St. Thomas University School of Law Diplomacy Monitor

Sometimes you just gotta let the title speak for itself. And the announcement. "The St. Thomas University School of Law Diplomacy Monitor utilizes specially developed proprietary software to monitor the global output of communiqués, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of diplomacy-related websites in near real-time and channel it into a synthesized information stream for scholars, diplomats, journalists, researchers, students and others interested in the interaction among nations." It's available at http://diplomacymonitor.com .

Despite all the sources being plumbed the interface is clean; the front page contains the latest diplomacy stories on the left (which include source, linked headline, date, and a cache link) and information about the site on the right. There's no search form on the front page; instead you'll see one on the bottom of the documents page after you click "Access the Monitor".

"Access the Monitor"? It's a button at the top of the front page that drops you into a list of diplomacy-related documents (most recent ones first.) You can browse through those, use the sorting links on the left (by region, by issue, by nation, and more) or use the search engine at the bottom. A search for "Nuclear" found over 400 results from sources ranging from The United Nations to the North Korea Korean Central News Agency to the Japan Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Note that search results are sorted by relevance, not by date.

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