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1. How Buffy the Vampire Slayer saved the world and the sanity of NPR's Jamie Tarabay while she was in Baghdad.

2. On MeeMix, an Internet radio site, you can enter an artist or a song and it will suggest other stuff you may like. When I enter George Harrison, it suggests Procol Harum. I am groovin' now!

3. Some have called Seesmic "YouTube meets Facebook." It's a social networking site with mega video capability. What if news sites allowed people to post comments via video rather than just text?

4. Blogger.com is better than ever now that you can post vertical photos. And Google Docs has upgraded its feature that enables you to embed a presentation in your blog.

5. As ABC's John Stossel explained, "Intrade is set up like a commodities market where buying and selling goes on 24 hours a day. Instead of betting on the price of copper or oil, you can bet on politics, economics, the weather, pop culture, etc."

6. Msnbc.com's NewsWare site includes games, widgets and tons of other stuff.

7. iCue is a new NBC News site that uses archived news and political video in educational ways.

8. See how much the airlines will ding you for an extra bag or overweight luggage.

9. Bargain Hunter, a LA Daily News blog, tells you how to save a buck in everyday life. It may be the new face of journalism.

10. I have been a big fan of Snapz Pro X as a screen and video capture device, but I may be falling in love with ScreenFlow.

11. My 300 or so favorite online resources and news ideas for journalists.

12. A Final Cut editing tutorial.

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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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MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2008

Trouble Brewing for Beermakers

OK, you can deal with a rising jobless rate and failing banks. But a shortage of hops used to make beer is a darn crisis.

MarketWatch gives you news that will make you cry in your beer, if you have any left.

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