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October 18th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 18, 2009

ThompsonPI: @richards1000 Re:case-law.us: Is Mark Johns designer or owner? Ask him: 301-527-0912, mark@littlearth.us. His lookalike site: wiki-surf.com
2009-10-18 20:07:09 · Reply · View
October 17th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 17, 2009

ThompsonPI: Marin County, California court records can be search by party first name only, as well as other criteria. http://is.gd/4mZBK
2009-10-16 22:22:14 · Reply · View
October 16th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 16, 2009

ThompsonPI: Marin County, California court records can be search by party first name only, as well as other criteria. http://is.gd/4mZBK
2009-10-16 22:22:14 · Reply · View
ThompsonPI: Query to find California city government RSS feeds: http://is.gd/4lnNh
2009-10-15 22:03:55 · Reply · View
October 15th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 15, 2009

ThompsonPI: Query to find California city government RSS feeds: http://is.gd/4lnNh
2009-10-15 22:03:55 · Reply · View
October 14th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 14, 2009

ThompsonPI: Search Twitter bios at tweepsearch.com. Tweets not in order of "last recorded update", which is inaccurate. But + addition to Google query.
2009-10-14 18:56:48 · Reply · View
ThompsonPI: Read the fine print on searching online Recorder indexes. SomeXs names are reversed, require a comma, or not.
2009-10-13 23:32:31 · Reply · View
October 12th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 12, 2009

ThompsonPI: "7 News Trackers – Search Companies and Topics By Keyword " http://pibuzz.com/2009/10/11/newstrackers
2009-10-11 23:30:37 · Reply · View
October 11th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 11, 2009

ThompsonPI: Stay current on all my public links for investigators, lawyers and legal fact-finders thru RSS. http://www.diigo.com/user/tamarathompson
2009-10-11 18:40:45 · Reply · View
October 11th, 2009

7 News Trackers – Search Companies and Topics By Keyword

There are many free news tracking sources that send alerts to your email, RSS reader or are stored at a web-accessible site. Don’t limit yourself to just one aggregator, such as Google News — which is easy to set up and has good coverage. I’ve gathered a list of some other keyword news search and tracking tools to uncover and keep track of the online mentions of your brand, client, opposition or topics of interest.

1. “Ultimate News Database” – infoPig (http://www.infopig.com)
View news on designated topics, by major news outlets or related to geographical regions. You can also construct queries of keywords and receive those in your newsreader.

2. “Personalized News Aggregator” – Meehive (http://www.meehive.com)
Build a newspaper style webpage with custom keywords. No RSS or email export. Invite others to view your page at Meehive or on your social network.

3. “Keyword-Based RSS Feed Generator” – Kebberfegg (http://www.researchbuzz.org/tools/kebberfegg.pl)
Send personalized keyword searches to your newsreader. Search the web, news, blogs and more. The news sources and aggregators identified are: BBC, NewsisFree, FeedsFarm, Google News, IceRocket News, NewsTrove News, RocketNews, Topix.net, FindArticles, Wired, Findory, Yahoo News, MSN News, Moreover, Go Articles, Highbeam.

4. “Most comprehensive index of popularly tracked categories” – Trackle (http://www.trackle.com)
Receive keyword matches on the web, in your email or by RSS. Select the “News and Politics” category to query headline, local, global and topical news sources.

5. USNPL Newspaper Search – (http://is.gd/4eoOV)
Formulate advanced search queries, just as you would at a major search engine, to retrieve results from all newspapers at this site. There’s no RSS feature.

6. “A Top 10 online newspaper destination” – Topix (http://topix.net)
There doesn’t seem to be a convenient RSS feed, so you’ll have to make your own. Create your RSS feed for this site with the URL:

http://www.topix.net/search/article?xml=1&q=%22keyword%22

Replace the term “keyword” with your word or phrase and paste the URL in your newsreader.

7. Real-Time conversation monitoring – Twitter (http://twitter.com)
Select users to follow, or track mentions of your keywords and receive updates by RSS. Other applications offer alternative ways of viewing results and more rapid returns than email, if you’re monitoring in the application. See Monitter (http://www.monitter.com) and TweetDeck (http://tweetdeck.com). These services use the Twitter search engine but the Twitter search (http://search.twitter.com) is more robust, and that’s also viewable in your newsreader. But this searches the postings not the Bio or Name fields. For that see Using Google’s New Features to Get Twitter Information (http://is.gd/4eo3F).

