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'Concerned that journalism's economic problems are reducing Americans' understanding of science, medicine and other research, 35 of the nation's top universities — including Stanford and UC-Berkeley — on Tuesday announced they will feed their own accounts of their discoveries directly to top news sites on the Internet.
Under the plan, the universities have formed what is essentially their own nonprofit wire service, called Futurity, to provide articles to popular Web sites such as Yahoo News and Google News, along with MySpace and Twitter.

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"do research amongst the newsreel films free of charge. The online archives are in the process of being set up, and so far 6044 items can be called up. If you are looking for specific excerpts that are not online yet, please let us know. Before you can call up broadband video-streams we need a password. To get one you have to register. Alternatively, you can research all the desired information as our "guest".'

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MARSBest annotation: "This think tank, which describes itself as 'A Nonpartisan Resource for Information and Analysis,' assists policymakers, corporations, and citizens of the world to better understand the complex modern issues that affect national security and peace. The web page enables users to access up-to-date news and analyses by different approaches, including searches by region, by topical issue, and by publication type. The topical issues
address a dozen relevant subjects, ranging from Defense and Homeland Security to Terrorism. The Terrorism section is especially detailed and is further subdivided into twelve relevant subheadings. The Publications section supplies daily analyses and offers a one-stop center for a variety of media, such as audio, podcasts, and video."
Author/Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
Free/Fee-based: Free
Date reviewed: February 17, 2008

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MARSBest annotation: This authoritative site from the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania also referred to as the Annenberg Political FactCheck “monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major US political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases.” Original articles analyze and offer commentary about politicians’ claims and statements. Individuals can browse by date or search by keywords to access the last four years of the Ask FactCheck archives. If the answer cannot be found using these archives, individuals can ask their questions directly using the AskFactCheck e-mail form. This site also features vid-casts and a Fact of the Day section."
Author/Publisher: Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Free/Fee-based: Free
Date Reviewed: 2/14/08

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MARSBest Annotation: "This is the official website for National Public Radio, the producer and distributor of noncommercial news, music, radio programming, podcasts, and more. Geared for a general audience, this sprawling resource is especially rich in its international coverage and in-depth look at arts & culture, health, science, books, and music across all spectrums. Also included are interviews, interactive polls, daily news quizzes, local radio schedule information, live audio and music, news feeds, desktop alerts, and searchable program archives.
While users may find the sponsored ads and the busyness of the screens somewhat distracting, this hardly detracts from the unparalleled range of up-to-date, quality news and entertainment offered."
Author/Publisher: National Public Radio
Free/Fee-based: Free
Date Reviewed: 2/14/08 Revised: 4/15/08

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MARSBest annotation: "Access to current headlines is just the beginning of the site's scope. The ability to view editions from Europe or Asia, lets users see what other people are reading, and lets them compare, side-by-side, alternate editions' covers. The For Kids edition links to its own website and is designed for teachers of children in Grades K-6.
Various topical blogs are available at the site, and the Multimedia tab leads users to graphics, photos, podcasts, and videos. Articles can be printed, e-mailed, or linked to a variety of Web 2.0 sites such as Del.icio.us, Technorati, and Google. A Sphere link allows users to search for related articles or blogs. Most impressively, the magazine's entire run is full-text searchable and provides journal cover images as well."
Author/Publisher: Time in partnership with CNN
Free/Fee-based: free
Date reviewed: 02/19/2008 Revised: 4/15/08

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'The traffic deluge came swiftly and lasted for about a half hour, according to internal data here at CNET News, which saw twice the normal amount of hourly traffic shortly after word of Jackson's death spread. At sister site CBSNews.com, traffic numbers were five times their normal levels. '

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'The passing of the King of Pop set multiple records across Yahoo!. On our front page, the story “Michael Jackson rushed to hospital” was the highest clicking story in our history. It generated a whopping 800,000 clicks within 10 minutes and news of his death saw 560,000 clicks in 10 minutes. Also, the news area on our front page experienced five times the amount of traffic it normally receives'

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'Google News was inaccessible for some people Thursday afternoon right as rumors of Jackson's death began to circulate, replaced by an error message reading "We're sorry, but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now."
Of course, those queries were quite legitimate, as millions around the world searched for accurate information regarding Jackson following reports that he had suffered cardiac arrest. The spike in queries began at about 2:45 p.m. PDT Thursday, and Google thought the traffic was an attack for about 25 minutes before realizing what was going on.'

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By Clay Shirky. "The problem newspapers face isn’t that they didn’t see the internet coming. They not only saw it miles off, they figured out early on that they needed a plan to deal with it, and during the early 90s they came up with not just one plan bu

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"The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) was founded in 1945 by scientists who had worked on the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bombs. These scientists recognized that science had become central to many key public policy questions. They

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"My smart friend Muhammad Saleem seems to have been right when he predicted that Yahoo Buzz is actually a big draw for publishers who will swarm at the prospect of being featured on Yahoo’s front page, while at the same time being a nice option for less-t

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"StimulusWatch.org was built to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend."

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"THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found."

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