A law professor, Eugene Volokh, argues in a paper that Google is a publisher, with First Amendment protection. But sometimes it benefits Google to be seen as a mere connector. 
"The digital publishing revolution is unique in that it requires a set of complex, coordinated technologies. There are opportunistic plays around distributing basic content; there are products like Kindle and iBooks that take a technically simple approach to serving a specific market (mostly fiction); and then there are audacious plays like Inkling. We’re taking on the toughest technical challenges in the hope of building a scalable future for the whole industry." "Robin Good: FlashIssue is a web app which allows you to easily assemble a professional-looking newsletter, by bringing together your best content as well as any article available online. See how it works: http://www.flashissue.com/gmail-newsletters/ ;
Read more about it: http://www.flashissue.com/curated-newsletters-flashissue-launches-for-mailchimp-gmail ;
Chrome plugin: http://www.flashissue.com/gmail-newsletters/ ;
Try it out: http://www.flashissue.com/ ; " Via Robin Good 
Bureaucrats, lawyers, and Congress suggest that there is a reason why laws and regulations are so difficult to understand, but their reasoning is flawed. 
"KBucket as a platform is designed to be a search site for curated content. Each search term will give you tens of possible curated and researched pages on the topic of your interest. Our vision for KBucket is a Wikipedia type platform curated and clustered by humans . This video explains our vision." Via Joe Raimondo, Howard Rheingold 
On creative restlessness, the art of context, and the contagion of intellectual curiosity. "What a complex set of emotions are attached to that small, inky polliwog, the apostrophe." 
"With today’s technology, it’s easier now than at any point in the history of the world to create content. But that doesn’t mean the best content is getting to the right audience.
That’s why editors and publishers need better tools to help them separate the wheat from the chaff.
Historically, as Cory Doctorow pointed out in an article he wrote for The Guardian, there have been three steps in the publishing paradigm: identifying stories (curating); writing them; and connecting those stories to the right audience.
While most technological advances have focused on making steps 2 and 3 easier, the first step (identifying stories) has gotten exponentially harder.
It’s become a numbers game. Writers send out more and more pitches because they’re competing with more and more pitches from other writers. Ultimately, this model is unsustainable.
The simplest way to cut down on low-quality pitches is by imposing a $2 to $3 charge to put some “tension” on submissions and that will decrease spam.
The other way to make life easier for editors is through technology. Cloud computing has drastically decreased the cost of creating powerful curation tools that empower editors to curate and edit.
[read full article http://j.mp/y7T4d0]
Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
"Excerpted from the article:
"The concept of curating news is not new. One can look to the supply-chain process of a news organization to see that several roles (editor, managing editor, etc.) have curation as a core competency; that is, the organizing of information filed by reporters into a deliverable packages for readers.
But with the push of social media and advancements in communications technology, the curator has become a journalist by proxy. They are not on the front lines, covering a particular beat or industry, or filing a story themselves, but they are responding to a reader need. With a torrent of content emanating from innumerable sources.
Curators help navigate readers through the vast ocean of content, and while doing so, create a following based on several factors: trust, taste and tools.
Unlike a reporter who is immersed in a particular industry or beat, a curator (as me) often has a day job. Some are in the media industry and have access to their publication’s news sources; others are obsessed with the news and want to provide their network, community or followers with what they think is important. But the common thread between curators is that they are viewed as trustworthy sources of information.
Read full article http://j.mp/w3YA65 [Curated by Guillaume Decugis - further editing by Giuseppe Mauriello]" Via axelletess, Giuseppe Mauriello 
"Duke University’s open-source effort - including the first interactive marine science textbook, illustrated above - represents a departure from Inkling and other commercial ventures. It sacrifices a wide offering of interactive features, monolithic downloads and wow-factor in exchange for simplicity, speed and flexibility. As new scientific knowledge enters a field, a leading academic could make a quick edit in FLOW to instantly and seamlessly update a student’s textbook.
As important as high-quality content is, the authors see the software’s open-source aspect as a crucial component of its future." Via Andrew Spong Jo Bottrill gives five good reasons for adopting XML into book and journal production workflows for publishing. 
"As Mathew Ingram introduces: "The principle behind copyright has been taking a beating from "remix culture," driven in large part by YouTube and other video sites."
There are a number of creative activities you can put in that "remix culture" and though curation is not a challenge to current copyright law as it doesn't change the nature of the original content, it is probably part of its broader definition.
What's interesting is that the first challenge to copyright was piracy. But the remix culture has nothing to do with the motivation to get content for free: it is about creating the new from the existing, just like DJ's remix and sample songs to create new pieces.
Interesting to watch how this wave will shape the future of publishing." Via gdecugis |
"The overload of the print revolution led to indexes, reference books, editors, authors, classification systems. 17 minute 48 second audio interview with author of "Too Much to Know" Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age" -- Howard
"It is a constant complaint: We're choking on information. The flood of data on the Web has reached mind boggling proportions, and it shows no signs of stopping. But wait, says Harvard professor Ann Blair -- this is not a new condition."" Via Howard Rheingold "Over the past several days, Americans have been concluding a painful spring ritual, checking their math, signing their checks, and putting the finishing touches on their tax forms." 
DD: Be sure to read the comments to this brief article. 
Curation is not a dirty word http://t.co/3GCivS2q On my blog. 
A new paper puts the credit-for-curation debates in a new light. 
By Ann Rockley, President, The Rockley Group Simply put, ‘intelligent content’ is content which is not limited to one purpose, technology or output. 
A new crop of digital books comes loaded with videos, songs, animated shorts and pop-up graphics. Is this the future of publishing? 
"It’s easy to be overwhelmed by the amount of content we’re bombarded with on a daily basis. You can always save links in a text document, and keep images and other files in folders, but your OS file system wasn’t built for bookmarking.
Hopper lets you save content such as texts, images and links by copying and pasting it (using Ctrl + V), or just by dragging it into the webpage. You can also drag-and-drop files from your desktop.
That will let you get the content back whenever you need it later on. Any device that can access the Internet will let you get it back again, right as if it were on your HD or ZIP drive.
Hopper has got the great plus of working without registration. Accounts can be created if you want to organize your data and have it tidied up.
Check out it here: http://www.gethopper.com/ and/or read also this article on The Next Web http://j.mp/xW6SED
[Curated by Giuseppe Mauriello]" Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
"A discussion and definiton of the systems behind the future of books, publishing and reading." Via Andrew Spong 
"It means more than a happy coincidence. And it's under threat from the internet." [DD] But, read the comments too, which I agree with more. 
"After years of writing about startup companies, I’m now building one myself. Specifically, I’m building a company that’s developing a technology based on some of my favorite consulting projects I’ve done for clients over the years: an app and data platform that discovers emerging topical information. It’s a learning-curve busting, “first mover’s advantage” as a service, technology for information workers who want to win. It’s about helping users “skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it’s been.” It’s called Plexus Engine, it’s in private beta and you can sign up to be notified when it launches at PlexusEngine.com. A Plexus is a place where nerves branch and rejoin in the body and the Plexus Engine analyzes points of intersection online to detect emerging signals." Via Howard Rheingold |
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