I’ve gotten a few new Patreons recently and decided to do a writeup of the resources I’ve made that are available to Patreons only. But then I thought, “Wait, I should also
https://researchbuzz.me/2024/03/22/a-roundup-of-current-researchbuzz-calishat-resources/
I confess I hadn’t been following the Hunter Biden news cycles very closely. He’s not the president, it seems very unlikely that he would ever get into politics, and he has the
I’m still working on what I want it to look like, so I’ve put up a very plain version of WikiTwister at WikiTwister.com . WikiTwister is a set of five tools designed
When I say that I do ResearchBuzz, that’s literal. There’s only one person behind ResearchBuzz and that’s me. I don’t have any contract workers or employees or anything like that; I can�...
https://researchbuzz.me/2023/10/02/turning-megagladys-into-a-wikipedia-osint-power-tool/
As Twitter has waned, I have been spending more time on Mastodon. I’m enjoying it quite a bit. It’s a lot more community and interaction and lot less screaming into the void.
https://researchbuzz.me/2023/07/17/search-browse-and-use-mastodon-better-with-mastogizmos-com/
The great strength of the Web is that anyone can contribute to it. And the great weakness of the Web is that anyone can contribute to it. The weakness part of that
https://researchbuzz.me/2023/07/13/11-search-tools-for-avoiding-infosewage-on-the-web/
I’ve made v2 of Gossip Machine and it’s about 1000% better! I made the first version of Gossip Machine last summer. It uses Wikipedia pageview data to find days when Wikipedia articles
https://researchbuzz.me/2023/06/12/gossip-machine-v2-now-with-z-scores-and-visual-indicators/
At the beginning of March I made Non-Sketchy News Search as an attempt to answer the problem of news search in Google being less productive than it used to be. A combination of
Everything’s interesting, but the intersections between everything are sometimes even more interesting. And when you’re using Wikidata, there are lots of things and lots of intersections. I w...
One of the disadvantages I have as an independent, non-academic Internet searcher is that most of the searching I do is on unstructured data. I usually can’t afford the large well-structured re...