Zotero: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3504 Renee introduced me to this site earlier this year. It's the best tool for bookmarking online research/keeping notes. It's a plugin for firefox/modzilla you download, so it has: - Automatic capture of citation information from web pages - Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages - Flexible notetaking with autosave - Fast, as-you-type search through your materials - Playlist-like library organization, including saved searches (smart collections) and tags - Platform for new forms of digital research that can be extended with other web tools and services - Formatted citation export (style list to grow rapidly) - Integration with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org -- Muckety: http://news.muckety.com/ See the news with interactive relationship maps visually showing the connections between people, companies and organizations. -- Silobreaker: http://www.silobreaker.com/ Silobreaker aggregates news, blogs, research, audio, video and other digital media content from global news, shared, user generated and open access sources. -- Political Friendster: http://www.politicalfriendster.com/ A crowdsourcing site of political and business connections. -- Opensecrets.org: Presenting political news, and the actual political positions of the parties and candidates, as well as disclosing how much campaign money they have raised. -- House Lobbying Disclosure Database: http://disclosures.house.gov/lc/lcsearch.aspx -- Senate Lobbying Disclosure Database: http://soprweb.senate.gov/ -- Maplight: http://www.maplight.org/ Public database that illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. -- FEC: Campaign Finance Database: http://www.fec.gov/DisclosureSearch/mapApp.do -- Huffington Post's Fund Race: http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/ -- Seattle Time's ...

Renee & I just published Meet Juan Crow. In the border state of Arizona a tough voter registration law is suppressing the nation's fastest growing voting block. Arizona is the only state in the nation that requires documented proof of citizenship in order to register to vote. Supporters say the requirement stops voter fraud by illegal immigrants. Critics say the law has a different purpose. Largely because of its requirements, the state has rejected nearly 40,000 voter registration applications in just 3 years. Many of the applicants were eligible Latino immigrants. At least 19 other states have considered similar requirements. To see our in-depth video report, interactive map, and more, out the site at http://news21project.org/story/2008/07/22/meet_juan_crow About the project: This project is part of a broader look at Immigration: New Voters, Old Fears by our colleagues from The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and several other schools that participated in News21, a product of Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education, in which selected journalism-school graduates produce challenging stories in ways that push the boundaries of the form.