Internet 101 Neil Reisner Florida International University OR “Once in awhile you can get shown the light in the strangest of places... ...if you look at it.
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Slide 1
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 2
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 3
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 4
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 5
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 6
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 7
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 8
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 9
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 10
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 11
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 12
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 13
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 14
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 15
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 16
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 17
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 18
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 19
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 20
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 21
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 22
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 23
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 24
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 25
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 2
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 3
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 4
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 5
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 6
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 7
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 8
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 9
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 10
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 11
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 12
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 13
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 14
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 15
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 16
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 17
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 18
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 19
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 20
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 21
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 22
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 23
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 24
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com
Slide 25
Internet 101
Neil Reisner
Florida International University
OR
“Once in awhile you can get shown the
light in the strangest of places...
...if you look
at it right.
Robert Hunter
First Things First
Google is the Devil
It makes us lazy. Is it the best
source? What about:
Telephone-Assisted Reporting
Almanac-Assisted Reporting
Encyclopedia-Assisted Reporting
Reference Librarian-Assisted
Reporting
Google is an Angel
A grand, unified source of information
if…
You
know what you’re seeking
You
focus your search
You
know it when you see it
The Web is part of your beat!
Surf
around
Treat it like your beat
Bookmark the ones that work for you
Don’t search, ORGANIZE
But Remember…
Most
records start out on paper
The “Document Frame of Mind”
There’s a record out there and I’m
going to find it!
The intersection of government and
citizens
How does information flow?
Have a Strategy
Know
the law
Know the records
Know where to get the records
A primer
http://www.nreisner.com/PublicRecords.htm
Your new best friend…
Records
Retention Schedules
Rules for records disposal
Inventory of all records an agency
keeps
Make it your first record request
Main Entrances
NICAR `Net Tour
http://www.ire.org/training/nettour/index.html
Reporter.Org:
http://www.reporter.org
Reporters Desktop:
http://www.reporter.org/desktop
Power Reporting:
http://www.powerreporting.org
Utility Sites
WHOIS: http://whois.domaintools.com/
Who owns that site?
Portico: indorgs.virginia.edu/portico/
Asset locator, property records, more.
FedStats: www.fedstats.gov
Portal to government statistics.
FirstGov: www.firstgov.gov
Portal to federal and local governments.
More Utility Sites
Census
Bureau: www.census.gov
Numbers and much more.
CIA
World Factbook: www.cia.gov
International info.
More
International info:
http://www.nationmaster.com
People Finders
Argali: www.argali.com
Backgrounding John Doe:
Phone numbers, addresses, reverse directory.
Download required.
http://www.reporter.org/desktop/tips/johndoe.htm
Where to find the paper.
Freeality: www.freeality.com
Metasearch phone directories.
Public Records Search Engines
Search
systems:
http://www.searchsystems.net
Public records search engine. Slower,
more variety and choice.
Pretrieve
www.pretrieve.com
Better organized, faster, less variety and
choice
When you have to search
Google:
www.google.com
Broad search, ranks sites, but still not
complete. Less organized.
Yahoo:
search.yahoo.com
Google-like interface.
Invisible
Web:
www.invisibleweb.com
Deeper search, hits sites others don’t.
When you have to search
(cont’d)
Mrsapo
http://www.mrsapo.com/
Search engine portal.
Topix
www.topix.net
News portal
Article
Search
www.findarticles.com/
If you don’t have Lexis/Nexis.
More Google
Google advanced:
http://www.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en
Academic/professional works:
http://scholar.google.com
Pictures/documents
http://images.google.com
Nearby businesses
http://local.google.com
Even More Google
Be
notified about a story/source:
http://www.google.com/alerts
What
Google’s working on:
http://labs.google.com/
Lurking Dangers
What
do Yogi Berra, Niels Bohr,
Samuel Goldwyn, Dan Quayle and
Mark Twain have in common?
According to Google results, they all
are responsible for the saying,
“Prediction is difficult, especially
about the future.”
More Lurking Dangers
http://www.martinlutherking.org/
http://www.whois.domaintools.com/
martinlutherking.org
Finding government audits
Government
reports:
Accountability Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gaoreports/in
dex.html
Federal
Audit Clearinghouse
Database of audits of all non-federal
entities that receive federal money
each year.
http://harvester.census.gov/sac
What the government publishes
Government
Printing Office
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.ht
ml
Everything else
Quick
Reference:
http://www.refdesk.com/index.html
What you used to keep on your desk –
almanacs, dictionaries, thesauri, etc.
Run by Matt Drudge’s father Bob.
[email protected]
www.nreisner.com