New information for new journalists pt1: RSS & social networks
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This document discusses new types of information and journalists that have emerged with social networks and RSS feeds. It explains how RSS can be used to gather information from news sites, blogs, social networks, and more. It also provides tips for finding people online via search engines and social networks as well as verifying information found on social media.
New information for new journalists pt1: RSS & social networks
- 1. Paul Bradshaw City University, London and Birmingham City University Publisher, Online Journalism Blog Founder, Help Me Investigate.com New information, new journalists Barcelona, ESCACC, October 2010
- 3. New information, new journalists 1. Social networks, RSS and data 2. Passive-aggressive newsgathering 3. Looking forward
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- 10. New processes
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- 15. What sites have RSS? • News sites • Blogs • Facebook, MySpace etc. • Flickr (tags, comments, friends and groups only) • YouTube, Vimeo, etc. • Twitter • Delicious, Digg, etc.
- 16. Searches by RSS • Google News Search, Yahoo News • Technorati, icerocket, ljseek • Search.Twitter.com, twitterlocal.net • Flickr (via Yahoo! Pipes) • video.google.com, YouTube • Delicious, Digg, Propeller, Reddit • Boardreader • Add mloovi
- 17. Other useful RSS tools • Page2RSS.com • Feedburner • Google Docs • Wikis • Mailing lists with RSS feeds • Yahoo! Pipes
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- 22. Get social
- 26. Finding people online • Use sites’ own search engines • Openbook • Boardreader • Peoplesearch: yoName, Pipl, Yasni, Zoominfo
- 27. Verifying information on social media • Domain, frequency & recency of update, history • Too good to be true? Bait for RT? • Style and personality • Who’s following/friends? Who are they following? Who was first? • Messages to/about them • Presences elsewhere on social media • Pages linking to them • Internet archive and caches • Source code
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- 31. Delicious.com/paulb/barc10 Twitter.com/paulbradshaw Linkedin.com/in/onlinejournalist Slideshare.net/onlinejournalist Paul Bradshaw City University, London and Birmingham City University Publisher, Online Journalism Blog Founder, Help Me Investigate.com