Robin Good: YouTube auto-generated channels are channels that are automatically created by dedicated algorithms to collect trending and popular videos by topic. 
Giuseppe Mauriello: today Keemix launched its complete curation solution for individuals & businesses to the public in a beta version. I received invitation as beta tester. It is promising.
From official website: "Keemix allows you to gather loved content from the web, mix it into your own custom-designed pages, and share it to inspire your friends and colleagues. Keemix makes curation fun and accessible to everybody.
***Gather content on the fly: just click on the bookmarklet, select the object you want to mix, add your thoughts and voila!
***Mix content into your own tailor-made magazines: become an editor-in-chief ! For each of your passions, create a dedicated page, design it as you want and showcase your favorite topics with editorialized content.
***Inspire your readers: mixes can be private or public, and administrated individually or collaboratively. Keemix is tightly integrated with all major social networks and broadcasts your content through feeds or newsletters."
From blog post:
Here are some features: - All pages are now public, publishers can share their mixes with anybody; - A brand new homepage displaying featured mixes and mixersCollaboration! - You can now add publishers to a mix and collaborate. You can even create private mixes to collaborate with friends/coworkers/teams..; - Edit your mix design and layout; - Receive notifications by mail; - “Vanity URLs”. Get your own profile URL; - New types of objects : we added a bunch of new supported platforms, and even new objects. For example, you can now capture any embed from soundcloud.com..."
Try out it here: http://keemix.com
Read blog post here: http://blog.keemix.com/news/its-alive-keemix-is-now-in-beta Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
Robin Good: Surfmark is a new content curation service introducing some innovative and forward-looking features.
Surfmark in fact provides not only standard capabilities to easily capture, collect and organize content from any web page, but it adds intelligently alternative display formats to allow the exploration of such collections in multiple ways.
Another key innovative feature of Surfmark is its ability to generate bibliographies and summaries of content collections.
Surfmark allows social collaborative curation, history of all edits made, and the ability to share publicly or keep a collection private.
Collections can be downloaded in PDF or text formats and all pages saved in a collection are fully preserved with all the formatting and links intact so that you can refer back to exactly what you saw.
Free to use.
FAQ: http://blog.surfmark.net/surfmark-help/ ;
Try out and more info: http://www.surfmark.com/ ;
(thanks to Ana Cristina Pratas for discovering this) Via Robin Good 
I know a lot of people view curation as a buzz word devoid of meaning, but I like the metaphor! o talk content curation, we really need to think through the duties of a museum curator for a second. A curator scours the art world, selects the finest works, gathers them together around a unified theme, provides a frame to understand the artists’ messages and then hosts a conversation around the collection. That’s not unlike the 21st century teacher? 
A book by Clay Johnson... Healthy information consumption habits are about more than productivity and efficiency. They're about your personal health, and the health of society. Just as junk food can lead to obesity, junk information can lead to new forms of ignorance. The Information Diet provides a framework for consuming information in a healthy way, by showing you what to look for, what to avoid, and how to be selective. In the process, author Clay Johnson explains the role information has played throughout history, and why following his prescribed diet is essential in today's information age. 
Lately the term Web 3.0 is being thrown around more and more. "As the web 3.0 technology starts to spread throughout the internet, there will be a much greater need for “Content Curation”. This is a simple process that doesn’t take much experience or know-how. Content Curation is the process of finding, organizing and sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific topic online. In other words, it’s sifting through all the crap content and locating the most valuable and useful info on a keyword topic. And there’s a ton of great content already available on the web. It’s just that people don’t have the time, knowledge or experience to sort through it and find the specific information they’re looking for." "You want to pick a specific topic. Most people are already sharing interesting stuff with their friends and network (Facebook, Linkdin, etc). But if you want people to start seeing you as a trusted source of information, you need to pick your topic. You can’t be an expert in everything. You want to group together and share only the best stuff. You only want to give your network the cream of the crop. The faster they can pick up and learn new info on what interests them most, the more you will establish yourself to them as an expert on that particular topic." 
