Content Discovery Tools - Good Tools #13

80+ places and tools where to find news, content, data.

Hello and welcome back to a new edition of Good Tools dedicated to Content Discovery tools and sources.

This new curated collection has required more research and vetting work, but I hope you will find it useful for your research, writing and content marketing needs.

In this issue:

1. News Discovery (mainstream)

2. News Aggregators

3. Knowledge Sharing Communities

4. Content Discovery Tools

5. OER Open Educational Resources

6. Public Data Sets

7. Research / Scientific Data

For those who want to dig deeper in this direction, I have put together an advanced premium toolkit that includes six additional categories and hundreds of useful sources and tools: The Content Finder Toolkit.

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The Content Finder Toolkit

All of the resources found in this content discovery collection plus 150 more, organized in a structured and easy-to-access toolkit format. Specifically:

• Newsletter Directories

• Images, Icons, Cutouts Libraries

• Free Music and Sound Sources

• Top Sources To Discover New Tools / Apps

• Quotes and Citations Sources

• Films and Documentaries

• Alternative Search Engines

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How To Get It

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N.B.: To have a voice in the theme of tools I chose to research each time, please scroll to the end of this newsletter and vote the poll asking what topics/tools interest you the most.

Robin Good

Top Content Discovery Sources & Tools

1) Top News Sources (Mainstream)

• NYT

• WSJ

• FT

• BBC

• CNN

• ABC News

• NBC News

• CBS News

• MSN News

• Reuters

• AP

• PBS

• The Guardian

• AlJazeera

• Top World News Sources
  a curated collection of mainstream trusted by Inoreader

2) Top News Aggregators

• Google News

• Apple News

• Bing News

• Yahoo News

• Flipboard
  News aggregator, search and curation tool.
  100% free

• AllTop
  All of the top news and information in real time on one page

• AllSides
  News and views from different sides

• Upstract
  All news sources on one-page

• The Brutalist Report
  360° news scan across categories

• NewsNow

  • NewsNow US

  • NewsNow UK

  • NewsNow Canada

  • NewsNow Italia

  • NewsNow Romania

  • NewsNow Nigeria

• WN World News

• PressReader (paid)
  more than 7,000 top publications from around the globe

• Techmeme

• Mediagazer

• Memeorandum.com

• DesignerNews

• eScience News

3) Knowledge Sharing Communities

• Reddit
  Online forum allows users with similar interests to share and discuss news, content, and ideas organized by thousands of communities called subreddits.
  100% free

• Quora
  Online forum where anyone can ask questions and receive answers from experts and the general community.
  100% free

• X - Twitter
  Virtual bulletin board where people can post quick thoughts, news, and links to interesting content. Great source for breaking news and real-time updates on events.
  Free.

• LinkedIN
  Virtual meeting place to connect with colleagues, build relationships, and expand your professional circle based on user detailed profiles showcasing their professional experience, education, skills, and accomplishments. Users can share articles, blog posts, and other professional content and LinkedIn groups allow you to join communities around specific industries, companies, or interests.

  Free.

• Glasp
  Community of knowledge curators saving and highlighting quality resources across topics and themes. Great interface and usability. Founded by Kazuki Nakayashiki and Kei Watanabe.
  100% Free.

• Sublime
  Knowledge sharing community originally inspired by Web3, crypto and startups (Startupy.world) founded by sari azout. Rapidly evolving.
  Waiting list.

4) Content Discovery Tools

• Feedly
  Content discovery engine, RSS feed reader and aggregator with AI-assisted advanced filtering capabilities. Can track websites that have no public RSS feeds.
  Offers large library of ready-made news feeds on thousands of topics.
  Free version.

• Inoreader
  Content discovery engine, RSS feed reader and aggregator. Can track and monitor websites as well as Facebook Pages, Telegram channels, Mastodon and Reddit feeds. News alerts. Keyword monitoring across 30 languages.
  Free version.

• Start.me
  Personal media aggregator, monitors RSS feeds, published structured pages with curated resources, links and feeds. Offers 10K+ ready-made news feeds on specific topics.
  Free version.

• Panda
  Free news/RSS reader. Great design. Multiple layouts.
  100% free.

• Pocket
  Content discovery engine. Collections of selected articles on many topics.
  Saves any content or article so that it can be read later.
  Free version. Pro starts at $4.99/mo.

1. Scoop.it
   Content discovery and curation platform.
   Free and paid versions (starting at $14.99).

2. UpContent (paid)
   Content discovery, search, planning and distribution.
   Free trial. Starts at $95/mo.

3. ContentStudio (paid)
   Content discovery, social media planning and content distribution.
   Free trial. Starts at $25/mo.

