Tara Calishain

A collection of hand-curated and verified GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) RSS feeds

A full-page news monitor with different sections for an RSS feed, trending Mastodon links and hashtags, and posts from any Mastodon hashtags you want to monitor. Meant to cast to / display on a second screen.

Over 900 higher education-related RSS feeds

Rips links from Mastodon instance timelines and shows them to you in aggregate. Includes simple keyword and time filters.

A bookmarklet that makes it easy to follow Mastodon users on different instances.

Enter a list of hashtags to monitor and Mastodon instances, and MSS makes a plain, full-screen display that updates every 90 seconds.

Quick tool for getting old Twitter snapshots from the Wayback Machine

A simple tool for making a dozen different keyword-based RSS feeds

A search filter for building date-based searches on a variety of news search resources, including Google News, Google Books, and Newspapers.com

A simple Google filter for removing as much ecommerce content as possible.

A filter to search the Twitterspace of current members of the US Senate. You can filter by generation, gender, party, Zodiac sign, number of votes missed, etc.

A tool for generating name variants and searching for them on Google, Google Books, Google Scholar, and Internet Archive

A Google search filter that excludes the common name formatting of "Firstname Lastname" in search results, instead flipping the name search.

Get past site:edu with Department of Education college information that allows you to narrowly target university Web space.

Bookmarklet which forces Google to do its search date-limited to two-days before today.

Quick n' dirty search of the Instance.Social API by keyword of both name and description. You'll need a key.

A Google Search interface to quickly eliminate recent news from a Google News search.

Moved to SearchGizmos.com

Google's search results are different depending on the order of the query words. Search shuffle takes a query of up to 4 words and creates Google search URLs for all possible query combinations.

Scans Wikipedia categories and generates a list and pie chart of the gender breakdown.

Pulls birth/death dates from Wikipedia and generates lifepan-limited searches for several media search engines.

Create RSS feeds with expiration dates in the title

A targeted search filter to find like-minded people and pages via Google and Twitter.

Add sitting congresspeople to your Google News search

A platform using the ProPublica Congress API to build Google queries for congressional Twitter space. Covers congresses 112-117.

A Google search filter that adds a "sinker" to a standard query - a search term that's used until Google's search query limit of 32 is reached.

A Google search filter for digging deep into old blogging results.

A Google filter for searching recently created blog content, with an option to review the same search for content from 1, 3, 5, 10, and 15 years ago.

Search the Twitter space of a state's congressional representatives.

A search interface that uses the Geocodify API to make location-based Twitter search easy.

A topical search tool for Google

A tool that uses Wikipedia page view counts to find potentially-newsworthy dates for Wikipedia article subjects

Search for higher education institutions by zip code radius and then explore their TwitterSpace.

Config files for my GitHub profile.