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July 23, 2013 4:49 AM

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From www.pearltrees.com - July 23, 2013 4:49 AM

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If you are an art lover, you will be happy to know that there is a growing number of free curation tools designed specifically to help you find and discover as well as collect, organize and save your favorite artworks into online digital collections.

The latest one of these free art curation tools to hit my radar is Saatchi Online, which gives you the opportunity to discover community collections, created by registered users to curate their own favorite sets of artworks.

When you curate one of this art collections, you can focus on one specific artist or on a theme that brings together different ones.

Next to Saatchi Online, you can go to the Metropolitan of New York online, which also offers curatorial facilities, to Artsy, or to Kapsul and Pictify, two curation tools specifically focusing on art.

*Art curation tools is now a section of the Content Curation Tools Supermap

Sue Alexander's curator insight, August 10, 2013 12:17 PM

This site will be a hit with my students! Can't wait to plant some "trees".

Sue Alexander's comment, August 10, 2013 12:18 PM

Thanks for sharing this tool. The format will really appeal to my students.

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July 22, 2013 4:43 AM

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From www.youtube.com - July 22, 2013 4:43 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Here's an interesting TEDx video, "Copyright and the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction given by Eric Doeringer, in which he makes the distinction between derivative and transformative appropriation.

Derivative appropriation is rather straightforwardly enough where no significant change is made to the work, where profit is sought from the work as it already exists and where it’s final use evidently impacts the ability of the original creator to profit from their work. This is fairly self-evidently wrong.

The definitions of transformative appropriation are more unclear, but broadly speaking it is appropriation in which the work is changed to some extent."

Source: Lewis Bush - The Right To Copy

If you buy a piece of art what can you do with it?

When, by using other people work inside your own are you actually breaking copyright laws?

Lots of interesting real-world examples illustrating issues relating to copyright, artwork ownership, "fair use" and reproducing other people's work in the digital age, explained in less than 16 mins and in simple terms.

Informative. Examples-rich. Useful. 8/10

Original video: http://youtu.be/731m0zsbm_w

Andreas Kuswara's curator insight, July 23, 2013 12:04 AM

imagine as visual technology continue to progresses? can copyright be eventually obsolete? as it will be just too complicated, confusing and expensive to deal with? curious.

Seth Bell's curator insight, March 22, 2014 7:04 AM

A concise and neatly presented 'Brief History' of Appropriation and the issues surrounding copyright laws.

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July 20, 2013 8:33 AM

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From www.youtube.com - July 20, 2013 8:33 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Enginuity is a socially curated search engine targeted at content marketers, bloggers and other content publishers who want to easily find already socially vetted and interesting / trendy content on a specific topic and share it to their preferred social media (Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc.) channels, publishing platforms (WordPress, Tumblr, Blogger, etc.) or social management tools (Hootsuite, Buffer, etc.).

The search results in Enginuity are pre-grouped into web, news, reviews, images, video clips and viral results and ranked by their trendiness and level of sharing on social media channels.

Enginuity also supports direct export to your selected stories to a set of dedicated RSS feeds which you can create and name freely.

My comment: Useful tool for content marketers who are not subject matter experts looking for trendy content that can be easily posted to their media properties. Easy to use. Very broad sharing and distribution options.

Free plan available. Requires registration.

Find out more: http://theenginuity.com/index.php

Plans & pricing: http://theenginuity.com/plans.html

*Added to the Content Curation Tools Supermap in the section: Search Curation

Giuseppe Lunardi's comment, July 21, 2013 1:00 PM

Sei Grande Robin, Grande e Innovativa la news, molto interessante. Grazie, ho cominciato a scoprirla da subito... sarebbe bene che nel campus se ne parlasse (a mio parere). Ciao Buonissima Domenica

Sue Neal's curator insight, July 21, 2013 1:01 PM

Looks interesting....

Robin Good's comment, July 21, 2013 4:41 PM

Grazie a te Giuseppe, terrò senz'altro conto dei tuoi consigli in merito.

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July 17, 2013 2:31 PM

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From findings.com - July 17, 2013 2:31 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Findings is a free web app which allows you to clip, collect, organize into collections and share your favorite text passages, quotes on the web.

