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Churchill used to say: “In England, everything is permitted, except that which is forbidden. In Germany, everything is forbidden, except that which is permitted. In France, everything is permitted even that which is forbidden. In the USSR, everything is forbidden, even that which is permitted.”
DMCA is England; the Movie Industry thinks it’s France and wants us to be in Germany but this could end up in the USSR.
More on why this matters for curators on the Scoop.it blog. Join the debate and make your voice heard!
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"Social ghosts are the shimmering images of potential customers. What to do - right - with social apparitions?"
This post captures two interesting ideas:
1. Social Media is this great opportunity with lots of potential customers. But it also both feels reachable while hard to grasp. Like catching a ghost, right?
2. The solution can not be in automating the process, which is a challenge for some taylorism-built large corporations.
Interesting to read. By Ross Quintana and curated by Saul Fleischman.
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Lisa Jardine explains that the fear of "information overload" was even present before the printing press :
"..Even before the invention of the printing press - when the distribution of information depended upon teams of scribes working with pen and ink in monastery libraries -the fear of too much to know, too much material too widely and swiftly disseminated, was already threatening to overwhelm our orderly sense of understanding."
Curation is defined as the "topic of 2012". But it's actually very interesting to remember that this activity is as instinctive ( and old) as the transmission of knowledge in itself. And crucial to keep access to it years after years :
"there has never been a time when mastering the sum of human knowledge has not been felt to be an impossible task.And historically there was the additional fear that the precious store of knowledge accumulating as the world grew in wisdom might be lost by natural or man-made disaster."
The internet seems to be less vulnerable than paper and printed sources to face natural damage and keep information accessible, always available, as you cannot "loose" it. Just google it. But the question isn't anymore to be scared to loose the information. But how to find the right one and help people to understand it as much as possible :
"The danger today is rather that we are reluctant to let go of any information garnered from however recondite a source. Every historian knows that no narrative will be intelligible to a reader if it includes all the detail the author amassed in the course of their research. A clear thread has to be teased from the mass of available evidence, to focus, direct and ultimately give meaning to what has been assembled for analysis"
Curation will not be a hot topic of 2012. It's a necessity to build a bright future : The curators who will help to contextualize and facilitate access to this huge amount of information will be the ones transmitting knowledge.
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Pretty interesting to see how useful this will prove for curating tweets directly from permalinks. The end of screen capturing is over and this is good news for curators, isn't it?
And cool to see it's working on Scoop.it very nicely :-)
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Great picture tweeted by @BradMays, that describes instantly how curation and publishing are keys to drive engagement.
Brad Mays just wrote a great blog post about Scoop.it, focusing on the opportunity for brands to become trusted curators.
I re-scooped this from Giuseppe Mauriello as I felt the somehow inconclusive conclusion was very close to what I personally felt: yes, curation is changing and digital curation will not be the same as it used to be pre-digital. Bottom line is we need to be prepared to live with softer boundaries than before of what is good and what isn't. I've had interesting discussions on this before and I've heard several say they felt the need for new gatekeepers to be established or recognized. It's the curating the curators debate. While there are certainly opportunities to shine and be recognized as thought leaders and master curators, I don't think the digital revolution means we're going to replace old gatekeepers by new ones. It is much more that there won't be any more gates, ergo no gatekeepers at all. We'll all have to learn and educate at the same time on what makes good from bad curation. And when it comes to deciging who's to trust and who isn't, the jury will be always on. Just like we now are. (David Weinberger is a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society)
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
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Journalism and publishing kept being reshaped in 2011. Here's an interesting recap by Meghan Peters on Mashable of the major changes that occurred this ending year. Will Curation be the major one for 2012?
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Vadim is the Journalist Program Manager at Facebook and he makes interesting points among
which I'd emphasize a couple:
1. Role of journalists will evolve towards fact checking and curation: rather than originate stories, they can now tap in social media powered citizen journalists and become effective curators. Something Andy Carvin at NPR pioneered brilliantly.
2. Curation mindset itself has to evolve and a stronger emphasis needs to be put on distribution and post-production. How stories will look, live and be evolves after they are publish is important.
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"These are the current feelings I have about technology: I don’t want to be connected all the time anymore. I want an information diet. I want real experiences instead of online ones. I think most websites suck, most iPhone apps are great (beautiful, minimal, fast, to the point). There is too much noise on the internet. People are taking breaks from technology. It’s becoming harder to focus for a long time, but I really want that."
What if curation wasn't only a great way to enjoy a "better" web, but just a better life? this is not a trend, it's probably a human necessity. Focus on what you love and share it. The most inspiring persons are the passionate ones. Learn from them, be one of the them. Here and beyond, that's what I'm looking for.
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This is an interesting study by Technorati commented by Brian Solis on the state of blogging.
The study doesn't show whether blogging is on the up or down trend but it gives interesting perspectives on how people blog, what influences them on who bloggers are.
While micro content has certainly been the major change in social media in the recent years, the appeal of long-form media as a publishing format still exists.
