From the News Coach List Serv:
Newspaper Training Editors Guide: 'Collected wisdom of the sages';Traning Editors present their favorite exercises & ideas. And links to other Freedom Forum publications.
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Monday, November 10, 2003
Do you know that you can do a Full-Text search from 120,000 Book Titles at Amazon?
This new service is called "Search Inside the Book" and allows you to search the full-text, over 33 million pages from over 120,000 titles. Of course, Amazon's primary motivation for offering this service is to sell books, but you can take advantage of the service for your own research purposes. Here is a link to their FAQs for this Search Inside the Book feature.
This new service is called "Search Inside the Book" and allows you to search the full-text, over 33 million pages from over 120,000 titles. Of course, Amazon's primary motivation for offering this service is to sell books, but you can take advantage of the service for your own research purposes. Here is a link to their FAQs for this Search Inside the Book feature.
Friday, November 07, 2003
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.
Friday, October 31, 2003
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"
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"
Thursday, October 30, 2003
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.
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.
Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Monday, October 27, 2003
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.
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