Fair Use of Online Content with Content Curation. Mike Jones: Now Trending... Curation. Curation has been at the core of our plan since we relaunched Myspace in November.
We saw empowering users with the tools to share information about the content they love as the next step in the social web. There are other sites that agree. YouTube and Tumblr recently launched new features that embrace curation as way of restoring editorial control to users and allowing people to follow content and topics they're interested in. Admittedly, curation is not a new activity: it's a practice we've seen across industries, from retail to film, for years. But its application on the web is growing. That's where curators come in. At Myspace, we're recognizing users who are particularly passionate about specific topics and cultural trends and cultivating communities of like-minded users. What is Content Curation?
Curation: Understanding the Social Fire Hose. As the tragic events of Oslo unfolded, so too did the importance of content curation in the social sphere.
Some interesting commentary on the reporting of the Oslo massacre by FastCompany further advances the vital role of content curators in piecing together time-lines of events as they actually unfold based on real-time tweets. Now this is nothing new. We know that social media channels, in particular Twitter, have been used for some time in contributing to ‘on the scene’ reporting by citizen journalist. It started to reach the attention of big media around the time of the student uprisings in Iran as a result of the government’s crackdown on media, and has continued ever since.
Conscious Curation « SweetMedia. Thanks to Tom Foremski and Oliver Starr for inviting me to share my thoughts on curation at last night’s salon, and to the group for a lively discussion.
This article is an expansion on the bullet points in my remarks. There is a prior post- What is Curation? - that attempts to professionalize and put some limits around the use of the word, which may be needed- lest I seriously think that I’m curating my garage next time I clean it out.- CMM Does all curation have a viewpoint? “The Curator Bias” Yes, all curation has opinion and intention- this can be conscious or unconscious. Two different curators can create vastly different views on a topic by how they frame it.
In any curation, what is omitted is as if not more important than what is included. Understand collective curation in under 90 seconds. Well whaddaya know? I’m curating content! Video Curation: An Interview with Steve Rosenbaum, CEO, Magnify.net. In the final part of my interview with web video curation expert Steve Rosenbaum, we share some recommendations for you to gather and organize rich and relevant video content from multiple sources for your website – which can improve your search visibility and link popularity, and help you be a trusted source in your area of business or professional expertise.
Video Curation Requires Planning Good curation of video content does require having a strategy. And by strategy, I mean deciding how much effort you’re going to put in doing manual research, viewing, reviewing, and vetting. Simply throwing up video content that might show up in YouTube or any search engine around keywords you’re targeting is not curation. Why do I mention that? Think of curation as a human editing function, before you can rely on any tool to take that over for you. Content Curation: The Wave of Info Gathering Future.
Our information universe is rapidly expanding as the Internet grows. At last count, there are at least 19.31 billion pages that make up the entire World Wide Web. The content that each new page produces each day is staggering - and these numbers will only continue to climb. "No problem," you think, as you set up your Google Alerts, RSS feeds, dashboards and newsletters. "I'll be able to catch all of this great content with the tools available today! " However, the problem is that this disjointed process of collecting information via different platforms, tools, and data feeds results in cluttered in-boxes and dashboards full of largely irrelevant information. Even if you feel like you're on top of all your content, chances are that you've missed some vital information nuggets. New Facebook Patent: the Huge Implications of Curated Search [Update]
Last Updated Apr 26, 2011 7:56 PM EDT For some time, Facebook has been interested in semantic search -- using its social graph and immense amount of information about its users to deliver search results.
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Some have dismissed the effort, but that's premature and doesn't take into account what Facebook could do with a new hybrid: automatically curated search. A patent granted last month to Facebook describes an approach to search that combines any type of search engine results with the popularity of each result among members of a user's social network. Although some thought the patent was on photo tags, it isn't. The implications are actually quite broad and could affect conventional search; specialty interest search topics like travel; publishing; and e-commerce; just to name a few. The patent is called Visual tags for search results generated from social network information.
Now's the time to erase the misconception. [Update: As J. Related: © 2011 CBS Interactive Inc.. The new billion-dollar opportunity: real-time-web curation - scobleizer's posterous. The Content Curation Guide for Bloggers. Content curation as a blogging model is widely misunderstood by most bloggers and marketers.
Many people would tell you that curation is about finding and posting links of related material around a certain topic or keyword. And they would be wrong if the goal was to get people and search engines to appreciate and react to said content. (And if your goal is to use curation as a means to get attention, then make money, from what you are doing.) What’s the law around aggregating news online? A Harvard Law report on the risks and the best practices.
[So much of the web is built around aggregation — gathering together interesting and useful things from around the Internet and presenting them in new ways to an audience.
It’s the foundation of blogging and social media. But it’s also the subject of much legal debate, particularly among the news organizations whose material is often what’s being gathered and presented. Kimberley Isbell of our friends the Citizen Media Law Project has assembled a terrific white paper on the current state of the law surrounding aggregation — what courts have approved, what they haven’t, and where the (many) grey areas still remain. This should be required reading for anyone interested in where aggregation and linking are headed. You can get the full version of the paper (with footnotes) here; I’ve added some links for context. During the past decade, the Internet has become an important news source for most Americans.
The Evolution of Content Curation. Curation Nation: The Rise of Content Entrepreneurs (Part 1) « Future of Media. The following is an excerpt from Curation Nation by Steven Rosenbaum, CEO of video site Magnify.net.
Curation Nation tracks the growing use of human filters for the daily info deluge overflowing our lives. Rosenbaum believes computerized curation is on its way out, and human curators are the future of media. We are publishing two excerpts from Curation Nation over the next two days, and today you’ll learn about the entrepreneurs blazing a trial for content curators.
Find out how Jon Miller of News Corp manages info overload and why his career trajectory mirrors the growth of news curation. Tomorrow we’ll publish the second excerpt from Curation Nation on this blog. I have a confession to make. I’m pretty sure that Rupert Murdoch would say I stole intellectual property. I started at a very young age. I knew they were valuable, because my mom and dad read them eagerly each day. Now, I understood that they weren’t worth the full price. Selling newspapers isn’t easy. Mr. Www.bethkanter.org/content-curation-101/ Why Curation? Brittany Morin: The Curated Web. It all started with the printing press.
The printing press was the first piece of technology that enabled information to pass rapidly to the world's people. Because of it, books and newspapers were created that inspired uprisings and cultural transformations in religion, government and society. It was at this time that the first "editors" were established to help create and and deliver information to people in their communities. Further down the line, information was distributed via media like radio, television and magazines, each meticulously curated by trusted editors in a field or community. Understand collective curation in under 90 seconds.