October 9th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 9, 2009

ThompsonPI: RT @lsuttell: "Pretexing, Legal Ethics and Social Media" http://is.gd/45Mok 1. Don’t talk to rep. parties. 2. Don’t impersonate gov. agent!
2009-10-09 01:35:59 · Reply · View
October 4th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 4, 2009

ThompsonPI: New blog post: Finding, Skip Tracing and Locating Women – Tip #2 pibuzz.com/2009/10/03/findingwomen2
2009-10-03 23:43:56 · Reply · View
October 3rd, 2009

Finding, Skip Tracing and Locating Women – Tip #2

In tip #1 of Finding, Skip Tracing and Locating Women I mentioned one free people finder site and the wildcard tool that can bypass the last name requirement — most helpful in locating women who are probate beneficiaries, potential witnesses in a legal matter or the birth mother of someone relinquished for adoption long ago.

There are many Internet sites for identifying current last names of women — searching by first name only — for whom the investigator may only have a birth name or former married name. Each site returns different results so you’ll want to use more than one, if at first you don’t find what you’re looking for.

At the site, classmates.com, I performed a similar search to the one I did in tip #1, except that there’s no field to restrict the results by year of birth or full birthdate. In that case, I entered just the first name and a state. The results give last names and birth names and the name of the school with the attendance years. You can use this to narrow the birth year. The tip #1 search site returned 17 matches. I supplied first name, age and state. Classmates returned 67 matches associated with first name and state. Very few of these matched the age of the subject, based on the listed graduation years. It’s a limited source but still supplements other sites.

Do you have a favorite website or database that allows searching by first name?

October 3rd, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 3, 2009

ThompsonPI: Expand your due diligence investigations. Free state and federal case search. Registration req. to view case details. http://is.gd/3UKEf
2009-10-03 18:53:13 · Reply · View
ThompsonPI: Skip tracing? Heir or adoption locates? Finding, Skip Tracing and Locating Women – Tip #1 pibuzz.com/2009/10/03/findingwomen-1/
2009-10-03 18:10:08 · Reply · View
October 3rd, 2009

Finding, Skip Tracing and Locating Women – Tip #1

Anyone who finds people for a living, as private investigators do, knows the frustration of locating women. They change their names. Often many times over the course of their lives. This is a challenge to the heir finder who has a name from many years in the past that she has to update in order to locate her subject.

Use the free portion of a people finder site that allows you to search by first name and date of birth. But you also have to use a workaround on sites that require a last name to perform the search. This involves the handy wildcard. In this case, we’ll apply the asterisk.

At the site peoplefinders.com enter a first name in that field and an asterisk (*) in the last name field. Add date of birth or year of birth. This will work until the search interface is changed — which may happen just as soon as the powers that be see this tip!

That’s tip #1 in Finding, Skip Tracing and Locating Women. Do you know of other sites where a skip trace by first name can be performed?

October 1st, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of October 1, 2009

kelvynanderson: Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 30, 2009:

Leoramaccabee: @PIbuzz Thanks Lori!
2009.. http://bit.ly/1QzUFP

2009-10-01 06:25:43 · Reply · View
October 1st, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of October 1, 2009

ThompsonPI: Associate a name with a location by entering the name and region in the name field on the Facebook search field.
2009-10-01 20:28:36 · Reply · View
ThompsonPI: As predicted, Facebook has eliminated regional networks for new users. You can still search for a name and see the associated network.
2009-10-01 20:18:36 · Reply · View
September 30th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 30, 2009

Leoramaccabee: @PIbuzz Thanks Lori!
2009-09-30 20:22:32 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: @Leoramaccabee re:false Facebook page: the Pl. could prevail in a civil suit, which the government couldn’t in a criminal one (Lori Drew).
2009-09-30 19:21:00 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: @timheidecker Searching a CA vehicle plate number is only admissible as part of a report, not as a stand alone product.
2009-09-30 18:41:58 · Reply · View
kelvynanderson: Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 29, 2009:

PIbuzz: Los Angeles Metrolink commuter r.. http://bit.ly/11JFvi

2009-09-30 07:12:39 · Reply · View
September 29th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 29, 2009

PIbuzz: Los Angeles Metrolink commuter rail accidents and fatalities, 1993-2008, includes victim names. http://is.gd/3NOkR
2009-09-30 03:58:46 · Reply · View
September 25th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 25, 2009

kelvynanderson: Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 24, 2009:

EaglePiServices: RT @icupkn: RT @PIbuzz:.. http://bit.ly/l2XLX

2009-09-25 07:30:39 · Reply · View
September 24th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 24, 2009