Simply install the dedicated bookmarklet and then select any text on any web page and save it within Findings and inside your preferred custom-created collection.

You can easily share your individual "findings" as well as your collections on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Pinterest, while having the opportunity to visually style each one of your findings into a "quote card" with a unique combination of color and fonts.

The display of your findings collection can be set in one of six different display modes: slides, boxed, discussion, carousel, list and wall, a great plus for personalizing your curated work.

The "findings" main hub is a treasure trove of great phrases and citations already grabbed and archived by thousands of users on just about any topic you can think of. Just search for your selected keywords and you can find lots of interesting stuff with full credit and attribution to the original source.

N.B.: The Chrome extension reveals Findings' community annotations —
highlights and comments made by the Findings community as you browse the web.

My comment: Excellent tool to find inspirational quotes to complement an article or other content piece. Offers also opportunity to serendipitously discover pre-filtered valuable quotes from authors and sources you may have not met before. Ahead of the group in offering multiple useful display formats (six) for curated collections.

Free to use.

Find out more: https://findings.com/

On-boarding: https://findings.com/user/onboarding/

Example of small collection I've curated on the theme "niche":

https://findings.com/collection/yFTh13/?theme=boxed

Tim Pixley's curator insight, July 18, 2013 11:54 AM

Quote junkies will appreciate this one!

Louise Robinson-Lay's curator insight, July 19, 2013 7:00 PM

Findings allows you to curate collections of quotes on topics of interest to you.

Sue Alexander's curator insight, July 21, 2013 9:47 PM

I love this tool. Not only is it great for curation, the content is rich and easily serchable.

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July 16, 2013 1:55 AM

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From extract-web-data.com - July 16, 2013 1:55 AM

Robin Good's insight:

To capture and extract structured data from any web site is one of the approaches adopted to gather more information on a specific topic when there are no easier means to access that data or to export it easily from the site where it was published.

Web scraping, web mining, data extraction and website scraping include a wide range of applications and uses and nonetheless some malicious use of them, these technologies are very useful for data curation, business intelligence, SEO optimization and to monitor content changes on any web page.

Web scrapers are generally geek tools that require some familiarity with how data is structured inside a database and within a HTML /CSS web page. To scrape information from a web page it is in fact necessary to be able to identify key elements of the data to be extracted in order to teach the scraper what patterns to follow to reliably extract the data you need.

If you are looking for more information on commercial web scrapers available online, their key strenghts, prices and features, the two lists that follow contain everything you may want to know and more.

Included are also WordPress plugins capable of scraping work, a tool to prevent your own web pages from being "scraped" by others, and some coverage of the ethical and legal issues involved.

Very useful. Geeky tools. 8/10

Software for web scraping: http://extract-web-data.com/software-for-web-scraping/

Scraping software, services and plugins sum up: http://extract-web-data.com/scraping-software-services-and-plugins-sum-up/

tami neuthal 's curator insight, July 16, 2013 9:00 AM

great list & useful tools

Steve Tuffill's comment, July 16, 2013 12:23 PM

Thanks for sharing this, Robin! There are some awesome resources here!

Stephen Dale's curator insight, July 22, 2013 6:03 AM

A useful list of website "scraping" tools. Not mentioned but should be added to the list: https://scraperwiki.com/ ;

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July 14, 2013 6:39 AM

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From opensorcery.net - July 14, 2013 6:39 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Back in 2003 visionary artist Anne-Marie Schleiner wrote an inspiring paper entitled "Fluidities and Oppositions among Curators, Filter Feeders and Future Artists" describing the future role of online curators as nature's own filter feeders.

Anne-Marie is clearly referring to curators to and filter feeder in art world, but her rightful intuitions are equivalently applicable to the larger world of information, data, digital and content curation as well.

But let me explain better.

First. The term "filter feeders" is used in nature to describe a group of animals which thrives on its ability to filter organic matter floating around them.

From Wikipedia: "Filter feeders are animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure.

Some animals that use this method of feeding are clams, krill, sponges, baleen whales, and many fish (including some sharks). Some birds, such as flamingos, are also filter feeders.

Filter feeders can play an important role in clarifying water, and are therefore considered ecosystem engineers."

