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1. Check this cool weather site by the Las Vegas Sun. Make sure you see the top of the page forecast grahics.

2. Stay on top of Gustav with this site that includes radar, satellite, tracking maps, warnings and more.

3. The coolest storm tracking site I have seen in a while.

4. Vloggerheads fights back against YouTube chaos.

5. YouTomb is where videos go after they're booted off YouTube.

6. The evolution of voting in America is shown by interactive mapping.

7. The Las Vegas Sun has a crew driving to the Democratic National Convention and is filing multimedia stories along the way.

8. I have never seen anything like this amazing "Swan Lake" performance. [Flash]

9. The Livescribe Pulse Smartpen links written notes with audio. Cool for journalists and students.

10. An educator friend of mine in Lebanon reports that citizen- generated news is all the rage in Arab countries.

11. Here are photos of folks learning Soundslides in Poynter's recent seminar "Multimedia for College Educators." We'll offer this twice in 2009, in February and July.

12. This is my current home page.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Al's Morning Meeting is a compendium of ideas, edited story excerpts and other materials from a variety of Web sites, as well as original concepts and analysis. When the information comes directly from another source, it will be attributed and a link will be provided whenever possible. The column is fact-checked, but depends on the accuracy and integrity of the original sources cited. We will correct errors and inaccuracies when we become aware of them.

Debt Causing Physical Stress

An Associated Press-AOL Health poll says many people are reporting physical problems linked to the stress of debt.

CNN reports:

Among the people reporting high debt stress in the new poll:

27 percent had ulcers or digestive tract problems, compared with 8 percent of those with low levels of debt stress.

44 percent had migraines or other headaches, compared with 15 percent.

29 percent suffered severe anxiety, compared with 4 percent.

23 percent had severe depression, compared with 4 percent.

6 percent reported heart attacks, double the rate for those with low debt stress.

More than half, 51 percent, had muscle tension, including pain in the lower back. That compared with 31 percent of those with low levels of debt stress.

Posted by Al Tompkins 12:01 AM June 12, 2008

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