There's only one subject on people's minds at the moment. I did a piece about how local radio in America gave voice to ordinary people's fears and emotions. It was spiked. Still, that's journalism. If I don't manage to place it elsewhere, I'll put it up on this site.
Anyone looking for general resources on the terrorist attacks should go to this special site put together by Tara Calishain of ResearchBuzz or this one by Gary Price of Direct Search. The British government has a page relating to the emergency.
If you are looking into terrorism, try The Terrorism Research Center. I can't say I've truly worked out where this organisation stands, but the site is full of interesting stuff and is searchable, (the search box is on the front page, but well hidden). I looked for the Provisional IRA, naturally, and it does feature, which is not always the case with American sites.
The site also includes a running news feed dealing specifically with last week's atrocity. Finding instantly-updated new material is always a problem on the web, which is why people have welcomed DayPop.
This is a search engine of news feeds and weblogs: if you want to know what a weblog is, you're reading one. It's a regularly updated diary page. DayPop looks rather too similar to Google for its own legal health, but it does exactly what it is supposed to. It's the best thing of its sort that I've seen for a while.
Meanwhile, beware of bogus charity appeals popping into your email box. One curiosity of the US attack was that although legitimate business communications ground to a halt, spam carried on relentlessly. SpamCon is a new organisation devoted to fighting junk email, and it has an interesting survey of these charity cons. Sigh: new economy, new rackets.
Among the many things I plan to do, when I get around to it, is creating a separate page listing specialised resources for different professions and industries.
One useful one is the unmemorably-named AEC Portico, which covers architecture and construction. Created by the Royal Institute of British Architects, it is something of an online brochure for the profession, with lots of links to major practices and glamorous projects. Less good on the nitty gritty: I found nothing by searching for either "liability" or "dispute", both regular sources of stories about the architectural profession.
Now, medicine. While many publishers are shutting down their free online archives, more medical information than ever is becoming available. An excellent site called Free Medical Journals offers exactly what it says. It tells you which journals are offered immediately and which become available after a period of years. Links from the site take you straight to the journal in question where you can search around as much as you like without having to don a white coat.
Finally for today, on a slightly more recreational note, congratulations to The Gramophone for putting its classical music reviews archive online. The clunky interface is a nuisance, but the material is tremendous, and useful even if you don't know Suk from Blow. For instance: I had to do a little story which mentioned an "acclaimed international bass baritone" I'd never heard of. A two-minute search of the archive proved he was exactly that and more.
Note to the creators of The End of Free: it's not all bad news. Perhaps someone should start The Start Of Free?
I've just had a note from Sebastian Abbo of Lexicool, mentioned below, to tell me that he has now corrected the layout problem that meant you couldn't see the "Go" button if you were using a laptop or a small browser window. No excuse now for not trying the site.
I also promised some people a couple of sites for looking at other people's editorials and opinion columns. The two I know are opinion-pages.org and Newspaper columnists and editorials. Naturally, they are heavily US-dominated, but we can't really complain unless someone over here is prepared to do a similar job. The first one has a search box with a constantly updated set of new columns to choose from. Personally, I like the columnists better, and there are lots here that we would otherwise never get to read. Well worth a look for anyone trying to write that kind of thing.