From Wikipedia: "In marine environments, filter feeders and plankton are ecosystem engineers because they alter turbidity and light penetration, controlling the depth at which photosynthesis can occur.[4]"

Second. If you re-read this last sentence slowly and look at what it could mean if applied to the field of content curation, it would read to me something like this:

"In large information ecosystems like the web, filter feeders/content curators and content itself are ecosystem engineers because they:

a) directly influence our ability to inform ourselves effectively and to discern truth from false and useless info (turbidity)

b) shed light and clarity on different subjects which would otherwise remain obscure (light penetration)

c) determine our ability to make sense of our own generated information streams (photosynthesis)."

A very inspiring parallel indeed, giving a way to visualize the true importance and role that curation, disenfranchised from the confines of museums and art galleries, could have on the planetary information ecosystem.

Anne-Marie writes: "Most web sites contain hyperlinks to other sites, distributed throughout the site or in a "favorites" section.

Each of these favorite links sections serves as a kind of gallery, remapping other web sites as its own contents.

Every web site owner is thus a curator and a cultural critic, creating chains of meaning through association, comparison and juxtaposition, parts or whole of which can in turn serve as fodder for another web site's "gallery."

Site maintainers become operational filter feeders, feeding of other filter feeders sites and filtering others' sites.

Links are contextualized, interpreted and "filtered" through criticism and comments about them, and also by placement in the topology of a site.

The deeper a link is buried, the harder it may be to find, the closer to the surface and the frontpage, the more prominent it becomes, as any web designer can attest to.

I am what I link to and what I am shifts over time as I link to different sites...

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In the process, I invest my identity in my collection - I become how I filter."

Anne-Marie vision (2003), pure and uninfluenced by what we have seen emerge in the last few years, paints a very inspiring picture of the true role of content curators and of the key responsibility they do hold for humanity's future.

Inspiring. Visionary. Right on the mark. 10/10

Original PDF: http://opensorcery.net/opposition.pdf

(Thanks to Emma Watermann and her post, who has helped me discover this gem)

Begoña Iturgaitz's curator insight, July 14, 2013 7:50 AM

Very good point from Anne- Marie. It's also useful for thinking on what you filter....

David Álvarez's curator insight, July 17, 2013 3:12 AM

Robin Good's insight:

But let me explain better.

First. The term "filter feeders" is used in nature to describe a group of animals which thrives on its ability to filter organic matter floating around them.

From Wikipedia: "Filter feeders are animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized filtering structure.

Some animals that use this method of feeding areclams, krill, sponges, baleen whales, and many fish(including some sharks). Some birds, such as flamingos, are also filter feeders.

Filter feeders can play an important role in clarifying water, and are therefore consideredecosystem engineers."

From Wikipedia: "In marine environments, filter feeders and plankton are ecosystem engineers because they alter turbidity and light penetration, controlling the depth at which photosynthesis can occur.[4]"

Second. If you re-read this last sentence slowly and look at what it could mean if applied to the field of content curation, it would read to me something like this:

"In large information ecosystems like the web, filter feeders/content curators and content itself are ecosystem engineers because they:

a) directly influence our ability to inform ourselves effectively and to discern truth from false and useless info (turbidity)

b) shed light and clarity on different subjects which would otherwise remain obscure (light penetration)

c) determine our ability to make sense of our own generated information streams (photosynthesis)."

Anne-Marie writes: "Most web sites contain hyperlinks to other sites, distributed throughout the site or in a "favorites" section.

Each of these favorite links sections serves as a kind of gallery, remapping other web sites as its own contents.

Every web site owner is thus a curator and a cultural critic, creating chains of meaning through association, comparison and juxtaposition, parts or whole of which can in turn serve as fodder for another web site's "gallery."

Site maintainers become operational filter feeders, feeding of other filter feeders sites and filtering others' sites.

Links are contextualized, interpreted and "filtered" through criticism and comments about them, and also by placement in the topology of a site.

The deeper a link is buried, the harder it may be to find, the closer to the surface and the frontpage, the more prominent it becomes, as any web designer can attest to.

I am what I link to and what I am shifts over time as I link to different sites...

...

In the process, I invest my identity in my collection - I become how I filter."

