N&R News Research

Historic Newspaper Archive

2010-04-09T09:54:00.001-04:00

From ResearchBuzz:
Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive, available at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers. Though limited to one city, this site still manages to have more than 67,000 newspaper pages from 14 newspapers published in Atlanta between 1847 and 1922.

You'll need the Djvu plug-in, but is well worth a call to the Help Desk (7378) to get it installed.

My Favorite Google Secrets

2010-04-07T14:01:00.000-04:00

By: Mary Ellen Bates of Bates Information Services

I'm getting ready for all my spring speaking engagements, including the AIIP conference, Computers in Libraries, Web Search University, and the SLA Annual Conference. My favorite sessions are the ones where I show some of the lesser-known features of Google, Yahoo and Bing. Some of the Google tools are particularly useful for web researchers; here are the ones that I'm playing with now.

On the search results page, select the "+ Show options" link at the top. This expands to show you a wide range of additional filtering tools. Although the options have been changing fairly frequently, one that is worth looking at lets you see only those sites you've recently visited, or just the sites you haven't clicked through yet. ("Visited pages" and "Not yet visited") If you have been trying a number of search strategies and feel like you are running in circles, clicking the "Not yet visited" option may help you find what you are looking for.

With Google Transliterate, you type a Roman character on your keyboard and Google transliterates it to the equivalent character in 19 languages. While this doesn't offer the translation feature of Google Translated Search, it lets you run a quick search to see the number of mentions of a name or brand in a language you cannot easily type on your keyboard.

Google Public Data Explorer is an example of Google taking public data and making it more intelligible. Right now, the data sets include the OECD Factbook, World Bank statistics, US Census data, and Eurostat tables, among others. You specify a data range, and Google will generate a line chart, bar chart, map or bubble chart. Keeping in mind that much of our value is in making sense out of information, this Google tool may be a helpful way of visualizing information for your clients.

Charities

2010-04-07T13:07:00.000-04:00

Charity Navigator's list of top 10s: (Charity Navigator is an independent charity evaluator):

10 Charities with the Most Consecutive 4-Star Ratings.
10 Charities Drowning in Administrative Costs
10 of the Best Charities Everyone's Heard Of
10 Charities Expanding in a Hurry
10 Most Commented Charities
10 Celebrity-Related Charities
10 Charities Worth Watching
10 Inefficient Fundraisers
10 Slam-Dunk Charities
10 Super-Sized Charities

Earth Day Experts

2010-03-19T13:45:00.001-04:00

From "Green" Buildings to Sustainable Tourism: Ryerson Experts Discuss Earth Day

Ryerson University has put together a list of experts willing and able to speak with the media on a variety of environmental topics.

Social Security Death Index

2010-02-11T11:12:00.000-05:00

The Social Security Death Index is searchable for free!

Center for Housing Policy Report

2009-12-22T15:40:00.001-05:00

This 12 page report researched by the Center for Housing Policy examines housing affordability trends for working households. Even though housing prices are falling, affordability is going in the other direction.

This report defines - severe housing cost burden - as spending more than 50 percent of income on housing costs, including utilities. The number of working households that spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing rose from 18 to 20 percent in the past 3 years.

Charity Navigator

2009-12-16T12:17:00.000-05:00

Charity Navigator uses a numbers-based rating system to assess the financial health of over 5,000 of America's best-known charities. Each charity receives a rating of one to four stars. At their web site they now have up their Top 10 lists. You can also search their database by keyword or charity name.

Accessing a million pages

2009-12-01T13:33:00.000-05:00

Govpulse allows you to use filters, search and respond to the mounds of documents that the federal government releases. Browse the Federal Register from 1994.

More research material on Google Scholar

2009-11-25T15:38:00.001-05:00

You can now find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. Click the button, Legal opinions and journals, and type in a subject. The search seems to be full text searchable. The "how cited" link gives you list of other opinions that cite a particular opinion. The major cases are there as well as lesser known ones.

Mark your calendars

2009-11-24T15:39:00.000-05:00

Sunshine Week celebration has been set for March 14-20, 2010. The N.C. Open Government Coalition will host a workshop on Tuesday, March 16th in Greensboro at Elon Law.

North Carolina's Creative Industry

2009-11-24T15:17:00.000-05:00

According to a recent study prepared by the Policy, Research and Strategic Planning Division of the N.C. Department of Commerce, North Carolina has a $41 billion creative industry that employs almost 300,000 people or more than 5 1/2 percent of the state's total employment.

The creative industry includes arts, design and entertainment and new media.

Trends in Higher Education

2009-10-20T13:25:00.002-04:00

The College Board just released a series of reports:

Trends in College Pricing 20 page report includes the latest information on tuition, fees, room & board and other expense.
Highlights: Published tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities rose at an average annual rate of 4.9% per year beyond general inflation from 1999-2000 to 2009-10, more rapidly than in either of the previous two decades. The rate of growth of published prices at both private not-for-profit four-year and public two-year institutions was lower from 1999-2000 to 2009-10 than in either of the previous two decades.

Trends in Student Aid - 20 page report has the latest data on grants, loans and other avenues to help pay for college.
Highlights: 2008-09, undergraduate students received an average of $10,185 in financial aid per full-time equivalent (FTE) student, including $5,041 in grant aid and $4,585 in federal loans. Graduate students received an average of $22,740 in aid, including $7,558 in grant aid and $14,598 in federal loans.

Education Pays - 48 page report shows private and public benefits of a college education

Useful Twitter Searches

2009-10-19T14:50:00.000-04:00

From: Bates Information Services, www.BatesInfo.com/tip.html

Seeing the word "useful" next to the word "Twitter" might seem oxymoronic to some... kind of like jumbo shrimp or deafening silence. We forget that the main complaint of Twitter -- that the signal-to-noise ratio is so low -- can be said of the web as a whole. Go to ten web pages at random and see how few web pages are even remotely relevant to what you do. What differentiates the web from the Tweetosphere is the existance of robust finding tools. Search engines play that role in the general web, enabling us to avoid most of the web pages that would not interest us. Most Twitter interfaces overload new users with unfiltered tweets, leading sensible people to throw up their hands and walk away.

