News search, blogs and feeds : a toolkit / Lars Våge and Lars Iselid.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Våge, Lars.

Contributor:

Iselid, Lars.

Series:

Chandos Information Professional Series

Chandos information professional series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online journalism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Online journalism.

News Web sites--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

News Web sites.

Electronic information resource searching--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Electronic information resource searching.

Journalism--Technological innovations--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Journalism.

Electronic news gathering--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Electronic news gathering.

Blogs--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Blogs.

Citizen journalism--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Citizen journalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; Cambridge, England : Chandos Publishing, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 reachin

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 24, 2013).

ISBN:

9781780631813

1780631812

OCLC:

866442461