4. DrumUp (paid)
   Discovers relevant content, schedules and publishes/distributes it to your preferred platforms.
   Free and paid versions (starting at $15/mo).

5. BuzzSumo (paid)
   Find trending content, mentions, articles on topic.
   Archive of 8B+ international articles.
   Free trial. Starts at $199/mo.

5) Public Data Sets

• Awesome Directory of Public Open Datasets
  List of topic-centric public data sources in high quality. They are collected and tidied from blogs, answers, and user responses. 140+ contributors. Updated.

• Google Public Data Explorer
  Public data and forecasts from international organizations and academic institutions including the World Bank, OECD, Eurostat and more.

• Google Dataset Search
  Search engine for datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.

• Google Cloud Public Data Sets
  200+ public data sets.

• Google Trends
  Analyzes the popularity of top search queries in Google Search across time and across various regions and languages.

• Crunchbase
  Business information about private and public companies.

• Kaggle
  Huge repository of community-published models and data with 270K+ open public datasets.

• Amazon Public Data Sets
  Web app to help people discover and share datasets that are available via AWS resources (490+).

• AWS Data Exchange
  Service that makes it easy for customers to find, subscribe to, and use third-party data in the AWS Cloud.

• Tableau Free Public Data Sets
  Free data sets on Social Impact, Climate, Government and Education useful for those looking to learn how to analyze data and boost their data literacy skills.

• Statista
  Global data and business intelligence platform provides statistics, market research, and industry reports and gathers data from over 22,500 sources across 170 industries and 150+ countries.

• Golden Datasets
  Data on Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, Biotech, Blockchain/Crypto, Corporate Innovation, Educational Institutes, Academic Papers.

• 100+ Interesting Data Sets for Statistics
  Extravagant collection of over 100 data sets across a widde range of topics.

• Github Curated Core Datasets
  130+ essential open data sets.

• Data.Gov (for US)
  280K+ open public data sets published by the US government.

• Census (for US)
  600+ census data sets for USA.

• Datahub
  Open data-sets collections on Climate, Broadband, Stock Market,

  Reference, Machine Learning, Economy, Movies and TV and Education.

• HealthData
  Research institute working in the area of global health statistics and impact evaluation at the University of Washington. 130+ datasets.

6) Scientific Data

• Google Scholar
  Freely accessible search engine that specifically focuses on academic resources and scholarly literature (It indexes the full text or metadata of academic articles, books, conference proceedings, theses, and other scholarly publications across multiple disciplines.)

• Pubmed
  Free search engine, provides access to the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. It is maintained by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US and is considered a leading resource for scientific literature in these fields

• Academia
  Freemium online platform for sharing and discovering academic research across various disciplines. It functions as a social network for academics where they can

  upload and share their research and showcase their research interests and expertise.

• Researchgate
  Professional social networking site and academic profile platform specifically designed for scientists and researchers. It facilitates the sharing of research publications, collaboration, and discovery of relevant research content

• OpenKnowledgeMaps
  A visual interface to the world's scientific knowledge

• Consensus
  AI-assisted search engine for scientific data

• Golden
  Discovery tool helps to research and track info on specific topics including companies, investment funds, cryptocurrencies, crypto projects, people, and more.

• The Global Economy
  Business and economic data for 200 countries

• Connected Paper
  Explore academic papers in a visual graph

7) OER - Open Educational Resources

OER are freely and publicly available teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.

• Open Textbooks for All Subjects

  Online textbook library and learning resources

• OER Commons Collections
  15K+ learning resources organized by topic

• OER Content and Materials Index
  OER resources organized by subjects and materials

• OER Resources Sources
  Comprehensive catalog of all OER content sources and types

• Unpaywall
  Open database of 48,844,709 free scholarly articles

• OCW Courses Catalog

  7000+ OpenCourseWare Courses from Top Institutions

• OpenLearn (The Open University)
  hundreds of free courses

• MIT OpenCourseWare

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The Content Finder Toolkit, is a unique collection of 100% free content discovery tools, that includes over 500 resources and tools:

• free sources of images, videos

• free sources of music and sounds

• top alternative search engines to Google

• top directories where to find topic-specific newsletters

• top sources to discover new tools and apps

• top sources for quotes and citations

• top sources to search and find films and documentaries

• + all the resources you have found in this issue

I guarantee you that there’s no other resource online like this one.

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Robin Good