Do you know of ways to collect information from web discussion
boards, to be later analysed using suitable qual-software?
If I wished to collect a lot of messages or everything from a single
discussion system, I would probably program some kind of
spider/harvester to collect the info automatically.
If the idea is to collect info from many different forums while
browsing the net, maybe something like google notebook
(http://www.google.com/notebook/ ) or
clipmarks ( http://www.clipmarks.com/ )
or some orher, perhaps self-made ajax/ browser plugin type of gizmo
could do the trick.
Or maybe simply just some copy-paste -scheme would be suffficient for
many purposes.
Any other ideas?
How about clues for analysing the discussions? In atlas/ti -terms:
what do you think would be the "primary document"? One posting, or a
thread? Or is there some special tricks / programs for just this type
of data? Google notebooks seems to offer tools for "coding on the
fly".
-Timo Harmo
Computing Coordinator, Fac of Soc Sci, U of Helsinki. Tel 358 09
191 24915
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