The Curation Economy And The Three Cs Of Information Commerce Several years ago I had the privilege of working with Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation. Back then Steve was already vested in the future of online curation and his grande conquête was playing out with Magnify.net, a realtime video curation network. At the time, he was also a staple at some of the tech industry's most renown conferences sharing his vision for social, video, and curated content. As Steve was completing his new book, he asked if I would write the foreword. At the time I was finalizing the new version of Engage! I share this digital foreword with you here… The Curation Economy and The 3C's of Information Commerce I always appreciate when a very complex and important subject is simplified to ease understanding. Forrester Research tracked how people adopt and use social technologies through its Technographics research. Creating original content, consistently over time, is daunting. The Rise of Short-form Content Creators Let me explain. Welcome to a Curation Nation
News curation: finally, social media's killer app? FORTUNE -- Even the most casual social network user will admit that the Facebook or Twitter experience can be overwhelming -- that merciless stream of status updates and shared content, which sometimes feels less like a stream and more like a deluge, waits for no man, woman, or Web crawler. Of course, there's good reason to feel that way: Facebookers share 30-billion plus pieces of information each month, and Twitter users output 1 billion tweets weekly. There's a tremendous amount of digital information floating around and few great solutions for filtering it, making sense of it, and consuming it. That's changing. Nicholas Negroponte foreshadowed the current state of things back in 1995 with the "Daily Me," a customized news experience, but it's only been over the last 18 months that his idea has manifested itself via mainstream products and services. They all work differently. That same concept is at the core of the Twitter-focused start-up Sulia. More from Fortune:
The Age of Curation: Video Q&As with Ian Katz, Matt Williams and Steve Rosenbaum at SXSW 2011 SXSW is a massive gathering of the world’s content creators, the folks who craft and market the media we consume on and offline each day. But with all this content, someone has to sort the wheat from the chaff. We spoke to The Guardian’s Ian Katz, Digg’s Matt Williams and author Steve Rosenbaum about the emerging art of content curation. Ian Katz, the deputy editor of British newspaper of record the Guardian, says his boss hates the word “curation.” Whenever someone uses the art-y term in the context of editorial content, Katz explained, they seem to feel the need to surround it with finger quotes. But whether you want to call it aggregating, curating, or simply old-fashioned editing, how we sift through the ever-growing digital trove of professionally produced and user-generated content seemed to be on everyone’s mind at this year’s SXSW. After the session, I asked Katz to expand on the role curation plays in the new journalistic age: Related
Is This the World’s Best Twitter Account? Yesterday morning NPR’s Andy Carvin took a break from running one of the world’s best Twitter accounts to explain what it’s like to be a living, breathing real-time verification system. “All of this is more art than science,” he said. In truth, it sounds equal parts exhilarating and exhausting. As has been repeatedly detailed in other places, Carvin is the NPR senior strategist who transformed his Twitter feed into a must-read newswire about the changes taking place in the Arab world. There are few established rules or journalistic policies for what he does. Yet, when following his work on Twitter, Carvin seems in total control of the onslaught of information. Prodding his followers to help him understand the context of a video: Sharing information while noting its unconfirmed status: Asking his followers to check in on the status of a fellow Twitter user: Challenging a report in order to move towards verification: Passing along a report from one of his sources on the ground:
Our lives are digital curation tools As our lives become increasingly digital curation tools can provide a good way to document our activities, capturing a snapshot of key events and moments. For example, the South by South West Interactive conference that took place in Austin, Texas attracted a lot of people, sharing lots of ideas, conversations, product launches, and more. Take at look at MobyNow’s real-time aggregation of all the social media at SXSW and you’ll see what I mean, the masses of tweets, photos, etc. And that’s what aggregation is good at — finding everything that’s relevant or related is easy. But aggregation isn’t that great at documenting a unique experience of an event such as SXSW in digital form. Curation can help to create a specific snapshot. For example: In the future, kids might ask “What did grandpa do at SXSW in 2011?” However, if grandpa had curated his time at SXSW using some of the many digital curation tools available, the answer would be much richer and much more interesting.
Can 'Curation' Save Media? 3 Reasons Curation is Here to Stay Perhaps you won't believe me since it's my job to spread the gospel of curation as the Chief Evangelist of Pearltrees, but I think curation is here to stay. These are the reasons why I believe this is the case. This year there has been a tremendous amount of buzz in Silicon Valley about curation. Magnify.net CEO Steven Rosenbaum recently published a book, Curation Nation that has sparked a tremendous amount of conversation on the topic. Likewise a post by Brian Solis has been retweeted thousands of times. Oliver Starr is the Chief Evangelist for Pearltrees. With all the attention curation has suddenly received, people are probably wondering if this is just another fad or is it something bigger? First, curation is one of the underlying principles of the Web. Allow anyone to access any type of documentAllow everyone to disseminate his or her own documentsAllow everyone to organize the entire collection of documents The graphic above illustrates this process of democratization.
First Meeting Of SFCurators Salon... Posted by Tom Foremski - April 15, 2011 Last Thursday was the inaugural meeting of SFCurators Salon in North Beach and I couldn't be more happier about the turnout (see below). I set up the group with my colleague Oliver Starr as a place where like-minded people could discuss the topic of curation, which has become a hot topic this year as search falters, and as curation tools and services come out of beta and into more mainstream use. (Please see: Pearltrees Reaches Key Milestones: Largest Curation Community - SVW) The meeting was held in Specs', a bar that happens to also be a funky museum. This was the stomping ground for the Beatnicks, and some myths even locate the origin of the name to Specs'. As people started to arrive we sat around one of the large round tables at the back of the bar and got straight into a fascinating discussion of curation and what it means. I liked the format: instead of listening to a guest speaker we got to listen to each other. Here are my co-founders:
The Winnowing Oar | Thoughts on working and learning in a networked environment Tweet First, Verify Later? Real-time web, Social Media Curation and Verification « nicoblog maggio 5, 2011 alle 1:28 pm | Pubblicato su Il nuovo mondo | 11 commenti Here it is the research project I’ve worked on during my fellowship at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in Oxford Download PDF Summary by RISJ Nicola Bruno, an Italian journalist specialising in digital media and technology and its effect on journalism, has written a fascinating research paper on how mainstream media used social media in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. In his study entitled, ‘Tweet first , verify later? How is the Twitter effect changing the coverage of crisis events around the world? Nicola focuses his attention on the online coverage of the Haiti Earthquake in three mainstream online media outlets: bbc.com, Guardian.co.uk, and cnn.com. Mi piace: Mi piace Caricamento...