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.”
There has been lots of talk about the death of the web this week, sparked by an article published in Wired, entitled ‘The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet‘.
The first reaction is to dismiss what they’re saying as nonsense, but the more you think about current online trends, the more the idea of a declining interest in the web seems plausible.
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There has been a bit of a kerfluffle about the use of the term ‘curation’ to refer to ‘real time’ filtering/link selection.
In this second post of a five part series, Erin Kissane looks at how sections of the web industry are causing a stir among traditional curatorial circles by being somewhat careless in their use of the term.
The article goes on to look at what professional curators do, how their work relates to curating web content, and how ‘content curators’ can get better at their jobs.
This series is shaping up to be a ‘must read’ for anyone interested in the concept of content curation. Don’t miss it.
We’ve all heard the terms aggregator, curator, and indexer in the context of online content production, but do we actually know what these terms mean? Perhaps more critically, do we know the difference between them?
This article from the Harvard University Nieman Journalism Lab explores the roles of the aggregator, curator, and indexer in the future of journalism – and why the difference matters.
There’s a world of content out there, and in order to make sense of it, and leverage it for their own publications, publishers are turning to a wide range of curation platforms.
This excellent article looks at how the tools they use have evolved from the early days of the simple RSS feed to solutions that provide varying levels of automation, functions, and technology to suit a media company’s needs.
