Writers on the Storm
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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Freak storms packing howling winds and heavy rain that lashed Britain and France this week were set to continue after already causing significant destruction and the deaths of at least four people.
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A writer and a reader see both sides of ExxonMobil.
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Two storms battered the island; Ivan may spare it. Still, residents prepare for worst - or stubbornly plan to stay. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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AS Hurricane Ivan&#39;s death toll topped 100 and was still rising, US and Caribbean meteorologists yesterday were tracking a new weather system that had already killed six people.
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ome hurricanes just won&#39;t quit, and American shores yesterday were in the crosshairs of two such long-lived, meandering tempests.
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All the trade is storm-related today,&quot; said Stephen Briggs, managing director of Intermarket Group. &quot;Obviously, people are speculating we may see some platforms closing in the Gulf.
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BBC News website readers have been sending in their pictures of the severe weather in parts of America and Canada
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By Ronald L. Littlepage  With the hurricane season now upon us, I know a lot of folks are hoping the big one doesn't come our way.  Me, too.  But I also know a lot of people are rooting for a couple of tropical storms, nice ones with not much wind and a lot of rain.
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By Kirk Moore, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Feb. 7--Some critics say it's like spitting in the ocean.
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Readers sound off on the latest headlines.
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The theft of a world famous painting and the price of oil are two of the diverse topics taken up by leaders writers across the continent on Monday.
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They know what the winds can do. They forecast them. Fight the fires the winds fan. Ready for evacuations that, in years past, never came. They thought they knew, until seven days of fury began a week ago. From almost the beginning, this Santa Ana was different somehow.
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Doc: "A year from now every newspaper will have a newsriver." I think so too because: 1. The idea is so compelling and 2. It's so easy to implement. Thanks so much to Doc Searls for writing a great evangelical piece about the power of rivers. The stream is turning into a current, and soon really will be a river.  It&#185;s so weird to see rivers show up in Facebook, and Twitter is just a big river of all the people you&#185;re following. The idea is actually a descendent of the teletype terminals that used to be in the movies (and for all I know in actual newsrooms). The news would be printed on scrolls of paper, and when a new story would come in it would push all the older stories onto the floor. You could catch up on the news by scrolling back through the news. Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Katherine Hepburn did it. We&#185;ll all be doing it soon enough. And it really helps to get other people singing the song, esp from within the hallowed halls of Harvard. The more attention we get focused on it, the more other developers will tune in. And what may not be so clear from the narrative is that this project got its start from a meeting I had with some technical people at the Times last week in NY. Like most organizations, it's not of one mind, there are people who are scared of what comes next but there are others who know that the Times has to change. By opening up their internal data to me, all kinds of interesting stuff can happen. We've been here before. The Times are the unsung heroes of RSS, without them it never would have solidified, with the publishing industry falling in behind the Times. It was this consensus that created critical mass for RSS 2.0 in 2002 and 2003. I really hope some of this stuff feeds back into the Times support of RSS. And as you have seen, there are now lots of new opportunities in user interface for news. This is what I do, when I'm in my "flow" -- we're there now again, with a new toy to build and then play with, every day.  Betsy Devine: "Dave Winer has been improving the New York Times for as long as I&#185;ve known him." Phil Windley: "With more sources, who are themselves continuously updating, the keyword river could be as dynamic as you&#185;d want it to be."
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Go-home graffiti and a row over compensation gave cricket journalists something to write about in their first dispatches from Zimbabwe after the delayed arrival of the England side.
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With writers expected to return to their posts on the television production assembly line first thing Wednesday morning, the enormous machinery that generates episodes of series will get a massive restart.
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Plot lines from recent books are written by a cast of hundreds, even thousands, of often anonymous contributors who congregate online to write, collaborate, read, analyze and edit each other's words in crowdsourced fiction and nonfiction.