Just a quick reminder to let you know that I’m still creating and curating content about software development and testing.
I used to keep everything here on this blog, but recently moved it all over to:
Brian Heys testing (brianheystesting.com)
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Love him or hate him, Robert Scoble is a highly influential figure in the tech industry – particularly for startups, who can live or die on the strength of his recommendations.
This post has been kicking around the blogosphere for several months, but it’s still a thought-provoking read for anyone involved or interested in content curation.
In the post, Robert outlines seven needs that need to be fulfilled by a truly ‘killer’ content curation tool. Do you know of a single solution that can do all this?
Yep, a content curator is a DJ. Your job is to mix content for your audience: quality content you hope will not only engage, but thrill, and inspire the people who follow you.
While this excellent post focuses mainly on content curation via Twitter, the advice is general enough to be relevant to content curation on any platform.
Develop good taste, become a content sommelier, get rid of the noise!
Last week I wrote about why the web really could be dead. This week I want to add to that post by jotting down some thoughts on how the ‘death of the web’ will affect blogging and the emerging field of content curation.
Less content
As people flock to post status updates on social websites such as Facebook and Twitter, leaving behind their conventional websites, the first symptom we will see of the declining web is a reduction in the rate of new content being produced.
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There’s no doubt about it – there’s an overwhelming volume of content on the web that is contributing to all our cases of information overload.
Instead of seeing this as a negative, content curators should view it as an opportunity.
In this easy to read, bulleted post, Lisa Barone looks at what curation is, how it works, who is doing it, and the copyright implications of curating content.
“Robots are your friends, but don’t let visitors smell the metal.”
