1. 1 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ J421: Analytic Journalism Week 4  Bookmark Utilities  “Alert” Engines  Online Storage  Online Applications

2. 2 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Manage your bookmarks  IE’s “Favorites” and Netscape’s Bookmarks are inadequate for more than 25 bookmarks.  Difficult or impossible to alphabetize  Difficult or impossible to annotate  Difficult or impossible to capture whole page and related links. Page changes tomorrow and you’re left with only memories.

3. 3 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Finding “bookmark managers”  Think about criteria you need:  Date of capture  Ability to annotate  Ability to capture content and links  Ability to exchange with others  Ability to organize in different ways  Always be accessible“

4. 4 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Finding “Bookmark Managers”  Do a search in Google or AltaVista or Metacrawler using phrase “bookmark managers”  Go to “bookmark utilities” http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus53832/eus171615/e us171694/eus171723/eus171729/r?l& http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus53832/eus171615/e us171694/eus171723/eus171729/r?l&  Note attributes available  You probably want only one tool that meets your needs

5. 5 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Search at “www.tucows.com/  Tucows http://www.tucows.com/ Tucows http://www.tucows.com/  Use “bookmark” but select your operating system  Tucows is handy because you can usually download the program from Tucows

6. 6 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Let the “Alert Bots” Do the Walking  As websites increase exponentially, impossible to track changes  “Bots” (i.E. “Intelligent agents”) are on the job 24x7  “Alert” messages follow you via e-mail

7. 7 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Major Alert Sites for Journalists  PassingNotes.com http://www.passingnotes.com/research.php?t=sub_pages& cat=35 http://www.passingnotes.com/research.php?t=sub_pages& cat=35  Bill Dedman’s PowerReporting http://powerreporting.com/category/Alerts_for_journalists Bill Dedman’s PowerReporting http://powerreporting.com/category/Alerts_for_journalists  Opportunity Alert Services http://www.umass.edu/research/ora/alert.html Opportunity Alert Services http://www.umass.edu/research/ora/alert.html  ChangeDetect http://www.changedetect.com/?msg=Complete+this+form ChangeDetect http://www.changedetect.com/?msg=Complete+this+form  Profusion http://www.profusion.com/ Profusion http://www.profusion.com/

8. 8 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Finding listserv and newsgroups Listservs  http://www.liszt.com http://www.liszt.com  http://tile.net/lists/ http://tile.net/lists/  http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?qL =journalism&F=L&F=T http://www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?qL =journalism&F=L&F=T

9. 9 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Newsgroups  www.google.com www.google.com  Google Alerts http://www.googlealert.com http://www.googlealert.com  NetNews Tracker http://www.netnewstracker.com/ http://www.netnewstracker.com/

10. 10 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Online storage  Next to online bookmarks, most valuable of web utilities  If your car is stolen, with your laptop in it, you don’t care because the laptop isn’t valuable, what it holds is valuable.

11. 11 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Online Storage  Free Online Storage http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_sto rage.htm This is a jump site to a collection of online storage sites, including most of these favorites listed below. Free Online Storage http://www.emailaddresses.com/email_sto rage.htm

12. 12 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Online Storage  Freedrive http://www.freedrive.com 50mgb free storage. Freedrive http://www.freedrive.com  FortuneCity www.fortunecity.com 100mgb free storage. FortuneCity www.fortunecity.com

13. 13 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Online Desktop application  Xdrive http://www.thinkfree.com/home_u.ht ml 25mbg+ free storage. Xdrive http://www.thinkfree.com/home_u.ht ml  Direct access to your X:drive account [on you desktop hard drive] as if it were one of your local drives.  You can browse your X:drive account through Windows Explorer, save to your X:drive within applications, access and install files located in your X:drive over your Internet connection.

14. 14 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Online applications  Thinkfree http://www.thinkfree.com/home_u.html http://www.thinkfree.com/home_u.html  Use this suite of Microsoft Office-compatible applications to work on your documents, spreadsheets, and presentations anywhere, anytime (or use your Microsoft Office documents with ThinkFree Office)...  Store your files and folders in your web-based ThinkSafe cyberfolder...Travel to a different location...Log in and work on your documents from any computer with any operating system

15. 15 J421 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ A word of CAUTION!!!!!!!!!!  Cyberspace and dot coms are a sometimes thing. Don’t rely on any one company or site to hold your valuable work.