Columbia's Sreenath Sreenivasan points to the South Asian Journalists Association as a good source of tips and resources related to the devastation wreaked by the Indian Ocean tsunami.

A brand-new collection of the best ways you can contribute has been built by Team Zoo Station here.

And Michael Bazeley has a front-page story in today's San Jose Merc: Blogs, message boards draw world closer after tragedy.

When the killer tsunamis surged over Asian coastlines Sunday, communications consultant Peter Griffin struggled with how he could help from his home in Mumbai, India.

The result was the South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami blog, a Web site that has evolved into one of the most visited and important clearinghouses of information on the Internet about the epic tragedy. The site, which had nearly 270,000 hits through Thursday, is now run by dozens of volunteers and offers up-to-date news, hotline numbers and relief efforts details. ...

Wired News: You, Too, Can Be a Podcaster. Despite the headline, it's not a how-to-piece, but a survey of the fast-emerging media form.

Here's a first-time videoblogger's blog video (about 3 minutes long) about Canada's Boxing Day sales.

The coding whizzes at Creative Commons -- chiefly Nathan Yergler -- have finished work on a version 1.0 release of the Creative Commons Publisher tool, which lets anyone attach a Creative Commons license to his or her media for sharing it in the Internet Archive. Works on PCs or Macs. Congrats! This is a cool Web-based drag-and-drop tool that lets you avoid ftp and all that other crud.

I'll be meeting with Nathan and Mike Linksvayer on Tuesday to discuss adapting this tool for Ourmedia.

In Opendemocracy.net: The 11th and last of his “Remote Control” columns finds NYU media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan contrite over the U.S. election result, and worried about the frightened and angry country it reflects.

kpaul at J-Log: Credibility and Transparency.

I wrote about these issues recently in OJR.

ALIVE@9th Street Presents "Storytelling and the Internet Age: New Media, Nonlinear Expanded Cinema, Flash Animation and Interactivity."

What do Java Script, Stock Market Ticker Tape Machines, Web Services and User driven interactive digital experiences have to do with storytelling? Find out the answer to this and more as storytellers and technoids who get your heart thumping and have you hanging onto the edge of your seat come together for the second program in the Ninth Street Independent Film Center's inaugural Forum Series ALIVE@9th Street.

Storytelling and the Internet Age takes a look into possibilities for the future of techno-storytelling. Join moderator Peter L. Stein (Executive Director, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival) for a evening with documentary filmmaker, writer and teacher Carroll Parrott Blue (recipient of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Online Award); Flash technology pioneer Louis Fox (founding partner Free Range Graphics); animation whiz, entrepreneur and activist Brad deGraf (credits include Jetsons: The Movie, Robocop 2); and acclaimed video and digital artist, and pioneer in digital innovation, Lynn Hershman-Leeson (Technolust, Conceiving Ada).

When: Wednesday, January 12, 2005, 7 pm

Where: 145 Ninth Street, 1st Floor Screening Room, San Francisco (between Mission & Howard)

Cost: $10 advance, $5 students, call (415) 552-5950.

Jon Dube offers the Top CyberJournalist stories of 2004.

Washington Post: Internet Sparks Outpouring of Instant Donations.