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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tara Calishain |
| ISBN: | 0321491718 9780321491718 |
| OCLC Number: | 123840230 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | vii, 319 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | ch. 1. What is information trapping? -- The benefits of information trapping -- Asking the right questions -- Getting practical -- ch. 2. RSS basics -- What is RSS? -- Anatomy of an RSS feed -- The big "so what?" -- Finding RSS feeds -- Types of RSS feeds -- RSS reader tools -- ch. 3. Page monitors -- Nuts and bolts -- Web-based page monitors -- Client-side monitors -- ch. 4. E-mail alerts -- Advantages of e-mail alerts -- Finding e-mail alert services -- Useful e-mail alert services -- Not as cool, but they work -- ch. 5. Building queries -- What do you want to monitor? -- Types of search engines -- Basic searching syntax -- Special searching syntax -- Using the advanced search form -- Tags and conversations -- ch. 6. Who's linking to your site? -- Advantages of sleuthing your own site -- Trapping general site links -- Trapping links in RSS feeds -- Who's reading your RSS feeds? -- Moving from internal to external information. ch. 7. Trapping topic-based information -- Monitoring general search engines -- Monitoring news search engines -- Searching blogs -- Manging keyword-searchable RSS feeds -- A few more sources? -- Trapping commercial information -- Trapping government information -- Monitoring international sites -- When you want what isn't there -- Moving beyond text-based information -- ch. 8. Multimedia trapping -- Searching audio -- Monitoring images -- Monitoring videos -- The future is now -- ch. 9. Trapping tags and conversations -- The tao of tags -- Resources that use tags -- The zen of conversation trapping -- ch. 10. Filtering the inflow -- Introducing GMail -- Filtering with GMail -- A GMail toolbox -- Other e-mail options -- Moving on -- ch. 11. Case studies -- Fred learns about outsourcing to Taiwan -- Ethel tracks a blog -- Different strokes -- Shutting off the flow -- Branching out from these basic patterns. ch. 12. Organizing what you find -- A very simple, portable strategy -- Organizing information on a single machine -- Fleshing out client-side options -- Web-based organizing options -- Sticking to a strategy -- ch. 13. Publishing your information -- Publishing a Word, PDF, or text document -- Publishing to a mailing list -- Hosted blogging solutions -- Your own blogging site -- Wiki -- Making your own site -- RSS feeds for content distribution -- Working toward manageability -- Index. |
| Responsibility: | Tara Calishain. |
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Abstract:
Aims to make researching more efficient and rewarding for anyone for whom the Web is an indispensable tool - academics, journalists, scientists, and professionals, as well as bloggers, genealogists, and hobbyists. This book teaches the techniques for building automated information-gathering systems.
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