However, I have found several real-life uses for Twitter lately, with just the search feature on Twitter. Let me know what other ones you come up with.

Use one of the word-cloud generators (I use Search Cloudlet, an add-on for Firefox) and see what words are most frequently used in conjunction with a news event. I searched Twitter to see what words most frequently came up in the context of health care reform. Right now, the buzzwords are public option, doctors, congress and include. Interesting that insurance companies aren't being mentioned very frequently.

Monitor live news, as reported by people nearby. If, for example, I want to see if there's a jump in the mentions of the H1N1 virus near me, I might search for "swine flu" OR h1n1 near:denver within:25mi

Monitor mentions of your organization's names, particularly those when the tweet includes an outbound link. If I was monitoring Crocs, the shoe company, I might search for #crocs filter:links

Gather hightlights from a conference. Within a week of the conference, just search for the hashtag for the conference on the Twitter web site ( for example, I'll soon be speaking at Internet Librarian, which has #IL2009 as its "official" hashtag). Keep clicking the "Older" link at the bottom of the search results page until you have all the tweets on one screen. Copy and paste that to a word processor, and you can easily skim through it to see key ideas. In fact, take all the words and throw them into Wordle.net, which generates a word cloud from any body of text you give it. You'll see the dominant themes of the conference, and can identify the key speakers.

New Report

2009-10-08T09:15:00.000-04:00

The Center for Responsible Lending recently issued this 13 page report (PDF) titled, "Overdraft Explosion" . Bankdraft fees for overdraft protection has increased over 35 % in the past 2 years. At an average fee of $34 per overdraft, and over 50 million Americans overdrawing their checking accounts at least once over a 12-month period, that adds up to over $24 billion in fees for the baking industry.

No wonder banks push this "service" to customers even though a survey says most would prefer a denial of service rather than overdraft protection.

Numbers and charts are included in this report.

Watch What You Wish For

2009-10-07T13:46:00.001-04:00

This new movie/TV database is now in public beta. Jinni will find movies/TV shows based on mood, plot, genres, time/period, place, audience, award winning.

Want someone to really listen to you? Sometimes it takes a machine. (from the get started video)

To celebrate their public beta launch Jinni will make a donation to Best Friends Animal Society for every person who signs up for their free registration.

Where is the money going?

2009-10-06T15:39:00.000-04:00

Recovery.gov is tracking what agencies/organizations are getting stimulus money by state. They have a cool interactive map that allows you to search by zip to find local recipients.

Some general N.C. awards:

90 contracts - $80,465,108
1802 grants - $3,678,194,703
433 loans - $275,204,830
Total awards: 2325 - $4,033,864,641

Sugared Beverages, Obesity and Taxes

2009-10-06T11:49:00.002-04:00

The Center for Science in the Public Interest has issued a new report titled: "Taxing sugared beverages would help trim state budget deficits, comsumers' bulging waistlines, and health care costs" (PDF)

The report contains a spreadsheet with numbers for the different states. Here are the numbers for North Carolina:

Budget Deficit (2010) & Potential Revenue from nickel-a-drink* Tax

FY 2010 Budget Gap          Annual New Revenue
4,600,000,000                    220,000,000

New Revenue Share of Budget Gap - 4.78%

North Carolina's state obesity rate is 29 percent.

* A drink is defined as a 12 oz. serving

H1N1

2009-10-05T15:40:00.000-04:00

Trust for America's Health has a new report out saying that if 35 percent of the population gets the flu, 15 states could run out of hospital beds at the height of the flu season.

That would be 3,227,845 North Carolinians. According to the report , 42,464 people in North Carolina may need to be hospitalized.

North Carolina is one of the 12 states that would be at 75 to 99 percent of their hospital bed capacity.

This is the part of the report that deals with North Carolina.

Code of Ethics

2009-10-05T09:12:00.000-04:00

The Society of Professional Journalists has posted a Code of Ethics:
1. Seek Truth and Report It
2. Minimize Harm
3. Act Independently
4. Be Accountable

The SPJ Code of Ethics is voluntarily embraced by thousands of writers, editors and other news professionals. The present version of the code was adopted by the 1996 SPJ National Convention, after months of study and debate among the Society's members.

Sigma Delta Chi's first Code of Ethics was borrowed from the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1926. In 1973, Sigma Delta Chi wrote its own code, which was revised in 1984, 1987 and 1996.

Click the link above to read the entire code.

Government Information

2009-09-30T14:18:00.001-04:00

From an L.A. Times article on Monday:

Government pooh-bahs live by the credo Information is Power. Here are a few of the guerrillas working to overthrow the resulting dictatorship.

The article informs us about (with links) free web sites that offer information that you would have to pay for at other sites. One web site Datamasher.org is a Sunlight Foundation grant winner who writes software that slices and dices government data. Check out what they have done with high school graduation rates mashed up with income. You might be surprised at North Carolina's ranking.

Speaking of Google...

2009-09-29T14:39:00.000-04:00

A new application from Google called Wave promises to revolutionize internet communications. It combines e-mail, chat, Wiki documents, blogs and photo-sharing sites.

One of the app's creators, Jens Rasmussen, says "We really have a much too strong tendency to just take things we know and just adapt them to the digital world...Wave will be something new, a real-time communication system designed specifically for today's faster-paced, multitasking Internet."

Life Magazine

2009-09-29T08:47:00.000-04:00

Last week Google announced that they had partnered with Life Magazine to digitize their magazine covering the years from 1936 to 1972. Well, here it is. Access is free. It is even searchable by keyword.

PDFs of your stories using the e-archive

2009-09-23T12:10:00.002-04:00

The DTI e-archive has a PDF version of your stories. Haven't ever used the e-archive? Here is how to access it:

1. You MUST have Mozilla Firefox installed on your computer. Don't have it? Call 7378 or email Help Desk to get it installed. Once installed, open the application and copy and paste this web link into the browser: http://nrearchivesvr/eArchive/login.jsp - the database is on an internal server and will not work outside the building.

2. Your Username and Password are the same as when you log-on to DTI. Remember the e-archive is DTI, just a web version of it.

