Overheard on the Web, and other Web links From The Herald's Research Editor
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
War coverage
It always amazes me that more people don't know about Coalition Casualty Count (Icasualties.org). It's the Website that has been gathering news of military deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan, and compiles them into a database so you can quickly find out who died from your state, or how many in helicopter accidents, for example. It also tries to find infomation about wounded (harder to get), civilian deaths, deaths of Iraqi police and military, and has also gathered info on deaths from other coalition forces. So it's nice to know that The Lunaville Blog (Lunaville.org was the original URL for Icasualties) is not only letting us know how it's going, but is pointing to news from Iraq that we may not hear of elsewhere. There's a great story on the blog about an Atlanta pub that started posting a number on their outdoor sign. People asked what the number meant, until the link was added: to ICasualties. posted by liz at 11:51 AM
Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the
Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the
News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to
the field.
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