Tumblr (3.0; @factchecklinks)http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/<a href="http://ouseful.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/data-scraping-wikipedia-with-google-spreadsheets/">Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets | OUseful.Info</a>: <p>“The Google spreadsheet function =importHTM(””,”table”,N) will scrape a table from an HMTL web page into a Google spreadsheet. The URL of the target web page, and the target table element both need…</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/56871244http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/56871244Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:42:53 -0400<a href="http://www.866ourvote.org/">Election Protection - The Nation's Largest Nonpartisan Voter Protection Coalition</a>: <p>“Throughout the election process, our volunteers - more than 10,000 strong - will be entering data and information into OurVote live (developed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation), an interactive…</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/56801224http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/56801224Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:42:42 -0400<a href="http://oinnovate.blogspot.com/2008/10/searching-dirty.html">Innovate this: Searching dirty</a>: <p>“Information that is supposed to be private can sometimes inadvertently leak onto the web, through careless coding, or scanning, or editing, or incorrect placement on a server.”</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/56324346http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/56324346Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:40:17 -0400<a href="http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/links/data_free.htm">Economic Data available for free online</a>: <p>UK-focused but useful for U.S.-based reporting.</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/56324345http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/56324345Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:40:16 -0400<a href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-contents.php">PHP: file_get_contents - Manual</a>: <p>Add one insert query and you’re good to go.</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/54133447http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/54133447Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:20:29 -0400<a href="http://www.merchantos.com/makebeta/php/scraping-links-with-php/">Scraping Links With PHP | Makebeta</a>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/50611644http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/50611644Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:07:56 -0400<a href="http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=122&thread=15024">How to do a Conditional HTTP GET with Python urllib2 | Python Buzz Forum</a>: <p>Another Python script that can be useful for site scraping. This one will first check to see if anything on a site has changed before initializing the scrape.</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/50320185http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/50320185Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:59:08 -0400<a href="http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html#The%20Parse%20Tree">Beautiful Soup documentation - Parse Tree</a>: <p>Use the Parse Tree second of this Python-based parsing tool to scrape sites.</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/50320187http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/50320187Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:59:08 -0400<a href="http://report.nih.gov/index.aspx">NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tool (RePORT)</a>: <p>“Reports, data and analyses of NIH research and development activities.” The National Institutes of health runs many, many research programs on public health. This is a good place to go to start…</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957081http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957081Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:48 -0400<a href="http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/530941.php">AFP reporters barred from using Wikipedia and Facebook as sources | Journalism.co.uk</a>: <p>This is your warning not to use Wikipedia as a primary source. Too many reporters have been busted for using bad info from Wikipedia. I could show you examples, but I trust you only need to be warned…</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957080http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957080Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:48 -0400<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Members_of_Congress_who_Twitter">Members of Congress who Twitter - Congresspedia</a>: <p>It’s true. Our congressmen and women are getting into the social media space. The list is pretty accurate, but as it’s a wiki, it carries the same caveats as all wiki sites: verify the info with…</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957082http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957082Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:48 -0400<a href="http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html">Data Access Tools from the Census Bureau</a>: <p>Pure data, mapping information and other useful demographic info is collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. Great for understanding the big picture of your city, county, state and nation.</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957083http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957083Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:48 -0400<a href="http://www.lsoft.com/CataList.html">CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV lists</a>: <p>There are thousands of listservs (email discussion lists) that aren’t indexed by Google. This catalog is constantly updated with new public listservs. It’s a good place to dig for experts,…</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957079http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957079Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:48 -0400<a href="http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/">WikiScanner: List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations</a>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957084http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957084Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:48 -0400<a href="http://www.fedstats.gov/toolkit.html">FedStats Data Access Tools</a>: <p>This a fantastic index of science and environment-related datasets produced by the U.S. government. Checkout DataFerrett (linked on page), which is the data extraction tool. It’s not easy to use, but…</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957077http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957077Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:48 -0400<a href="http://helpareporter.com/">Peter Shankman's "If I Can Help a Reporter Out"</a>: <p>This is a great list developed by PR guy Peter Shankman. If you want to find an interviewee but don’t know where to turn, try posting a message to this email list. Be sure to fully vet the person who…</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957076http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957076Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:48 -0400<a href="http://www.brainyday.com/jared/searchdoc.htm">Searching a listserv's archives</a>: <p>Need to search through thousands of listserv messages? Do it through email with this cheatsheet.</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957078http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957078Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:48 -0400<a href="http://moneyline.cq.com/pml/home.do">CQ.com - MoneyLine</a>: <p>Discover the influence of money on the political process.</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957085http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957085Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:48 -0400<a href="http://data.octo.dc.gov/">District of Columbia Data Catalog and Data Feeds</a>: <p>Lots of state and local governments are provide data not just in .csv formats but also in RSS, XML and KML (spatial data, otherwise known as geodata for mapping). This is one example.</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957074http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957074Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:47 -0400<a href="http://www.brbpub.com/freeresources/pubrecsitesStates.aspx">BRB Publication's Public Record Resource Center</a>: <p>This extremely useful index allows you to drill down to free data sources from your state, county and locality.</p>http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957075http://factchecklinks.tumblr.com/post/49957075Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:56:47 -0400