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1. Check this cool weather site by  the Las Vegas Sun. Make sure you see the top of the page forecast grahics.

2. Stay on top of Gustav with this site that includes radar, satellite, tracking maps, warnings and more.

3. The coolest storm tracking site I have seen in a while.

4. Vloggerheads fights back against YouTube chaos.

5. YouTomb is where videos go after they're booted off YouTube.

6. The evolution of voting in America is shown by interactive mapping.

7. The Las Vegas Sun has a crew driving to the Democratic National Convention and is filing multimedia stories along the way.

8. I have never seen anything like this amazing "Swan Lake" performance. [Flash]

9. The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen links written notes with audio. Cool for journalists and students.

10. An educator friend of mine in Lebanon reports that citizen- generated news is all the rage in Arab countries.

11. Here are photos of folks learning Soundslides in Poynter's recent seminar "Multimedia for College Educators." We'll offer this twice in 2009, in February and July.

12. This is my current home page.

All of my Diggin' sites are saved on Poynter's del.icio.us page.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Al's Morning Meeting is a compendium of ideas, edited story excerpts and other materials from a variety of Web sites, as well as original concepts and analysis. When the information comes directly from another source, it will be attributed and a link will be provided whenever possible. The column is fact-checked, but depends on the accuracy and integrity of the original sources cited. We will correct errors and inaccuracies when we become aware of them.


Four Major Global Gauges Show January Temp Drop
See the summary of January 2008 temperatures using four major global scales. No doubt about it, January was very cold.

At the same time, scientists in Iceland say they have never seen glaciers retreat as much as they did last year. Similar stories are cropping up in India.

And an Alaskan village sued two dozen oil, power and coal companies, blaming them for global warming.

No doubt all of this will be in the headlines soon, as the 2008 International Conference on Climate takes place March 2-4 in New York City. The conference sets out to question the theory that humans are causing global warming. Click here for info on the group staging the event.

Posted by Al Tompkins 10:47 AM February 29, 2008
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