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January 28, 2005
The state of things
People may not always be sure what it is, but
blogging is alive and well, according to a
Pew Internet & American Life Project called
The State of Blogging. Apparently 8 million Americans have set one up, though how many are regularly maintained is unknown. Blogs are certainly establishing themselves as an alternative to 'straight' news, with 27% of Net users regularly reading them. Many use RSS feeds or XML readers to keep in touch with their favourites. The full report is at
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_blogging_data.pdf.
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04:03 PM
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Now you see it ...
This site has
before and after satellite images of the Boxing Day 2004 Asian tsunami (
http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/). Locations include Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Use the button to toggle between images.
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03:10 PM
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With luck, you'll never need it
Identifying people killed in disasters like the Asian tsunami is a huge job. The
Disaster Victim Identification (
http://www.interpol.int/Public/DisasterVictim/) guide from
Interpol explains the steps, and should be handy for journos who have to cover such stories, whether after natural disasters, bombings or war atrocities.
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02:47 PM
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Tale of woe
UNICEF'S State of the World's Children 2005 (
http://www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/index.html) report lists war, poverty and HIV/AIDS as the main barriers to a normal life for more than a billion kids worldwide. That's a lot of blighted childhoods, and the report came out before the tsunami hit. Make that a billion plus now. Lots of detail here, statistics, analysis and maps to tell the sad story.
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02:24 PM
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January 06, 2005
Wiki on the tsunami
Wikipedia has a tsunami page at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Indian_Ocean_earthquake. This is a collaborative effort that contains a chronology, animations, casualty information and counts, countries affected, information on which charities are doing what, and links to amateur photos and videos of the events in different places.
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04:14 PM
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January 05, 2005
Tsunami of tsunami news sites
Reuters AlertNet (
http://www.alertnet.org/) exists to highlight humanitarian emergencies around the world. The recent Asian tsunami is top of their list just now. Also handy are the special archives at news sites - the ABC's
Asia Tsunami Disaster at
http://abc.net.au/news/indepth/tsunami/ and the BBC's excellent
Asia Quake Disaster site at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/world/2004/asia_quake_disaster/, which has audio, video, news, pictures, animations and more.
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09:36 AM
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Do the right thing
Should bloggers, who are not, strictly speaking, journalists, have a code of ethics? The
American Press Institute thinks they should and has posted a sample code on their
CyberJournalist site at
www.cyberjournalist.net/news/000215.php. It has three planks -
be honest and fair (
don't plagiarise or fail to link to original materials),
minimise harm (
be sensitive in how you handle news or make comments, respect people's privacy),
be accountable (
admit it when you get it wrong). Submissions of further additions to the code are welcome.
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09:23 AM
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