Contents

Chapter 1: What Is Information Trapping?

The Benefits of Information Trapping

Asking the Right Questions

Getting Practical

Chapter 2: RSS Basics

What Is RSS?

Anatomy of an RSS Feed

The Big “So What?”

Finding RSS Feeds

Types of RSS Feeds

RSS Reader Tools

Chapter 3: Page Monitors

Nuts and Bolts

Web-Based Page Monitors

Client-Side Page Monitors

Chapter 4: E-Mail Alerts

Advantages of E-Mail Alerts

Finding E-Mail Alert Services

Useful E-Mail Alert Services

Not As Cool, But They Work

Chapter 5: Building Queries

What Do You Want to Monitor?

Types of Search Engines

Basic Searching Syntax

Special Searching Syntax

Using the Advanced Search Form

Tags and Conversations

Chapter 6: Who’s Linking to Your Site?

Advantages of Sleuthing Your Own Site

Trapping General Site Links

Trapping Links in RSS Feeds

Who’s Reading Your RSS Feeds?

Moving from Internal to External Information

Chapter 7: Trapping Topic-Based Information

Monitoring General Search Engines

Monitoring News Search Engines

Searching Blogs

Managing Keyword-Searchable RSS Feeds

A Few More Sources?

Trapping Commercial Information

Trapping Government Information

Monitoring International Sites

When You Want What Isn’t There

Moving Beyond Text-Based Information

Chapter 8: Multimedia Trapping

Searching Audio

Monitoring Images

Monitoring Videos

The Future Is Now

Chapter 9: Trapping Tags and Conversations

The Tao of Tags

Resources That Use Tags

The Zen of Conversation Trapping

Chapter 10: Filtering the Inflow

Introducing GMail

Filtering with GMail

A GMail Toolbox

Other E-Mail Options

Moving On. . .

Chapter 11: Case Studies

Fred Learns about Outsourcing to Taiwan

Ethel Tracks a Blog

Different Strokes

Shutting Off the Flow

Branching Out from These Basic Patterns

Chapter 12: Organizing What You Find

A Very Simple, Portable Strategy

Organizing Information on a Single Machine

Fleshing Out Client-Side Options

Web-Based Organizing Options

Sticking to a Strategy

Chapter 13: Publishing Your Information

Publishing a Word, PDF, or Text Document

Publishing to a Mailing List

Hosted Blogging Solutions

Your Own Blogging Site

Wiki

Making Your Own Site

RSS Feeds for Content Distribution

Working Toward Manageability

The following appendices were originally published online as bonus material for our readers and are not included in the print version of this title:

Appendix A: Going Mobile

Appendix B: Keeping Up

Appendix C: Using RSS Tools

Index

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