curation
The role of blogs in the age of media overload Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/02/blogger-at-work.jpg] Fascinating read in the wake of Andrew Sullivan’s closure of The Dish [http://time.com/3693638/no-blogs-are-not-dead/], in which Ira Stoll explores the present and future of blogging [http://time.com/3693638/no-blogs-are-not-dead/]: > And while
Financial Times ups its morning e-mail game: FirstFT Paid Members Public
Slightly baffling e-mail from the Financial Times press team this morning: > Financial Times readers can now receive the FT’s daily top picks of global news, comment and analysis from around the web by signing up to FirstFT [http://www.ft.com/firstft]. Concise and engaging, this free email
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings on attention and journalism Paid Members Public
Here’s a fascinating interview with Maria Popova [http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/maria-popova/8840-maria-popova-on-information-in-the-digital-age] , curator of the truly excellent Brain Pickings [http://www.brainpickings.org] blog. Some choice highlights: > I can’t speak for others, but I’ve found in myself a tendency to retreat deeper and deeper into
Is curation the future of journalism? (Flipboard) Paid Members Public
I’ve not tried out embedding a Flipboard magazine on here yet: View my Flipboard Magazine. [https://flipboard.com/section/is-curation-the-future-of-journalism%3F-bE2xZr] And now I have. My life is richer, somehow.
Flipping LeWeb Paid Members Public
I’m curating the best of the LeWeb Official Bloggers’ posts in a Flipboard magazine, along with anything else that’s interesting that I come across. If you’re a Flipboard reader, subscribe for a great lean-back experience [http://flip.it/lHoRh].
Twitter welcomes careful curators Paid Members Public
Twitter launches custom timelines [https://dev.twitter.com/blog/introducing-custom-timelines]: > Custom timelines are an entirely new type of timeline — one that you create. You name it, and choose the Tweets you want to add to it, either by hand or programmatically using the API (more on that below). This
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
Event coverage on Flipboard Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/09/image.jpg] This is a neat idea [http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/08/introducing-disrupt-daily-tcs-daily-flipboard-magazine-covering-the-best-of-disrupt-sf-2013/] : > There’s a lot happening at Disrupt SF. So much so that it cannot be consumed on just one site. Produced daily at 6:
