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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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FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008

Investigating School Fire Inspections

KNXV-TV in Pheonix found that in one school district, not one school has undergone a fire inspection in seven years; and in one county, 70 schools -- out of 200 -- have not been inspected in two years or longer.

The safety problems the station noted are not small:

We observed violation after violation -- emergency exits blocked by huge rolls of carpeting, obstructed fire extinguishers, an extension cord extending through a wall, gas shut-offs not labeled in science labs, and inaccessible fire risers.

In its online reporting, the station offers extended interviews. A database at the end of the story allows users to type in the name of their school and see when it was last inspected.

Posted at 1:41:27 AM

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