Online tools and techniques

• Internet research usually just the start

  • follow-up email, interviews

• Static vs. dynamic pages > search engine for static, visit dynamic

• Don't reinvent the exposé.  E.g., 

  • Corporate Watch UK profiles at http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=402

  • http://www.endgame.org/

• Document document document!

• Watch for libel

  • California Anti-SLAPP Project http://www.casp.net/

• Who's monitoring your monitoring?

  • Web history: everything you do is monitoried--and that's a "service" to you!

  • Google gets worst ranking from Privacy International in 2007 survey

  • Blocking cookies helps, as does avoiding "free" services from Google and others

  • Scroogle