This is an interesting article from Discover Magazine's Emerging Technology section: How the Web Edits News by Steven Johnson. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this one.

TIPS ON NOTE TAKING:

Directly from the News Coach List Serv:Three handouts on note-taking:

"Take Note of This" by Michelle Hiskey and Maria Saporta of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution"

A workshop handout from Steve Buttry, the writing coach at Omaha World-Herald, "Scribbling with Purpose"

Don Fry's "Taking Great Notes for Great Stories"

More on Blogs:
Blogdex is a research project of the MIT Media Laboratory. It crawls all of the weblogs in its database everytime they are updated.

Ring Surf . This net ring helps you to find sites with related subjects.

Blogrunner is a portal for blog content. It has an index and entries are grouped together according to topics and news stories.

Google also has a searchable weblog directory

Technorati is another blog searcher that also allows you to trace who's linked to a particular blog. In addition, Techorati tracks the number of blogs linked to a blog.

New Book in the Library: MAKING DOUGH: THE 12 SECRET INGREDIENTS OF KRISPY KREME'S SWEET SUCCESS by Amy Joyner and Kirk Kazanjian

ELECTION 2004: The Duke University Office of News & Communications has compiled a list of Duke experts on issues related to the 2004 election. They fall into five categories, including Presidential Race and Domestic Politics; Foreign Policy;National Security and Terrorism;Economic Issues; and Domestic and Social Issues.

BOOKFAIR: Planning to buy books or magazines this weekend? Shopping for the holidays? You can benefit public libraries at the same time! In a unique partnership with the State Library of North Carolina and the North Carolina Public Library Directors Association, Barnes & Noble Booksellers will hold voucher bookfairs in their North Carolina stores Friday and Saturday, October 24th-25th to benefit all North Carolina Public Libraries. More than $7,000.00 was generated from the bookfairs in 2002. Funds raised by these bookfairs help public libraries purchase new books and continue to offer the full range of their educational and community outreach programs. Vouchers must be presented at the time of purchase on Friday or Saturday, October 24th and 25th for a percentage of the sale to benefit the libraries. Stop by the News Library to get a copy of the voucher to take with you, or email me (dlamb@news-record.com) and I will email the voucher to you.

Blog Lovers Unite! BLOGWISE is a directory of blogs from around the world. 532 Blogs from Canada, 702 from the UK, 261 from Spain, etc. There are 817 News Blogs, 1031 Political Blogs, 455 Humor Blogs. Click on a subject or search by keyword.