The Information Overload Paradox Just because there’s more information available, doesn’t mean one can consume more. Information Overload Put yourself in the shoes of a consumer right now. Just for a second. Imagine that it’s the 1950s. Now, fast forward to the late 1990′s. So, what do I think has happened? The Race to Curate Now, put on your Marketer Hat or your Content Creator Hat again and take a look at the Information Overload chart above. Now look at the blue line (the information available). That means we need to define our roles in this ever-growing world of content creation. The Opportunity So, where’s the opportunity? However, in order to be successful at this, your brand must be perceived as a completely objective brand in the marketplace. The real opportunity here, in my opinion, is to create – and curate – the best content focused on one specific area frequently enough that you become the one brand that consumers look to for this information. Note: I can’t remember where I first saw this concept.
The Winnowing Oar | Thoughts on working and learning in a networked environment Technology Provides an Alternative to Love. I was, in short, infatuated with my new device. I’d been similarly infatuated with my old device, of course; but over the years the bloom had faded from our relationship. I’d developed trust issues with my Pearl, accountability issues, compatibility issues and even, toward the end, some doubts about my Pearl’s very sanity, until I’d finally had to admit to myself that I’d outgrown the relationship. Do I need to point out that — absent some wild, anthropomorphizing projection in which my old BlackBerry felt sad about the waning of my love for it — our relationship was entirely one-sided? To speak more generally, the ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that’s indifferent to our wishes — a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance — with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self. Its first line of defense is to commodify its enemy. How does this happen?
Content Is No Longer King: Curation Is King Capitalizing On Curation: Why The New Curators Are Beating The Old Barring the invention of a "time turner" like the one Hermione Granger sported in 3rd Harry Potter novel, most of us will never have enough time to consume the information we might otherwise want to absorb. There's simply too much info and too few waking hours. Enter the notion of curation, a relatively new term that is not unlike the editor of old, a trusted person or organization that filters information and aggregates it in an organized fashion for others to enjoy. According to Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation, "curation is the new way of organizing the web going forward." You can't curate for everyone, so be targetedIn Brian Solis's recent tribute on FastCompany.com to Rosenbaum's book, Solis noted, "the social capital of a curator is earned through qualifying, filtering, and refining relevant content." Thrillist, for the uninitiated, started in 2005 with a newsletter to 600 New Yorkers and is now in 18 markets with 2.5 million subscribers.
L' Oppio tecnologico e le Passioni della Vita Archivio storico La lettura Prodotti sempre più sofisticati corrispondono alle nostre fantasie di un rapporto erotico ideale, slegato dalla realtà Un paio di settimane fa ho sostituito il BlackBerry Pearl che avevo da tre anni con un BlackBerry Bold, molto più evoluto. Inutile dire che i progressi fatti dalla tecnologia in tre anni mi hanno molto colpito. Ogni diritto di legge sulle informazioni fornite da RCS attraverso la sezione archivi, spetta in via esclusiva a RCS e sono pertanto vietate la rivendita e la riproduzione, anche parziale, con qualsiasi modalitá e forma, dei dati reperibili attraverso questo Servizio. From Social Bookmarking to Social Curation
Guest Post: Three Reasons Why Curation Is Not A Fad Posted by Tom Foremski - May 27, 2011 Oliver Starr is the Chief Evangelist for Pearltrees. Prior to this he was the first employee at TechCrunch. He has also held numerous executive positions in technology companies and has founded and successfully exited two startups of his own. By Oliver Starr 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. This year there has been a tremendous amount of buzz in Silicon Valley about curation. With all the attention curation has suddenly received people are probably wondering whether this is just another fad or is it something bigger? First, curation is one of the underlying principles of the Web. The true history of the Internet is all about technologies and companies that made them mainstream. So what is this evidence? So is curation here to stay?
L’inevitabile sconfitta di Google contro Facebook « GOOTENBERG Un probabile futuro Il futuro sarà senza Google, abbiamo scritto tempo fa, senza voler sembrare apocalittici. La Grande G in realtà non è destinata a scomparire ma di certo sarà indebolita dalla concorrenza (Apple, Facebook su tutte) e dal nuovo web social. Col quale il mostro di Larry Page ed Eric Schmidt non hanno mai avuto grande confidenza (recentemente il secondo ha confessato di “aver fatto casino” cercando di dotare Google di un social network). Nemmano l’Atlantic ci va leggero, comunque, e condanna l’azienda simbolo del 2.0 alla sconfitta nella sfida contro Facebook. Il suo algoritmo di ricerca (di Google, ndr) analizza pagine e link cliccati dagli utenti ma non ha una conoscenza diretta di nessuno degli utenti che hanno creato quel contenuto. Ma come si può considerare spacciata un’azienda che possiede il motore di ricerca più cliccato al mondo e servizi come Gmail, GMaps, YouTube e Blogger? Secondo Elowitz il database di Google
Shaping the Future of Curation Session Title: The Future of Content CurationSpeakers: Steve Rosenbaum, Eric Hippeau, Francine Hardaway, Ed LambletDate: Thursday May 26Time: 11:30AMLocation: Jacob Javits Center 1A18 … by Francine Hardaway “Information overload” is an inherent part of the daily experience for most of us – especially online. The web has disintermediated the flow of information, making it easy for anyone to easily receive and share news, videos, comments, and other content. This means that most of us get more information than we actually need – or want. Sorting through this abundance – curating it – can streamline the way we interact with content, helping us see more of what we want and less of what’s irrelevant or repetitive. Social feeds alone clearly don’t do the job. In its own simple way Paper.li makes anyone a publisher of news and interesting information, and they don’t have to write a single word.
Content Curation – Growing Up and Coming of Age The impetus to this blog post (developed via curation and creation), was my fascination when I came across the following story that broke in the middle of May: ”Man tracks stolen laptop hundreds of miles away, calls thief”. – A very real example of what is going on in the content curation space today. @seanpower (Sean Power), an Ottawa, Canada native living in New York, was on a visit to Canada (without his laptop), when he discovered, through his Prey software, that his laptop was in the hands’ of a stranger back in New York. Immediately, the tweeting began. As the story evolved, Sean Power managed to follow his travelling laptop as a victim, as a private person, with an alias, eventually identifying the person who had stolen it and moving a potential criminal case to its conclusion and positive solution – all through communication via social media and with the help of various different stakeholders. Something is happening. Content Curation is evolving. Let’s look at some key figures: And
Peer Index vs. Klout I’ve just learned about a new influence measurement tool called Peer Index. It is attempting to “help you discover the authorities and opinion formers on a given topic.” It’s pretty interesting because it allows you to search by topic, by person, by region, and by sources (i.e. blogs, social, etc.). Say, for instance, I want to know who the authority is on tree frogs in Singapore, I can search that term and find 10 people who might fit my needs. I take a look at Tree Frog Treks, because they have the highest peer index, to see if they have anything that might behoove my client who sells tree frog food. Turns out, they are a “wild science adventure” camp for kids in the Bay Area. Now, let’s say, I want to do the same thing on Klout. So far, so good. Now, let’s say I want to find public relations professionals in Chicago. But, I can go through the back door, find a person (me) who talks about public relations and click on the topic from there. Lo and behold, it gives me the top five results.