#calishat — Public Fediverse posts

Calishat: Search by Year (1995+) and State News Sources: Peabody Search. “I made Peabody Search, named after Mr. Peabody and his Wayback Machine. He could set his time machine to go to a particular year and place, and that’s what this tool does as well (though it’s restricted to US states.) Peabody Search walks you through the process of setting the query, selecting the years, choosing a […]

Calishat: Digging Out From The Deluge of AI News And Turning It Into Another Newsletter. “For the last few months assembling ResearchBuzz has been increasingly frustrating. AI news was crowding out most of the other categories and I felt like the newsletter itself was getting much too AI-heavy. Things finally came to a head when I found myself with a 6200-item RSS backlog and 50 articles in my […]

Calishat: Exploring “War-Torn” Portland With Local Search America. “Local Search America is free to use and free of advertising. In this article I’m going to walk you through its three tools to find local TV stations, government agencies, and institutions of higher learning near Portland and search their Web sites.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/28/calishat-exploring-war-torn-portland-with-local-search-america/

Calishat: Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader Updated and Now Available. “The Temporary Obsessions RSS Feed Reader is a Google Sheets-based tool that lets you schedule your RSS feeds and give them expiration dates. I have used TOFR for monitoring breaking news topics over the short-term, scheduling feeds in advance for a known business-/stock- related deadline, and to ‘audition’ keywords I […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/12/calishat-temporary-obsessions-rss-feed-reader-updated-and-now-available/

Calishat: Local Search America: Search the Web by DMA. “Today I finished creating Local Search America, a new way to create specific search spaces for authoritative institutions in American DMAs… Enter a city and state and Local Search America identifies the television stations and government agencies which serve that area as well as the institutions of higher education in that area. Up to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/06/local-search-america-search-the-web-by-dma-calishat/

Calishat: ResearchBuzz Firehose Turns 10. “I started ResearchBuzz in 1998 after finishing the 2nd edition of Official Netscape Guide to Internet Research. As time went by I started feeling the lack of organization. I was linking to and looking at lots and lots of resources, but I was posting them in aggregate newsletters which made specific resources tough to find. I spent some time thinking […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/22/calishat-researchbuzz-firehose-turns-10/

Calishat: VibesMasto Gets an Overhaul and a Web Version. “Saturday I dug out the VibesMasto News Monitor so I could monitor news about the protests around the country. It was very useful but it also made me cringe. I first made this tool about two years ago when I knew a lot less about JavaScript, and its code is CRUSTY. Uncrusting it became yesterday’s priority. Now there’s a overhauled […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/21/calishat-vibesmasto-gets-an-overhaul-and-a-web-version/