News Search, Blogs and Feeds : A Toolkit

ISBN-13: 9781843346029 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 258 str.

Lars Iselid

Opis

This book is about news search and monitoring. Aimed at professionals with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, users with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring services and news search strategies and techniques will benefit from reading this book. The main purpose is to present a practical handbook with an analysis of readily available tools, blending with passages of a theoretical nature. It is also useful for students at LIS programmes and related information programmes and for librarians and information professionals. The authors aim to aid the reader in reaching a greater understanding of the core in news search and monitoring.

• Presents effective tools to evaluate news search engines and databases
• Harness the power of RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds in online news search and monitoring
• Learn how to navigate and critically question the news found in the blogosphere

Spis treści

List of figures

List of abbreviations

Acknowledgements

About the authors

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction: the nature of news search

Abstract:

Discovering the power of news search

The concept of news and its relations

News published on the web vs printed news

Structured vs unstructured news content

The different types of news search tools

Chapter 2: Free news search

Abstract:

Introduction

A short history of free news search

The best free news search engines

Other news search engines

Directories of news sites

Major newspapers with web archives

Broadcast news

News agencies

Press release wires

Scientific wires

Historical newspaper digitizing projects

Websites mentioned in this chapter

Chapter 3: Professional news search services

Abstract:

Introduction

Advantages of professional search services

Advanced searching techniques

Search results

Search alerts

Client billing

Other fee-based services

Websites mentioned in this chapter

Chapter 4: News monitoring services

Abstract:

Introduction

Describing news monitoring services

A short history of news monitoring services

The meaning of news monitoring services

Evaluating your monitoring service

Irrelevance in news monitoring services

Sample list of news monitoring and related services

Chapter 5: Evaluating news search tools

Abstract:

Introduction

Frequency of spidering

Sources

Searching

Results

Chapter 6: Keeping track of the blogosphere

Abstract:

Introduction

What exactly is a blog?

The roots of blogging

The blog explosion

The blogosphere

The evolution of blog searching

The most important blog search engines

Blog directories

Websites mentioned in this chapter

Chapter 7: The power of RSS

Abstract:

Introduction

A short history of RSS

What does RSS look like?

What is OPML?

Choosing an RSS reader

Using news aggregator software

RSS feeds - using pre-built and creating custom

Subscribing to podcasts

Websites mentioned in this chapter

Chapter 8: News discovery via social networking tools

Abstract:

Introduction

Microblogs

Twitter

Twingly microblog search engine

Directories of tweeters and similar services

Linking in microblogs

Topsy - a search engine powered by tweets

Memetrackers and similar tools

Digg and other social voting sites

Facebook for news and blog reading

Google Buzz

Websites mentioned in this chapter

Chapter 9: Concluding remarks

Abstract:

Further reading

Index

O autorze

Lars Våge is currently a librarian at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall for the department of Technology and Media. He is responsible for the subject of computer science, electrical engineering, informatics and statistics. Since 2001 he has maintained a blog reporting on search engines on the Internet, Internetbrus.com. Lars Iselid is an Information Architect on the CS Library team at Teknihuset, a leading technical solution provider for digital libraries. He is a well-known blogger and search engine expert and also works as librarian at the Digital Library Department, Umeå University. Iselid is a popular speaker and trainer in such areas as information search, social media and search engine optimization. Since 2001 he has maintained a blog reporting on search engines on the Internet, Internetbrus.com.