tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86379342011-07-14T20:44:32.962-04:00Suzanne Levinsonnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3951100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1153320286331558352006-07-19T10:41:00.000-04:002006-07-19T10:44:46.353-04:00

The Miami Herald blog that replaced this one, Infomaniac, is no longer being posted to. Since I'm no longer working in any capacity for the Herald, all blog posts are now at my original news research blog, Behind the News. I also post photos of the Appalachian mountains at my Southern Highlands Cam blog.This blog hasn't been updated before now for over a year, aside from comment spam.

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1123077067986991942005-08-03T09:49:00.000-04:002005-08-03T09:51:07.993-04:00

This is the old blog. The new blog is here. The archives of this blog, covering 10/04-7/05, will remain here.

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I've started posting to the new Infomaniac blog on Herald.com. If you need to change a link, the address is blogs.herald.com/infomaniac.This blog will stay where it is (the archives will not be moved to the new blog) and so far the blogroll is more complete here than on the new blog. So you may want to keep this link for reference purposes, although I won't be adding new posts.Note, again, the

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122661282271774402005-07-29T14:03:00.000-04:002005-07-29T18:22:48.106-04:00

(I'm finding more and more as the day goes on. New links being added at bottom of this post.)As expected, there's discussion of this story in local blogs, giving a different perspective beyond the journalistic ones I pointed to yesterday evening. The Cuban bloggers, who have strong feelings about DeFede, have lots to say about The Herald, its coverage of this story, and the journalists who are

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122592844905931752005-07-28T19:18:00.000-04:002005-07-28T19:32:44.823-04:00

The Arthur Teele story has been raising a lot of questions in journalism circles; there are several postings and letters on the Romenesko site, for example. Now some journalists have set up an online petition in support of Jim DeFede.And, some readers are upset about this story, too. Note this comment was added to the last post:How can u ignore the whole art teele thing? It happened in your very

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122570533744233842005-07-28T12:53:00.000-04:002005-07-28T13:08:53.776-04:00

Someone posted to Metafilter today that it's the 60th anniversary of the day a plane hit the Empire State Building. It was an Army Air Corps plane, trying to land at Newark airport. The pilot, flying in bad conditions, saw the East River below, and thought it was the Hudson. This was a terrible tragedy, but now mostly forgotten. Many people don't even know it happened. According to this

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122477940539327602005-07-27T11:12:00.000-04:002005-07-27T17:08:23.943-04:00

Last night we were sitting outside and looking at the stars, and wondering: would the Space Shuttle pass in view any time during its voyage? Of course, there's help from NASA:Realtime Tracking draws a map of the earth and shows you exactly where the shuttle and the International Space Station are in relation. Right now the shuttle is over the Indian Ocean and the ISS over New Zealand. I had no

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122405820510136022005-07-26T15:15:00.000-04:002005-07-26T15:23:40.510-04:00

Lots of posts everywhere about this, but a new blog scanning site from C/Net, Blogma, seems to have the best summary. When Microsoft released their beta version of MSN Virtual Earth just a few weeks after Google launched Google Earth, bloggers were bound to try to compare them.Funny thing. They looked up the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, CA, and found that it showed a bare piece of land there

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122402005093070372005-07-26T14:08:00.000-04:002005-07-26T15:06:44.673-04:00

Finally, the blogging bug seems to be hitting Florida. You may have noticed I added a couple more blog links to the Florida list on right side: here's another, and it's local. Critical Miami has been around since April, and posts on South Florida news and living. (Check out their recipe for Miami Hummus, for example. Now I know I've had this before...)(Via Metafilter.)I also found a link here

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122401147714394082005-07-26T13:48:00.000-04:002005-07-26T14:05:47.756-04:00

Here's an astonishing story, from The London Review of Books, Where has all the money gone? (a shorter version is in The Guardian: So, Mr Bremer, where did all the money go? ) The story actually ran a couple weeks ago; the link from Digby , says "I urge you to read the whole story. It was published earlier this month and fell down the memory hole. It's simply unbelievable."I've seen some

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Artist, marketer and blogger Hugh Macleod of Gaping Void (check out his cartoon cards if you haven't seen them yet) has come up with a genius idea for bloggers who have a need they'd like to get spread around. Have you written a restaurant or movie review? Have a freelance business, need a job, want to find a date? If you've posted it on your blog, Hugh's created the HughPage Wiki where you can

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122394684856257842005-07-26T12:12:00.000-04:002005-07-26T12:18:04.856-04:00

There was a blog on Herald.com that lasted over two years before this blog switched over to a Blogspot address (see below for coming changes). The links to the old blog somehow disappeared along the way, but yesterday I was Googling something and ran across a link to one of my blog pages from 2003. Lo and behold, there were all the links to the entire two-year run of the blog! I haven't checked

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122393871191654312005-07-26T11:51:00.000-04:002005-07-26T12:04:31.213-04:00

