News search, blogs and feeds a toolkit
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, England ; Cambridge, England :
Chandos Publishing
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | Chandos information professional series
Chandos Information Professional Series |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629333506719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; News Search, Blogs and Feeds: A toolkit; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; About the authors; Preface; 1 Introduction: the nature of news search; 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; Notes; 2 Free news search; 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 archivesBroadcast news; News agencies; Press release wires; Scientific wires; Historical newspaper digitizing projects; Websites mentioned in this chapter; 3 Professional news search services; Introduction; Advantages of professional search services; Advanced searching techniques; Search results; Search histories and saved searches; Search alerts; Client billing; Other fee-based services; Websites mentioned in this chapter; 4 News monitoring services; Introduction; Describing news monitoring services; A short history of news monitoring services
- The meaning of news monitoring servicesEvaluating your monitoring service; Irrelevance in news monitoring services; Sample list of news monitoring and related services; Notes; 5 Evaluating news search tools; Introduction; Frequency of spidering; Sources; Searching; Results; 6 Keeping track of the blogosphere; 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; 7 The power of RSS; 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; 8 News discovery via social networking tools; 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; Notes
- 9 Concluding remarksFurther reading; Index