3. Use the drop boxes to choose a year and month to search; search all years at once by leaving those boxes blank. But remember if you are searching all years, there are 20 years of archive there, so your search had better be specific - use quotes for phrases. (There will be PDFs of stories only since 2005)

4. Check the box to the left to select a particular story. Click the View PDF button. Your jump should be included in a separate page.

5. Once the PDF is open, you can email it, copy and save it, or print it.

6. To make sure the page is large enough to read, click Print Setup, under File and choose a larger size paper.

Poverty

2009-09-14T16:23:00.000-04:00

2008 Poverty Tables

Historical Tables

From the Census Bureau

American Community Survey

2009-09-14T16:08:00.000-04:00

From the Census Bureau:
The U.S. Census Bureau will release data from the 2008 American Community Survey on Tuesday, Sept. 22. This release will include all one-year estimates from data collected in 2008 — including income and poverty estimates. In addition to the full complement of social, economic and housing data, this release will also include estimates on health insurance coverage, marital history and veterans’ service-connected disability ratings for the first time. These estimates will be available for the nation, all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, every congressional district and all counties, places and metropolitan areas with populations of 65,000 or more. The data will be available Sept. 17 on an embargoed basis for media use.

Crime in the United States

2009-09-14T12:11:00.000-04:00

The FBI has just released a group of statistics on crime for 2008. The data is sorted by offense, region, state, and by local agency.

This is just one set of data:
NC State total murders 586
Total firearms 362
Handguns 261
Rifles 22
Shotguns 25
Firearms (type unknown) 54
Knives or cutting instruments 54
Other weapons 102
Hands, fists, feet, etc. 68

Other type of data: Crime by type - violent, property; trends rates and weapons used; Data on the persons arrested - age, gender, race - for 29 separated offenses, including murder; Police employee data: Includes data about sworn officers and civilian employees.

Law enforcement officers killed and assaulted data will be available in mid October.

The 2008 edition of the annual report Hate Crime Statistics is tentatively scheduled for release on November 23, 2009.

Our e-archive

2009-08-28T14:14:00.000-04:00

Of course everyone in the newsroom is using our e-archive (with Mozilla Firefox), but if not, message IT to download Firefox and I will send you the web link to the archive. Your DTI log-on and password work with this version too. The e-archive IS DTI, just a web version of it, so wire stories are there too.

E-Archive does have some quirks. I recently discovered it will not search special characters, such as the apostrophe (') . I was searching the name "Clyde O'Ferrell" but the story was not returned. Alina, in IT did some digging and discovered that our e-archive version doesn't like special characters. So instead of using the apostrophe, use a question mark -- like this "Clyde O?Ferrell".

Google Squared

2009-08-25T12:15:00.001-04:00

This tip from Mary Ellen Bates @Bates Information Services Inc.: Google Squared is a search engine that tries to provide answers instead of web sites. It builds a database of answers. For example, type in Blue Dog Democrats and you get pictures, names, birthdates, latest news. Or try one of Google's predefined subjects, such as US presidents or roller coasters.

Some tweaking is still needed - when you add North Carolina to roller coasters, you get Carowinds - good, but also the Miky Way galaxy and the Gemini constellation. Still -- way cool.

update: you can also add to the database yourself!

Infant Mortality and other health statistics

2009-08-24T15:52:00.000-04:00

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics has links to the 2008 Infant Mortality Statistics

The Census Bureau has put together some statistics, reports and related links on health insurance, including some historical tables.

Southern Poverty Law Center

2009-08-24T14:10:00.003-04:00

The Southern Poverty Law Center has created an interactive map detailing the whereabouts of over 900 hate groups in the U.S. Here is the map with locations for 30 hate groups in North Carolina.

Free PACER

2009-08-14T15:53:00.001-04:00

Ars Technica tells us about a new Firefox extension created by the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton aims to tear down the federal judiciary's PACER paywall. It uploads legal documents to a freely accessible mirror that is hosted by the Internet Archive.

Clusty Search Engine

2007-06-28T10:38:00.000-04:00

A couple of years ago I told you about Vivísimo's clustering search engine. Clusty is its latest version and a whole new way to search the web.
Clusty queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. This "metasearch" approach helps raise the best results to the top and push search engine spam to the bottom.
But what really makes Clusty unique is what happens after you search. Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into clusters. Clusters help you see your search results by topic so you can zero in on exactly what you’re looking for or discover unexpected relationships between items. When was the last time you went to the third or fourth page of the search results? Rather than scrolling through page after page, the clusters help you find results you may have missed or that were buried deep in the ranked list.

Earth Trends

2007-06-28T10:05:00.000-04:00

EarthTrends is a comprehensive online database, maintained by the World Resources Institute, that focuses on the environmental, social, and economic trends that shape our world.

Wildcard Searches using NewsBank

2007-05-17T16:07:00.000-04:00

Wildcards are symbols that replace one or more letters or characters in a search term. They are helpful when you want to make sure you will find variants of your search term - child - children.

Single character wildcard: ? - Wom?n will find women or woman

Multiple character wildcard: * - environment* will find environment, environments, environmentalist, etc.

You can also place the * in the middle of a word. This is especially helpful for when you are unsure of the spelling. Wol*z will find Wolfowitz.

Searching NewsBank

2007-05-17T15:46:00.000-04:00

When searching a name, always use NewsBank's proximity search. For example if you searched for "Mary Smith" you might not find articles that used "Mary Jones Smith". Here is NewsBank's proximity syntax: "mary near3 jones". NewsBank's search engine is not case sensitive.

This is also helpful when you don't remember all the words of an organization's name: "guilford near4 health" will find articles with the term, "Guilford County Department of Health". *note that you choose the number that will separate your two search words.

News & Record Archives

2007-05-17T15:29:00.000-04:00

Do you know where to find articles written by News & Record staff writers from 1979? 1929? 1990? Articles for all three dates will be found in three different places. See me, David or Marc if you don't know where to locate archived articles.