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This is kind of old but I rediscovered it recently on Quora and I felt it was an interesting opportunity to review what's been accomplished in 2011 in that respect.
Seb Paquet is an interesting contributor to Social Media and a professor at the University of Quebec in Montreal.
I think 2011 has been a great year for curation : lots of new developments, great improvements on existing platform and raising awareness. It's interesting to look back at questions like these and measure the progress we're making both as platform developers and as members of a community with a particular interest on that subject.
These are the points he mentioned where I felt we made the most progress in 2011: - "enable value-adding curators to get more tangible benefits from their activity "
(As Seb pointed out, reputation and feedback are strong motivation drive here and there's been more and more presentationsand thought leaders articulating clearly what's in it for curators whether at the professional or the personnal level). - "semi-automate low-grade curation so people are liberated to tackle the more challenging and valuable stuff"
(The Scoop.it Suggestion engine or its quick-and-easy formating features are a good example; meaning users can focus more time on the valuable contextualization or can be more efficient sourcing content) - "connect curators to share practices and elevate curation from craft to art"
- "create communities through curation"
(We've always felt tools were not the point: it's about enabling communities of curators to emerge and connect on similar interests and we see that happening and growing fast on Scoop.it - just to quote what we can comment on). - "augment the reader's experience with curated content"
(Readers have proliferated like crazy on various platforms, including of course the iPad which paved the way for Flipboard's success).
Let me be clear: I don't think everything has been done yet on these points but I can see new things happening that didn't happen last year.
Looking back on what still needs answers, I feel these ones are the most urgent to address: - "accelerate Social Discovery of high-quality curators"
- "augment the content producer's experience (Obtaining a clear picture of how their output is being filtered and categorized)"
- "enable cooperative and collaborative curation"
Do you feel the same on what was achieved in 2011? Do you see other issues needing to be addressed?
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As Michael Schechter warns at the beginning of this post in response to ( Randy Murray's), this is mostly a semantic debate. Both are actually finding value in publishing by sharing links and commenting them.The word curation is actually interesting from a linguistic point of view as it comes from Latin and derives from the act of "taking good care of" or healing. So it's a very positive one and also an expression that fits well with how content curators value and love content. But the mere fact the debate moves to the semantic field is interesting as it highlights the fact there are not much argument against the activity of publishing-by-curation (or whatever you call it) itself.
Interesting article by Neil Perkin where he distinguishes 3 aspects of content curation: algorithmic, manual and social.
The comment thread is interesting and reinforces the insight of his conclusion: good curation will mix all three aspects.
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Watch this amazing video, prepared by the UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books and produced by Khaki Films (http://www.thekhakigroup.com/).
Publishing is not dead. It is alive as never before. You just need to do one thing : open your eyes to the values of your customers and publish content meaningful to them.
Like curation, Publishing is about caring.
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Yesterday, I curated an interesting analysis by Mathew Ingram on what Google had just done to its Search Engine, getting social in the results. I think it is interesting seeing also the counter-reactions to that move, one of the boldest being Mat Honan's on Gizmodo.
Mat explains why he feels this created less acuracy for Google and threatened the Moutain View giant's domination on the Search market: "I just switched the default search engine in my browser from Google to Bing. And if you care about working efficiently, or getting the right results when you search, then maybe you should too."
One interesting thing that Mat's point shows is the difficulty there is for an established company to act like a startup. Google has something to lose in that game. In a big way. But it's also the sign of great companies and great leaders to be able to make bold moves that are not always easy to understand first: IBM getting out of hardware, Apple extending out of the computer market with the iPod.
Back to the curated search debate, I think we could also echo the voices of all those who have growningly complained about the fact Google Search was losing its edge and discouraging quality content production efforts. I don't think Mat disagrees with them: he's just showing consumers will not wait forever for Google to come out of that evolutionary process that started with real-time search, continued with Panda and is now becoming social search.
Google (and others) seems to be convinced their long-term future is in social, however costly this might be in the short-term. Time will tell whether that was a mistake or not. But there's one thing you can't blame them for: not being willing to try.
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"With new changes that offer personalized search results -- most of which are being taken from its own Google+ social network -- Google has just made social connections and links the new search-engine optimization strategy"
Interesting analysis by Mathew Ingram on what Google just did by tweaking search results to include Google + results in there. And in particular what this means for the Media industry.
If you're not familiar with the change, the article describes it well and there's another piece you can check that will probably freak out some.
To elaborate on Mathew's point, I would put it more concretely: the time where Media could simply use Twitter or G+ accounts like RSS feeds is over. User engagement is required and it means getting readers to like, comment, +1 and... curate your content.
Clay Shirky once defined curation's role this way: "Curation comes up when search stops working".
Well, now if you want your content to be searched, you better start by making it curated.
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Rachel Sklar highlights key trends, and especially the rise of curation and qualitative filters. Brilliant analysis:
"Audiences are done with SEO-baiting and bait-and-switch headlines; we’re going to get more choosy with our clicks. And with our eyeball-access. So you’d better be trustworthy, because I don’t let just anyone curate for me. Because while news will always be the killer app, who it’s delivered by will matter just as much."
