Appropriating Technology

Tony HirstDept of Communication and Systems

The Open University

“Navigating the new normal - strategies for success”

Sensemaking

Mechanics

Do you know what’s

possible?

Ctrl-F

Google Refine

URL hacking

Googling for an Amazon press release on google.co.uk turned up a way in to Amazon’s UK

media relations site: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/press/pr/20080710 as

well a page on the central US site: phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?

ID=1565581&c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle, a third party (?) hosted site with Amazon

branding: phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-mediaHome&c=176060.

inurl:http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml? intitle:presssite:phx.corporate-ir.net

(You might think that the use of site: is redundant given the first inurl: limit. I hit upon using it like that as a result of clicking on the “More results from this site” option from one of my initial search attempts… It seems to override the collapsing of multiple results on a single domain…)

http://bit.ly/kfxYXX

What context are you working

in?

http://www.nagps.org/files/FRPAA%20and%20open%20access_0.pdf

http://bit.ly/st1cbu

Gephi

http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/10/guardian-tag-explorer/

http://bit.ly/qtfTgy

Your home page is the landing page…

http://bit.ly/s5pNZ4

Document Types

http://bit.ly/cTtmx0

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