Londonist discusses the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and has some interesting things to say about what this will mean for people in London, and the rest of us:"It definitely wasn't a random event and of course it's still happening - the poor bastard was only on his way to work. This morning 7 million other people are doing the exact same thing. Already wary of others around them following

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122304841172929662005-07-25T10:44:00.000-04:002005-07-27T11:31:33.436-04:00

Alright, everyone always says they're tired of all the bad news in the media. So, here's a new news site with just happy news. Enjoy the story about the 1-eyed dog who watches TV. Lewis and Clark: the voyage of discovery continues, from the U.S. Geological Survey, satellite images of the route L&C took. We've been hearing a lot about Lewis & Clark for the 200th anniversary of their trip, and no

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122064440792166292005-07-22T16:20:00.000-04:002005-07-22T16:34:00.800-04:00

The media gossip site Romenesko led today with a Daily Business Review story about several New Times staffers being suspended after complaining about comments in blogs by a couple editors there.One of the blogger/editors, a former Tampa-area librarian, has been noticed before for her comments on her blog; the blogs by both editors seem to have been deleted.

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1122063126487557242005-07-22T16:05:00.000-04:002005-07-22T16:12:06.493-04:00

Ever think about why we have ice cream sodas, sundaes, or banana splits? The Christian Science Monitor has a wonderful story, Where does a sundae come from?, on the origins of these distinctly American treats. Would you ever have known that the 'Sunday' was created because there was a ban on drinking carbonated drinks, so sodas weren't allowed on Sunday? Or that marshmallow really was once made

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121963383537039762005-07-21T12:02:00.000-04:002005-07-21T12:29:43.623-04:00

There was lots more on the Web about yesterday's moon landing anniversary. But the best of all, I think, was this Apollo 11 Panorama posted to Hans Nyberg's Panoramas site. If you want to see what the moon really looked like to those who landed there, this is probably as close as you can get.For more wonderful photos, there's Square America.This site takes photos found in old photo albums and

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121884901708431922005-07-20T14:39:00.000-04:002005-07-20T15:09:45.520-04:00

Iraq Body Count has released a new study, done with the Oxford Research Group, and published it as a 28-page PDF: Dossier on Civilian Deaths. The report collates reports from news media and other sources and finds that over 67,000 Iraqis were killed or injured in the two-year period from the March 2003 invasion until March of this year. Of those, over 24,000 were killed, at a rate of 34 a day.

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121879979475482592005-07-20T13:17:00.000-04:002005-07-20T13:32:54.600-04:00

Via Rex Hammock, a site already devoted to the confirmation of John Robers to the Supreme Court: JudgeRoberts.com. Does this site have an agenda? Well, the 'about' page says this is one of the goals of the group that posted the site: "Forcing the media to report the facts about President Bush's commonsense conservative agenda". OK then.And more, also via Hammock: WashingtonPost.com is blogging

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121878973515007682005-07-20T12:58:00.000-04:002005-07-20T13:02:53.523-04:00

For the anniversary of the 1969 moon landing, Google has created a moon logo on the Google homepage. But, even better, they've created a version of Google maps of the Moon which shows the sites of each moon landing. Very cool.Seems like everyone's excited about this anniversary, but not sure why the 36th would attract so much attention...Well, 1969 was a good year, after all, at least if you were

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121784227599845352005-07-19T10:11:00.000-04:002005-07-19T10:43:47.676-04:00

It's a phenomenon that's growing by leaps and bounds, and isn't yet part of most people's lives: Personalizing your Web. Over the last few years there've been projects like Friendster (and Dogster, and Catster), and Orkut, and others, where you could link together all your online friends, their photos and messages; and places to post your photos (like Flickr) abound. Of course there are

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121715590324704922005-07-18T15:37:00.000-04:002005-07-18T16:01:37.200-04:00

Here are some of the things bloggers are pointing to today:NOAA has posted satellite photos of destruction from Hurricane Dennis including photos of Pensacola Beach and Gulf Islands National Seashore.New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh on whether the U.S. manipulated the election in Iraq.In my reporting for this story, one theme that emerged was the Bush Administration's increasing tendency to

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121364786185008792005-07-14T14:12:00.000-04:002005-07-14T14:13:06.193-04:00

This morning in London, the entire city stopped for a pause to remember the victims of Thursday's bombings a week later. The Guardian Newsblog reports, and has comments from dozens of people who report what it was like for them.What the Guardian said:Just before midday today, a steadily growing stream of Guardian staff trooped silently down the five flights of stairs from our offices onto

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121276856275775562005-07-13T13:36:00.000-04:002005-07-14T12:07:07.926-04:00

Also found via the Facing South blog, this report from the Mobile, Alabama Register: Probe: FEMA has 'serious shortcomings'. A timely concern as Floridians begin to recover from yet another devastating hurricane. This investigation finds "Among FEMA's problems (not specifically mentioned in Sean's piece) was a too-cozy connection between disaster relief and President Bush's re-election campaign,