Robin Good: Feeed is a simple and elegant web-service which allows you to easily create a Pinterest-like visual magazine by aggregating any number of blogs or RSS feeds.
Just input the URL of your blog, Twitter channel, and any other site or feed you may want to include (up to 8) and Feeed will automatically aggregate and display all of the incoming content into a neat visual page.
"Take everything you like to read – blogs, news, art and more – and get it all delivered to a site designed especially for you, by you."
Feeed.co can also be utilized as your personal news dashboard by making it easier for you to check and monitor your favorite RSS feeds on Feeed visual display. It is possible to see both all of the feeds aggregated into one as well as any individual feed alone.
b) use your own domain name, c) mix'n'match colors to make your own custom theme, and d) mark items as favorites
Example: http://robingood.feeed.co/ ;
Try it out now: http://feeed.co Via Robin Good 
Blog post at Internet Billboards : Robin Good: If you were looking for an introductory guide to Content Curation and its benefits in terms of online visibility, traffic, S[..]... Via Ilya Levin |
If you're a curator looking for some boundaries in what feels like the Wild West, here are five best practices to consider. 
MITx will offer a portfolio of MIT courses for free to a virtual community of learners around the world... 
This is an update of my previous post. Is MOOC the solution to future learning, especially online education and learning in Higher Education? Our past experience with MOOC has interesting results. ... 
"Susan Yonezawa, Larry McClure, and Makeba Jones evaluate formal attempts to personalize U.S. secondary education and assess the research on teacher-student relationships and their impact. With a focus on programs for low-income and minority youth, the authors examine school reforms that have incorporated personalization. To improve student achievement and emotional well-being significantly, they conclude, increasing personalization must be the goal of a widespread, sustained organizational effort." Via Kathleen McClaskey 
The internet is not a bad guy. It offers us so many different opportunities to learn and gain knowledge. We just have to learn and adapt to its distractions rather than conform to them.
picture source: http://mcclungmuseum.utk.edu/permanent/native/archaic.shtml ![The Ultimate Time Machine: Social Media from 1960 – 2012 [Infographic] | Curate your personal learning environment | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/pHUcmoTZTkrQEMHeIMQJqjl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
The Ultimate Time Machine: Social Media from 1960 – 2012 [Infographic]... 
The idea of “student-centered learning” coupled with “networked learning” has tossed the idea that all learning should only happen through schooling. No longer do classroom walls or school schedules dictate when high-quality learning occurs. 
Robin Good: Zeeik is a new web-based video curation site with a unique slant and some very innovative ideas.
Its key features provide some very stimulating ideas on how in the future you may go about curating, navigating and collecting video to create a guide or make sense of a specific topic.
1) Collaborative Curation First of all, Zeeik is designed in a way that puts the topic of curation at the center, while allowing multiple users to contribute, search, find and select which video clips would be most appropriate for it. "Users collaboratively make zeeiks in request-and-replay manner." Zeeiks are also similar to what a video wiki would probably be like, as they allow multiple editors to contribute and shape the final content.
Second, Zeeik introduces (thank you guys for showing curation startups where is the next gear) a rudimental but still highly effective navigational gizmo, allowing any topic to be easily segmented into many sub-topics and levels. This new visual navigation addition is of the essence in providing a feature that expands the potential of curated content of orders of magnitude. A navigational tool that allows you to intuitively navigate from topic to topic and from high-level view to a very detailed one is exactly what I would like to see show-up across the board of content curation tools in the near future.
3) Search, Collect and Excerpt Video Content Third, Zeeik makes easy and effective to search video content on any topic, to tap into your video assets rapidly and to trim and excerpt specific sections from any video you decide to include.
These ingredients by themselves make Zeeik a truly innovative content curation tool, and while its interface and usability may leave a lot to be desired, I think it deserves high praise for finally breaking new ground.
Zeeiks can be easily linked or embedded into any web site or blog and can be used to create catalogues, guides, tutorials, textbooks, music album, or just about anything that is video-based.
Sample Zeeik: http://www.zeeik.com/app2/vmap/view/showVMap?vMapId=1764512127
More info and sign-up: http://www.zeeik.com Via Robin Good |
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