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at the thai boat

sida course is over

I am saying a sad farewell to the participants of the course on international journalism.

wanna be a Blog Producer?

CNN söker nu en "blog producer". Åter ett bevis på att bloggandet börjar bli en integrerad del av mediaproduktionsapparaten. När kommer journalistutbildningar att integrera bloggandet i sina kurser? Kanske om tio år eller så. JMK har fortfarande ingen journalistikkurs som koncentrerar sig på ny media produktion.

CNN is looking for a "Blog Producer":

Producer will cover web-logs (blogs), pod-casts, and other internet-based forms of new media. The web producer will locate, research, and report on blogs and web sites that include news, politics, policy, commentary, and other information of value to our viewers. The results will be daily television segments reporting on this area of the media. This person will be responsible for producing both the editorial content and also the graphic and video elements necessary to develop each segment. This person will also report on-air as needed.

Asian resources site

Here is another Asian resources site, this one from the Austrialian National University [http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html] The site looks terrible but contains some interesting and usefull information and links

bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia

Well maybe not the head, but how about the hand [$ 2.285.99], leg [$ 3.210.00] or even the full body [$ 198.679.00]?

A company called E-Cuerpos sells body-parts or full bodies to  "Scientists, collaborators and human body enthusiasts"

Is it legal? This from the FAQ:

In some countries, the commerce of human organs, limbs and bodies for experiments is illegal. You must know that when buying products of human origin you will be subject to the laws of the country where you live.

 

thanks flashback

Asian Resources for Librarians

Aardvark - Asian Resources for Librarians, has thousands of links to Asian university libraries and over 450 links to Asian databases on the Web (most of them free), conference listings, and much much more. You can get to it at http://www.aardvarknet.info .
Interesting stuff is spread all over the page here, so let's get started. Over on the left you can browse information about Asian databases, from A Sense of History in Singapore to the Yale Divinity Digital Image and Text Library, included here because it has a China Christian college database. There's also a search engine on the browse page. Over on the left there's also a list of over 300 conferences (nicely described, searchable as above) and links to the current issue and back issues of Access, which describes itself as Asia's Newspaper on Electronic Information Products & Services.
From the front page there are several link categories, including annotation, metadata, copyright, and open access. Next to that is a recommended list -- of Asian Digital Libraries, Asian Library Schools, Publishers, Professional Organizations, and more. And finally all the way over on the right is information relevant to Asian library services

Stiftelsedatabasen

Bra resurs från länsstyrelsemyndigheten

Sveriges stiftelser
Stiftelsedatabasen är en förteckning över de stiftelser som är registrerade i varje läns stiftelseregister.

Detta sökregister är skapat genom ett utdrag ur det stiftelseregister som förs hos Länsstyrelsen. Uppgifterna gäller inte som registreringsbevis och myndigheten ikläder sig inte något juridiskt ansvar för riktigheten av uppgifterna.

Så här söker du i stiftelsedatabasen!
Du kan välja att begränsa Din sökning till visst län eller viss kommun.

Du kan göra en fritextsökning på ändamål genom att skriva in ett eller flera sökord. Då får Du en förteckning över alla stiftelser i landet som motsvarar de sökord Du skrivit in.

Du kan även begränsa Din sökning till ett viss län eller kommun. Då skall Du först välja län och ev kommun innan Du klickar på Sök under Fritextsökning. Då hittar Du alla stiftelser i det län eller den kommun som Du valt och som motsvarar de sökord Du skrivit in.

Vad framgår av förteckningen?
Av förteckningen framgår namnet och ändamålet med stiftelsen samt adress och telefonnummer. För vissa stiftelser är adressuppgifterna inte fullständiga då stiftelsens adress innehåller personuppgift. Detta beror då på att berörd person inte har gett sitt medgivande till publicering. I de fall adress och telefonnummer saknas kan uppgifterna erhållas från Länsstyrelsen. Telefonnummer till registerhållande Länsstyrelse framgår för respektive stiftelse.
Ansökningsdatum och ansökningshandlingar
Eventuella ansökningshandlingar och uppgift om ansökningsdatum tillhandahålls av varje enskild stiftelse.

nya söktjänster fron Yahoo

Två nya söktjänster från Yahoo.
News Search Now with Blogs Beta (http://news.yahoo.com) och Yahoo Podcasts Beta (http://podcasts.yahoo.com).                               

Nyhetsdelen kombinerar Yahoos vanliga nyhetsagent med blogsökning. För att koncentrera resultaten på bloggar väljer man "More Blog Results" som finna i högermenyn.

Vill man avgränsa sökning till endast bloggar (man kan välja att söka i Nyheter och bloggar eller bara nyheter men inte bara bloggar) kan nan använad följande:

http://blog.news.search.yahoo.com/blog/search?p=???
där ??? ersättas med söktermen
[http://blog.news.search.yahoo.com/blog/search?p=journalism]

Podcastdelen liknar Itunes, men har en mer navigerbar kataloguppbygnad (som sig bör - det *är* Yahoo) och möjligheten att söka genom taggar.

Relieving stress through torture

Stressed out? Beat the shit out of an Iraqi or two. That seems to be the latest in recreational activities for the "democratizing" forces in occupied Iraq.

A report from Human Rights Watch catalogues new allegations of systematic torture by the 82nd Airborne Division based in Fallujah.
The report, based on interviews with an officer and two NCOs described the rutine physical and mental torture as a means of intelligence gathering and for stress relief.

The report is another nail in the coffin of the denials that torture is a systematic and stratigic part of the treatment of prisioners by occupation forces.
The acts of torture and other cruel or inhuman treatment they described include severe beatings (in one incident, a soldier reportedly broke a detainee's leg with a baseball bat), blows and kicks to the face, chest, abdomen, and extremities, and repeated kicks to various parts of the detainees' bodies; the application of chemical substances to exposed skin and eyes; forced stress positions, such as holding heavy water jugs with arms outstretched, sometimes to the point of unconsciousness; sleep deprivation; subjecting detainees to extremes of hot and cold; the stacking of detainees into human pyramids; and the withholding of food (beyond crackers) and water.

Residents of Fallujah called them “the Murderous Maniacs” because of how they treated Iraqis in detention. They were soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, 1^st Battalion, 504^th Parachute Infantry Regiment, stationed at Forward Operating Base Mercury (FOB Mercury) in Iraq. The soldiers considered this name a badge of honor.

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disappearence of investigative journalism

The Press Gazette has an interesting article about the disappearence of investigative journalism form the regional newspapers in the UK.
Journalist Don Hale (the British equivilant of the Swedish Trond Sefastsson) is quoted from a speach as saying
"Investigations have almost disappeared without trace in the regional press and, to a large extent, in the nationals ... True: journos can still mislead and infiltrate Buckingham Palace, airports or the police. But what has happened to real-life investigations? Most journos seem content with sitting ontheir backsides and using email, the mobile phone, or the internet for misinformation ... Gone are the local contacts built up over years — the personal touch, knowing the councillors, police contacts and community gossips."