Inspiring. Visionary. Right on the mark. 10/10

Original PDF: http://opensorcery.net/opposition.pdf 

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July 11, 2013 10:43 AM

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From www.hypebot.com - July 11, 2013 10:43 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Yannick Servant of Digital Edge has written an interesting article that clearly explains the importance of curation for the future of music.

At the opposite end of where Pandora, Spotify and other auto-curated music channels sit, the power of individual music curation and human-curated playlists, both by artists, DJs and listeners may prove again to have more benefits than automated technology.

The issue here is that there is just too little sharing of valuable music from those, the artists, who are in the best position to do it and who could benefit the most from doing it.

He writes: "Take a look at French artist Brodinski: his Facebook and Twitter feeds are filled with musical content from artists he's close to. Or Boston duo Soul Clap, who regularly create DJ charts on Beatport; and, because, there's a "buy" link on the tracks, these guys are actually providing their fans with an incentive to financially support the acts they've curated.

If you believe in the power of connecting with other musicians, of creating a movement, your job as an artist becomes to get connected with your scene, finding the artists you see as part of your movement, help them be discovered and identified as part of the movement, and help them reciprocate. As long as there's an unmistakable unity, the bigger the movement, the bigger everyone's personal gains, ultimately."

"Done properly, curation is a powerful means of connecting, sharing, building your scene, and is a real way of boosting your career. Because by doing so, you:

- Get more people to listen to your music and convert them into fans

- Increase your media outreach

- Develop lasting relations with other artists in your scene

- Generate gratitude among your existing fans for sharing cool new tunes with them

- Show there's no narcissism in your approach: you're not there to poach fans, but to build awesomeness around your entire scene, to transform it into a movement."

Rightful. Educational. Resourceful. 8/10

Full article: http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2013/07/co-creating-a-fanbase-with-music-curation-and-what-artists-can-learn-from-bloggers-to-get-there.html

(Image credit: DJ turntable - Shuttertsock)

wanderingsalsero's curator insight, July 12, 2013 10:50 PM

An obvious 'must have' for anybody who's open minded and curious about different kinds of music.

Caleb Yap's curator insight, July 17, 2013 11:26 PM

what does this mean? what is music curation?

Carlos H's curator insight, November 4, 2013 4:29 PM

Music curation is in the future of music and allows producers and artist the oppotunity of touching their fan base. Wtih music curation you as an artist allow your fans to tell you what they want to hear, this allows the industry to filter out the one hit wonder who linger s around and makes way for the true talents to do what they love.

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July 10, 2013 8:15 AM

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From www.qwant.com - July 10, 2013 8:15 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Qwant is a new meta-search engine, tapping into the best news, web, video, image and social content sources and allowing you to clip and save your favorite results into topic-specific notebooks.

Specifically, Qwant offers for each search you perform, five column of results covering your specified topic:

1) top web results

2) top social results

3) Wikipedia references

4) media results (images and video clips)

5) top products

Each of the column can be filtered according to your specific keywords.

You can also easily save and archive any such result into your personally created notebooks, which can be made private or public.

You can also easily share any content item directly from Qwab to your Facebook and Twitter accounts, and you can explore and search public curated search notebooks from other users.

Supports 15 languages including French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Hebrew and Russian.

Free to use.

Try it out now: http://www.qwant.com/

More info: http://www.qwant.com/help

*see similar tools in the "Search Curation" section
of Content Curation Tools Supermap

wanderingsalsero's curator insight, July 12, 2013 10:54 PM

Seems to me this could be used to make some great content for blogs...and the link could be used as Facebook content.

Greg Longmuir's curator insight, July 16, 2013 12:55 PM

I guess you can never have enough curating, in this digital age anything that can keep you up to date and help visibility is worth a try. I like the way the simplify everything. I'm not sure but even with all this info I still may feel like I'm missing something and go to the individual sites anyway. But to see what the landscape looks like in a quick view Qwant is pretty cool.

Alfredo Corell's curator insight, July 17, 2013 2:09 PM

A new meta-search engine... deserves a visit

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July 6, 2013 2:12 PM

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From www.schoollibrarymonthly.com - July 6, 2013 2:12 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Joyce Valenza, a teacher librarian and a prolific writer, has published at the end of 2012 a great article explaining the relevance and benefits that content curation can bring to the education world and the importance that school and college librarians may play in this major transformation.