Veterans History Project

2007-05-01T10:54:00.000-04:00

The Library of Congress Veterans History Project and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) announced a joint community engagement initiative designed to gather first-hand recollections of the diverse men and women who served our nation during wartime. The public outreach campaign begins this spring and will continue beyond the broadcast of Ken Burns’ new film, "The War," which is scheduled to air on PBS beginning on September 23, 2007.

National criminal background checks

2007-04-25T10:56:00.000-04:00

An article written byJackie Walters, Technical Services Librarian at Wiley Rein LLP for the Spring 2007 newsletter, Law Library Lights says that there are 7 facts that contradict the myth that a national criminal background check is even possible:
1. No central repository exists for federal, sate, and local criminal records.
2. Only 25 states - of the 49 states D.C. & Puerto Rico that have automated records - are fully automated.
3. There are no standards for collecting records.
4. Conducting on-site, county level searches where an individual has lived could be cost-prohibitive.
5. States are increasingly restricting personally identifying data, such as birth dates and SS #s and without this data you cannot link information across record types, and how do you know you even have the "right" John Doe?
6. Permissible use of these records are limited and sometimes restricted by federal and state privacy statutes.
7. So-called "national" databases are restricted to government users - law-enforcement agencies or agencies authorized by the FBI.

But don't let that stop you from requesting a search for your story. We'll do our best.

Guns and violence

2007-04-19T16:47:00.000-04:00

In response to the shootings Monday at Virginia Tech, Newswise has created a Breaking News Channel on Guns and Violence. The channel is a collection of articles and experts related to guns, gun laws, and violence in our nation's schools.

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

2007-04-17T11:26:00.000-04:00

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press announced the availability of of a free, bi-weekly audio podcast called News Media Update. It supplements the Reporters Committee's biweekly newsletter News Media Update and covers recent developments and trends in media law that affect journalists and media attorneys. Topics include libel, invasion of privacy, freedom of information, reporter's privilege (keeping sources and information confidential), access to courts, newsgathering rights, and prior restraints.

Topics from yesterday's podcast: Virginia gun permit access; Florida secret docket ruling; Columbine depositions; Illinois Chief Justice's libel claim; interview with Lucy Dalglish on Josh Wolf.

This info forwarded to the News Library list serv from Genie Tyburski -Web Manager, The Virtual Chase

Finding 990s - Free

2007-04-16T16:00:00.000-04:00

Foundation Center web site was mentioned on the News Library List Serv as a place to find older 990s. They also offer an online course that explains how to read the 990.

Click here for the 990 finder.

20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women

2007-04-12T16:43:00.000-04:00

U.S. Dept of Labor lists the top 20 jobs for women in 2006 and the median weekly earnings for those jobs. Registerd nurses are the highest paid ($971) and cashiers, the lowest ($327).

National Health Spending

2007-04-12T15:06:00.000-04:00

Health spending reached nearly $2 trillion in 2005

National Health Spending in Billions
Spending Levels
1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
$28 $75 $254 $714 $1,353 $1,733 $1,859 $1,988 $2,123 $2,262

Note: Selected rather than continuous years of data are shown prior to 2003. Years 2006 forward are CMS projections.Source: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Office of the Actuary.Health Care Costs 101

From the California HealthCare Foundation

Student Multimedia Showcase

2007-03-23T14:12:00.000-04:00

School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the UNC at Chapel Hill has a newly redesigned web site. Check out the top right-hand "student showcase" box to see samples of student multimedia work.

Chronicling America

2007-03-20T13:36:00.000-04:00

View newspaper pages from 1900 to 1910 from the following states: California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia.

Chronicling America is a prototype Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages, and is produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Library of Congress (LC)...

Favorite web sites

2007-03-19T16:40:00.000-04:00

News librarians share their favorite web sites:
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory – for information and data on global warming

Quick facts: RefDesk.com; Library Spot;
How Stuff Works ;
CIA World Factbook

Free translations

For small newspapers - HomeTownNews and Topix.net
Nonprofits - Guidestar
Public records assistance - SearchSystems
For newspapers and magazines, Radio and TV: NewsLink

They Rule

2007-03-16T09:29:00.000-04:00

This site was mentioned on the News Library List:
They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class. It takes as its focus the boards of some of the most powerful U.S. companies, which share many of the same directors. Some individuals sit on 5, 6 or 7 of the top 500 companies. It allows users to browse through these interlocking directories and run searches on the boards and companies. A user can save a map of connections complete with their annotations and email links to these maps to others. They Rule is a starting point for research about these powerful individuals and corporations.

They Rule allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004. The data was collected from their websites and SEC filings in early 2004, so it may not be completely accurate - companies merge and disappear and directors shift boards.

Hot Jobs

2007-03-15T16:21:00.000-04:00

Recent press release from the Dept of Labor:

Sixteen of the 30 jobs with the fastest growth are health related, while 6 are computer related. Most of the remaining fast-growth occupations are in environmental services and education (See Table 1).
Fast-growth occupations have growth rates of 30 percent or higher, more than twice the average for all occupations—13.0 percent (See Table 1).
The fastest-growing major occupational group—professional and related occupations—is made up mostly of occupations that generally require postsecondary education or training.
Examples of these are physician assistants, network systems and data communication analysts, computer software engineers, database administrators, physical therapists, preschool and postsecondary teachers, and environmental engineers.

Sunshine Week

2007-03-15T14:49:00.000-04:00

Charlotte Observer news researchers Maria Wygand and Marion Paynter are writing a Sunshine Week blog that gives web sites and useful tips on obtaining public records that anyone can use. They are also taking questions from the public. They have pulled a lot of information together. Check it out.

I attended the N.C. Open Government Coalition's forum this morning at the Sunshine Center on the Elon University campus. They are a great group who are working hard to keep public records public.

Women's History Month

2007-03-12T10:27:00.000-04:00

Here is a contact for issues dealing with women in the military:

Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Military
Official Mailing Address:OUSD (P&R) DACOWITSRoom 2C548A, 4000 Defense PentagonWashington, DC 20301-4000dacowits@osd.mil Telephone: (703) 697-2122DSN# 227-2122

Elon Law Expert Sources

2007-03-06T16:26:00.000-05:00

Lanita was at Elon’s Law School today and got a quick breakdown on who are experts on what. The faculty is eager to be of assistance to us when we’re looking for a local source.