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121273723618293502005-07-13T12:48:00.000-04:002005-07-13T13:54:24.746-04:00

News on the London bombings becomes more and more upsetting as reports come in that the bombers were British-born, normal seeming young men. In a frightening report from The Times Online, leaked British government memos say extremism is on the rise due to the war in Iraq:"The Iraq war is identified by the dossier as a key cause of young Britons turning to terrorism. The analysis says: "It seems

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121273245825634242005-07-13T12:40:00.000-04:002005-07-13T12:47:25.833-04:00

The buzz in Georgia these days is over Senator and former Governor Zell Miller, who was a sensation at the last Republican National Convention where he spoke in favor of candidate George W. Bush, despite being a long-time member of the Democratic party. Now an Atlanta TV station reveals Miller took funds when he left the governorship that were not rightly his. The Macon Telegraph, a Knight-Ridder

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121271387023137652005-07-13T12:09:00.000-04:002005-07-13T12:18:57.500-04:00

There's a new study out from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, which publishes research called the Small Arms Survey. Their latest annual report has a new estimate of Iraqi civilian deaths. The report is in PDF format with each chapter, including the chapter on conflict deaths, downloadable. There's a news report on the study from Reuters, that says the

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121264335886497902005-07-13T10:05:00.000-04:002005-07-13T10:18:56.673-04:00

In case you're wondering why we need to send up a Space Shuttle again, here's a couple sites devoted to the good that's come from the research done by NASA: NASA Spinoffs, from The Space Place website, lists inventions that couldn't have happened without space voyages. Included: computer technology, home improvements, health, clothing, and lots more. here are a couple you might never have guessed

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121185343435299262005-07-12T12:04:00.000-04:002005-07-12T12:22:23.473-04:00

Although Floridians have access to some of the best beaches in the world (see Dr. Beach's ratings for proof), some just must go explore beaches in other parts of the world. Where to get a real change of scenery than Great Britain, which has miles and miles of beaches that most people don't even think about visiting when in England? To find some of the best beaches there, check out The 2005

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121094011026026192005-07-11T10:54:00.000-04:002005-07-11T11:26:52.033-04:00

There's plenty of inspiration to be had in the Statement from the Lord Mayor of London, Ken Livingston, about the terrorist attacks, which concludes:"They choose to come to London, as so many have come before because they come to be free, they come to live the life they choose, they come to be able to be themselves. They flee you because you tell them how they should live. They don't want that

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121034757606926042005-07-10T18:32:00.000-04:002005-07-10T18:32:37.616-04:00

Here are some links to Florida (and other) bloggers who are reporting on Hurricane Dennis:Peer Review from Tallahassee.Eye of the Storm from an FSU student.Pensacola Beach Blog blogging last year's storms....and this one.Why Now? from Cinco Bayou, also close to the storm.Current Word also in the Panhandle.illcOmmunication from Florida's west coast.WMBB, Panama City TV station blog with raw

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120833952632208762005-07-08T10:33:00.000-04:002005-07-08T10:58:29.496-04:00

How about a happy diversion from all this awful news?This weekend is the 13th annual MangoFest at Fairchild Tropical Garden. Here's the Herald story about MangoFest.And, just in time, MangoFest was featured in the latest issue of Saveur magazine, which carried several stories and features on mangos, with photos of the Fest. Unfortunately Saveur's articles aren't online.Let's hope the Fest isn't

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120830781118097192005-07-08T09:39:00.000-04:002005-07-08T09:53:01.126-04:00

A couple more notes from the blog world on yesterday's London bombings: The blog search service Technorati, which I could barely get into yesterday, has now put up a special London Bombings page which links to interesting posts from bloggers. Reading the bloggers has become the best way to get the latest or most personal news, as many journalism blogs are noting today. Technorati is highlighting

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120754973104600822005-07-07T12:37:00.000-04:002005-07-07T18:20:57.073-04:00

On the terrible news from London this morning, some links (new entries are being added at the bottom):The Guardian Newsblog is on top of the bombing story with constant updates, including eyewitness reports, messages from around the world, photos, mood at the G8 Summit in Edinburgh, and lots more. The Guardian also has a page of comments from bloggers.There's already a Wikipedia entry on the

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120674785951638232005-07-06T14:32:00.000-04:002005-07-06T14:33:05.963-04:00

A Boing Boing reader writes that his girlfriend bought a purse decorated with brass knuckles after seeing it on the Website, and then she got arrested at Miami International Airport for trying to carry it onto an airplane.

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120666990898162322005-07-06T12:16:00.000-04:002005-07-06T12:23:10.900-04:00

The Census has released its latest list of America's fastest-growing cities and of course, a Florida city tops the list again. But now the focus has moved to the east coast: for years the fastest-growing city was on the west coast, places like Naples or Fort Myers. This year, the dubious honor goes to Port St. Lucie, where the population increased 12 percent between July 1, 2003 and July 1, 2004.

