Finding Data on the Internet

"Finding Data on the Internet" was the first site I posted to the Internet, back in 1995. Today, I'm using this page to list not just those links to great reporting data, but all of the other links from my book How to Make Money Publishing Community News Online.

Chapter 2

• OJR post: Doing journalism is an act of community organizing

Chapter 3

• Google AdSense
• Kickstarter
• Indiegogo
• Spot.us
• Homicide Watch

Chapter 4

• Tom O'Malia's The Entrepreneurial Journey

Chapter 5

• Online News Association
• Block by Block Community News Network

Chapter 6

• OJR post: Thinking about starting an online news business? Here's your start-up checklist
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Online Media Network
• Pivothead (eyeglass cameras)
• Outdoor Products (backpacks)
• Blogger
• WordPress
• Drupal
• Joomla
• Expression Engine
• Blog post: Top 8 Most Usable CMS Platforms
• Shay Howe's Introduction to HTML
• Creating Facebook pages
• developers.facebook.com
• Constant Contact
• VistaPrint
• Internet Advertising Bureau standard ad sizes
• Google's eye-tracking heatmap

Chapter 7

• United States Census Bureau (community population, income and demographic data)
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Trademark Search
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR website (Corporate reports)
• Full text of federal legislation
• OpenSecrets.org (campaign contribution data)
• Federal Election Commission
• CrimeReports.com
• FBI Uniform Crime Reports
• The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's FastStats (health data)
• Skype (for online video or audio calls)
• California public and charter school test scores

Chapter 8

• Poll Daddy
• Disqus (third-party online comment management)
• Facebook's commenting tool for websites
• Steve Buttry's advice for journalists on how to use Twitter

Chapter 9

• Google Analytics
• Quantcast (another analytics service)
• Compete (one more analytics service)
• Amazon's Associates Program
• Google's DoubleClick for Publishers (ad management system)

Chapter 10

• Goo.gl link shortener and tracker
• When to use a rel=nofollow attribute in hyperlinks
• Violinist.com Business Directory
• Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing
• Selling on Apple's iBookstore
• Barnes and Noble's PubIt!
• Createspace
• Calibre (eBook creation tool)
• eCub (another eBook creation tool)
• For XML coding on an eBook file, start the file with:
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  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  
  And end it with:
  </html>
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• Bowker (buying ISBNs)

Appendix

• For the appendix, please see the online version of Statistics Every Writer Should Know.

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