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J421: Analytic Journalism

Week 4 Bookmark Utilities “Alert” Engines Online Storage Online Applications

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Manage your bookmarks

IE’s “Favorites” and Netscape’s Bookmarks are inadequate for more than 25 bookmarks. Difficult or impossible to alphabetize Difficult or impossible to annotate Difficult or impossible to capture whole page

and related links. Page changes tomorrow and you’re left with only memories.

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Finding “bookmark managers”

Think about criteria you need: Date of capture Ability to annotate Ability to capture content and links Ability to exchange with others Ability to organize in different ways Always be accessible“

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Finding “Bookmark Managers”

Do a search in Google or AltaVista or Metacrawler using phrase “bookmark managers”

Go to “bookmark utilities” http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus53832/eus171615/eus171694/eus171723/eus171729/r?l&

Note attributes available You probably want only one tool that meets

your needs

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Search at “www.tucows.com/

Tucowshttp://www.tucows.com/

Use “bookmark” but select your operating system

Tucows is handy because you can usually download the program from Tucows

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Let the “Alert Bots” Do the Walking

As websites increase exponentially, impossible to track changes

“Bots” (i.E. “Intelligent agents”) are on the job 24x7

“Alert” messages follow you via e-mail

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Major Alert Sites for Journalists

PassingNotes.com http://www.passingnotes.com/research.php?t=sub_pages&cat=35

Bill Dedman’s PowerReporting http://powerreporting.com/category/Alerts_for_journalists

Opportunity Alert Serviceshttp://www.umass.edu/research/ora/alert.html

ChangeDetecthttp://www.changedetect.com/?msg=Complete+this+form

Profusionhttp://www.profusion.com/

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Finding listserv and newsgroups

Listservs http://www.liszt.com http://tile.net/lists/ http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?qL

=journalism&F=L&F=T

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Newsgroups

www.google.com Google Alertshttp://www.googlealert.com

NetNews Tracker http://www.netnewstracker.com/

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Online storage

Next to online bookmarks, most valuable of web utilities

If your car is stolen, with your laptop in it, you don’t care because the laptop isn’t valuable, what it holds is valuable.

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Online Storage

Free Online Storage http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_storage.htmThis is a jump site to a collection of online storage sites, including most of these favorites listed below.

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Online Storage

Freedrive http://www.freedrive.com 50mgb free storage.

FortuneCity www.fortunecity.com 100mgb free storage.

 

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Online < — > Desktop application

Xdrive http://www.thinkfree.com/home_u.html 25mbg+ free storage. Direct access to your X:drive account [on

you desktop hard drive] as if it were one of your local drives.

You can browse your X:drive account through Windows Explorer, save to your X:drive within applications, access and install files located in your X:drive over your Internet connection.

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Online applications

Thinkfree http://www.thinkfree.com/home_u.html Use this suite of Microsoft Office-compatible

applications to work on your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations anywhere, anytime (or use your Microsoft Office documents with ThinkFree Office)...

Store your files and folders in your web-based ThinkSafe cyberfolder...Travel to a different location...Log in and work on your documents from any computer with any operating system

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A word of CAUTION!!!!!!!!!!

Cyberspace and dot coms are a sometimes thing.

Don’t rely on any one company or site to hold

your valuable work.