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120666445075426282005-07-06T12:05:00.000-04:002005-07-06T12:14:05.110-04:00

The Palm Beach post took military casualty data from Iraq and Afghanistan and mapped it by hometown. It's a new way to visualize the deaths and gives you pause to see where they all came from. Hold cursor over the dots on the map to see the name of the town.And, on another casualty mentioned here last week, The Philadelphia Inquirer's Trudy Rubin writes about her friend Yasser Salihee and his

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1121712089432646622005-07-01T14:05:00.000-04:002005-07-18T14:41:29.456-04:00

Here are some of the things bloggers are pointing to today:NOAA has posted satellite photos of destruction from Hurricane Dennis including photos of Pensacola Beach and Gulf Islands National Seashore.New Yorker article by Seymour Hersh on whether the U.S. manipulated the election in Iraq.In my reporting for this story, one theme that emerged was the Bush Administration’s increasing tendency to

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120234167968845642005-07-01T11:37:00.000-04:002005-07-01T12:09:28.033-04:00

James Heintze at American University (in Washington, DC) has compiled a database of Fourth of July celebrations. It's a database of historical celebrations of the Fourth from the very beginning of the American republic to the present (including President George W. Bush's last four 4th speeches in various cities across the U.S. and the famous speech given by Frederick S. Douglass in Rochester, NY,

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120226573387876982005-07-01T09:47:00.000-04:002005-07-01T10:02:53.406-04:00

Yasser Salihee:On the story about the Iraqi Knight-Ridder correspondent killed in Baghdad, Knight Ridder's Hannah Allam writes in Editor & Publisher magazine about the loss of Yasser Salihee:"Little is known about the innocent Iraqis who pay the ultimate price for a war conducted in the name of their liberation. But because Yasser happened to be a journalist, a dogged chronicler of every

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120159741263534002005-06-30T15:17:00.000-04:002005-06-30T15:29:01.273-04:00

If you're a cooking site and food blog junkie like me, you'll love Food411.com, which links to all sorts of delicious sites and information. This site was one of Time Magazine's 50 Coolest Websites for 2005. A couple very cool things I found via Food411: Frog Hollow Farm (Land of Legendary Fruits), just for the beautiful art on the Webpage. (It's in California but the peaches are available for

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120158948842300782005-06-30T14:09:00.000-04:002005-06-30T15:15:48.900-04:00

Lots being discussed about why military recruitment isn't making goals these days. There's a new site called Leave My Child Alone, which encourages people to fight back at attempts to create a database of draft-age children (through schools, via the No Child Left Behind Act). a Yale researcher has done a study of this.Of course, several critics of the war have suggested a draft will be needed to

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120142007074611372005-06-30T10:08:00.000-04:002005-06-30T11:43:19.370-04:00

But a Knight Ridder correspondent was shot to death in Iraq by an Army sniper last week. Yasser Salihee, an Iraqi doctor, took a job working with KR's journalists because his job at a Baghdad hospital didn't pay enough to live on. He was shot as he drove his car through an intersection where an Army patrol was searching a building.When I posted the interactive map of Iraq casualties last week, a

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120067763629246612005-06-29T13:37:00.000-04:002005-06-29T14:11:56.273-04:00

First there was Babalu Blog, a couple years back (author Val Prieto just celebrated his 2nd blogging anniversary). Now there are more Cuban-American blogs from the Miami area. The 26th Parallel is a few months old, and its author, Robert, points to another:Cuban-American Pundits has postings from several people, including Robert.'Conductor', at Cuban-American Pundits has a post on the origins of

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120055380553438022005-06-29T10:22:00.000-04:002005-06-29T10:29:40.560-04:00

Al Tompkins has an interesting note on his "Morning Meeting" column about a rash of emails (I haven't gotten one yet) saying the new buffalo nickel is being recalled. Something about too much detail, involving male anatomy. Al points to The Urban Legend Reference Pages at Snopes.com says it's just another myth, and shows you the images if you haven't looked closely at a new nickel yet. There are

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1120053667738667712005-06-29T09:52:00.000-04:002005-06-29T11:07:42.533-04:00

If you think Google is taking over the earth, you're right. Google has now come out with Google Earth, a downloadable program that will bring the earth to your desktop. It uses your PC's 3D capacities to deliver satellite images that you can tilt and rotate, has address searches, directions, and more. You'll need broadband Internet access, a PC (this doesn't work on Macs yet), and may need to

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1119993374695168902005-06-28T17:14:00.000-04:002005-06-28T17:20:24.386-04:00

Live 8 is coming (July 2) and worldwide coverage is heavy. Here's a Reuters Live 8 News page.The One Campaign is collecting signatures from celebrities and others to convince world leaders to reduce poverty by forgiving third world debts.Blog search engine Technorati has a special Live 8 portal where you can find news from blogs, as well as other links.The official Live 8 site is at

