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

Chapter 4

Tom O'Malia's The Entrepreneurial Journey

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

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:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!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>
</xml>
Bowker (buying ISBNs)

Appendix

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