RSS

Making My Dream RSS Feed Reader

I’m continually thinking about ways to better find and curate content. Part of this is just a general desire to improve but part of it is because the social media is constantly shifting and tools are always coming and going.

With or without ancillary tools, RSS feeds have been an essential part of my efforts for decades now (I started learning about them in early 2000.) Lately — maybe in the last few years — I’ve started leaning on RSS even harder.

Search Web Search

SearchTweaks.com Updated

I’m getting everything ready for my APRA Wisconsin presentation on Wednesday, where I’ll be discussing how to use three of my web sites — SearchTweaks.com, WikiTwister.com, and MegaGladys.com . To that end I spent this morning updating SearchTweaks, changing some things around and killing some bugs. Unfortunately the local news search is going to stay […]

Local News Search

US Local News Search, Now With TV Stations, Newspapers, *and* NPR Member Stations

I’m still working to add new sources to the United States Local News Search ( https://searchtweaks.com/lns/ ). It started with just TV stations and then I added newspapers. I’ve now added a third source: NPR member stations. In addition, I’ve done some cleaning and polishing and the program’s easier to use. US Local News Search […]

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Wikipedia Articles As Containers Holding Intra-Wiki Link Elements: Turning Those Into Search Queries

My thinking about Web search and making the most useful query possible has focused a lot recently on the idea of query-as-cloud-of-topics; instead of thinking about George Washington as a singular search terms you might think of him as a structure encompassing every possible way you can contextually describe George Washington – dentures, cherry trees, […]

News

Honest-to-goodness LOCAL NEWS search, thanks to the FCC database

Searching Google for news stories is like spinning a roulette wheel nowadays: there’s no telling what you’re going to land on. Are you going to get a thoughtfully-crafted article from a local outlet, or are you going to get some flotsam from a scrape-and-spit infosewage generator or some spun-up propaganda from an information warfare site? […]

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