I’ve been having a fine time exploring the ProPublica Congress API. I started by making something that would build queries for Congressional TwitterSpace, and that was fun. Then I made somethin...
I’ve mentioned before that I watch very little “regular” TV and a lot of YouTube. Not just music videos or cats playing the piano (not that there’s anything wrong with that) but
Recently there was some research published indicating that YouTube is the most popular Internet platform for teenagers. After reading that I thought “Maybe I should do an article on my favorite...
https://researchbuzz.me/2018/06/03/30-of-my-favorite-youtube-channels/
EDIT: It appears KeepVid is Back! Sometimes you want to download something from YouTube and hang on to it. Not because you’re interested in violating copyright or overthrowing The Man or anythi...
NEW RESOURCES Social network Mobli has launched a real-time image search engine. “Now available on the web and as a mobile app, EyeIn’s algorithms filter out content like selfies to return th...
https://researchbuzz.me/2015/06/18/spindly-short-thursday-afternoon-buzz/
NEW RESOURCES Wolfram|Alpha has launched an image identification tool. “Now I’m excited to be able to say that we’ve reached a milestone: there’s finally a function called ImageIdentify b...
NEW RESOURCES Kingtson Penitentiary Inmate Ledgers, 1913-1916, are now available on Flickr. “The ledger includes frontal and profile mug shots, the inmate’s name, alias, age, place of birth, ...
https://researchbuzz.me/2015/03/01/seattle-st-patricks-social-media-more-sunday-buzz-march-1st-2015/
Twitter wants 5% of my stream to be ads? Interesting. Not sure how that will work. When I’m reading a tweetstream I’m reading a tweetstream. I really don’t want to go off
https://researchbuzz.me/2015/02/16/just-barely-monday-buzz-february-16th-2015/
Twitter has released a new set of analytics tools. The article I’m linking to makes them sound kind of like they’re just for advertisers only, but really they’re not. Looking at this
https://researchbuzz.me/2014/07/12/google-twitter-youtube-more-short-saturday-buzz-july-12-2014/
The National Archives announced yesterday that video of some of its genealogy how-to workshops have now hit YouTube (though looking at the dates on some of these they appear to have been
https://researchbuzz.me/2012/01/05/national-archives-puts-genealogy-workshops-on-youtube/