Here are a few of scores of stories about the health effects workers are suffering. Most detail the lack of systematic care or benefits that are being offered to the workers who pitched in after 9/11. We should all join Hillary in calling for an inquiry into who told the EPA to lie and cover-up the environmental dangers. Besides workers, there were many families and individuals who may have been affected. Perhaps they will be relegated to the category of "corollary damage" and then just ignored.

Experts worried about Ground Zero exposure

AP story carried by many news outlets across the USA

Gotham Gazette

Electric paper coming to a screen near you as soon as next year. Imagine a computer screen you can put into your pocket and a book that updates its story....Your Message Here, in a Flash: "Magink is not the first company to produce display technologies loosely referred to as electronic paper, which encompasses thin materials that readily display images sent electronically and viewed in reflective light from a wide range of angles. All the technologies operate on roughly similar approaches that depend on fabricated, microscopic elements that reflect light. The elements are controlled by a low-power electrical current to create pixels that display specified text and images. Xerox and E Ink, a display manufacturer in Cambridge, Mass., have been developing electronic-paper technologies for years. "

t r u t h o u t - 12,000 Dead in European Heat Wave President George Bush says that people should just get used to climate change and exploit new economic opportunities it will create.

I guess the 12,000 people didn't get what he was saying. On the bright side, it sure makes undertaking look like a growth industry...

Interactive Narratives

It is a relief to me that I had my phlog and a moblog up and running by the time Steve posted this. I could say "I told you so" to many of my Journalism educator colleagues, but I will just post their photos on the phlog and moblog when school starts up again.Poynter Online - E-Media Tidbits

The sports editor apologizes and fires a sportsreporter who claimed to be at game, but was watching on TV. The reporter also used old and unattributed quotes. So, ethics lapses can hurt a sports writer. Don't do a "Jayson Blair." You can learn how to avoid "word crimes" by going through our elearning module sacbee.com -- Sports -- An apology to our readers : "An apology to our readers

Published 2:15 a.m. PDT Wednesday, August 20, 2003
On Aug. 7, a story on the cover of the Sports section about the Giants game at Pacific Bell Park was filed by a Bee reporter who was not at the game. The reporter watched the game on television at a location away from the stadium.

He filed his story without telling editors at The Bee his true location, leaving the impression he covered the game from the ballpark.

In addition, it was discovered later that the story included quotes from other media outlets that were unattributed and old, made to reporters on a previous occasion before the day of the game.

The story violated basic journalistic values and ethics as practiced by The Bee.

The reporter involved, Jim Van Vliet, no longer works at the newspaper.

The Bee regrets the situation and apologizes to its readers.

Armando Acuña
Sports editor"

Guess Some People Don't Have Anything Better to DoHere is flash mob story from the Sunday Times. Why not be part of a flash mob? No one just wants to have fun anymore.

USATODAY.com - Camera phone fans post shots to Web sitesWith the advent of my "phlog" called "scoop of life" I am posting stories to make sure everyone knows what a phlog is.

I will be discussing "phlogs" at the Les Brownlee Workshop series presented by Chicago Headline Club in October in Chicago. A great event for j students and freelancers, not to mention all journalists. I will be talking about news technology.

OJR article: News Sites Still Figuring Out What to Do With Online CommunitiesMany users know, but the news orgs still are kind of out to sea with the whole concept of "its about the users" kind of interactivity.

Lockergnome's RSS ResourceI have been trying to explain RSS and why it is critical to news folks and reporters for a couple of years. It has been big with bloggers since RadioUserLand was free (now you have to pay for it...) and it is at the heart of delivering content to users based on their preferences. Most news organizations have their own version written for their sites.

Mervin Block: BBC's news stylebook We will be using this to help focus what our online publishing is all about-- ideas and writing

Scientific American: E-mail Study Corroborates Six Degrees of Separation

Poynter Online - Google's New News Alerts Here is a tool we will use to begin to be online reporters and publishers. All the directions on limiting your searches to make them effective are included.

CyberJournalist.net: 60 ways to improve your news site

Damn the Slam PAM Plan! - Canceling the Pentagon's futures market is cowardly and dumb. By James Surowiecki Here is an explanation of why those futures markets for terrorism proposed by DARPA weren't so wacky. In fact, there is futures market being set up now that will deal in the futures of things like the odds that Bush will be impeached and what country the USA will attack next. Academics who are able to rise above a concrete understanding of ideas like the futures thing because it works...