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A dozen sites
I'm diggin'


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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. This is my current home page.

11. The lazy bloggers' post generator. You don't have to write a thing. It does the work for you.

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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