Rachel also mentions that finding easily our communities of interests does not mean the end of exploration. Qualitative filters should provide exactly the opposite :
"While we’re opting to follow curators who deliver to us the news we wish to receive, our most trusted sites are automatically giving us what they think we want to see — or, taken dystopically, what they want us to see. Eli Pariser dubbed this “the Filter Bubble.” Things are only getting more customized, tailored, targeted, and algorithm-ized, but in 2012 we will see clear pushback on that."
Making the web more meaningful by connecting community of interests while encouraging discovery of great content is truly the values Scoop.it encourages. Algorithms are cool. Humanrithm is definitely cooler.
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Jeremiah Owyang makes a number of great observations in this post that he interprets as the end of the golden era of tech blogging. I strongly recommend reading it as it's indeed hard not to see a pattern after the sale of TechCrunch, of ReadWriteWeb or the departure of Ben Parr or Marshall Kirckpatrick.
Is this related to Tech only or is it a larger trend? Is blogging itself - and not just tech blogging - coming to an end?I think it's fair to say that a number of these observations are valid for the whole blogosphere: lack of attention span of readers, news and content remixing, fatigue of some personal brands, emergence of new business models, etc...
Blogging will not disappear but new forms of expression are definitely stealing the show from blogging platforms. Curation among them.
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Peter Preston could have quoted Eli Pariser in this article as what he describes is in essence the filter bubble.
His point is that print gave us exposure to much more content than what we wanted; and that was good. It helped us discover and not just search. It confronted us to new thoughts and content we appreciated even though we weren't looking for it.
Though I agree with the risks described, Preston seems to think digital is to blame for that and that print is the only alternative. I beg to differ. There are many opportunities for discovery that already exist in the digital space and much more to develop. Social curation, in particular, has a great role to play to break the self-fulfilling prophecies of filtering algorithms.
To be wished for a great digital 2012?
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"...aggregation of the kind the Huffington Post does is the way things work now, and complaining about it (or trying to sue over it, as the Hollywood gossip blogger Nikki Finke did earlier this year) is like complaining that since the car was invented, it has become really hard to find a good buggy whip. Your content will be aggregated, so the challenge , is to add more value than sites like the Huffington Post do. Publishers like the Herald might want to start with links...."
Very interesting blog post from Mathew Ingram, gigaOm's writer. Fighting against aggregation is not only a lost battle but also the wrong one. Aggregation is a natural evolution of the web, where a huge amount of content is produced every day. The next question is how to create more value that just collecting content from others. Curation will never be aggregation: it cannot be automatized and implies an angle, a unique point of view and choice you offer to your audience. There is no curation vs. creation debate. Seeing yourself as a trusty resource to point out the best sources just serves both of them. A curator is by definition someone that respects not only his/her readers but the material/piece he/she works with and give access to. Aggregation comes from the latin word "aggregare", "add". The web is full. We do not need more adding. Curation comes from "cura", meaning "to care". That will always be necessary.
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For a long time, Mobile Internet was a “baby internet” as Steve Jobs called it, the day the iPhone was launched. The first smartphones were not very smart as they didn’t support “real” HTML browsing nor many of the Web technologies that made online experiences rich and useful. Obviously, the iPhone changed that and enabled a lot of these great Web experience to become mobile, on top of enabling the creation of many others. But one area that still struggles with mobile is content publishing. For content format that are by essence “mobile”, no problem: photos, short videos, tweets, position/check-ins, status updates… But so far, this has excluded any publishing activity involving long form / richer content, such as creating a story and updating a blog.
Curation is an opportunity to change that.
Here's why.
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While at LeWeb last week, I was interviewed by Michelle Chmielewski to discuss on curation with Jean-Marie Hulot, Fotopedia's founder, a great iPad App that lets you browse great curated collections of beautiful photos (try it if you haven't yet!).
We tried to come back on the need for curation but also where it's going as a trend and the business models behind it.
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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.
This is an interesting workshop presentation given at #converge11 by Joyce Seitzinger. It has a focus on curation in EduTech but is generic as well in a lot of aspects. In particular, I love the distinction she makes from slide 22 onward between all types of "curators": a fun way of showing what curation best practices should be all about.
Via catspyjamasnz
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"We created this infographic to depict how “full” the internet is. While it’s technically impossible for the web to fill up, it is very clear that web surfers are well past our limits of time and patience it takes to find the best information on the topics that interest us."
Very interesting infographic that explains a real problem: the internet is becoming this infinite source of "information", but when you don't have any filter, it's just become a (stressful) noise. How many times you just have the feeling you can never ever follow "everything" that happens on the web even if you spend hours on it. The web should be this medium that helps us to find faster what we are looking for and not the opposite. Curation is not only a trend, it's just a necessity. We know "how important human curated content has become. Curation is truly a valuable service to web surfers who have neither the time nor the patience to sift through mountains of links and data"
Curation is a means to make the web meaningful again. Publishing your curation work is a great way to control and create a new identified resource of info. Context and Content can't be disconnected anymore.
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