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Keep what you find! http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/14.html The Online World resources handbook Chapter 14: Keep what you find! [INDEX] [Expanded Index] [Search] [NEXT] [BACK] Search and throw away Dig for 'overview' Post processing the data Reuse data on your hard disk Desinformation, myths, hoaxes, fraud, deception and errors Little is gained by being skillful at locating and accumulating information, and then becoming drowned in an avalanche of data that one cannot manage or use. This chapter starts with how to handle retrieved information, and build a personal database on your own hard disk. We continue by investigating strategies for finding interesting information on own your disk, before winding down with some words about what separates good information from bad. Search and throw away To novices, everything is difficult. During their first trips online, they may feel as if moving to the other side of the globe. There, they would meet other newspapers, magazines, information sources, and services. It takes time to find your way around in this new environment. To find online gold mines, trial and error are necessary. As you get more experience, however, focus tends to shift from getting information to digesting. Retrieving the data is 'in your fingers', and doesn't bother much anymore. The bad news is that your reading speed remains at the same old level, while the amount of retrieved data grows. Most users therefore need a strategy for handling the resource. This is my take: In our time, when people tend to talk more than they listen, we'll usually find more information than knowledge. Therefore, say NO to irrelevant information! It is rarely worth keeping. There is no good reason to learn things that you really do not need to know. Practice "selective ignorance." Regularly rate your online sources. Critically. Discard those costing you more time, money and effort than they are worth. Concentrate on those giving the best returns. Regularly adjust the frequency with which you visit selected services to match 1 of 7 23.11.2009 15:48
Keep what you find! http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/14.html their usefulness. What used to be daily visits, may have to be downgraded to once per week or month. Consider replacing daily news monitoring by clipping services. Dig for 'overview' Plan 'overview' and 'digging for details' with different frequencies. 'Overview' refers to online trips made to get an impression of what generally goes on. An example: Using Agora World Wide Web by email servers, it is easy to request a list of articles from Usenet newsgroups at preset intervals. For example, email programs like Eudora Pro let you have the same message scheduled to be sent at a certain time and date every month. The trick is explained in Chapter 12 under Usenet by email. Digging for useful information in today's news may also be done by Agora mail coupled with a system or feature that let the web address (URL) be sent at desireable intervals. You may want to check out NetMind in Chapter 11 for the job if your email program is unable to do it. On one workstation, I use a shareware Windows utility called BarClock to warn me once per day. "You should send your Agora mail now!" The warning flashes up on my screen in such a way that it cannot be ignored. On another workstation, a MS DOS based robot does it automatically for me. No manual intervention required. Say you want to monitor what goes on in the alt.winsock newsgroup on a monthly basis. Prepare a monthly message containing the following: To: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp Cc: Subject: Text: send news:alt.winsock Each 30 days, you should now receive a mail giving you a list of topics discussed in the newsgroup. It would look something like this: Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 05:38:57 0500 (CDT) From: agora@dna.affrc.go.jp Subject: Document requested (was:)(URL: news:alt.winsock) Newsgroup alt.winsock, Articles 86509 86528 (Earlier articles[1]...) Articles in alt.winsock "Re:Error Code 16" Phil Joy[2] "Re: Netscape Mail" Schaft[3] "Re: OFFLINE NEWSGROUP READER ??" djl[4] "Re: OFFLINE NEWSGROUP READER ??" Matthew McDonald[5] "Re: OFFLINE NEWSGROUP READER ??" Derek Woodlands[6] "Re: OFFLINE NEWSGROUP READER ??" Matthew McDonald[7] "Re: AOL coexistence, mcs.support" Leonard Grossman[8] "Re: Netscape Mail" David Woolley[9] "MAKE 50 K IN 1 MONTH" The One[10] "Re: OFFLINE NEWSGROUP READER ??" Melanie Ley[11] "Re: *** ANNOUNCE: new W95 FTP beta ***" [12] "Re: Win 95 FTP Server" [13] "selecting multiple items with mouse instead of ctrl" [14] "Re: Win 95 FTP Server" Alun Jones[15] "free agent purge thinger" [16] "help" w4100@epix.net[17] "Re: Win 95 FTP Server" [18] "Re: AOL coexistence, mcs.support" Randy Hubbard[19] "Upgrading win95 winsock" boomer[20] "I have no idea what i'm doing" mal4273@tamu.edu[21] BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB Post to alt.winsock[22] 5HIHUHQFHV IURP WKLV GRFXPHQW [orig] news:alt.winsock [1] news:alt.winsock/86489 86508 [2] news:51g25t$g1l@news.internetmci.com [3] news:51g24d$ora@nntp1.best.com [4] news:323bbaae.105680122@news.aimnet.com [5] news:323bcd4a.8728606@news.netspace.net.au [6] news:323be00d.2515074@news.mt.net.au 2 of 7 23.11.2009 15:48
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