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"The open source platform to write and publish print and digital books.
"Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes.
"Create books on your own or with others via an easy-to-use web interface. Build a community around your content with social tools and use the reach of mobile, tablet and ebook technology to engage new audiences. "
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From the site: Truthy is a system to analyze and visualize the diffusion of information on Twitter. The Truthy system evaluates thousands of tweets an hour to identify new and emerging bursts of activity around memes of various flavors. The data and statistics provided by Truthy are designed to aid in the study of social epidemics: How do memes propagate through the Twittersphere? What causes a burst of popularity? Delete the scoop?
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This could be useful for UK business journalists or any journalists covering UK business stories. I've just signed up and had a play. It's fast and has a neat interface.
From the site: "The best way to search for Companies House information, Directors Search, Companies House UK, and Company Credit Check." Delete the scoop?
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Could be a fantastic tool for journalism research, newsgathering and contacts building. Have a play and see what comes up. Impressive.
You get a limited number of free searches a day and there is an option for a seven day free trial. For quick searches the free options should do. Delete the scoop?
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This looks like a Q & A tools set up for marketing, but there could be interesting uses for journalism and research. I am trying it out. Any experiences please share as comments.
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Great site for finding the contacts and stories about infulencial news makers. This could be an extremely useful tool for newsgathering and research.
Silobreaker aggregates news, blogs, research, audio, video and other digital media content from global news, shared, user generated and open access sources around the world. Recommended by @parvanapersiani and also added to the Top Sites For Journalists. Delete the scoop?
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From the site: "Media Cloud is an open source, open data platform that allows researchers to answer quantitative questions about the content of online media. Using Media Cloud, researchers, journalism critics and interested citizens can examine what media sources cover which stories, what language different media outlets use in conjunction with different stories, and how stories spread from one media outlet to another. "
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Just signed up for Listgeeks "a socially-oriented platform for creating, sharing and comparing lists of things." Looks like it could be useful for crowd-sourcing good stuff and then sharing. Will give it a try and use in training to assess its worth.
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From the site: "Since its founding in 1994, the non-profit, non-partisan Statistical Assessment Service - STATS - has become a much-valued resource on the use and abuse of science and statistics in the media. Our goals are to correct scientific misinformation in the media and in public policy resulting from bad science, politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge; and to act as a resource for journalists and policy makers on major scientific issues and controversies. "
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Live text collaboration with invited guests. Could be great for developing a news project with a group of journalists.
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Can't you do the same thing with Google Docs?
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April 17, 2011 3:11 PM
Hi Pablo, probably. I like the way you can collaborate over an issue - as I did today testing this with a colleague in SE Asia - and create an html doc with embedded elements that you can then save or upload.
Could be good for working on a project/article together. This site is not about either or, it's about listing all the tools that can benefit journalists. David
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Understood. I mentioned Google Docs since it already appears to be a popular solution and wanted to point that out for people who were interested in this functionality ;-)
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Recommended by @JohnEi of BetaTales:
"Say you have to write about the speech of your prime minister. Or you cover a new government report. And then you run into the typical challenge: How to illustrate the article in a good way? "Have you considered using a word cloud? Wordle.net is a fascinating service that lets you take any word input, for instance the entire speech of the prime minister, and make a colorful word cloud. In this cloud words that are most frequently used will be bigger than others." http://www.betatales.com/2011/03/16/ten-tools-to-improve-your-online-journalism/ Delete the scoop?
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I like the idea of this new tool and have just signed up for a pre-release registration. Quote taken from Techcrunch article, "how can you get 100 million people on the web translating everything into different languages for free?" http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/12/duolingo/
Could this be useful for newsgathering? From the site's blurb: "With Duolingo you learn a language and simultaneously translate the Web. "Language differences remain a barrier for the global sharing of knowledge, and computers cannot process human language accurately. The more you learn at Duolingo, the more knowledge you make accessible to the world. Since you create shared value when you learn, you don’t have to pay for using Duolingo. We believe language education should be 100% free." Delete the scoop?
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Influence Networks is an open-source, collaborative directory of relationships between people, institutions and companies. Each relation has its own level of trustworthiness, so that facts can be distinguished from noise.
Wow, this could be really great for newsgathering and investigative journalism. Just signed up and having a play. Please add experience/comments below. Delete the scoop?
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Imagine getting an email when there is a development in a story/issue you are following. Just type in the key words and Tweet Alarm will email you when tweets are sent mentioning that word.
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Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network. From the site "Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community"
Has similarities to Goozy but also enables you to capture and store webpages in the cloud, so if they disappear you still have a record.
Also, you can add notes to those pages and highlight them as well as sharing. Looks neat.
Have signed up and will test. Please add thoughts, experiences below. Delete the scoop?
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I've been playing with this tool but yet to publish anything with it. I like the way it imports documents and images on to the whiteboard and then you can draw and write around the assets, publish, share and embed. Will test in a blog when I get time.
Wondering if the company is still operating, though. Last tweet was the middle of last month and last forum discussion was some time ago. Also, the how-to video isn't working. The product looks good.
From the site: "Online whiteboard that's free, powerful and easy-to-use. Draw with flexible tools. Collaborate in real-time."
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Wiki Q&A combined with free online dictionary, thesaurus, and encyclopedias. Ask questions, get answers.
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A tool for sifting through data to find information. Could be useful to journalists trying to understand data mining and data journalism.
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The Investigative Dashboard, or ID, is a space for investigators to find resources, share information, and learn new ‘tricks of the trade’.
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This could be good for story creating, newsgathering, story enrichment and making valuable contacts.
From the site. "Intersect is a place where people share stories over a lifetime and discover connections at the intersections of time and place." Thanks to @digitalerwandel for the suggestion Delete the scoop?
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Now defining over 2,000,000 terms, phrases and acronyms - find meaning, not just links.
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A Web-based timeline software application for creating, collaborating on, and sharing history and project planning.
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Great little tool enabling you to share from Hootsuite as you browse.
This article shows you how to install. Delete the scoop?
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LittleSis* is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
"An involuntary facebook of powerful Americans, collaboratively edited and maintained by people like you." This could be great for newsgathering and investigative journalism. Just signed up. Please add any comments/experience below. Delete the scoop?
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Find out what is being talked about on Blogs - great for newsgathering and finding new sources of information as well as contacts.
From the site's blurb: "BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs. Blogs, a term that is short for weblogs, represent the fastest-growing medium of personal publishing and the newest method of individual expression and opinion on the Internet. BlogPulse applies machine-learning and natural-language processing techniques to discover trends in the highly dynamic world of blogs. BlogPulse is brought to you by Nielsen." Delete the scoop?
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