News Search, Blogs and Feeds
A Toolkit
- 1st Edition - September 27, 2010
- Authors: Lars Vage, Lars Iselid
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 8 4 3 3 4 - 6 0 2 - 9
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 0 6 3 - 1 8 1 - 3
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Request a sales quoteThis 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
Practitioners and students of Library and Information Science
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
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
- No. of pages: 258
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 27, 2010
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9781843346029
- eBook ISBN: 9781780631813
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Lars Vage
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Mid Sweden UniversityLI
Lars Iselid
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Umeå University, SwedenRead News Search, Blogs and Feeds on ScienceDirect