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The role of currency and exchange rates
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This site is developed and designed for traders, and its purpose is to provide them with free training in understanding today's markets. However, TrainingEducation is also a good resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the influence of currency in the trading business, about markets and money. The site has a "daily currency analysis"; articles that discuss the major changes in the currencies and exchange rates, and the impact these changes might have on the world economy.
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Statistics Canada
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Statistics Canada creates and releases statistics that can help people to a better understanding of Canada and its population, resources, economy and culture. The site has information about the census, and material organized in summary tables, maps, surveys and charts. The Daily is a section of the website which presents information about new releases and products, and is released every day at 8.30 a.m. There is also an "understanding statistics" section which can be helpful in understanding the material and information available on the site.
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Researching world languages
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Ethnologue.com offers a wide range of resources for research about the languages of the world. Their bibliography contains references to more than 13,000 books, scholarly journals, books, dissertations and academic material, most of which a sample can be viewed online, or purchased. The site also has an extensive map of all countries which shows where the different languages are spoken, and information about each of them.
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Canadian Encyclopedia
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The content is divided into different encyclopedias; the Canadian Encyclopedia, Youth Encyclopedia (for students, with more concise and clearly written information), Encyclopedia of Music (scholarly resource of Canadian music), feature articles (narrative style, broadens some of the topics in the encyclopedia) and a selection of articles from Maclean's magazine. There is also a section on the site which has galleries, interactive resources, quizzes, timelines and a list of the "100 Greatest Events" in Canadian history. The site is well-organized and easy to navigate. More than 5,000 scholars and experts have contributed with their knowledge, which has resulted in more than 50,000 articles.
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Exchange rates
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The Bank of Canada 10-year Currency Converter enables you to see the exchange rate for any currency for a selected time period (a maximum of 10 years ago). The site converts any amount of any currency, and you can choose if you want to use the currency rate from the last business day, a certain number of past business days or from a certain start date to an end date. It gives you the option of using the nominal rate or the cash rate (the total amount you would pay if you went to a bank to convert the money, as most banks add 4% for this service).
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Audioboo: iPhone app billed as Twitter for audio
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If you're looking to get audio online from an iPhone, TechCrunch noted recently that Audioboo is "about to become a huge blogger and journalist tool."
TechCrunch's Mike Butcher explained:
"AudioBoo is an iPhone app which has gradually been making bigger and bigger waves and is about to get a whole lot more interesting. The essential point is that you can record and upload audio from the iPhone straight to the Web, and also Tweet out the link to the audio. In fact it bills itself as Twitter for audio. A player appears on your Audioboo profile straight away and is embeddable in a blog. Admittedly that sounds less exciting than live streaming video from something like Qik, but since only a privileged handful have this app, which remains unapproved by the App store, Audioboo is the next best thing if you want to do an interview or record audio fast. The attached social network also has a ‘follow’ model, much like Twitter.
"Speech-based Audioboos can now be automatically converted to text across Audioboo’s applications - including iPhone podcasting and Tweets."
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Twelve new tools for a reporter's hectic life
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Former Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Ortega knows the life of a reporter can be chaotic, so he's put together a list of twelve handy communication tools that will be useful to any journalist—or, at the very least, worth giving a try.
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Getting more out of Google
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Everyone knows how to conduct a simple web search, but there's more to Google than meets the eye. This article provides some advanced tips on using Google for web and news searches, and ways to access new search tools that the company has under development.
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Social bookmarking 101
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This two-part Poynter Centerpiece serves as a primer for how and why to use bookmarking services like del.icio.us and Digg. Interactivity Editor Ellyn Angelotti provides an overview of how the two aforementioned (and most popular) services work, as well as the risks and opportunities they can provide both journalists and news organizations.
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RSS. Flickr. Twitter. Delicious. FriendFeed. Wikis. Digg. LinkedIn. Flash. 
Toronto-based magazine writer and editor