Constitutional Law: Steven Friedland and George Johnson
Torts (lawsuits between people) and international law: Helen Grant
Procedure and trials: Catherine Dunham
Legal education/property/criminal law: Steven Friedland

Contact information for all faculty can be found here: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/academics/law/facstaff.xhtml

Military

2007-03-05T15:10:00.000-05:00

Just ran across this Feb 25th article from the American Psychological Association titled, PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE INCREASING—STRAINING MILITARY HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, REPORTS APA TASK FORCE - still newsworthy in light of the Washington Post's recent articles.

Regional and State Unemployment

2007-03-05T14:52:00.000-05:00

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released this report recently:

Annual average unemployment rates declined between 2005 and 2006 in 43states and the District of Columbia and in all 4 regions, the Bureau ofLabor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. Employ-ment-population ratios rose in 41 states and the District of Columbia andin all 4 regions. The U.S. jobless rate fell by 0.5 percentage point to4.6 percent in 2006, while the national employment-population ratio increased by 0.4 percentage point to 63.1 percent.

Here is a link to the table of contents for other releases.

Weather Disasters

2007-03-01T16:37:00.000-05:00

The National Climatic Data Center has a web page that lists events that have had the greatest economic impact since 1980. Check out Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters

Podcasts Searches

2007-02-27T15:16:00.000-05:00

Heard about a great podcast but can't find it? Here are a couple of search engines that searches audio content for keywords. Regular search engines are looking only at the audio metadata such as headlines.

Podzinger
Blinkx

Using Wikipedia for research

2007-02-26T09:10:00.000-05:00

Where else but Wikipedia could you find an article examining the merits of using Wikipedia for research?

Here are some things to keep in mind when using Wikipedia:

Always be wary of any one single source, or of multiple works that derive from a single source.
Where articles have references to external sources (whether online or not) read the references and check whether they really do support what the article says.
In many academic institutions, an encyclopedia is unacceptable as a major source for a research paper.

Google Guide

2007-02-23T10:41:00.000-05:00

GoogleGuide offers instruction on getting more out of your Google search. For example, you don't have to locate a web dictionary to look up words; just type define:word into the Google search box to get definitions of your word.

Other examples:
phonebook: Lucky32 NC - searches for Lucky 32'S phone numbers in North Carolina
rphonebook: jane smith VA - searches for all Jane Smith's in Virginia
movie: breach - searches for information about this movie, including reviews, showtimes, etc.

African-American Family History

2007-02-22T12:02:00.000-05:00

Read the entire news release:

Ancestry.com Breaks Barriers in Black Family History Research With Launch of Largest Online Collection of African-American Historical Records
Newly Expanded Collection Traces Back to Thousands of African-Americans Living Before the Civil War
PRNewswirePROVO, Utah
PROVO, Utah, Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- In celebration of Black History Month, Ancestry.com, the world's largest online resource for family history, today announced the launch of the largest collection of African-American family history records available and searchable online.

Health Resources

2007-02-20T15:55:00.000-05:00

More web resouces via Amy Dominello:

The State Center for Health Statistics in North Carolina has released new publications and data on its web site:

Central Cancer Registry:
2003 Cancer Incidence in North Carolina, County-Specific Numbers http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/CCR/incidence2003.html

County-level Data:
2007 County Health Data Book http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/data/databook/
Best resource for county level data published in conjunction with the Community Health Assessment Initative.

Periodic Publications:
2005 North Carolina Health Statistics Pocket Guide http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/data/pocketguide/2005/
2005 Local Health Department Facilities, Staffing, and Services Survey http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/data/lhd/2005/

PRAMS Surveillance Updates:
Infant Exposure to Secondhand Smoke - 2006 http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/prams/pdf/InfantExposure2006.pdf
Maternal Smoking Around the Time of Pregnancy - 2006 http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/prams/pdf/PRAMSsmoking2006.pdf

Special Studies and Reports:
SCHS Study 152 -
The Association of Breastfeeding and Childhood Asthma:
Results from the 2005 North Carolina Child Health Assessment and Monitoring Program http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/pdf/SCHS152.pdf
A Resource Guide for Community Health Assessment http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/pdf/resguid.pdf

Vital Statistics:
North Carolina Vital Statistics, Volume 1 - 2005 http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/vitalstats/volume1/2005/
The tables of this report show annual frequencies, annual rates, and 5-year rates for the state, six Perinatal Care Regions, and the 100 counties of North Carolina.

Web Resources for a Slow News Day

2007-02-20T14:44:00.000-05:00

Not that today is a slow news day, but here are some places to look if it was:

About.com Also a search engine, organized by subjects, includes current event topics - up now are links to Madi Gras
Census Bureau's Newsroom includes facts for features, monthly & quarterly economic indicators, news releases about the nation's people and economy
Yahoo Groups Organized by subjects - with millions of groups
Glo Clubs Clubs and forums - connect with people who are passionate about...
ivillage Grouped by subjects – from babies to work – also has magazines link.
ScienCentral News: ScienCentral specializes in science and technology content. Some topics covered include environment, general sciences, genetics, health/medicine, space, technology.

What's Happening to the News?

2007-02-14T10:31:00.000-05:00

Be sure to catch part 3 to Frontline's four part series on the future of newspapers on Feb 27.

In part three of "News War," entitled "What's Happening to the News,"FRONTLINE examines the mounting pressure for profits faced by America's network news divisions and daily newspapers, as well as growing challenges from cable television and the Internet. Bergman talks to network executives, newspaper editors and publishers, bloggers, Wall Street analysts and key players at Google and Yahoo! about the battle for market dominance in a rapidly changing world.

Free wi-fi hotspots in Greensboro

2007-02-02T16:02:00.000-05:00

Here is a list of free wi-fi hotspots in Greensboro via Forbes.com The site allows you to add a hotspot, and to look up hotspots by state, city or zip. According this list, Greensboro is number 3 behind Charlotte and Raleigh.

Daylight Savings Time - Just call it Summer Time

2007-02-02T10:29:00.000-05:00

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extends Daylight Savings Time beginning this year.

