aggregation
What curation says about you Paid Members Public
Last week, the student journalists on the MA courses at City University heard from Paul Bradshaw [http://onlinejournalismblog.com] about curation in the journalist sense. Since then, I’ve been working in the online “labs” with them on the idea. This post from Euan Semple neatly sums up one of
The link between photography and curation Paid Members Public
Natalie Lloyd [http://www.natalielloyd.co.uk/2012/11/21/our-want-of-curiousities/]: > Seeing through another’s eyes is one of the perennial wonders of photography. Between the frames of an image, we are invited to consider a constructed reality offered by the photographer; what they chose to include, exclude and
One Man & His Commonplace Blog Paid Members Public
Mr Whatley on RSS and commonplace books [http://whatleydude.com/2012/08/commonplace-books/]: > However, I prefer reading everything at random. It’s a habit I’ve kept for a long time but it’s something that’s recently been re-enforced by learning about the origins of the commonplace book,
The Mighty Marvel Pinterest Paid Members Public
Marvel Comics launches Pinterest and Tumblr accounts [http://marvel.com/news/story/19181/marvel_unveils_pinterest_and_tumblr_accounts] . A visual content publisher promotes itself on visual aggregation and sharing sites. Utterly simply, perfect match. I could do without the “begging for engagement” comments under every image, though: “What do
Why traditional publishers can't soothe the crying baby Paid Members Public
I feel rather bad for my colleagues in the national newspaper business this morning. As they trek into their plush central London office, sipping their lattes1, they find the world predicting their doom and destruction. Frédéric Filloux treads a familiar path, contrasting the transitional newspaper approach to selling their stories
Le Web: How is social-mobile-local changing media? Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/mediapanel3.jpg] A panel discussion the changes in media wrought by the latest technology, moderated by Thomas Crampton [http://www.thomascrampton.com]. Not surprisingly, Paul-François Fournier, Executive Vice President, Orange Technocentre defines media as, essentially, businesses that produce content,
Is the social web reducing our access to information? Paid Members Public
I find this a far more frightening talk than the cheery presentation would suggest. Is algorithmic personalisation weeding out challenging content from our news flows? Are web companies pandering to that part of ourselves that prefers non-challenging information? [[via Andrew Sullivan](http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/05/a-tailored-internet.html)]
Evening whisky reading, 13th April 2011 Paid Members Public
Because sometimes, you just have to get those tabs out of that browser: * Idio and The Guardian partner to develop content delivery service [http://www.themediabriefing.com/article/2011-04-12/idio-and-the-guardian-partner-to-develop-content-discovery-service] – I’m convinced we should be doing more combination curated and algorithmic aggregation and discovery. Content is no longer rare.
