Many years ago — 15 sounds about right — there were a lot of resources for making your own custom search engines. Finding a group of sites you want to search (or […]
Create Super-Focused Twitter Searches — And Follow Them With An RSS Feed
Being able to monitor Twitter in a useful way for links is something I’ve been thinking about (okay, fretting over) for a long time. Nuzzel helps to a certain extent, and I […]
Using a Google Sheet to Build Search Queries for Unknown Topics
I spent a lot of time building tools at work. There were things we needed to automate, but I didn’t have a server or any kind of programming platform to put things […]
A Big Pile of Wikipedia Tools
When I wrote my Wikipedia article last week, I did some poking around and playing with various tools to see how I could make my editing as painless and productive as possible. […]
Falling In a Rabbit Hole and Landing on Wikipedia
Some days ResearchBuzz feels like a process of deliberately setting out to find rabbit holes and then struggling not to fall down them. Case in point was recently when I read about […]
