Book description
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
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of figures
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- About the authors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction: the nature of news search
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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
- Chapter 4: News monitoring services
- Chapter 5: Evaluating news search tools
- Chapter 6: Keeping track of the blogosphere
- Chapter 7: The power of RSS
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Chapter 8: News discovery via social networking tools
- Abstract:
- Introduction
- Microblogs
- 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
- Further reading
- Index
Product information
- Title: News Search, Blogs and Feeds
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2010
- Publisher(s): Chandos Publishing
- ISBN: 9781780631813
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