Dr. David Prerau has written the definitive book on the story of DST, Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. Check out the Seize the Daylight web site to read some interesting facts about Daylight Savings Time, for example did you know that Benjamin Franklin, living in Paris, first conceived the notion of daylight saving time. And Europe just calls it "Summer time".

Other web sites with information about daylight savings time include:
The California Energy Commission - with facts related to the energy saved
And of course, good old Wikipedia

40th Super Bowl

2007-01-24T16:57:00.000-05:00

Super Bowl XLI will be played Feb. 4 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami. It marks the 40th anniversary of the first AFL-NFL championship game, in which the Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in Los Angeles. To commemorate this occasion, the Census Bureau has compiled a collection of facts examining how life in the United States has changed since Super Bowl I. This fact sheet also examines the demographics of the host city, as well as the cities represented by the contenders, in this year’s edition of our nation’s most celebrated sporting event. Unless otherwise indicated, the data come from the 2005 American Community Survey.

North Carolina Employment Rates

2007-01-24T13:09:00.000-05:00

North Carolina’s employment increased in December for the sixth consecutive month and remained at a record level, according to statistics released on Jan 19 by the state’s Employment Security Commission. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate remained at 4.9 percent for the month.

The next release of data will be on January 26, for December employment rates.

Ask X

2007-01-23T10:44:00.000-05:00

Ask X is getting some great reviews from researchers. Check it out.

NC DOT contacts

2007-01-18T15:25:00.000-05:00

Rock reporter, Gerald Witt sent along this web link for Division 7 (Guilford, Rock, and Alamance) DOT contacts - email address and phone numbers.

The state directory has a list by department, including Division 7.

Thanks, Gerald!

State Center for Health Statistics

2006-11-17T14:05:00.000-05:00

Staff reporter, Amy Dominello sent me the following research resources:

Vital Statistics:
North Carolina Reported Pregnancies for 2005

North Carolina Vital Statistics, Volume 2: Leading Causes of Death,
2005

North Carolina's total and cause-specific deaths at the state and county level.
Child Deaths in North Carolina 2005

North Carolina Vital Facts for 2005

Detailed Mortality Statistics, North Carolina Residents, 2005

Deaths of residents classified by cause, age, race, and sex.
Infant Mortality Statistics 2005

Basic Automated Birth Yearbook (BABYBOOK) - 2005
Statewide and county counts for 2005 resident live births classified
by selected infant and maternal characteristics.

BRFSS:
2005 BRFSS Data for Adults in North Carolina Enrolled in Medicaid
Health Risks Among North Carolina Adults: 2005

Central Cancer Registry:
NC Cancer Projections for 2006

These tables include projected new cancer cases and deaths for selected sites.
PRAMS:
2004 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) Survey Results

Special Studies and Reports:
Statistical Brief 30: Hospice Care in North Carolina

Searching for Videos on the Web

2006-11-15T13:46:00.000-05:00

Wall-Street Journal article: Finding Tom Cruise(Not Cruise Missiles)
As Web Video Grows, Search Engines Race to SolveProblem of Locating Content That Has No Text
By JESSICA E. VASCELLAROO ctober 12, 2006; Page D1

This article explains the new technologies and lists a few of the new Web sites that will search videos. You can also upload your video.

Blinkx searches 6 million hours of content
Pure Video searches billions of videos and 100s of sites (it is still in Beta)
Pixsy searches millions of photos and videos
Meta Cafe searches video hosted on its site

My favorite: Search for Video

Baby Boomers and Housing Trends

2006-10-25T15:56:00.000-04:00

Census data was used to compile this special report on Housing Trends Among Baby Boomers by the Research Institute for Housing America. This is a 76 page PDF, so don't hit print without specifying what page you want to print.

Greensboro Public Library Resources

2006-10-06T12:15:00.000-04:00

Michelle Jarboe just told me about a great resource through the Greensboro Public Library. Business reporters will love it, but anyone writing on downtown development will find it useful. Below Michelle describes how to get access. She also tells us about some other resources at the Library that you might not know about. - Thx Michelle!

It’s a new marketing tool that can give you a detailed look at area consumers by generating reports on market data. It’s free for anyone who has a library card, and includes information like demographic and income profiles, consumer spending and market segmentation profiles. You can also obtain more specialized reports for a discounted fee through the library. To get there:

Go to www.greensborolibrary.org
Click on Premium Information Resources
Enter your library card number
Scroll down and click on Marketing and Demographics link
Follow the instructions to enter Business Decision
The library’s user ID is “gsolibrary” and its password is “greensboro.” You can use this, or you can create your own account under the library’s account by entering some personal information, including your e-mail address. The advantage of having your own account is that you can get your reports e-mailed to you and you can keep your searches private – the site archives searches for a time, so if you’re using the library’s login, other people can see what you’ve searched.

Right now this is limited to the local MSA (Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Statistical Area) in terms of the starting address you use to generate a report, but the library is looking at expanding to a nationwide service.

Other interesting services I didn’t know the library offers include:

Mergent Online: A database of public companies in the U.S. and internationally. Accessible using a library card number.
ReferenceUSA: A database offering general biz info about nearly every U.S. business. Good for b2b-type research. Accessible through NCLive with library card info.
Morningstar.com: Stock analysis and mutual fund performance info. Accessible through the Investment section of online resources using a library card.

Census Bureau Releases Housing Data

2006-10-03T15:39:00.000-04:00

"The 2005 ACS data released today include housing characteristic information such as occupancy, units in structure, year built, rooms, occupants per room, vehicles available, house heating fuel, value, mortgage status, gross rent, selected monthly owner costs and other characteristics. Additional subjects covered in this release include means of transportation to work by workplace geography, geographic mobility by selected characteristics, characteristics of households and families, grandparents and the foreign-born population. Also surveyed are disability characteristics, work status in the past 12 months, occupancy and financial characteristics. The data are available for nearly 7,000 areas, including all congressional districts and counties, cities and American Indian/Alaska Native areas of 65,000 population or more. This survey is a first look at key housing information for many communities since Census 2000 – including 75 of the top 100 fastest growing cities."

See the entire news release or go directly to American FactFinder at http://www.census.gov.

