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Digital media
From email to podcasting
and everything in between
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Intro
apply a digital mindset to a new set of challenges.
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Intro
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Traditional web
EmailDiscussion groups/chatWeb
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”New” net (web 2.0)
BlogsRSSPodcastingSocial networks
– Tags/thematics
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Two important processes– Organise– Automate
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Mapping
Who are the regulators/watchdogs?– Regional
• Dep transport [http://www.dft.gov.uk/consultations/open/]
• OFSTED [http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/mailinglist/index.cfm ](email alerts) • OFCOM [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/find_document/]
• DEFRA [http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/issues/2006/animal-0222.htm]
(poultry register)• Government Watchdogs Commissions and regulatory bodies O
mbudsman UK List directory [http://www.ukwebstart.com/listwatchdogs.html]
– National• Parliament
– International• WHO avian flu
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Mapping
Automate
Watchthatpage.com
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Mapping (email)
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Mapping
Which are the most important publications?– Books, magazines, rapports, newspapers– Internet Public Library– British Library– Kiosk
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Mapping
Think tanks– World Directory of Think Tanks
– Policy Institutes
Where is the important research?–Universities. [universities worldwide, braintrack, Yahoo]–Experts [Alpha Galileo]
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Mapping
Statistics – Social science– ”hard” science– The National Audit Office [http://www.nao.org.uk/]
– International organisations
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Organise– Create a structure
Automate– Filter– Flag
Save!!
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Newsgroups
Newsgroups (or usenet)– Monitor companies [Ericson] [Nokia]– Find (interview)subjects– http://groups.google.com/– Faqs [Frequently Asked Questions]
http://www.faqs.org/
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Discussion forums
Discussion forums [definition]• groups.msn.com• groups.yahoo.com
Subject specific groups – [For ex. Autism Sweden group a yahoo grupp for families
with autistic children in Sweden, or grups on AIDS] Usually there is a search service built in [yahoo MSN].
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Chat groups
Chat portals– Sunet– Google– Yahoo– Deenas world
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Traditional search services
The most popular search engines just now areGoogle [database] and Yahoo [catalogue]. MSN-search and Ask Jeeves should also be
considered Then there are meta –search engines. For ex
Dogpile, Mamma and Excite.
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Vertical search engines
Answers Searching Computer Search Engine
s
Domain Searching Financial Search Engines Government Search Invisible Web Legal Search Engines Mailing Lists
Medical Search Engines Newsgroup Search Science Search Engines Shopping Search Travel Search Engines WAP Search Engines Other Specialty Services
Geo- eller subject specific search engines
(Vertical search engines)
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New Search forms
Clustering– Groups hits around key words and concepts– Search results för ”grävande journalister" are
grouped around ”journalistik”, ”att kartlägga en person”, ”scoop” etc. [like this]
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New search services
Visual search enginesShows results as a dynamic graphic with lines
connecting relevant hits
Kartoo (needs Flash and will be slow).
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Personalised search engines
Soople (personalizes Google)
A9 (owned by Amazon)
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Agents
News agents– Google news,
• monitors Google News, looks through 4,500 continiously updated sources
– News.yahoo.com • Yahoos version with its alert service.
– MSN news (RSS)
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Problems
Too much confidence– In the Internet
• Everything is in the Internet
– In search engines• Search engines can find everything
[Doc. types]
[databases –commercial][databases –”hidden web”]
– In ONE search engine
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Problems
– In yourself• ”of course I know how Google works”
– And OR or– Stop word– filtering– Similar Pages– Google ranking / Google bombing– truncation and ”stemming”
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Problems
Synonyms– The information provider defines the search
terms, not the researcher
Force of habit– I have always done it like this
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”New” net - web 2.0
Blog RSS Podcasting Social networks
– Tags
Revolutionising
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Blog
What is a blog? How do they
work? What are they
good for? How do we find
them?
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Blog - what
Regular updatingChronological order, archive
multimedial Text
Photoblog Audioblogs Videoblogs Moblogs
Often on a free siteBlogger.com, audioblogger.com/ etc.
Nationalencyklopedin definierar blogg
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Blog – how?
Get a free accountcomposepost[exampel]
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Blog - media
BBC– Election blog
Guardian– Election blog
The Blair watch project
Using the viewer as content provider
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Blog – Tool for democracy
TalkEuro project– EU:s constitution– convert PDF-doc to blog– Each chapter a posting– Comments on each post– Have a look
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Blog - finding
Search in (int)– Bloglines– Daypop– Feedster– Technorati– Blogwise
Monitor– Blogpulse– Popdex– Technorati
Monitor many blogs simultaneously http://groups.blogdigger.com/index.jsp
portal: Eatonweb
English blogs
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RSS
RSS flood: A way to subscribe to information– Delivered to you, no need to visit each
provider
Need: RSS-reader – – Two types: local [pc] [mac] or web-based
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RSS – who is doing it?
Johnston Press UK National NewspapersThe RegisterReutersIndymediaGovernment
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Podcasting
What is it?– A simple way to distribute mp3-based files– Ipod, hand held, telephone etc.
Who is doing it?– Over 22 million Americans own iPods or MP3-
players and about 30% of them have downloaded a podcast. (Thats about 6 million people. [Pew research]
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Podcast – how to
Get a free programmeFind a podcast of interestGuariian garvis
– Ipodder.org– Podcast.net– BBC
Add the feedlisten
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Social networks
Flickr– Tags– Email pics to blog– Album on line– Themes and tags create networks
Postcard browser
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Networks
Del.icio.us (Networking bokmarks)– Mina– Teman
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Invisible web
NICAR/FOIinvisible-web.net/ Academic webscout: Resourceshelf blog by Gary Price.
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Google stop words
+" search
To be or not to be
+to +be +or +not +to +be
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Robotar ”sänds ut.”
Samlar ord och adresser.
Bygger ett ”bokindex.”
Erbjuder möjligheten att kombinera ord till sökvillkor.
... och listor med länkar direkt till träffarna.
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Google filtering
Google has a filter with three levels:• Moderate• Strict• None
– Moderate is standard. Change to ”none”
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