Hacking History. Hacking History One of the primary places computer hacking originated was at MIT during the late Fifties and Sixties. A group of students, many of who came from the Tech Model Railroad Club (which had an incredibly complicated switching system for its model railroad) were able to use a couple MIT computers very late at night. So they started to write programs. Showing how hierarchical computer access was, one computer (an IBM 704 worth several millions) was guarded by a group of people who were called "The Priesthood. " Students were not even allowed to touch it! As computer time was so valuable, hackers developed the ethic of not wasting it.
It was based on early hackers, like at MIT, that Steven Levy developed the "Hacker Ethic" in his landmark 1984 book: The key word in the first statement is "access. " The power behind the second statement is that it calls for "all" information to be free, not just some. Hackers did not like large bureaucracies like IBM. How To Recognize Great Content Curation: Curating Curators. (Thanks to Giuseppe Mauriello for finding this deck) Dilbert characters are talking about content curation.. Scoop.It one of the premiere content creation tools is now out beta.
In my own curation of content, I’m discovering many more content curators out there. Everyone can be a content curator! That prompted Robin Good, a master curator, to ask “How do we distinguish good curation from bad?” • Optimizes • Edits • Formats • Selects • Excerpts • Writes • Classifies • Links • Personalizes • Vets • Credits • Filters • Taps • Suggests • Searches • Scouts • Hacks Filters and Searches • Is Transparent • Recommends • Crowdsources One best practice of good curators that Robin identifies and that I find very useful in my own curation practice, is to have a small group of trusted curators on your topic that you follow.
I think a great curator is a good listener and a keen observer who selects content that “speaks to the audience’s listening”. Does your nonprofit use content curation? Enter the Digital Curator: Information Constantly Rushes Past Us, And.
Origen término y controversia. The Content Strategist as Digital Curator | www.alistapart.com | Readability. The term “curate” is the interactive world’s new buzzword. During content creation and governance discussions, client pitches and creative brainstorms, I’ve watched this word gain traction at almost warp speed. As a transplant from museums and libraries into interactive media, I can’t help but ask what is it about this word that deserves redefinition for the web? Article Continues Below Curation has a distinguished history in cultural institutions. For a long time, we’ve considered digital objects such as articles, slideshows, and video to be short-lived. Consider some examples: NYTimes.com Topics employs content managers who sift through The Times’ archive to create new meaning by grouping articles and resources that were filed away (or distributed to library databases).
More commercially, NBC Universal’s video site Hulu takes videos sourced from multiple networks and then rearranges them into collections that give a new perspective to the collection as a whole. What’s the payoff? International Journal of Digital Curation.