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Blogs
Media Savvy - Barry Parr
The Top Blogs - according to Mark Fletcher's Bloglines
Nick Denton's Blogs:
Gizmodo,
Gawker,
Wonkette,
Fleshbot
Weblogs, Inc.- Jason Calcanis
Journalists' blogs - listed at cyberjournalist.net
Dan Gillmore's eJournal on technology in Silicon Valley.
Scripting News - Dave Winer, author of Radio Userland.
Maps and Atlases
www.mapquest.com
maps.yahoo.com
www.mapblaster.com
www.vicinity.com
Traffic Dodger
Jackson County, Mississippi
Arlington Heights, Illinois
Web Map Gallery at Directions magazine
Blogs with Maps
www.travelpost.com
Gazetteers
Falling Rain Genomics
Time Zones
WorldTimeZone
Time Ticker
Historical Atlases
Hyper History
The Library of Congress Geography and Map Division uses MrSid imaging technology to distribute thousands of oversize historical maps and images over the internet.
Databases
All Music
MeansBusiness.com - A for-pay database of business concepts culled from printed books.
The Political Graveyard - US
Political Biography
Major News Sites
Guardian
nandoTimes
Christian Science Monitor
NY Times
The Economist
BBC
ABC
ChannelOne (for students)
MSNBC
CNN
Chicago Tribune
New Zealand Herald
Washington Post
International Herald Tribune
Wall Street Journal
Salon
News Aggregators
RocketNews
Topix
Google News Search
totalNews
worldnews.com
NewsHub
Yahoo Headlines
Yahoo Full Coverage
FACSNET - AP Digest
NewsIsFree
NewsNow
7am - with syndication offers
nabou - Moreover client
Danny Sullivan's list of news search engines.
Niche News Sites
Drudge Report - Matt Drudge
rediff.com - for Indians living in the US
Bush Watch - news about George Bush
HowlinWeb - collected by John Shreeve
WorldNetDaily - investigative reporting of govt fraud, waste, abuse
Salon - alternative
Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
Interage - The Internet News Agency - volunteer portal of alternaive news
Cyberjournalist.net - at The Media Center at the American Press Institute
Regional News
Transitions Online - Post-communist world, based in Prague
Institute for War and Peace Reporting - Central Asia
CJOnline - Topeka Capital-Journal, owned by Morris Communications
Lawrence Journal World - Rob Curley GM as of August 2002, after several years at CJOnline
Asia News Network - A network of 11 newspapers in Japan.
Village Voice - New York alternative
Minneapolis Star Tribune -
Tehelka - "Free, Fair, and Fearless Press" in India. Editor Tarun Tejpal. Caused a furor in 2001 by filming defense officials allegedly taking bribes.
Mideast News
Al Jazeera - inflammatory anti-American and anti-Semite, now in Arabic, launching in English in March 2003.
Haaretz - Israeli daily
Jerusalem Post - Israeli daily
The Middle East Media Research Institute - a Washington group headed by a former Israeli army officer, translates reports from the Arab and Iranian press.
Al-Ahram - the official Egyptian newspaper
Al-Hayat - Saudi-backed
News Archives
HighBeam - Previously Alacritude, previously eLibrary. Research tool targeted to individuals and small businesses.
KeepMedia - Archive of magazines and journals. Founded by Louis Borders, founder of Borders Books and WebVan.
AP Digital
The Indianapolis Star News presents a series of background stories with links to the archived articles at $2.00 each.
NewsBank offers the archives of 200 newspapers, plus they recently acquired NewsLibrary with its 85 newspapers from MediaStream.
Nexis.com, subscription web service to search newspapers and journals. Also have daily, weekly, and pay-as-you-go services.
Chicago Tribune archives. Since 1985. Standard keyword search. No photos. Pricing is $2.95 per article. Same material is also available on Lexis/Nexis, DataTimes, and VuText.
The two largest news photo archives are AP and Bill Gates's Corbis.
The Special Libraries Assocation maintains a list of US newspaper archives on the web.
Journalism Resources
Nelson SearchA search tool for journalists.
PowerReporting, a listing of research tools for journalists.
The Poynter Institute offers seminars and training.
Robert Niles - finding data on the internet.
The Slot - copywriter's manual
Online News Association (ONA), presents awards every year in October.
Assignment Editor - List of news and research sites. Started by Jim Lichtenstein, formerly of WBBM TV in Chicago.
Archives
The Internet Archive - Includes the Wayback Machine, Project Gutenburg and other projects.
Museums
Hermitage Museum. Art museum in St Petersburg Russia. Digital Imaging by a group at IBM.
Think Tanks
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)
GlobalSecurity.org
Libraries
Library of Congress
Global Reference Network
a list of University Libraries - The Association of Research Libraries
Online Journals
Encyclopedia
Wikipedia - the open source encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encarta - Microsoft
Community
Craig's List
Kuro5hin - using peer-review to determine which postings make it to the public, created by Rusty Foster.
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