Archive for October, 2006

Searching the Internet 012: Voter and Election Information (enhanced)

Saturday, October 28th, 2006

Episode 012 covers election information sites. These include Yahoo midterm elections, C-SPAN and CNN as major news sites. Also included are FairVote, getVoting411, League of Women Voters, Vote411.org, ElectionOnline.org, Election 2006, Factcheck.org , Media Matters for America, Politics1, Project Vote Smart, RealClearPolitics, and Open Secrets.org. Also mentioned is Electoral-Vote, ElectionProjection, Voter Protection Center and clustered results from Clustry and Mooter.

00:00 Intro
Voter and Election Information
02:04 Yahoo News Midterm Elections 2006
04:03 C-SPAN
05:21 CNN America Votes 2006
07:16 Fair Vote
08:44 getvoting411.us
09:37 League of Women Voters
10:05 Vote411.org
12:10 Electionline
13:03 Elections 2006
14:30 Factcheck.org
16:25 Media Matters for America
19:16 Politics1.com
20:40 Project Vote Smart
22:06 RealClearPolitics
23:51 Election Protection 365
25:30 Election Incident Reporting System
27:19 Electroral-Vote.com
29:21 Election Projection - 2006 Edition
31:21 Clusty Results for 2006 Midterm Election
33:04 Mooter Results for 2006 Midterm Election

34:23 Wrapup

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Searching the Internet 012: Voter and Election Information

Saturday, October 28th, 2006
Episode 012 covers election information sites. These include Yahoo midterm elections, C-SPAN and CNN as major news sites. Also included are FairVote, getVoting411, League of Women Voters, Vote411.org, ElectionOnline.org, Election 2006, Factcheck.org , Media Matters for America, Politics1, Project Vote Smart, RealClearPolitics, and Open Secrets.org. Also mentioned is Electoral-Vote, ElectionProjection, Voter Protection Center and clustered results from Clustry and Mooter.

00:00 Intro
Voter and Election Information
02:04 Yahoo News Midterm Elections 2006
04:03 C-SPAN
05:21 CNN America Votes 2006
07:16 Fair Vote
08:44 getvoting411.us
09:37 League of Women Voters
10:05 Vote411.org
12:10 Electionline
13:03 Elections 2006
14:30 Factcheck.org
16:25 Media Matters for America
19:16 Politics1.com
20:40 Project Vote Smart
22:06 RealClearPolitics
23:51 Election Protection 365
25:30 Election Incident Reporting System
27:19 Electroral-Vote.com
29:21 Election Projection - 2006 Edition
31:21 Clusty Results for 2006 Midterm Election
33:04 Mooter Results for 2006 Midterm Election

34:23 Wrapup

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STI012-2006-10-26 Voter Information.mp3

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Searching the Internet 011: News Search Sites (enhanced)

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Episode 011 covers some search engines news and then discusses searching for news articles on two of the major search engines (Google and Yahoo) and some lesser know ones such as Findory, Topix , Newstrove, and Newslink.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
04:03 Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion
04:37 My Thoughts on Google Buying YouTube
05:00 Google Groups Beta
05:19 Google Groups Beta Tour
05:33 Clusty redesigns with focus on speed and simplicity
06:14 Apparent Demise of A9
06:46 Yahoo Local Updated
07:19 Google’s Searchmash
07:41 Searchmash.com
07:58 Microsoft’s Live Search is Live
08:37 News Ask Smart Answer Features
09:24 Ask Smart Answers Available Internationally
10:02 Google Mac Blog
11:17 Daypop Down and Out

News Search Sites
12:50 Google News
16:13 Google News Archive
18:31 Yahoo News
21:57 Findory
23:36 Topix.net
24:46 Newstrove
28:03 Newslink
29:57 Wrapup

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Searching the Internet 011: News Search Sites

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Episode 011 covers some search engines news and then discusses searching for news articles on two of the major search engines (Google and Yahoo) and some lesser know ones such as Findory, Topix , Newstrove, and Newslink.

00:00 Intro
Search Engine News
04:03 Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion
04:37 My Thoughts on Google Buying YouTube
05:00 Google Groups Beta
05:19 Google Groups Beta Tour
05:33 Clusty redesigns with focus on speed and simplicity
06:14 Apparent Demise of A9
06:46 Yahoo Local Updated
07:19 Google’s Searchmash
07:41 Searchmash.com
07:58 Microsoft’s Live Search is Live
08:37 News Ask Smart Answer Features
09:24 Ask Smart Answers Available Internationally
10:02 Google Mac Blog
11:17 Daypop Down and Out

News Search Sites
12:50 Google News
16:13 Google News Archive
18:31 Yahoo News
21:57 Findory
23:36 Topix.net
24:46 Newstrove
28:03 Newslink
29:57 Wrapup

STI011-2006-10-12 News Search Sites.mp3

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Searching the Internet Quick Tips 003: Formulating a Search Query

Friday, October 6th, 2006

This is the third episode of Searching the Internet Quick Tips, a short podcast focusing on one site or search tip. This episode discusses how to formulate a search query.

Example queries on Yahoo
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln “civil war”
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln “civil war” Stanton

Example queries on Google
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln “civil war”
(Abe OR Abraham) Lincoln “civil war” Stanton

STIQT003-2006-10-06 Formulating a Search Query.mp3

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