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Reader opinions
The authors provide an excellent primer on "how to gather information intelligently," and the rationale for looking beyond your current complement of online services to the growing realm of web-based options from small companies or even individual enterprises.
Sabrina I. Pacifici,
BeSpacific
Keeping current needs to be easy and Robin scores high points with this book for making it easy. (...) So there you have it, in a nutshell. I'd get this guide.
Steven M. Cohen
LibraryStuff
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104 pages
Published July 2003
ISBN Number: 88-89066-02-4
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Robin Good's Mini Guide
Become A NewsGod
How To Be The First One To Know
Everything About Anything
Intelligent Information Agents
Come of Age
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About this Mini-Guide
With the changing economics and dynamics of news publishing an avalanche of news content has started. Theoretically, without any technological support, you would need to spend more and more time and energy checking out all your news sources (Web sites, newsletters, forums, mails and more) and searching for new content with search engines.
This could turn into a serious strain, if you need to:
- Stay informed about news relating to specific subjects
- Be continuously updated on new products and services in specific industries
- Identify companies and individuals that operate in similar or related industries
- Find new partners and allies for your new project
- Collect valuable news items to write articles and reviews
- Learn more about a specific topic
- Collect multiple reference information for a book, documentary, report or white paper
- Keep tabs on your competition and be alerted when new products are released
- Find out what issues people are concerned with through stories in the media
The goal of this Robin Good Mini-Guide is to provide Communication Agents, professionals, academics, librarians, journalists and researchers with the means to search and collect highly selective information from the Internet without engaging themselves in repeated long visits to reference sites or in intense Google searching.
I have searched, tested, identified and selected the best tools and services available today to search, gather and collect the information you need without even having to lift a finger.
Today, you can monitor, track and keep yourself updated with any online content resource that you identify as valuable to you. The tools that are reviewed in this guide allow you to easily capture, automatically gather and selectively filter only those news items and stories that are particularly relevant to you or that come from the specified sources you have elected.
Any Web site, even those that do not regularly publish news items can be tracked and kept under control by using one or more of the tools reviewed in this Mini-Guide.
Change detection technology, RSS newsreaders and converters to XML/RSS, search engine trackers and news aggregators are only some of the buzzword technologies available to anyone who wants to effectively ride the ocean of information available to us each day.
One cannot simply surf everyday to each one of hir reference Web sites to check what the news are. Nor one can simply rely on Google News to collect and provide the most comprehensive and reliable information on what you are interested in.
The age of intelligent agents scouting the Web for you and bringing back like trusted hunting dogs the very best game they have been able to capture for you.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What is the problem
- How to gather information intelligently
- Change trackers
- Internet Monitoring and Clipping Services
- Intelligent search tools
- Newsreaders
- Tools and services directories and lists
- The convergence of intelligence agents and newsreaders
- Other web site monitoring instruments
- Final conclusions and recommendations
- Principles to effectively track information online
- Related, useful resources
- Free, alternative and independent news sources online
Reader Opinions
Excellent primer on "how to gather information intelligently"
"Arranged in 14 short chapters, this 102 page guide evaluates a wide range of free and fee-based services and sites that can be used to effectively undertake the challenges inherent in the task of daily news and information gathering on the web.
The authors provide an excellent primer on "how to gather information intelligently," and the rationale for looking beyond your current complement of online services to the growing realm of web-based options from small companies or even individual enterprises.
The guide covers 14 different "change trackers," 7 examples of "internet monitoring and clipping services," and includes a brief overview of news aggregators, a good overview of search tools and toolbars, clipping services, and an eclectic list of free, alternative news resources.
I recommend this guide for busy researchers who will appreciate its well organized presentation of numerous resource options into one easy to read publication."
Sabrina I. Pacifici
Online Law Expert
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I'd get this guide
"This is a great guide to keeping current. Robin details the major tools needed to get the job done, without getting too detailed in that the user loses interest. Keeping current needs to be easy and Robin scores high points with this book for making it easy.
Also, there are at least 10 tools mentioned here that I have never seen before. Robin did his homework in locating resources. I haven't had this long of a list of new stuff to try out in a very long time.
There is a great chapter on Search Toolbars, which, IMO, is worth the cost of the publication. I haven't seen a better annotated list of sources (again, half of them were new to me).
There is a bit of discussion on search engines, but not that much on RSS Search Engines like Feedster, and Technorati, but he may not have been looking for those as tools to keep up. Also, I would have liked him to mention specialy RSS enabled tools like Hub Med, but again, he just may not have know about them (trust me, there is a lot of stuff to look through here).
Last, there is a great chapter on web-clipping services, which I rarely mention on LS because I have been trying to move away from e-mail for keeping current as much as possible, due to the increased spam issues of late (you don't spam in aggregators folks!!), but are worth a look anyway.
So there you have it, in a nutshell. I'd get this guide."
Steven M. Cohen
LibraryStuff
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Become a NewsGod
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Robin Good's Mini-Guide
Become A NewsGod
How to be the first one to know everything about anything
Intelligent Information Agents Come of Age
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