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The Scout Report selects this blog about newspaper design by a newspaper designer. It includes links to sources of potential interest to journalists.

about two Wikimediaesque items that have been sitting in my blogging queue for some time now:

The Internet Scout Report Highlights Wikinews
neometa: Another Weblog about Wikipedia

Addendum: sj’s presentation
The Berkman user talk page, where some people were joking throughout the meeting
The best quote from tonight’s meeting: “If I was a terrorist, I wouldn’t use a wiki because [...]

The November 26 issue of the Internet Scout Report highlights this Web site featuring thousands of magazines, newspapers, and other reading material from around the globe.

Cyberjournalist links to some nifty uses of Google Maps.
From Garrett’s Library News & Notes

A few weeks ago, BusinessWeek featured some articles about podcasting, something a few of my readers see as an alternative to me blogging while my wrists are out of commission.
I’m working on getting my voice recognition software running. I now have an insight into how spam e-mail is written.
I think it’s great, though, that [...]

Since my wrists need to heal, I’ve called on an action figure for some help blogging.
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Rich Allen sent me the link to this contest for bloggers who blog or would blog about things south of Boston.
Thanks, Rich!