Holiday weekend diversion

For something totally silly, especially if you're a fan of sites like Stuff White People Like , here's a new one: Stuff Journalists ...

Good stuff

Europeana is a just-released Web site that is a repository for information from archives all over Europe, including "digitised books, ...

40 Years Ago

( An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) ( See the posts in chronological order ) A few days after the election, as the reality ...

Life pictures on Google

The announcement yesterday of the availability of the Life Magazine photo archive on Google Image has lots of sites buzzing. (See Sheila Le...

Changes at Change.gov

At ProPublica, Jennifer LaFleur reports that the Obama agenda pages are back at Change.gov. Some have been rewritten. (See previous referen...

Some good research links

Wall Street Journal's Photo Journal large versions of photos in the news, like the Boston Globe's Big Picture. The Plum Book (Unit...

Concerns for gun owners

All over the country, gun stores are seeing sales jump in response to Barack Obama's election. Gun enthusiasts...never comfortable with ...

Eight years

I started a website with a 'blog' page in early November 2000, which I remember because I missed the Ramble at Fairchild Tropical Ga...

Learning from the campaign

Good posting from Ken Doctor on his Content Bridges blog: 10 truths the press can learn from the Obama campaign.

New government Website for Obama

There's a new website for the president-elect: Change.gov . Lots of information here on the inauguration, the new administration, the ag...

How it was in DC

I love Joel Achenbach's blog posting with photos of the spontaneous demonstration that erupted outside the White House Tuesday night: Al...

Looking a little deeper

In The Times Online, an interesting analysis of the state of American politics: It was a great victory - but not for the Left . The Guardia...

How the Times covers Iraq

Great story in next month's Vanity Fair about the New York Times bureau in Iraq, the only U.S paper that hasn't cut back it's i...

40 Years Ago

(An occasional reminiscence on the events of 1968 ) (See the posts in chronological order ) November 5. The election was upon us, a scary ti...

What could you buy with it?

Dress Like Palin . What you could do with Sarah's spending money.

I voted

Right here. No lines. (Although one began to accumulate as we were leaving.)

Another good news research story

How The Times followed a trail to find Barack Obama’s aunt .

Useful and different elections info sources

Our Vote Live tracks election problems during election day. Google Elections Gallery will show real-time elections results on maps. fiveth...

Thoughts from the mountains on this election

Up the mountain road near us on the way to Hiwassee Dam, a sign at a small country church, saying something like this: 'Never fear chang...