Google News search used to be lot more powerful in some ways than it is now. You could do things like limit your news results to a certain state. You can try it now using the syntax of location: and a US postal code, like location:nc, for example. When I…
Imagine you pick a news article at random and start counting the number of times a baseball player is mentioned by name. If one player is mentioned, it might be a cultural reference or a quote out of context. If two baseball players are mentioned by name, it’s possible that…
There’s so much news going on these days that it’s hard to keep up, so I decided I needed something to give me a quick backgrounder on a person/place/thing, provide me with links to credible information, and offer pointers to possible news events in the last couple of years. My…
The Mastodon network, part of the larger Fediverse, has its own challenges when it comes to curating content and information monitoring. There isn’t a centralized location to search as there is for Twitter. Instead there are literally tens of the thousands scattered across the world. On the other hand, Mastodon…
If you need to research a topic, Wikipedia is a great place to start. But depending what you’re trying to discover, you might quickly find yourself overwhelmed. What happens when you want to learn about Japanese painters and find yourself confronted with a Wikipedia category that lists 189 of them?…