Govcom.org software

• Infoid.org - Web issue index of civil society.
• Eit - Election issuetracker of the dutch elections 2003.

The next couple of tools will be available as modules in the new software being developed. They are not updated anymore.

• Google news scraper - Get googlenews output for multiple queries , without layout, tab separated.
  • Instructions of use
• Scrape google - Get google output without layout, tab separated, for multiple queries.
• Query blog engines - Get the results without layout, tab separated, for multiple queries.

Other software

• Peter Monge, the authority on social networking, has made a list of good software to do social networking. He has put us as the best on the list. The list consists of:
  • ucinet
  • iknow (Noshir Contractor)
  • loglinearp* (Stanley Wasserman)
  • pajek (Vlado)
  • Multinet (Richards/Seary)
  • Centered resonance analysis (Corman)
  • Siena (Snijders)
  • issuecrawler (Rogers et al)
• another one not on the list is socsibot v3 by Mike Thelwall
• more social networking software packages and resources can be found here

• Robots exclusion - Query sites for their robot exclusion policy.
• TouchGraph visualizes networks of interrelated information. Networks are rendered as interactive graphs, which lend themselves to a variety of transformations. By engaging their visual image, a user is able to navigate through large networks, and to explore different ways of arranging the network's components on screen.