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June 17th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by John Thompson in Handy Technology, RSS, Top tips for journalists

Online research: There are many ways of mashing up RSS feeds into a single feed, but sometimes you might only want posts about a particular subject. Pre-filter your feeds before combining them with Feed Rinse. Tipster: John Thompson

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June 3rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by John Thompson in Online Journalism, Top tips for journalists

Online research: If you write on specialist subjects, find out if the experts in your area (including other journalists) are using social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us. Subscribe to their del.icio.us feed and also to their network feed to get an insight into what they are reading online. Tipster: John Thompson

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May 13th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by John Thompson in RSS, Top tips for journalists

Online research: Want a quick way to track changing content on pages that don’t have RSS feeds? See page2rss.com for hassle-free page monitoring straight to your RSS reader. I use it to monitor content such as conference agendas and info buried deep within sites. Tipster: Colin Meek

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April 16th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by John Thompson in RSS, Search, Top tips for journalists, google

Online research: Use Google News to supply you with an RSS feed or email alerts based on any keyword search relevant to your subject area. Tipster: John Thompson

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March 30th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by John Thompson in Handy Technology, Top tips for journalists

Online research: Available as a plugin to the Firefox browser, Pearl Crescent Page Saver allows you to make screen grabs of an entire web page, not just what appears on your screen. Tipster: John Thompson

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March 20th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted by John Thompson in RSS, Top tips for journalists

Online research: Want a quick way to track changing content on pages that don’t have RSS feeds? See page2rss.com for hassle-free page monitoring straight to your RSS reader. I use it to monitor content such as conference agendas and info buried deep within sites. Tipster: Colin Meek

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