Mastodawn

I've got so many tools now that I'm making a thread of them here and pinning it to my profile.

All these tools are free to use and free of ads.

I made them because I think the current state of web search is boring and nonfunctional and I want to make it better.

I give them to you because I think you deserve comprehensive, well designed paths to useful online information in the same way that you deserve clean food and water. My resources are limited but I will do my best.

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Calishat Jul 12

SearchTweaks -- 18 tools for enhancing Google search in four categories -- Query Builders, News-Related Search, Time-Related Search, and Search Utilities.

Some tools, like Back that Ask Up, make existing Google features easier to use. Others, like Super Edu Search, add search functionality.

http://searchtweaks.com/

#Google #search #WebSearch

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SearchTweaks -- tools to make your Web search easier/better/more productive

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Calishat Jul 12

MastoGizmos -- A collection of tools offering new ways to search and explore Mastodon's content. Includes Gift Article Gazette, the Big Mastodon Hashtag Search, Hashtag Harvest, and Wikimedia-Mastodon Thing (my naming skills kind of let me down on the last one.)

http://www.mastogizmos.com/

#Mastodon #Fediverse

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MastoGizmos - Mastodon Tools and Searches

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Calishat Jul 12

RSSGizmos -- A bunch of tools for finding, creating, and working with RSS feeds. Includes Kebberfegg, a tool for creating keyword-based feeds from multiple sources.

https://rssgizmos.com/

#RSS

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RSS Gizmos -- Tools and Resources for Using RSS Feeds

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Calishat Jul 12

WikiTwister --

A collection of tools designed to extract information from Wikipedia and Wikidata and bend it into useful, easily-accessible shapes. Includes Wikipedia Seismograph, WikiCat Main Characters, and RoloWiki.

https://wikitwister.com/index.html

#Wikipedia #Wikidata

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WikiTwister

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Calishat Jul 12

MiniGladys --

A Wikipedia-based quick research tool to find reference information and recent news about Wikipedia topics.

Also creates keyword-based RSS feeds for continued information monitoring and related topics for more extensive searches. A cut down, less complex version of MegaGladys.

https://megagladys.com/mg/

#Wikipedia #Wikidata #reference #CurrentEvents

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MiniGladys - Quick Wikipedia-Based Search and Reference

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Calishat Jul 12

Local Search America --

Three tools for finding information by city/state or state/metro area. Find authoritative sources like local governments, institutions of higher education, and FCC-licensed television stations and search their web spaces on Google.

https://localsearchamerica.com/

#search #LocalSearch #LocalNews #media

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Local Search America - Your Local Intelligence Toolkit

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Calishat Jul 27

Attention Junction --

analyzes the views of two Wikipedia pages, identifies spans of public interest, finds overlaps, and turns them into Google / Google News searches.

https://attentionjunction.com/

Attention Junction - Where Wikipedia Stories Meet

Discover when two Wikipedia topics capture public attention simultaneously. Find fascinating connections in the world's knowledge.

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Drew Scott Daniels Jul 13

@researchbuzz just curious, you don’t have to answer. Could it include Canadian TV too since the FCC holds data on those stations too? Maybe it’s a different database. I’m ok without it, but I am curious.

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Calishat Jul 13

@drewdaniels Hmm... if you could point me toward the Canadian database I could try, but I didn't see that in the FCC data I looked at.

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Drew Scott Daniels Jul 13

@researchbuzz thanks. I was curious. We could find a way to do it if you wanted (e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_stations_in_Canada or a CRTC database, or a different FCC database). I just wanted to know if they were in the FCC database.🙂