New taxes on coffee trade in Costa Rica has growers setting up protests against the government, claiming that, if anything, they should be subsidized, not taxed. Godfrey start tagging articles on the topic with the term "Coffee Tax Conflict". In the notes for each article, Godfrey adds a small summary of the article and his analysis of its biases.

Before trying to analyze the bigger picture, Godfrey runs the "Count Words" process that JiTR offers to him through its TAPOR connection. Running the process on the "Coffee Tax Conflict" tag, organized by chronology, he is given bar graphs that show the frequency of each word throughout the larger collection. One thing in particular catches Godfrey's eye: while mentions of the president by name go down over time, the word "spokesperson" goes up. Also, the use of the word "tax" decreases. Godfrey forms a hypothesis as to the change in reporting over time, and skimming through the articles, confirms his guess. It appears that, over time, the media began to broaden their focus onto the larger issue of government confidence, and Godfrey suspects that less of an official voice from the government is what causes the media to stray from the primary issue. He writes this observation in the "Notes" section of the "Coffee Tax Conflict" tag, and a small icon appears beside the term in his tag list, reminding him that there is a note included.

Fourth Encounter

• Godfrey and Jane have been adding items manualy and continuing to run the spider.
• Godfrey finds a couple of sites that have a lot of materials so he uses a crawler to acquire the entire sites.
• Godfrey and Jane agree on a list of tag categories to help them manage the sub-issues. Jane goes through retagging the items. She finds she can use the bulk tagging tool to change tags and she can search the repository for keywords to suggest which items should be tagged a certain way.
• When he reads each new article, Godfrey adds pointer notes about it in the "Notes Section".
• Ability to run TAPOR Tools is useful when Godfrey runs "Count Words" on a chronological collection of a specific tag. This lets him see word use over time
• Notes are also allowed for a specific tag.

• Since notes can be added to entries, tags, and the collection at large, small icons are used to easily show when there is a note attached to something.