Course agenda – Glasgow June 23rd

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

People behind sites – an insite guide

Looking for strategies to find out about people behind sites? While there are dozens of sites that perform Whois lookups and site analyses, there still seems to be confusion about the various tools that exist.

Research anonymity using Tor

Heads up on the Tor Project anonymity online and an embedded introduction by Unwired.

Journalists and the social web – Oslo Seminar

View my presentations made at the Journalists and the Social Web seminar held in Oslo this week: Mining information from Social Networks, Monitoring News and Journalists and the Semantic Web.

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?

Welcome

Welcome to insite. A www.journalism.co.uk blog that will cover everything related to internet research. insite is written and edited by Colin Meek who delivers training courses in Advanced Internet Research for journalism.co.uk the National Union of Journalists and for other clients on an in-house basis.