Besides effectively introducing curation, its role and reason to be by utilizing some highly qualified references, the article focuses on the reasons that make librarians uniquely qualified to curate and the benefits that can derive from effectively utilizing curation in their activities.

The benefits and applications of using curation are reviewed as well as the potential for curation to be highly beneficial also beyond the education and learning world.

Joyce Valenza also points for example to search, as a likely area in which curation may play very soon a much more important role than search engines have played this far.

From the original article: "Curation tools present an exciting new genre of search tool. Searchers can now exploit the curated efforts or the bibliographies of experts and others who take the lead in a particular subject area—those who volunteer to scan the real-time environment as scouts.

They also present the opportunity to guide learners in new evaluation strategies. Who is the curator? Which curators can you trust? Is a curator attached to a team, publication, institution, organization? How can the quality of their insights, selections, sources, and feeds be judged? Do their efforts have many followers? Is their curation active and current?

By linking to the search pages of the major curation tools, school librarians can help students, faculty, and parents with more long-tail needs access the expertise of a subject expert or a curator with a passion for an issue.

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What has been discovered is that curation rocks as a search/current awareness tool especially for issues in the news, controversial topics, and long-tail interests."

An excellent set of tools and curation resources at the end, provide extra value to an already excellent reference article.

A must-read article for anyone involved in research, education, teaching and in information library sciences.

Recommended. Informative. Resourceful. 8/10

Original article: http://www.schoollibrarymonthly.com/articles/Valenza2012-v29n1p20.html

(Image - Librarian from Shutterstock)

Luis Alberto Velasco's curator insight, October 18, 2013 10:57 AM

Estamos evolucionando

Kathy Schrock's curator insight, January 23, 2014 7:00 PM

Librarians have been doing this for years, but now have many tools to pick from!

Angel Somers's curator insight, February 2, 2014 1:31 PM

LIbrarians are natural curators! It's what we do, so it makes sense that we should take the initiative to promot curation as a valuable skill for both our colleagues and our students.

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July 3, 2013 5:17 PM

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From peteyeomans.wordpress.com - July 3, 2013 5:17 PM

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Thanks to Steve Wheeler and Oliver Quinlan for a very inspirational post about the relevance of curation for students and learning.

I think they really nail down the key issue that needs to be addressed when presenting curation as a key alternative to the present learning approach.

"The thrust of our thinking is that students arrive at University conditioned to chase the answer that they think the lecturer is looking for.

That we can use a range of online tools to bring to the surface skills in engaging with the body of knowledge rather than collecting quotes for an essay.

We argued that we need to take students through a paradigm shift, to enable them to understand how to read and curate that reading, having taken a critical, forensic approach to the reading they undertake."

Content Curation is a vital skill and reasonably closely aligned with the role defined as a maven and made famous in Gladwell’s book Tipping Point.

We are seeking to turn our students into the nation’s leading mavens of their discipline.

To fall in love with their body of knowledge and then write their answer, rather than seeking our answer."

And that is exactly the point. Moving from a passive, rote memorization of notions to the opportunity to investigate, research, dive in and explore a body of knowledge to create something meaningful for others to tap into.

"...how many novice learners, and in particular undergraduate students, attempt to build into their work what they believe their lecturers require from them. this is often exepmlifed with over complex, “plucked from a thesaurus” language...

"Just as the Melanesian islanders failed to understand the inner workings of technology, but attempted to recreate it from its surface appearance, so undergraduate students who ‘don’t get it’ attempt to write critical essays by stringing together references into some form of meaningful narrative."

"Once students get the idea that they can write critically by being forensic and striving to understand the concepts and theories rather than simply creating replicas of texts they have only half read, they will begin to assimilate these ideas successfully in to their own thinking and ideology.

We want to ensure that students become curators of their discipline, rather than magpies intent upon adorning their world with shiny disconnected baubles of information, with no care as to where the information came from, its author or its relationship to the rest of the body of knowledge."

The analogy with "cargo cults" presented in the article is a perfect match to illustrate easily to anyone the type of education we are providing to our students today.