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Google's Google Print feature is now online, in Beta. This feature allows you to search within the fulltext books that Google has archived so far. I searched my name and found it mentioned in UM journalism professor Bruce Garrison's 1996 Book, Computer-Assisted Reporting, and in a long-ago encyclopedia of the West (!). Here's what you get when you search Miami Herald + Gene Miller. When you

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1119898925287057562005-06-27T14:59:00.000-04:002005-06-27T15:02:45.730-04:00

Here are a few intriguing things that have come up in my searches over the last few days:Did you know that The Justice department auditorium statues have been uncovered again? These are the statues of nude Justice that former Atty General John Ashcroft had covered with $8000 worth of drapes so no one would be offended by an occasional photograph including a breast.The Sports Cliche List is a

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Now here's something absolutely new that can replace that aging Palm or Treo you're carrying around: The Hipster PDA (that's for Parietal Disgorgement Aid) is the ultimate time-saver: a pile of 3x5 index cards and a clip. Really.It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and "beaming," and is configurable to an unlimited number of options. Best of all, the Hipster

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1119456948563970152005-06-22T12:13:00.000-04:002005-06-22T12:37:34.253-04:00

Take a look at the moon as it rises over the Beaches this week. Does it look enormous? NASA says it's because of something called the 'summer moon illusion and it is particulary obvious this week. The page also has moon rise times in various cities so you can check it out: Moon rise in Miami will be 9:19 tonight. (That is, if you can see it through the clouds. Check out The Herald Web Cam to

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There are a few services around that will search blogs, like Technorati and Daypop, or that will search feeds from blogs (like Feedster), but now there's one that you can set to easily find any blog postings on a public official in your state, or members of the U.S. Cabinet, Supreme Courts, Congressional committees, etc., as well as, of course, the president and vice president. Pubsub is a

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For the last nearly 10 years, people have been forwarding an emailed petition claiming that PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting are in danger of losing their funding. The letter campaign was started by two college students in 1995 and at the time there was a proposal in Congress. But the email gained a life of its own and periodically resurfaced. I've gotten it from two or three

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Some tributes to Gene Miller from other papers:Joel Achenbach in his Washington Post blog.David Von Drehle (Washington Post obituary).Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.Guest book on Herald.com includes tributes from former colleagues and friends from all over the country.

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The Miami Herald lost its greatest treasure today, with the death of long-time reporter and editor Gene Miller. I wrote about Miller on my news research blog today. Here's part of it: Miami Herald obituaryHe may have been my favorite journalist of all time. I met Gene not long after coming to The Miami Herald in 1981. He'd been there for 25 years or so already, and had won two Pulitzers. Not

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1119048370036121472005-06-17T18:39:00.000-04:002005-06-17T18:46:30.366-04:00

Looked for a place to get Internet access while out and about lately? Here's a survey of America's most unwired cities. These are cities with the most places to get wireless Internet connections: the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area comes in 20th in percentage of WiFi hotspots, beat out by places like Toledo and Baton Rouge.If you need to find a place to plug in, there are several sites that can find

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1118956954219400552005-06-16T17:13:00.000-04:002005-06-22T16:27:40.740-04:00

Still some rumbles out there about why it seems only pretty young white women who go missing get any attention from the major news media. Of course, recent discussions focus on the teen lost in Aruba; the last mention was over the 'runaway bride' story. But USA Today points out the other stories, including that of Tamika Houston, missing since June, who disappeared from the Spartanburg, SC area.

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1118954654806051392005-06-16T16:41:00.000-04:002005-06-16T16:46:34.953-04:00

Apparently, there's a movement, at least several blogs devoted to getting the next Republican presidential nomination for Secretary of State Condoleeze Rice: and there's one site, Blogs for Condi, that aggregates and links to them all. From the header: "She is our Margaret Thatcher". Hmm.Then, of course, there's Blogs Against Hillary...

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1118953479288191252005-06-16T16:21:00.000-04:002005-06-16T16:24:39.303-04:00

Via Boing Boing, a story of an unusual attempted trip TO Cuba (that's a twist), by someone who tried paddling to Cuba in an Outrigger Canoe in 2003. Lots of photos too. A fun read. Here's Boing Boing's take on the story.

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This looks like something that people in Miami could use, with the proliferation of SUVs and the lack (most of the time) of anywhere to go offroading: Spray On Mud is a British product, but is available for purchase online. If you really want to look like you use your vehicle for the purpose it's made for, you can get 'that authentic off-road look' using this product.

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1118854393717486352005-06-15T12:25:00.000-04:002005-06-15T13:19:21.996-04:00

The Institute for Southern Studies' blog, Facing South, is covering the story about the Senate resolution to apologize for lynchings. Some good links and insight for anyone who thinks this story isn't relevant today.Metafilter posters also linked to several histories of lynching; lots of comments and other links here too.