Click here to see other news releases.

Small Business Profile for North Carolina

2006-09-29T09:51:00.000-04:00

North Carolina had an estimated total of 734,000 small businesses in 2005 according to a report by the U.S. Small Business Administration. See how we compare with other states.

The phone number for the North Carolina District Office in Charlotte is 704-344-6563.

U.S. Dept. of Labor and Women

2006-09-27T10:30:00.000-04:00

The U.S. Dept. of Labor has some new reports about women's employment issues. Click on the links below for the reports:

Employment Status of Women and Men in 2005-- NEW
Women in Nursing -- NEW
20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women 2005 -- NEW
Hot Jobs for the 21st Century, 2004-2014 -- NEW
Older Women Workers, ages 55 and over -- NEW
Women in the Labor Force in 2005 -- NEW

GOORIP

2006-09-19T14:48:00.000-04:00

Beth Comptom - N&R Interactive - pointed me to this image ripper, powered by Google. It is called Goorip. So easy to use, and you can restrict your results to a certain number. You won't be using this at home if you have dial-up. Even with a T-1, you'll be waiting if you ask for 200 photos.

Advertising Revenue Down????

2006-09-19T13:07:00.000-04:00

Yahoo! shares are down over 12% today after issuing a third quarter advertising sales warning The whole market is down, but is that because Yahoo is down or because of the coup attempt in Thailand? Hey, it's the stock market, no reason needed for it to plunge, especially if you just turned long.

North Carolina trains getting safer?

2006-09-19T11:22:00.000-04:00

A nod to Docuticker - for pointing out a press release from DOT that has a state-by-state list comparing the train accident data from the first six-months of 2006 to the first six-months of 2005. North Carolina had 2 fewer accidents in 2006 compared to the same period for 2005. There is a net reduction of 262 accidents for all states combined.

TRAC and FOIA

2006-09-14T09:35:00.000-04:00

Click here for a compilation page of TRAC’s FOIA activities. The latest is a ruling by Paul L. Friedman, U.S. District Court judge, which significantly expands the range of data that the DOJ is required to provide TRAC.

About TRAC's FOIA Activities in Federal Court
TRAC's core purpose is to make information about the federal government's staffing, expenditures and enforcement efforts more accessible to the public. An essential step in this process is TRAC's systematic and informed use of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Net Democracy Guide

2006-09-13T13:34:00.000-04:00

The Center for Democracy and Technology, with funding from the Carnegie Corp. has developed a guide to help citizens understand campaign finance rules.

The Center for Democracy and Technology works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media.

Fall Colors and Fishing

2006-09-13T12:51:00.000-04:00

On September 20, VisitNC.com will begin featuring weekly fall fishing and fall color reports. .

Hewlet-Packard obtains journalists phone records

2006-09-08T12:07:00.000-04:00

From the Washington Post:

HP Investigators Got Reporters' Phone Records
By Ellen NakashimaWashington Post Staff Writer - Friday, September 8, 2006; Page D01
Hewlett-Packard Co. said yesterday that private investigators it hired to find out who leaked confidential corporate information to the media had accessed private phone records of nine journalists who covered the company, without obtaining their permission.

More from the Wall-Street Journal

NCAA Financial Reports Database

2006-09-08T10:02:00.000-04:00

Belinda Harris, our sister (Roanoke Times) Librarian has pointed out this public database created by The Indianapolis Star. The database tracks the revenues and expenses of sports departments of NCAA schools. You can sort your search by category and conference, and can compare two schools.

Getting started with NC Live

2006-09-07T15:52:00.000-04:00

The first thing you have to do to get started using the resources at NC Live is to get your NC Live password. Your must have a North Carolina public library card to obtain the password. If you already have your library card you can call your local library, or visit their web site to get your password. The phone number for the Greensboro Public Library is 373-2471.

Click here for the Greensboro Public Library's Web page. Next click on Premium Information Resouces; enter your library card number and hit "Go". Your NC Live password will be returned.

Now you are set to use the resources at NC Live. NewsBank, whose interface you all know and love (and just one of many vendors) has 15 North Carolina newspapers.

GOOGLE NEWS ARCHIVE SEARCH

2006-09-06T13:37:00.000-04:00

Today Google launched an archive search feature on Google News. Mike Grossman has been working with the folks at Google to get our archive content included in this new search feature.

Here is how Google describes the search:

* As the name suggests, it contains content that is primarily historical in nature.
* The archive search feature on Google News includes both paid content as well as content that is freely available on the web. By including both, we believe that more people will use this feature and discover your content.
* We have developed some new functionality to suggest key dates in which a particular term or story has a significant number of results, and we have added new time-based navigational tools to help users find the articles that are most relevant to their searches.

Using the Advanced Search you can restrict your search to a certain source.

Is Spam Free Speech?

2006-09-06T11:22:00.000-04:00

VA. APPEALS COURT
Anti-Spam Conviction Is Upheld
N.C. Man Flooded AOL Customers With Unsolicited E-Mail
By Candace RondeauxWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, September 6, 2006

Briefs filed in support of the defendant invoke "free speech":
"...John Whitehead, president of the conservative Rutherford Institute, who along with the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia filed a brief in support of Jaynes's appeal, agreed, saying yesterday's ruling would have a "chilling effect" on free speech."

Premature Death Knell

2006-09-01T13:52:00.000-04:00

"The death knell of newspapers sounds premature" is an insightful piece by Jack Fuller, a former editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune.

"....Nobody gets all his news from media other than newspapers, simply because newspapers originate most of the information that finds its way into all media."

I don't think everyone knows this to be true.

Read the entire commentary.

Congratulations Lynn Dombek - AP researcher!

