Tuesday, November 18, 2003

The University of California at Berkeley's journalism school has a site "for reporters to learn how to do multimedia stories." A fine example is from The Rocky Mountain News, which used audio and video in this story on a battle over an irrigation ditch.

Louisville's BusinessFirst will email you regular updates on local business news and other topics.

Investopedia.com offers an online dictionary of more than 4,000 investment terms. It doesn't inspire confidence that when I tried to subscribe to its "term of the day" newsletter it generated a database error (it worked the second time). And then there's the site's list of the ten most popular dictionary searches. Number 4 is "Bo Derek." Turns out that's "a slang term used to describe a perfect stock or investment."

The Glossarist has a searchable directory of online glossaries and topical dictionaries.

And naturally Google is experimenting with glossaries too.

To learn more about how to search with Google, try the Google Guide, which offers an interactive tutorial on searching.

Blogger Abu Aardvark says we shouldn't read the English translations from the Middle East Media Research Institute mentioned here November 4 because it's operated by Israelis and highlights the "worst and ugliest" in Arab journalism.

SecurityFocus , a Web site devoted to computer security, has a detailed example of how an online banking scam works.