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Sometimes it's fascinating to find out about the origins of someone you didn't know much about. I was a bit surprised this morning to read of the death of the father of rocker Neil Young: Scott Young, who died this weekend, was 87 and wrote for the Globe & Mail in Toronto, where this obituary ran, as well as other Canadian news organizations, and wrote several books, including one about his

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1118763788134347322005-06-14T11:32:00.000-04:002005-06-14T11:43:08.140-04:00

After all the discussion (and derision) during Al Gore's campaign for president about how much he had to do with 'inventing' the Internet, interesting to see that he was awarded a 'Webby' Lifetime Achievement Award for helping to get the legislation needed to make the 'Net work. According to journalism prof and blogger Bob Stepno, Gore was allowed just five words for his acceptance speech: "

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1118761753083727782005-06-14T11:05:00.000-04:002005-06-14T11:09:13.090-04:00

I am really shocked at how much reaction there is to this story, still. I thought by now there wouldn't be much interest. But it just keeps coming. Two things that I think are worth reading if you're still into the story:How Deep Throat Fooled the FBI, in The Nation; this story says W. Mark Felt was in charge of investigating the possibility that 'Throat' was in the FBI: "This placed Felt, who

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1118759960732315582005-06-14T10:33:00.000-04:002005-06-14T11:13:18.826-04:00

If you just can't get enough on the Michael Jackson story, there's MJJSource.com, where you can find anything you'd want to know about Michael. At least, I think. I couldn't get into the site, which uses a lot of Flash and Javascript, but it was linked to by Davenetics, who says among the things found there is this:June 13th, 2005:Remember this date for it is part of HIStory.This and other

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1118198025164754872005-06-07T22:31:00.000-04:002005-06-07T22:33:45.183-04:00

I've been attending a librarians convention in Toronto the last couple days and now am visiting family so away from my regular computer and routine. Posting will be sparse for a couple more days, but I'll be back to it by next week...if not sooner. Check back again.

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117747339606985162005-06-02T17:16:00.000-04:002005-06-02T17:22:19.630-04:00

The Internet Archive has added Lots of 78rpm recordings to their audio archive. Great place to find things like Mitch Miller, Paul Whiteman, The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, classical recordings (Caruso!), voice recordings (Pope Leo XIII!) and more.For more recorded history, History and Politics Out Loud has voice recordings from presidents' speeches to Nixon tapes. FYI, if you want to hear more

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117732245261345512005-06-02T12:51:00.000-04:002005-06-02T13:10:45.320-04:00

The TPM Cafe, a new group blogging spinoff of Joshua Michah Marshall's popular Talking Points Memo blog, has a section of guest bloggers. This week's: former VP candidate and Senator John Edwards of North Carolina. He talks about his move back to NC, his wife Elizabeth's health (and their 5-year old son's birthday) and a subject close to his heart: the working poor.

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117727619394975042005-06-02T11:52:00.000-04:002005-06-02T12:20:52.543-04:00

For Deep Throat junkies, the Washington Post is doing a Deep Throat Revealed blog. Is that enough?If you're tired of all this, here's another blogger who thinks the coverage has gotten way out of hand (with screenshots of Washingtonpost.com and the print front page).

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Seems like there are a lot of you out there. For a lot more links to fascinating stories about how all this happened, the journalistic ethics, what will happen now (will there be a book?), the Romenesko blog from the Poynter Institute is collecting links to all the stories.I'm fascinated by one of the links in particular. Apparently in an online chat on the Post's Website, Post reporter Dave Von

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117723077204329702005-06-02T10:30:00.000-04:002005-06-02T10:37:57.220-04:00

An email and comment to my blog report the story of Taylor G. Wells, imprisoned for a 1993 home invasion robbery/murder in Cape Canaveral in which several young men were charged. One of the men, Wells, was sitting in a car outside where he believed, he said, he'd just been dropping one of the men off. Despite his lesser involvment, Wells got one of the harshest sentences -- life in prison.Florida

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117641693203724502005-06-01T11:51:00.000-04:002005-06-01T12:01:33.220-04:00

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

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117640047782033622005-06-01T11:23:00.000-04:002005-06-01T11:49:13.450-04:00

This is something I've been thinking for a long time: If Watergate were happening today... by media analyst Michael Gartenberg: "If Watergate we happening today, the Nixon tapes would be MP3's and downloaded as podcasts. Deep Throat would have used email and of course Woodward and Bernstein would be be bloggers."I suggested as much in a column I wrote for The Herald last summer for the 30th

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117576830073489652005-05-31T17:58:00.000-04:002005-05-31T18:39:19.546-04:00

With the Deep Throat news, there will certainly be lots of reaction from those under 40 -- or maybe under 50 -- like this comment, from the Point Five blog:"So armies of aging lefties throughout America are rising from their Laz-Y-Boy recliners to fetch their walkers and dial their friends on oversized-button phones to spread the word."(Added later:) On this note, the Post's Joel Achenbach also

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117575479777525722005-05-31T17:25:00.000-04:002005-06-01T20:24:43.010-04:00

(Added later:) Now the Washington Post's Bob Woodward has confirmed Felt is Deep Throat. See lots of coverage on The Post's Web site.This story is steamrolling, so links to some interesting stuff about Mark Felt (who has supposedly admitted being 'Deep Throat', see below):Deep Throat: an institutional analysis, article in The Atlantic by former Washington Post reporter Jim Mann, published in 1992

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117563109953124852005-05-31T14:09:00.000-04:002005-05-31T14:11:49.960-04:00

If Paris Hilton marries Paris Latsis, what will they call each other?

