1. 1 JO807 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ JO807: Advanced Journalism Research Week 4  Bookmark Utilities  “Alert” Engines  Online Storage  Online Applications

2. 2 JO807 © 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 JO807 © 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 JO807 © 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/eus171694/e us171723/eus171729/r?l& http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus53832/eus171615/eus171694/e us171723/eus171729/r?l&  Note attributes available  You probably want only one tool that meets your needs

5. 5 JO807 © 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 JO807 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ What I Use (Today)  iHarvest www.iharvest.com iHarvest www.iharvest.com  Current version  Desktop link to online boomarks.  Can send to others  “iHarvest One” http://corp.iharvest.com/ihone/frames.htm?content=ihon e_5.htm “iHarvest One” http://corp.iharvest.com/ihone/frames.htm?content=ihon e_5.htm  Can use keywords

7. 7 JO807 © 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

8. 8 JO807 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Major Alert Sites for Journalists  Bill Dedman’s PowerReporting http://PowerReporting.com/category/Alerts_by_E-mail Bill Dedman’s PowerReporting  Opportunity Alert Services http://www.umass.edu/research/ora/alert.html Opportunity Alert Services  Northern Light http://www.northernlight.com Northern Light  Net-Mind (aka “Mind-it”) http://www.netmind.com/html/url-minder.html Net-Mind  Travel and airline sites

9. 9 JO807 © 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.

10. 10 JO807 © 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

11. 11 JO807 © 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

12. 12 JO807 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ Online Desktop application  Xdrive http://www.thinkfree.com/home_u.html 25mbg+ free storage. Xdrive http://www.thinkfree.com/home_u.html  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.

13. 13 JO807 © 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

14. 14 JO807 © J.T.Johnson 1999/2000 _________________________ A word of CAUTION!!!!!!!!!!  Cyberspace and dot comms are a sometimes thing. Don’t rely on any one company or site to hold your valuable work.