| Description |
vii, 320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
What is information trapping? -- The benefits of information trapping -- Asking the right questions -- Getting practical -- RSS basics -- What is RSS? -- Anatomy of an RSS feed -- The big "so what?" -- Finding RSS feeds -- Types of RSS feeds -- RSS reader tools -- Page monitors -- Nuts and bolts -- Web-based page monitors -- Client-side monitors -- E-mail alerts -- Advantages of e-mail alerts -- Finding e-mail alert services -- Useful e-mail alert services -- Not as cool, but they work -- Building queries -- What do you want to monitor? -- Types of search engines -- Basic searching syntax -- Special searching syntax -- Using the advanced search form -- Tags and conversations -- Who's linking to your site? -- Advantages of sleuthing your own site -- Trapping general site links -- Trapping links in RSS feeds -- Who's reading your RSS feeds? -- Moving from internal to external information -- Trapping topic-based information -- Monitoring general search engines -- Monitoring news search engines -- Searching blogs -- Managing keyword-searchable RSS feeds -- A few more sources? -- Trapping commercial information -- Trapping government information -- Monitoring international sites -- When you want what isn't there -- Moving beyond text-based information -- Multimedia trapping -- Searching audio -- Monitoring images -- Monitoring videos -- The future is now -- Trapping tags and conversations -- The tao of tags -- Resources that use tags -- The zen of conversation trapping -- Filtering the inflow -- Introducing GMail -- Filtering with GMail -- A GMail toolbox -- Other e-mail options -- Moving on -- Case studies -- Fred learns about outsourcing to Taiwan -- Ethel tracks a blog -- Different strokes -- Shutting off the flow -- Branching out from these basic patterns -- Organizing what you find -- A very simple, portable strategy -- Organizing information on a single machine -- Fleshing out client-side options -- Web-based organizing options -- Sticking to a strategy -- Publishing your information -- Publishing a Word, PDF, or text document -- Publishing to a mailing list -- Hosted blogging solutions -- Your own blogging site -- Wiki -- Making your own site -- RSS feeds for content distribution -- Working toward manageability -- Index. |
| Subject |
Internet searching.
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Research -- Computer network resources.
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| ISBN |
0321491718 |
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9780321491718 |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2478310 |
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AU@ 000041716239 |
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NZ1 11090621 |
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AU@ 000041292344 |
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