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Breaking news about an article in the upcoming Vanity fair that says Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward's unidentified source was assistant FBI director W. Mark Felt. The link points to coverage on MSNBC.(Added later:) A preview copy of the story is available in PDF on Vanity Fair's Website. (Via Metafilter.)(Added later:) A more readable version of the story (if you

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117560404401482142005-05-31T13:15:00.000-04:002005-06-01T12:08:58.396-04:00

Britain's Hugh Macleod blogs at Gaping Void and also draws cartoons on the backs of business cards. The blog has become so popular that it's number 3 in popularity in Britain, and the cards are so loved that he is now selling them to bloggers and others who want a personalized cartoon on their business card. He created this one for super blogger Joi Ito and because so many asked for it he's now

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117204546598014482005-05-27T10:22:00.000-04:002005-05-27T10:35:46.623-04:00

The Providence Journal's Sheila Lennon has gathered Links and information about the latest airport scanner technology that will allow TSA employees to have 'X-ray vision', seeing details of travelers' bodies that we'd probably rather not have looked at. After showing photos of what the scans will look at and reporting much of the discussion around them, Sheila says:"Wags have noted that there'll

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117119223751851972005-05-26T10:32:00.000-04:002005-05-26T10:53:43.760-04:00

This all a bit of inside baseball about something that you can care about or not, but the feud between Dave Winer and Adam Curry over who is the most responsible for the current Podcast craze is getting interesting. Winer, a mobile guy who's now living near the beach in Florida, is a blog pioneer who created blogging systems and RSS feeds, and had the idea of including sound files in feeds early

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117117429059515112005-05-26T10:15:00.000-04:002005-05-26T10:26:59.336-04:00

Blogthings is a site that creates fun things to put on your blog. This is the sort of thing that I often skip over, but when I noticed Doc Searls used their What does your birthdate mean? quiz and thought the analysis was right on, I decided to try it. I have to admit, the description of people born on May 23 fits me somewhat....Your Birthdate: May 23With a birthday on the 23rd of the month (5

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For anyone planning to travel to Europe -- or further -- this summer, there's help to combat the insidious effects of jet lag: The Anti-Jet Lag Diet, created by Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory, and tested on National Guard soldiers flying across 9 time zones. The diet takes a few days, alternating high-protein and high-carb meals, with some fasting and meal manipulation aboard the plane (

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117053436255332172005-05-25T16:06:00.000-04:002005-05-25T16:37:16.320-04:00

Delivr is a new service based on the hugely popular Flickr online photo storage site. Use Delivr to find photos in Flickr databases, and send them as digital postcards. There are over 600,000 photos to search from; here's a selection found using a search of 'coconut grove'. Note although some of these photos do seem to be from Miami's Grove, most of them aren't. But it's a fun way to find some

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1117047699775221062005-05-25T14:45:00.000-04:002005-05-25T15:01:39.783-04:00

The Guardian says that the Congressman who led the campaign to change 'French fries' to 'freedom fries' has changed his mind. According to The Guardian, Rep. Walter B. Jones, R-NC, told the News & Observer in Raleigh that "it was meant as a "light-hearted gesture"", but that now "I wish it had never happened." and that now he believes the US went to war "with no justification".The original

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1116971551016803392005-05-24T17:31:00.000-04:002005-05-24T17:52:31.046-04:00

Did you know you could get Web feeds of Miami Herald stories and blogs? Web feeds are the latest name for RSS or XML feeds, sometimes called newsfeeds or news syndications or aggregations. The Herald's RSS page explains how it works and gives you a list of feeds available (just about every news category). It also gives you a link to News readers you can download from Download.com.I have some

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Did you hear the one about the Star Wars fans who made light sabers filled with gasoline and critically injured themselves? (From the BBC.)

