The document discusses various strategies and tools for appropriating technology, including Google Refine for cleaning up messy data, URL hacking to find additional pages on websites, using search operators like "site:" and "inurl:" to limit searches, and tools like Gephi and tag explorers for visualizing and analyzing networks. It also emphasizes understanding the context you're working in and ensuring the technology you use is appropriate to your goals and situation.

1. Appropriating Technology
Tony Hirst
Dept of Communication and Systems
The Open University

2. “Navigating the new normal -
strategies for success”

3. Sensemaking
Mechanics

4. Do you know
what’s
possible?

7. Google Refine

8. URL
hacking

9. Googling for an Amazon press release on
google.co.uk turned up a way in to Amazon’s UK
media relations site:
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/press/pr/20080710 as
well a page on the central US site:
phx.corporate-
ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?ID=1565581&c=176060&p
=irol-newsArticle, a third party (?) hosted site
with Amazon branding: phx.corporate-
ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-
mediaHome&c=176060.

10. inurl:http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?
intitle:press
site:phx.corporate-ir.net

11. (You might think that the use of site: is
redundant given the first inurl: limit. I
hit upon using it like that as a result of
clicking on the “More results from this
site” option from one of my initial
search attempts… It seems to override
the collapsing of multiple results on a
single domain…)
http://bit.ly/kfxYXX

12. What context
are you working
in?

13. http://www.nagps.org/files/FRPAA%20and%20
open%20access_0.pdf
http://bit.ly/st1cbu

15. Gephi

23. http://mashe.hawksey.info/2011/10/g
uardian-tag-explorer/
http://bit.ly/qtfTgy

24. Your home page is the landing page…

26. http://bit.ly/s5pNZ4

29. Document Types

30. http://bit.ly/cTtmx0

32. Appropiate IT

33. blog.ouseful.info
@psychemedia