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What a Content Curator Needs To Know: How, Tools, Issues and Strategy
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A Curated Collection of Free Video Documentaries Online: Documentary Addict

A Curated Collection of Free Video Documentaries Online: Documentary Addict | Content Curation World | Scoop.it
From documentaryaddict.com - February 21, 2015 3:50 PM
Robin Good's insight:


If you are a documentary enthusiast like me, you will find plenty of great videos, curated and organized into categories and lists by visiting DocumentaryAddict.

The site, which is completely free to use, offers organised free access to nearly 5000 free documentaries already available online and keeps itself alive by using contextual ads from Google on its content pages.

Aside form the Google ads, which are not very intrusive, the site is extremely well designed and offers multiple ways to find the type of documentary you may want to watch, through 26categories, several compilation of top titles and a full search function.


Users can also rate and comment on each documenrary page providing a useful space for learning and exchanging from other fellow watchers.


A great example of sustainable content curation at work. By simply organizing and making more accessible what is already available out there, great value can be created as well as a community of passionate followers.


Free to use.


Check it out now: http://documentaryaddict.com/


Added to Great Examples of Content Curation.


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Curation Coming To Television and Film: Channelisation

Curation Coming To Television and Film: Channelisation | Content Curation World | Scoop.it
From www.techfruit.com - January 12, 2012 4:30 PM

"Jon Miller of News Corp may have predicted 2012 will see the "channelisation" of the web, but he really means a renewed focus on curation..."


"Channelisation implies that media corporations such as News Corp will be the ones controlling the playlist of content, but 2012 will see the role of such organisations fall back to providing content for others to turn into a wealth of different “channels” where the barrier to entry essentially falls to zero."


Key highlights curated from the article:


Curation of niche interest: channelisation

"...opening up of video on demand services from all these channels will allow much smaller organisations to provide cross-channel curation.


If the channels who provide the content are still showing their ads before, during and after each show, then curators could start channels focusing on more specific interests and smaller niches than a broadcast channel could do – there will be channels dedicated to crime shows, medical shows, shows with appearances from certain actors, and more.


A user will just have to think of a single genre or idea that they want to watch in a show, and there will be a “channel” or that."



The curator
"More interesting than the drive to smaller and smaller niches, which could, at least in part, be algorithmically generated – will be the focus on the curator.


If a user trusts the taste of a journalist, presenter, blogger or other figure – they may be more interested to watch the content that user picks than the content programmed for any particular channel.


...These curators could add to the content by providing commentary from their own knowledge of the content – offering a place where consumers could find a new love."



Social Curation
"...Equally, groups of curators could join together to offer more regular programming than the one-off playlists of individuals, basically creating “channels” without any of the budget and monetary constraints of a real channel.


They would not have to pay for licensing as the content owners will bundle ads with the in-stream content, and so people will curate out of love and interest rather than having to focus on budgetary constraints."


Insightful. 8/10


Read the full article here: http://www.techfruit.com/2012/01/12/channelisation-curation/ 


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janlgordon's comment, January 12, 2012 4:38 PM
This is great news! I feel like it's Christmas all over again - think of all the possibilities, especiaily the Social Curation where groups of curators get together to offer regular programming. This is my favorite part "so people will curate out of love and interest rather than having to focus on budgetary constraints." My head is spinning, so many ideas flooding my brain, I need to curate my thoughts:-)
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