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(Pierre) -- State government has switched from using a printed phone directory of state offices and staff to a directory available to everyone on the Internet.

Gov. Bill Janklow, who assigned the state's Bureau of Information and Telecommunications to replace the print version with an electronic version, said the move was one of convenience and cost.

"The average cost of doing the state government phone directory was about $10,000 every year, and numbers would change and people would change jobs, so it would be out of date almost as soon as we printed it," Janklow said. "The Internet directory will always be current and is available to everyone and we don't have to go through the hassle and cost of printing a state phone book."

Last year, the state printed 6,000 copies of the 116-page phone directory at a cost of $1.70 per copy.

The new Internet directory is available on the state's website:

http://www.state.sd.us.

The telephone directory can be searched by name, phone number or state agency. Having the directory on the Internet allows state agencies to update information on a daily basis, providing citizens the most up to date contact information on state agency offices and their staff.

The directory includes:

Phone numbers and locations of state government staff
Phone numbers and locations of state government offices
State government agency toll-free numbers
Available phone numbers and locations of local government offices, and
K-12 school offices.

Local government offices who want to be included in the directory can contact Margie Newling at 773-5357 for information.

http://www.state.sd.us.

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The Legacy September 11 site is working toward having a profile and "guest book" for every single person lost in the tragic events of that day:
http://www.legacy.com/LegacyTribute/Tribute.asp

Britain Uses Web to Publish Terrorism Background Report
Paul Grabowicz on news from governments
While the U.S. government has been reluctant to release many details of its investigation into who was responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks, the British government late last week published on its website a report summarizing the links investigators allegedly have found to Osama bin Laden.
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Journalists resource sites:

More than 60 pieces by Poynter faculty and others, including tips and how-to's related to Attack coverage:
http://www.poynter.org/

And the American Press Institute's enterprising coverage (note especially their gallery of editorial cartoons):

By now, you've probably heard of the article written by Leonard Pitts of the Miami Herald, titled "We'll Go Forward From This Moment", but it bears repeating and reading again:

An online memorial to the men and women who lost their lives in the World Trade Center tragedy has been established:
http://www.thewtcmemorial.com/

The Journalist's Toolbox ( www.journaliststoolbox.com ) with several new sections relating to the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C.

SAJA South Asian Journalists Association
Established March 1994 | Representing 800+ journalists in the U.S. & Canada
http://www.saja.org/

Coping With Disaster

We have a few pointers dealing with children's issues on our
site, one in particular from the National PTA that they
posted after the attacks.The url for our website is:
http://www.facsnet.org

News

Google "News links and support information regarding attacks" You get current access to sites without the wait.
http://www.google.com/news/

Excellent site for short, one line, chronological updates. Information is designated as confirmed or unconfirmed.
The World Watch Monitor
http://monitor.airsecurity.com/

CBC News Online has added several stories for both kids and parents.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/usattacked/
If you check on the nav bar on the right hand side of the page you will find a number of links.

You may have received an e-mail with a transcript of Canadian radio commentator Gordon Sinclair's 1973, pro-American editorial. But please keep it in perspective--his message was primarily a pro-Vietnam War statement. Read--or listen--to the real version HERE.

Money

PC World's Kalai Murugesan supplied helping.org, a site that provides links to legitimate organizations collecting relief funds.
http://www.helping.org/

The New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund. The Times covers all administrative costs of managing the funds. Donations can be made online at:
http://www.charitywave.com

National Organization for Victim Assistance Fund for Terrorist Attack Victims at:
http://www.try-nova.org

CNN has a way to post photos of people missing following the attacks, along with emergency contact numbers. Send the photo to mailto: missing@cnn.com and include the person's name, age, employer, and hometown, as well as your name and phone number.

http://www.cnn.com

The Millennium Cluster at the University of California, Berkeley database has over 19,000 reports (that someone is safe). Visit it here:
http://safe.millennium.berkeley.edu/

Privacy Versus Freedom

You can read about the issues in many spots. Start with PCW's "Will Attack Hurt Net Privacy?" It's a levelheaded examination of the problem with worthwhile links. You can find it here:

Wired Magazine explains how bin Laden may be embedding secret messages in message attachments--and how the authorities have reacted. Read it in "bin Laden: Steganography Master?" at

On the other hand, John Perry Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( http://www.eff.org ) said: "Within a few hours, we will see beginning the most vigorous efforts to end what remains of freedom in America. Those of who are willing to sacrifice a little--largely illusory--safety in order to maintain our faith in the original ideals of America will have to fight for those ideals just as vigorously.

"I beg you to begin NOW to do whatever you can--whether writing your public officials, joining the ACLU or EFF, taking to the streets, or living visibly free and fearless lives--to prevent the spasm of control mania from destroying the dreams that far more have died for over the last 225 years than died this morning." You can read more on the World Trade Center Attack at Yahoogroup.

Images

By now, we've all seen the horrific images, photos and news
footage from New York, D.C, and Pennsylvania.
These are of a different note...

Many of the links offered here came in the form of an email from Steve Bass at PC World www.pcworld.com.

Please pass on any of your favorite sites so we may add them to this list:
e-mail to: sdna@sdna.com