Category: Cool tools

Keeping up with Iraqi newsies

Iraq Press Monitor summarizes the latest newspaper stories. It seems reasonably neutral, which is saying something in a place where there’s so little of it. Link via editorsweblog.org.

Another new e-book platform

Three companies have joined forces on a new kind of e-book soon to debut in Japan. It has an intriguing innovation: Unlike more familiar LCD displays, the screen can be read at almost any angle and in bright sunlight as…

Handy page of Google functions

Sheila Lennon linked to this page the other day. It amasses a whole bunch of Google functions in one location. Mega-handy.

10 great online data sources

Charles Bowen at Editor & Publisher describes his top 10 sites for working journalists. One entry: Gary Price’s List of Lists. Even before USA Today popularized statistical snapshots of America, we journalists have always been hungry for lists. Price has…

MS the pop-up killer

Mark Glaser says the Redmond Behemoth is about to get religion on killing popup ads. Microsoft is prepping a pop-up blocker in its next version of its dominant Internet Explorer browser, due out by next June, giving more readers than…

Reverse dictionary

Nifty post at JournoList. The OneLook Reverse Dictionary is ingenious, entertaining and might even be useful. You know there’s a word for something, but you can’t remember it. Type your definition into the box, and the dictionary comes up with…

Daypop

Lets you scan the hottest news and blog posts.