News Search, Blogs and Feeds

This book is about news search and monitoring. Aimed at professionals with a strategic need of monitoring the surrounding world, users with a need to find the best news sources, monitoring services and news search strategies and techniques will benefit from reading this book. The main purpose is to present a practical handbook with an analysis of readily available tools, blending with passages of a theoretical nature. It is also useful for students at LIS programmes and related information programmes and for librarians and information professionals. The authors aim to aid the reader in reaching a greater understanding of the core in news search and monitoring.

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Lars Vage is currently a librarian at Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall for the department of Technology and Media. He is responsible for the subject of computer science, electrical engineering, informatics and statistics. Lars Iselid is an Information Architect on the CS Library team at Teknihuset, a leading technical solution provider for digital libraries. He is a well-known blogger and search engine expert and also works as librarian at the Digital Library Department, Umea University. Iselid is a popular speaker and trainer in such areas as information search, social media and search engine optimization. Together they have written and contributed to several books and journal articles for a Swedish audience. They continue to lecture on information searching, blogging, the invisible and the semantic web and have been invited to speak at conferences and worked as consultants. Since 2001 they have maintained a blog reporting on search engines on the Internet, Internetbrus.com.

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Introduction: the nature of news search; Free news search; Professional news search services; News monitoring services; Evaluating news search tools; Keeping track of the blogosphere; The power of RSS; News discovery via social networking tools; Concluding remarks.

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