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A dozen sites
I'm diggin'


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

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

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

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

5. Wow, look at The (Shreveport, La.) Times' Olympic coverage. Impressive.

6. 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.

7. ProPublica uses graphics to show the human cost of war. (See related graphics here.)

8. A spray-on waterproof coating for electronics. If this stuff really works like they say (watch the videos) it will save a lot of gear.

9. This very cool hurricane site includes live cams, a tracking map, historical maps and live radio from landfall.

10. Cake Wrecks: when professional cakes go horribly wrong.

11. This is my current home page.

12. Who killed Chandra Levy? The Washington Post spent a year looking for new clues and insights and presents its findings in a 13-part series.

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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. Errors and inaccuracies found will be corrected.





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