Must read article. Highly recommended. 9/10

Full article: http://peteyeomans.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/students-as-curators-cargo-cults-and-chasing-the-answers/

Original: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/cargo-cults-wooden-phones-and.html

(Image credit: www.science-store.com)

Lydia Gracia's comment, July 4, 2013 8:02 AM

sure!

Thomas C. Thompson's curator insight, July 7, 2013 10:48 PM

People were born to learn, this makes everyone they're own expert in the topic they love best.

Frances's curator insight, July 10, 2013 10:53 AM

Ah, love of knowledge!

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July 2, 2013 1:06 PM

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From permamarks.com - July 2, 2013 1:06 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Permamarks is a new web-based bookmarking utility that addresses a key need for anyone needing to collect and preserve "as is" any content / web page found on the web (with a date/time stamp).

Permamarks offers the opportunity to create 100% faithful copies of any web page that integrate actual content and HTML of the original and to save it forever at a dedicated URL.

One of the core objectives of digital curation is in fact one of archiving and preserving for the future any collection item. Permamarks addresses this very issue by allowing you not only to save and bookmark any web page but by also saving the full content and original display format of each.

Web pages can be saved to Permamarks either by copying and pasting a URL or by using the dedicated bookmarklet. Archived pages can be commented and organized into list/collections.

URLs of permanently saved pages cannot be changed, but can be shortened and customized for extra usability.

My comment: Permamarks addresses a need overlooked by most content curation tools available today. The challenge will be for content curators to add an extra step in their curation workflow to first file and preserve the content being curated. Integration with existing curation tools would greatly help, as the second challenge would be for the curator to decide whether to curate the original "live" or the "permanently saved" copy. Ideally, I'd see the curator referring to the original content with a parallel copy being saved and archived for future reference.

Free. Pro plans coming.

By invitation.

More info: https://permamarks.com/

*Get immediate access to Permamarks by participating in the Content Curation for Everyone master class, taking place next Monday July 8th on TheNextWeb Academy. Find out more here: http://www.thenextweb.com/academy/ and here: http://curation.masternewmedia.org

Asil's comment, August 3, 2013 8:33 PM

The Internet Archive has been a leader on this since the inception of the Internet. They have a subscription service called Archive-It and you can share access to those perma-links using their WayBack Machine. Here's the link to that site: https://archive.org/web/web.php

Robin Good's comment, August 4, 2013 1:33 AM

Asil, thank you so much for this very appropriate reminder.

blogbrevity's comment, August 5, 2013 9:20 AM

Great opportunity to explain the difference! Permamarks is a "hybrid" way to save links, and the basic version is free. Permamarks creates ONE link that is BOTH a bookmark and an archive at the point of time YOU viewed it: http://pmrks.com/cronut-for-saving-links. When you share a permamark, it provides content in the "context" of when you viewed it. That is what makes Permamarks so valuable for scooping. It preserves a link to a current "realtime" page, but if that page has been removed or changed, you automatically have an archived version at the point in time you captured it. Your scoop.it pages stay relevant and free of dead links. This is very different from other archiving or caching services you can go back to and research pages or links archived at "their" point in time (which may be different from "your" point in time.) Robin, this reminds me of when I first defined curation as different from aggregation because curation presented a "point of view." This is so important to curation. Now an individual can save the internet from their own "point of view." Thank you, again, for this great post and discussions.

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July 3, 2013 12:03 PM

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From www.thenextweb.com - July 3, 2013 12:03 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Three additional content curation tools have chosen to partner and support my upcoming Content Curation for Everyone Master Class (Mon. July 8th) by providing free special access to their PRO versions to all of the course participants.

These new ones include:

1) Spundge - content curation/publishing platform

60 days access to PRO account for free

2) Listly - create/curate/publish professional-looking embeddable lists

60 days access to PRO account for free

3) Twtrland - find true influencers and experts for every niche, skill or place

60 days access to PRO account for free +

free 30-minute custom demo

These three line up to complete a growing set that already includes:

4) Swayy - news discovery and curated social sharing

direct access to private Beta + PRO plan free for 45 days

5) Scoop.it - content curation/publishing platform

access to PRO account for free for 3 months

6) OpenTopic - content curation/publishing platform

access to Private Beta

7) Permamarks - permanent archival of web pages

access to Private Beta

8) To be announced shortly.

