: Fully cooked saus...
Can you trust someone's conclusions if you can't reproduce their work?
In theory the strength of science is that work done in its name is reproducible and verifiable, but what does it say about the theory when in fact that's not really true? Journals and granting ag...
Jeff Jarvis: "Why Twitter is the canary in the news coalmine"
I might have ignored this a few months ago, but since I first learned of two recent news events -- a plane crash and the earthquake that shook Kentucky -- via Twitter and not a conventional news si...
Social bookmarking for journalists
... as explained by the Online Journalism Blog.
Quamut subject guides
Barnes & Noble runs the Web site Quamut: A Quamut is a concise yet comprehensive guide to a particular subject, such as Buying a Home, Personal Finance, or Making Sushi. Every Quamut is profess...
Get a free Sitepoint Photoshop book
You have 28 days to get the book, The Photoshop Anthology: 101 Web Design Tips, Tricks & Techniques." You submit your email address to them and they send back a link that allows you to download i...
