Semantic search – an Interview with Brooke Aker
If you are not yet convinced that the semantic web will transform your job as journalist or researcher, then Expert System USA CEO Brooke Aker may change your mind. Before taking up his post at Expert...
View ArticleResearch anonymity using Tor
Heads up on the Tor Project anonymity online and an embedded introduction by Unwired.
View ArticlePeople behind sites – an insite guide
Looking for strategies to find out about people behind sites? While there are dozens of sites that perform Whois lookups and site analyses, there still seems to be confusion about the various tools...
View ArticleGoogle’s advanced operators for journalists
Confusion is rife about how and when you can use Google's advanced operators. Used effectively they can transform your research by helping you get better results faster.
View ArticleTwitter advanced research techniques 1: searching twitter
By Colin Meek (@colinmeek) and Judith Townend (@JTownend) If you are engaged in serious research on topical issues you can’t ignore Twitter. And, if you can’t ignore Twitter, then you need to grasp the...
View ArticleTwitter advanced research techniques 2: finding the right people
By Colin Meek (@colinmeek) and Judith Townend (@JTownend) This second post in our series on Twitter research tackles tools and tips for finding the right people and networks. We also look at some of...
View ArticleTop five advanced research tools for Twitter
By Colin Meek (@colinmeek) and Judith Townend (@JTownend) In our recent three part series we tested the best tools for researching Twitter. If you are engaged in serious research on topical issues you...
View ArticleMaking the most of RSS: readers reviewed
By Colin Meek (@colinmeek) and Judith Townend (@JTownend) Reports of the “death of RSS” are not only greatly exaggerated – they are simply wrong. Not only is RSS part of the fabric of the internet,...
View ArticleGoogle Images as a research tool: Tutorial 2
In Tutorial 1 I looked at ways you harness the potential of Google Images. In this Tutorial we go to the next level by combining those simple and advanced techniques with Google’s reverse image tool:...
View ArticleInternet Research For Journalists and Researchers – A Visualisation
Here’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. There’s a lot of confusion about exactly why a lot of web content is ‘hidden’ from view and why ordinary search engines are not only hopeless at...
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