Four years ago today I put out the first issue of CoronaBuzz, my attempt to keep up with the rapidly-evolving changes to news about covid-19/coronavirus/the ‘rona or whatever you call it. It
Good morning, y’all. I hope everyone is safe and well and prepared for Hurricane Idalia if you need to be. I am interested in Hurricane Idalia both as a weather event (currently
https://researchbuzz.me/2023/08/30/keeping-an-eye-on-hurricane-idalia/
With Twitter’s stability looking less and less assured, and other social networks making decisions so unpopular as to cause overt user rebellion, many Web users are wondering how they are going...
Yes, I’ve been ranting about RSS feeds for a while and how essential they are for keeping up with Web sites. But sometimes you want to follow a site or page that
https://researchbuzz.me/2018/04/18/need-to-track-a-page-without-an-rss-feed-try-visualping/
Well, I DID have plans to write a DIFFERENT article this week but APPARENTLY they have been PRE-EMPTED. As you might be able to tell by the OCCASIONAL CAPS I am just
https://researchbuzz.me/2018/03/15/digg-killing-off-digg-reader-i-go-back-to-newsblur/
Hi! This is part two of a three-part series on monitoring the Internet for information about a topic, going from almost no knowledge to a steady stream of information sourced from all
EDIT: Leo asked me to define Information Trap. So here goes: it’s a trap for information. HA! No, seriously, an “information trap” is a monitor placed on the Web in general or
https://researchbuzz.me/2016/07/12/anatomy-of-an-information-trap-part-i-starting-from-scratch/
If you consider just mainstream press coverage, you might come away with the impression that Reddit is a chaotic place full of jerks and that the information it aggregates is of no
https://researchbuzz.me/2016/05/10/keeping-up-with-reddit-use-ifttt-not-google-alerts/
I have mentioned in ResearchBuzz from time to time the tools that make doing this blog easier. They change and evolve as different things become available, but right now the big three
As you probably know doing ResearchBuzz is not my real job; I love it but “love” and “pays the electric bill” are sometimes quite a ways apart. However I have been consciously
https://researchbuzz.me/2014/03/31/how-to-turn-your-facebook-likes-into-rss-feeds/