EaglePiServices: RT @icupkn: RT @PIbuzz: California court disagrees w. City Atty: private investigator surveillance …. http://is.gd/3DAaa #pilife
2009-09-24 22:10:54 · Reply · View
AlliedCentral: RT @icupkn: RT @PIbuzz: California court disagrees with City Attorney: PI surveillance does not a paparazzi make. http://is.gd/3DAaa
2009-09-24 21:19:34 · Reply · View
icupkn: RT @PIbuzz: California court disagrees with City Attorney: private investigator surveillance does not a paparazzi make. http://is.gd/3DAaa
2009-09-24 20:37:55 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: 10 Ways to Improve Your Courthouse Research – extra emphasis on historical records. http://is.gd/3DBet
2009-09-24 19:13:29 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: California court disagrees with City Attorney: private investigator surveillance does not a paparazzi make. http://is.gd/3DAaa
2009-09-24 18:56:38 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: The Wisconsin FOIC top 10 list of what public record requesters want travels well in any state. http://is.gd/3Dz8H
2009-09-24 18:42:54 · Reply · View
kelvynanderson: Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 23, 2009:

PIbuzz: @sarahterrycobo When otherwise yo.. http://bit.ly/GsWi0

2009-09-24 06:28:46 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: Researching doctors? 60% medical students unprofessional online; 39% depict intoxication – survey of 1/2 of med schools http://is.gd/3CAFp
2009-09-24 06:22:43 · Reply · View
September 24th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of September 24, 2009

ThompsonPI: Researching doctors? 60% medical students unprofessional online; 39% depict intoxication – survey of 1/2 of med schools http://is.gd/3CAFp
2009-09-24 06:22:44 · Reply · View
September 23rd, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 23, 2009

PIbuzz: @sarahterrycobo When otherwise you can’t find someone Twitter may be a useful electronic forum to get thru the 6 degrees of separation.
2009-09-24 06:17:18 · Reply · View
richards1000: @PIbuzz Thanks for RT
2009-09-23 23:19:43 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: RT @richards1000: Conference: on legal & ethical issues in Social Networks. http://j.mp/XV4zz Oct 23 Berkeley CA
2009-09-23 19:52:25 · Reply · View
PrvtEyes: RT @PIbuzz: CA employment lawyers: Will you call Gov. to veto AB 943 (prohibiting employers obtaining credit reports)? http://is.gd/3BABW
2009-09-23 18:26:23 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: California employment lawyers: Will you call Gov. to veto AB 943 (prohibiting employers obtaining credit reports)? http://is.gd/3BABW Pls RT
2009-09-23 18:24:01 · Reply · View
olevia: Want to know what your favorite state employee (or even, in few cases, librarian) makes? Pibuzz.com has your links here http://bit.ly/zkFUP
2009-09-23 18:10:57 · Reply · View
kelvynanderson: Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 22, 2009:

PIbuzz: @resourceshelf Not many salary da.. http://bit.ly/10mSUw

2009-09-23 07:30:49 · Reply · View
September 22nd, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 22, 2009

PIbuzz: @resourceshelf Not many salary databases listed at the news sites. More local, county, school and state links at pibuzz.com/government-pay
2009-09-23 00:53:22 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: Open Book Pittsburgh is a searchable database of Pittsburgh, PA city government contracts and campaign contributions. openbookpittsburgh.com
2009-09-23 00:39:19 · Reply · View
kelvynanderson: Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 21, 2009:

PIbuzz: @EllenNaylor re: Alltop news aggr.. http://bit.ly/TlZFI

2009-09-22 06:25:01 · Reply · View
September 21st, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 21, 2009

PIbuzz: @EllenNaylor re: Alltop news aggregator. I seem to get better results at meehive.com building a personalized newspaper. What do you think?
2009-09-21 19:01:08 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: RT @fyiscreening: RT @MollyDiBi: It Ain’t Private If You Post It On the Internet http://ff.im/-8kQ01. Added to diigo.com/user/tamarathompson
2009-09-21 18:55:34 · Reply · View
kelvynanderson: Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 20, 2009:

PIbuzz: Journalists on Twitter: http://mu.. http://bit.ly/2KOAAs

2009-09-21 06:34:18 · Reply · View
September 21st, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Internet Research as of September 21, 2009

ThompsonPI: Facebook.com/search to ID by co. or school even if that’s not one of their networks. Select "people", then "filter". Leave "search" blank.
2009-09-21 18:41:57 · Reply · View
ThompsonPI: @robhester re: "majority … have privacy expectations" Privacy settings on Facebook assumed to work ,but a court can mandate disclosure :)
2009-09-21 03:09:16 · Reply · View
September 20th, 2009

Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 20, 2009

PIbuzz: Journalists on Twitter: http://muckrack.com
2009-09-21 03:24:55 · Reply · View
PIbuzz: Defamatory comments posted on Facebook land posters in court. School seeks monetary damages from a mocking student. http://is.gd/3uZPq
2009-09-20 22:17:29 · Reply · View
kelvynanderson: Twitter Tweets about Private Investigator as of September 19, 2009:

bhaven: RT @PIbuzz: RT @PrivacyLaw: “Cali.. http://bit.ly/2BY0v6

2009-09-20 07:23:28 · Reply · View