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From today’s RefDesk site of the day email:

Federal News Service
http://www.fednews.com/

Federal News Service provides verbatim transcripts of the complete hearing testimony of Congress committees and subcommittees; public speeches and interviews of the President, White House; State Department, Defense Department and Justice Department briefings; press conferences and statements of international leaders visiting Washington; Presidential campaign debates and much more.

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From yesterday’s New York Times: “Many Eyes”: a visualization tool
for statistics.

http://www.many-eyes.com/

Ben Shneiderman, a professor in the computer science
department at the University of Maryland, College Park, says, “The great fun of information visualization,” he said, “is that it gives you answers to questions you didn’t know you had.”

Full story at the Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/technology/31novel.html

Parts of the email forwarded by Steven Clift to the DoWire list this morning.

Alert for Political Bloggers Covering the Republican National Convention

For a highly interactive locals’ view check out the following local online Issues Forums:

St. Paul - http://e-democracy.org/stpaul
Minneapolis - http://e-democracy.org/mpls
Minnesota Politics - http://e-democracy.org/mn-politics

http://stevenclift.com
http://publicus.net/articles.html

Steven Clift
E-Democracy.Org

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Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift’s blog posts by e-mail:
http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire

Newswire - Steven Clift’s blog posts by e-mail is hosted by
Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.

Today’s Wired Campus newsletter from the Chronicle of Higher Education sent a link to Research1, a new hub-based website that allows researchers to share their work in a topic-related environment.  But that link, largely still beta and favoring quantitative studies, led me to their base website, The Research Channel, which looks like a great place to find and discuss breaking results.

F’r'instance, if you click the Arts and Humanities link, you’ll find a 28-minute video called, “Are Journalists Ethically Challenged? Plagiarism and Fabrication” featuring Thomas Kunkel, a dean of Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at U Maryland, and Rem Reider, an editor of American Journalism Review, that looks fab.

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