I wanted to search WordPress and find blogs that were more heavily covering the content I was interested in. I wanted to find a way to generate possibly-related keywords so I could build additional searches off the first one. The search offered at WordPress.com did not have all the features I was looking for, so I made my own and wrapped in a hiking metaphor. #WordPress #blogs #OSINT
Browsing and Searching Members of Congress: Congress Corral
Congress Corral lets you browse members of Congress via a number of filters and provides a page of details of useful links for each one, but lots of political directories do that. The magic happens with the four other tabs on the detail page.
#politics #LocalNews #Wikipedia
Putting Up a Rough Draft of Congress Corral
For the last week or so I’ve been working on a way to keep up with all the Members of Congress I see on TV as the government remains closed. I wanted to have a way to see all the Members in one place and catch up on them quickly. What I’ve got so far I’m calling Congress Corral.
Wikiween: Wikipedia Categories Become Spooky Cemeteries
For the last few years I’ve tried to do a #Halloween -themed #Wikipedia tool. Finally, this year, on what I think is my third try, I got something I like! Check out Wikiween.
No Kings TV Returns With Updates
No Kings TV is an easy way to browse news about the No Kings protests this weekend across 120 sources in 21 US Metro areas. Now with Mastodon hashtags!
Wiki-Guided Google Search II
Wouldn’t it be great if you could take a Wikipedia article, break it down by headings, do a word-frequency analysis on each block of text, and then click and toggle the most frequent/unusual words into a search box to build Google queries for that topic Well guess what!
RSSForager — RSS Feed Discovery Featuring WordPress
RSSForager uses WordPress to find RSS feeds with similar content to the feed or text block of your choice. Here’s how it works.
Exploring “War-Torn” Portland With Local Search America
Local Search America is free to use and free of advertising. In this article I’m going to walk you through its three tools to find local TV stations, government agencies, and institutions of higher learning near Portland and search their Web sites. We’ll start with Local News TV.
Putting Together an AI-Free Similar RSS Feed Finder (Featuring WordPress)
Been thinking a lot about RSS lately. I am definitely seeing an uptick in visits to RSSGizmos.com and more blog posts about RSS are showing up in my feed reader. While there are lots of tools out there for keyword-searching RSS feeds, I found myself wanting something to discover RSS feeds with similar content. So […]
Wikipedia Categories + YouTube Channels = TubeTerrain.com
Tube Terrain lets you browse lists of YouTube channels built from Wikipedia categories. Filter by keyword, subscriber count, video count, channel age and more!