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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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Email

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

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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.

» back

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Google stop words

+" search

To be or not to be

+to +be +or +not +to +be

back

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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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