Course agenda – Glasgow June 23rd

Agenda for Advanced Internet Research course for the NUJ on June 23rd.

Furl users transfer to diigo

A social network? A social bookmarking site? No, a Social Information Network.

Notebook options: Yahoo Search Pad; Snapbits; and, notebook G

Stay on top of your research…..Three other notebook tools that help you organise your clips, bookmarks, notes, documents and screenshots in ‘notebooks’ or project files.

Easy transfer from Google Notebook to Evernote and Zoho

Evernote and Zoho make it easy for Google Notebook users left high and dry.

Nepomuk – the social semantic desktop

Nepomuk – the social semantic desktop. This EU-funded project aims to apply the kind of semantic solutions being deployed on the web to your desktop allowing your desktop to more easily process the information it has across different platforms, media types and applications.

The Semantic Web today – An Interview with John Breslin

Everyone assumes that the ’semantic web’ will mean we’ll have better search engines. In fact, Web 3.0 will do a lot more, and journalists and researchers should be ahead of the curve.
Not many people are as close to the heart of the Semantic Web as John Breslin. John is the founder of the Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) project, a member of the W3C Advisory Committee, lecturer at the National University of Ireland and an associate researcher on the semantic web at the Digital Research Institute in Galway.

I caught up with John recently for this analysis of the semantic web and journalism published by journalism.co.uk. John’s points were so interesting that Insite has brought you the full interview.

When you have to cite your online sources

There is no doubt that the many social bookmarking tools that exist often offer great networking services but you can run into problems if you rely on a social bookmarking site as a file to store away your online sources. If you are working on a sensitive story that relies on web-sourced evidence how can you cite it reliably?

EverNote – 10 reasons why journalists and researchers should love it

EverNote is a powerful note-taking tool that works on both Macs and Windows. Not only does it do the basics really well, it boasts a range of stress-relieving features to make your life online a little more pleasant. Looking at it from the perspective of a journalist I found 10 reasons to love it.

Notebook 2.0: 12 Tools for Researchers – Mashable

Here’s a useful guide to the various ‘notebook’ options available. Most of these allow you to save whole web pages or page clips, emails, pictures and other content to ‘notebooks’ organised by subject.

Text 2 Mind Map

 Text 2 Mind Map – The text-to-mind-map converter – If, like me, you permanently have several mind-maps littering your desk then you might find Text 2 Mind Map helpful.