2006-08-30T16:57:00.000-04:00

An announcement from the News Research Center at the Associated Press:

The staff of The Associated Press News Research Center is thrilled to announce that our director, Lynn Dombek, has been honored with a $10,000 Gramling Achievement Award for 2006, one of the most prestigious and much-coveted awards bestowed on AP employees.
Lynn was recognized for "transforming her team of researchers into an integral part of AP journalism across all platforms and departments."
The NRC team nominated Lynn ourselves, and her win is very gratifying for all of us. This recognition helps raise the visibility and perceived value of research as a news component, and honors all the hard work of the News Research Center team. Kudos have been pouring in from all around the AP, and it has been a very exciting time for all of us to suddenly be in the spotlight. Lynn says she feels lucky to have been given the opportunity to work with such an outstanding group of researchers, and that she was able to accomplish what she did only with the cooperation and hard work of the entire department.
Fame is fleeting, so we wanted to share the moment with our Newslib colleagues. We’re honored to be a part of an organization that sees so clearly the value that strong research brings to our journalism.
For more about the other recipients, and information on the Associated Press Gramling Award, see:
http://www.ap.org/pages/about/pressreleases/pr_083006a.html
The AP News Research Center team members are:
Judy Ausuebel, Jennifer Farrar, Randy Herschaft, Monika Mathur, John Parsons, Julie Reed, Barbara Sambriski, Rhonda Shafner
Deputy Director -- Susan James

State Plans for Containment of Pandemic Influenza

2006-08-30T14:39:00.000-04:00

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Policy Review:
This review assesses differences and similarities of the states in planning for pandemic influenza. We reviewed the recently posted plans of 49 states for vaccination, early epidemic surveillance and detection, and intraepidemic plans for containment of pandemic influenza.

North Carolina's Plan

"N.C. State Health Director, Leah Devlin (919-707-5001 or leah.devlin@ncmail.net) is to be the primary spokesperson during an influenza pandemic."

Beyond EDGAR

2006-08-29T08:19:00.000-04:00

OK, so you already know about EDGAR and how you can get company filings. But have you seen EDGAR's newest (Beta Version) full-text search option? You can view the most recent, real-time filings as they are processed by the SEC. Future updates will be based on user feedback. So check it out and let them know what works for you.

TRAC

2006-08-24T12:44:00.000-04:00

TRAC has released May 2006 statistics on
- White Collar Crime
- Immigration (criminal immigration prosecutions)
- Drugs
- Weapons

The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data gathering, data research and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University.

Move over telephone and cable monopolies

2006-08-24T09:49:00.000-04:00

From Governing.com: Online Via Power Line
Small towns and cities are finding high-speed Internet access is as close as their electric grid.
Read the whole article.

Government Eligibility Services

2006-08-24T09:26:00.000-04:00

From INPUT: Reston, VA – August 23, 2006 – An estimated $1.3 billion will be spent by states to bring integrated eligibility services to the Web for use by state and county workers as well as citizens, according to a report released today by INPUT, the authority on government business. The upturn will be driven by new administrations looking to capture savings and make their marks in terms of improving citizen service.
Read the whole article here.

Women

2006-08-22T09:29:00.000-04:00

The Women's Bureau, under the U.S. Department of Labor has just release several interesting reports:

Employment Status of Women and Men in 2005-- NEW
Women in Nursing -- NEW
20 Leading Occupations of Employed Women 2005 -- NEW
Hot Jobs for the 21st Century, 2004-2014 -- NEW
Older Women Workers, ages 55 and over -- NEW
Women in the Labor Force in 2005 -- NEW
Saving for Retirement
Women in Nontraditional Jobs

Best for Business

2006-08-17T15:38:00.000-04:00

North Carolina is listed Forbes Magazine's Top 10 Best States for Business.

"..we ranked all 50 states on 30 metrics in six main categories: business costs, economic climate, growth prospects, labor, quality of life and regulatory environment. The data produced a clear No 1. The commonwealth of Virginia takes the crown in our first-ever ranking of Top States for Business."

Transportation Plan

2006-08-17T11:19:00.000-04:00

The Proposed Greensboro Urban Area 2030 Transportation Plan includes maps and charts.

George Bush grants pardons

2006-08-17T10:12:00.000-04:00

According to a DOJ press release yesterday, President George Bush granted pardons to 17 individuals.

Police Department

2006-08-17T09:27:00.000-04:00

Ever wonder what an ideal police department would look like? This month the DOJ released a report titled, "Guidelines for Starting and Operating a New Police Department" (64 page PDF).

Here is a list of other publications under the office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) department of the DOJ.

Local company's stock up on acquision proposal

2006-08-15T16:38:00.000-04:00

Yahoo Finance reports: BURLINGTON, N.C., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TriPath Imaging, Inc. today announced that it has received a proposal from BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX) to acquire the approximately 93.5% of the outstanding shares of TriPath Imaging, Inc. (Nasdaq: TPTH -News) that BD does not currently own.

Dell Recalling Batteries

2006-08-15T08:31:00.000-04:00

Dell Inc. is recalling notebook-computer batteries that can overheat and pose a fire hazard. From the recall web page:
Dell has identified a potential issue associated with certain batteries sold with Dell Latitude™, Inspiron™, XPS™ and Dell Precision Mobile Workstation™ notebook computers. In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and other regulatory agencies, Dell is voluntarily recalling certain Dell-branded batteries with cells manufactured by Sony and offering free replacements for these batteries. Under rare conditions, it is possible for these batteries to overheat, which could pose a risk of fire.
Potentially affected batteries were sold with the following models of Dell notebook computers or separately as secondary batteries:
Latitude: D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810
Inspiron: 500M, 510M, 600M, 700M, 710M, 6000, 6400, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 9400, E1505, E1705
Precision: M20, M60, M70, M90
XPS: XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M170, XPS M1710
In addition, these batteries may have also been provided in response to service calls. The batteries were shipped to customers between April 1, 2004 and July 18, 2006. .

Institute for Analytic Journalism

2006-08-14T10:49:00.000-04:00

Institute for Analytic Journalism is a journalism blog that I recently discovered. Tom Johnson, one of the Co-directors of the blog and Professor of Journalism (ret), San Francisco State University, defines analytic journalism:

Critical thinking and analysis using a variety of intellectual tools and methods to understand multiple phenomena and to communicate the results of those insights to multiple audiences in a variety of ways.

The most recent posting is titled, 25 Numbers Journalist Should Know. Listservs were solicited for suggestions for generic numbers journalists should know in order to be responsible, effective reporters and editors. Check out the responses.