Participants to the "Content Curation for Everyone" class will also get:

early access to my newest content curation tools mastermap, which contains over 300 tools organized by application/use and technology/format type.
access to my log of 100 criteria to evaluate any content curation tool

N.B.: Though the official promotion says for "beginners" this is really an "intermediate" class designed for those who already understand the basics and want to go beyond them.

You can sign-up for the class here: http://thenextweb.com/academy/

For more info, contact me directly at: Robin.Good @ masternewmedia.org

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July 1, 2013 1:41 PM

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From thenextweb.com - July 1, 2013 1:41 PM

Robin Good's insight:

As promised, participants to next week Content Curation for Everyone online class, offered by TheNextWeb Academy will get special access to a few selected content curation tools.

Here is the lineup of the bonuses at this time:

1) Swayy - direct access to the private Beta + PRO plan for free for 45 days

2) Scoop.it - access to PRO account for free for 3 months

3) OpenTopic - access to Private Beta

4) Permamarks - access to Private Beta

5) To be announced shortly

6) To be announced shortly

Participants to the "Content Curation for Everyone" class will also get early access to my newest content curation tools mastermap, which contains over 300 tools organized by application/use and technology/format type.

N.B.: Though the official promotion says for "beginners" this is really an "intermediate" class designed for those who already understand the basics and want to go beyond them.

You can sign-up for the class here: http://thenextweb.com/academy/

For more info, contact me directly at: Robin.Good @ masternewmedia.org

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From www.youtube.com - July 22, 2013 5:17 PM

Robin Good's insight:

EdShelf is a free web service which allows you to curate, review, rate and organize your favorite educational apps as well as to find and discover the ideal ones for your kids or for the next class you need to teach.

Ed apps can be organized into collections which can be further filtered thanks to tags and categories.

You can search for tools as well as browse curated categories, most recent additions and popular ones.

To keep the quality of new apps included in EdShelf and to protect itself from spam, while you can add at any time a new app and add it to your collections, for any new app added the EdShelf curation team will then review it for inclusion in the general EdShelf database and if accepted, it will add more detailed info to it including video clips, and other relevant info.

Here's the official rundown: "edshelf is a directory of tools for education. You can search and filter for specific tools, rate and review tools you've used, access your tools with a single sign-on, receive recommended and featured tools, create collections of tools, and share your collections with friends and colleagues."

My comment: Crowdsourced curation focusing on a very fast-growing and much in-demand niche: educational apps and tools. Simple to use. Excellent tool for finding relevant apps for different educational uses. Intercepts a specific need. Promising.

Free to use.

More info: https://edshelf.com/

FAQ: https://edshelf.com/faq

Reviews: https://edshelf.com/press

*Added to Curation for Education section of Content Curation Tools Supermap

Alfredo Corell's curator insight, July 27, 2013 4:05 PM

As it stands: curate, review, find, and discover Educational Apps

Rick Bessey's curator insight, August 15, 2013 8:46 AM

More a place holder for now. Haven't read the article, but looks promising.

Roberto Ivan Ramirez's comment, August 15, 2013 8:56 PM

herramientas para aprender a curar información aplicadas al ámbito escolar, bastante recomendable esta práctica.

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From seomomma.com - July 21, 2013 11:53 AM

Robin Good's insight:

SEOMomma provides some really useful pointers for finding "trending content" online:

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends takes you to where Google curates the trending queries, if you can find something here that you can spin and link to your niche you could get a nice bump in traffic.
http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts everyone loves ‘top tens’ and at this links Google curates the most popular ‘top ten charts’ song to space objects. Children’s TV to Politicians, whisky to coffee and lots I between. It may inspire you to produce your own ‘top ten’.
http://www.hashtags.org/ will give you a list of trending hashtags and http://www.hashtags.org/trending-on-twitter/ will give you what’s trending on Twitter.
http://whatthetrend.com/ has general subjects and if you investigate you’ll see how sites like Huffington Post use the hashtag to create content that could pull in visitors.