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...are disappearing fast, according to this several-day report in the St. Petersburg Times. The reporters used satellite photos and government records to find that: The corps approves more permits to destroy wetlands in Florida than any other state, and allows a higher percentage of destruction in Florida than nationally. Between 1999 and 2003, it approved more than 12,000 wetland permits and

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1116520479254005462005-05-19T12:25:00.000-04:002005-05-19T12:34:39.260-04:00

In one of the longest-running soap operas around, the tale of Jane Fonda and her trip to North Vietnam during the war there is still having ramifications, especially since she's starring in her first movie in 15 years. She was recently spit on by a vet at an appearance, and a Kentucky vet theater owner is refusing to show the film. So it's not a surprise that she was a topic on Bill O'Reilly's

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1116518413707639622005-05-19T11:55:00.000-04:002005-05-19T12:00:13.736-04:00

Norman Mailer has an entry in the Huffington Post about the Newsweek controversy, and starts it out with, "I'm beginning to see why one would want to write a blog." After discussing the possibility of some sort of dirty tricks involved, he says, "There still resides, however, under my aging novelist's pate a volunteer intelligence agent, sadly manque."Yes, Mr. Mailer, why not write a blog? It's

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1116515651068599142005-05-19T11:03:00.000-04:002005-05-19T12:24:36.043-04:00

Hard news to take for die-hard fans of WLRN, but there's a lot of discussion about changes to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that may put an end to the open political discourse on our public radio and television stations. Bill Moyers spoke this weekend about the Bush adminstration's appointees to run the corporation, and is worried:"As some of you know, CPB was established almost 40

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1116448991862012872005-05-18T16:38:00.000-04:002005-05-19T10:34:57.940-04:00

This is fun: Robot Wisdom points to a Google Maps satellite view of ZIP code 33409 (West Palm Beach) which shows something very strange in the image. A UFO? Lots of discussion on the Google Sightseeing blog (highlighting all sorts of cool images from Google Maps), which found the image a few days ago. It's provoked lots of comments, many from people who suspect it's a weather balloon.

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1116447614990697572005-05-18T16:10:00.000-04:002005-05-18T16:20:15.010-04:00

Interesting campaign going on at Common Dreams, and one that may not be viewed positively by many in Miami: Buy your gas at Citgo. Why? Because Citgo, according to this, is a subsidiary of the Venezuelan state-owned oil company, and buying Venezuelan-produced gasoline is a slap at Bush administration energy policies, as well as denying oil revenues to Saudi Arabia and other middle eastern

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There's been a simmering discussion of the case for going to war in Iraq, sparked by the release of the secret British government memo saying the Bush administration had already decided to go to war months earlier and was going to find a way to do it by tweaking the intelligence. Bloggers have been complaining the memo hasn't gotten much press in this country since it was published in The Times

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1116428616954614622005-05-18T10:50:00.000-04:002005-05-18T11:56:37.593-04:00

A lot less reaction on the Web to the arrest of Luis Posada Carriles. From the Herald story:"Posada, who has been linked to the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner and to a 1997 series of bombings at tourist hotels in Havana, was arrested in Miami-Dade on the same day Cuban President Fidel Castro mounted a massive march in Havana to accuse U.S. leaders of hypocrisy for sheltering the accused bomber.

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The Newsweek/Guantanamo story is being discussed a lot on blogs and journalism analysis sites. A lot of it is rhetoric, but there are a few bloggers and columnists who have actually contributed some insight to the story. Here are a couple:UPI's Pamela Hess actually lays out the timeline of how the story -- and the retraction -- came out, and says:"...Newsweek's error is not the only factor here.

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A fascinating column item by the Washington Post's Dan Froomkin pulls together several links that compare the story in the latest Star Wars epic 'Revenge of the Sith' to the current events in Washington and the war in Iraq. "'Revenge of the Sith,' it turns out, can also be seen as a cautionary tale for our time -- a blistering critique of the war in Iraq, a reminder of how democracies can give up

lizhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835394993779971626noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637934.post-1116257804278009282005-05-16T11:28:00.000-04:002005-05-16T11:36:44.283-04:00

I'm adding some more blogs to the Florida Blogs list in the right-hand column; they should show up there later today.Here's one that's not strictly a Florida blog, but regularly provides news about Florida: Facing South, a blog from the Institute for Southern Studies, founded by civil rights leader Julian Bond and based in Durham, NC.Some Knight Ridder newspapers are posting new blogs using a new

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The hottest topic of discussion out there right now is the explanation from Newsweek on the story about the use (abuse) of the Koran in the Guantanamo detention camp that led to bloody riots in Afghanistan. The story has released another firestorm besides the reaction in Islamic nations: bloggers are finding it another reason to denounce the MSM -- main stream media.In this column, Newsweek says

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If you think the sex offender registry should help you to keep your distance, think again: the St. Petersburg Times found 9 out of 10 people in the Tampa Bay area live within a half mile of a sex offender. With 2600 offenders in the area, it's hard to get away. No wonder there are tragedies. I expect an analysis of other areas -- such as South Florida -- would show similar numbers.(Via I Dig

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According to the Pew Research Center, Americans' politics aren't easily defined into Red vs. Blue, as the media would like us to think. It breaks voters down into several categories (in the middle: the 'disaffecteds', the 'upbeats', and the 'bystanders', for example); but finds that right now most Americans are leaning towards the Republican Party, although this is not reflected in actual

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