Keeping Up with Blogs through Google

Google recently relaunched an upgraded version of its Blog Search. If you want to track what blogs are saying about a certain issue, conflict, or other topic, run a search, then scroll to the bottom of the results page. There, you will find options to create an email alert or subscribe to an RSS feed for those results.

Keeping Up with Human Rights Developments

December 10 is Human Rights Day. To stay informed about human rights developments around the world, sign up for a selection of RSS/email alerts, such as:

Amnesty International RSS feeds (offered by type of information)

Asian Human Rights Commission email lists (by information type, country or language)

Fédération Internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme RSS feeds (offered by type of information)

Human Rights Watch RSS feeds (offered by theme and region)

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights mailing list

E-mail Alerts

Content providers have long offered e-mail alerts to notify interested users about the availability of new resources. Examples of information you might receive by e-mail include:

- tables of contents for refugee journals like OUP's Refugee Survey Quarterly
- newsletters from organizations like the Refugee Council that describe their activities and new publications
- postings to electronic discussion lists like forced-migration
- new book titles from publishers like Berghahn Books

The downside of e-mail alerts is the effort required to manage them and keep them organized.