links for 2008-04-24

links for 2008-04-22

ISBN.nu: Find the best price for books online

"This site provides price comparisons among over a dozen online stores that are either booksellers, auction sites, used book dealer networks, or a combination of two or three."

(tags: isbn.nu books bookstores leadersedge)
TwittEarth :: Live Twitts all over the world

A Twitter visualization. There are quite a few of these around, but this is the most polished I've seen...

(tags: mashup twitter maps visualization flash earth web2.0 3d)
britannicanet.com

A program for web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet. Complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online and, if you like, an easy way to give your readers background on topics you write about.

(tags: reference blogging encyclopedia blog widgets research britannica)

Factor military duty into criticism -- chicagotribune.com

An article by Lawrence Korb and Ian Moss that compares the military service of Cheney, Bush and Clinton to Rev. Jeremiah Wright...

(tags: wright politics)
Jay Rosen: The Uncharted: From Off The Bus to Meet the Press - Off The Bus on The Huffington Post

Jay Rosen looks at the story behind the recent Obama bitter comments, how it was reported and how the main stream media chose to ignore the methods of how the story was initially reported.

(tags: rosen obama bitter)

Zip Code Census Dashboard

A Yahoo Maps mashup that allows you to display Census data by zip code and show the area on a Yahoo Map...

(tags: census mashup mapping yahoo web2.0 demographics statistics)

Some Datasets Available on the Web » Data Wrangling Blog

This list is static, but you can follow his links at http://del.icio.us/pskomoroch/dataset

(tags: datasets data free datamining databases)

The U.S. establishment media in a nutshell

media msm politics
Famous Quotes at QuoteDB - Interactive Database of Famous Quotations

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.quotedb.com

(tags: quotes quotedb quotations)
I, Cringely . The Pulpit . Ozzy Knows Best | PBS

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pbs.org%2Fcringely%2Fpulpit%2F2008%2Fpulpit_20080404_004650.html

(tags: cringely education gaming)
Dr. King, Forgotten Radical | The American Prospect

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.prospect.org%2Fcs%2Farticles%3Farticle%3Ddr_king_forgotten_radical

(tags: no_tag)

King Remembered on 40th Anniversary of Death

NPR report on the 40th anniversary of the killing of Dr. King. A very thoughtful look at Dr. King as a man rather than an icon. Rev. Joseph Lowery talks about King as a friend.

(tags: npr mlk king)

Remembering MLK's Prophetic 'Mountaintop' Speech : NPR

(tags: king mlk)
Dr. King Timeline by Students from Buckman Elementary School 1996

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pps.k12.or.us%2Fschools-c%2Fpages%2Fbuckman%2Ftimeline%2Fkingframe.html

(tags: buckman king mlk)

Dith Pran, ‘Killing Fields’ Photographer, Dies at 65 - New York Times

Dith Pran, a photojournalist for The New York Times whose gruesome ordeal in the killing fields of Cambodia was re-created in a 1984 movie that gave him an eminence he tenaciously used to press for his people’s rights, died in New Brunswick, N.J.

(tags: pran nyt dithpran)
ConverStations: Twitter Yahoo Pipes = Signal

how to create a stream of only those items on Twitter with a URL.

(tags: twitter pipes rss monitoring conversations tools)

A Victim Treats His Mugger Right : NPR

"Julio Diaz ends his daily subway commute one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner. One evening, his routine was broken when a teenage mugger took his wallet at knifepoint. But neither of them could have predicted what happened next..."

(tags: npr storycorp)
Muxtape

For all you High Fidelity fans... Kind of like mixtapes... but on the web...

(tags: audio web2.0 web music community mixtape)