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.

I just posted a Wel­come mes­sage to the Ourmedia.org site, since we’re get­ting some traf­fic after the two write­ups in this week’s Busi­ness Week. So we’ve taken down the log-in module.