Content Curation World

Sometimes you need to quickly immerse yourself in a new field. You might want to gain expertise or quickly gauge what the current issues are around a particular topic. One way of doing this is by c...

Via Howard Rheingold

From the original research paper by Derek Greene, Gavin Sheridan, Barry Smyth, and Padraig Cunningham of the School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin entitled "Aggregating Content and Network Information
to Curate Twitter User Lists": "The problem of content curation in social media networks is becoming increasingly important, particularly in the context of news curation for media outlets.

In the case of Twitter, curating a list of authoritative users tweeting about a
given news story provides a means of monitoring discussions around that story.

However, currently this is a time-consuming manual task. Here we presented a
range of criteria for building topical user lists, based on an initial seed set.

By analysing the cohesion of the training data across di erent views of the same
datasets, we demonstrated the strengths and weaknesses of these recommenda-
tion criteria, in the context of a limited availability of Twitter data.

To overcome the weaknesses, we proposed the use of SVD rank aggregation. Experiments on a range of Twitter datasets relating to US politics demonstrated that this aggregation process yields more robust recommendations, succeeding in cases where individual content- or network-based criteria perform poorly."

 

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.1728.pdf

Via Paulo Simões

TwitChimp.com is a web application that leverages the Twitter API to provide curated lists of Twitter users.

The purpose of TwitChimp.com is to enable any Twitter user to create and curate collections of Twitter users. 

 

Curated lists are important because they can help reduce the signal to noise ratio in Twitter.

 

Key features:

• Create and curate feature-filled lists of twitter accounts on any topic you desire.
• Summary of top concepts/words and hashtags in tweets for an entire list
• Hotlinking of those top words to Twitter searches.
• Statistics for lists and users in lists.
• Discover lists by category.
• Search tools enabling lists to be found by keywords in the list or by the users bio.
• User profile pages with stats, bios and links.
• Embed lists on any site on the Internet.

N.B.: The application is still in a beta testing period but is open to anyone who would like to try it in this early stage of development.

 

Read more here: http://twitchimpblog.com/2012/04/latest-twitchimp-list-curation-search-and-discovery-features-announced/
 

Try out it now: http://twitchimp.com

Via Giuseppe Mauriello