News Search, Blogs and Feeds

Book excerpt: This book is about news search and monitoring. Aimed at professionals with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, users with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring services and news search strategies and techniques will benefit from reading this book. The main purpose is to present a practical handbook with an analysis of readily available tools, blending with passages of a theoretical nature. It is also useful for students at LIS programmes and related information programmes and for librarians and information professionals. The authors aim to aid the reader in reaching a greater understanding of the core in news search and monitoring. - Presents effective tools to evaluate news search engines and databases - Harness the power of RSS (Real Simple Syndication) feeds in online news search and monitoring - Learn how to navigate and critically question the news found in the blogosphere