Link of the Week: April 13 - 19
JD's New Media Musings
This week’s featured link is a weblog by J.D. Lasica, a veteran journalist whose specialty is writing about “the impact of emerging technologies on our culture.” He frequently updates his site with headlines, particularly stories regarding media and its intersection with technology. For instance, his April 12 links include features of a story on how weblogs are affecting college cultures, how an online columnist was suspended for using the f-word and a story about how both music sales and MP3 sharing are on the rise.

His site also has some super collections of links (see lower right side of the home page). These include the Internet hoax tool, Cool search tricks and Research tools links pages. There’s plenty more on the site to keep anyone busy for hours.

Nonprofits Online
View our latest links page for nonprofits here.

Media Forum Links

The handouts that were distributed by journalists at our media forum are online. Journalist contact information is posted also, if you want to follow up with any of the people you met at the forum (or if you live in the Asheville area and want to see what you missed!).

Link/Article of the Week Archives
For your convenience, we've begun archiving past weeks' featured links and articles.

The Missing Link
Have any suggestions for us regarding next week’s link? Or is there information you seek, but you can’t find a helpful link? Let us know! If others would benefit from the information, we just may track down a link for you, or use your suggestion as Link of the Week.

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Article Spotlight: Women Provide First - Hand Accounts of Middle East: First-hand reports by three women from Jerusalem were presented at the Black Mountain Library the last Sunday in March. J.P. Kennedy of Black Mountain News details the event sponsored by Western North Carolina for Peace and Justice for the Middle East. Stories from Palestinian, Jewish Israeli and Muslim Palestinian women are related in his article Jerusalem women speak to Black Mountain.

 

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