If you want more of these, just head on to: http://seomomma.com/content-creation-curated-content/ for the full list.

Useful. Resourceful. 8/10

Original article: http://seomomma.com/content-creation-curated-content/

Stephen Dale's curator insight, July 22, 2013 5:43 AM

A useful list of....lists!

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From www.treemap.com - July 18, 2013 3:54 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Treemap is a cross-platform treemap visualization downloadable software tool which allows you to import large data collections that are too big to visualize and easily navigate through standard display formats, and to create stunningly effective data displays based on the "treemap" format.

If you are not familiar with it, the treemap data display algorithm works by dividing the data display area "so that the area of each entry is proportional to the data values" it contains.

In addition to the classic treemap layout algorithm, TreeMap also offers additional display formats including squarified variant that harmonizes aspect ratios of the rectangles, the circular tag cloud and Voronoi layouts.

"In terms of interaction, TreeMap provides a zooming interface as well as the possibility to drill-down. Details on demand are available in the form of pop-ups whose content can be freely customized."

Data can be imported from Excel, MySQL / SQL Server / PostgreSQL / Oracle databases and there color, height, labels, relevance can be mapped to any record attribute.

30-day free trial available: http://www.treemap.com/try/

Pricing: $259 for license

N.B.: The Treemap server software ($2495 for internal use - higher rates for public use), allows you to publicly share and publish online all of your treemap visualizations.

My comment: I think that treemaps will revolutionize the way we can organize and make accessible large data sets and collections in ways that are immediately useful for the layman. I wish I could already utilize a technology like this one to organize some of my large tool collections, as however good, the present-day tools just don't cut in when you need to work with medium to large-size collections.

I look forward to lower prices and more user-friendly versions of Treemap to be released and integrated in other data curation apps. There is a fast growing market of companies and individual data curators highly interested in making sense of their data sets.

More info: http://www.treemap.com/

Features: http://www.treemap.com/features/

Free 30-day try-out: http://www.treemap.com/try/

Download (Win, OSX, Linux): http://www.treemap.com/download/

Datasets (that you can play with): http://www.treemap.com/datasets/

Documentation: http://www.treemap.com/documentation/

Check also:

Treemap Server: http://www.treemap.com/server/
Server try-out: http://www.treemap.com/server/try/

Treemap API: http://www.treemap.com/api/

API try-out: http://www.treemap.com/api/try/

ghbrett's curator insight, July 18, 2013 9:08 AM

This is another post where I recommend that you scroll down to have a look at Robin Good's great commentary. I can not beat his for details. His Scoop.it site is: http://curation.masternewmedia.org/ Thanks Robin!

Jenifer Rettler's curator insight, July 18, 2013 10:15 AM

If you are looking for additional visualization tools for displaying data, TreeMap v. 3.0 offers a classic tree map layout as well as others, like squarified variant, circular, tag cloud and voronoi.

malek's curator insight, July 18, 2013 4:54 PM

Interesting tool, give it a try

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From www-jime.open.ac.uk - July 16, 2013 10:15 AM

Robin Good's insight:

How can content curation be used in education to support and enhance the development of new media literacy skills?

Paul Mihailidis from the Department of Marketing Communication at Emerson College in tandem with James N Cohen from the School of Communication at Hofstra University, have outlined six different ways in which content curation can be utilized as a key methodology to develop critical thinking, analysis and communication skills.

Their analysis is based on the actual use of Storify, a content curation tool, for specific educational objectives.

Useful as a reference framework for introducing content curation within pedagogical programmes. 8/10

Full white paper: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/article/2013-02/html

Other formats available here: http://www-jime.open.ac.uk/jime/article/view/2013-02#.UdYEmfBnbuI

(Image credit: Critical thinking by Shutterstock)

Ryer Banta's curator insight, September 4, 2013 1:05 PM

To read.

terrymc's curator insight, September 23, 2013 10:21 AM

Curation can be used as an authentic activity with many disciplines to enable students to critically evaluate resources for a common interest. Would like to hear more about discipline based projects.

Karyn McGinley's curator insight, October 22, 2013 7:13 PM

I am eager to delve into this further....

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From www.rohitbhargava.com - July 14, 2013 3:14 PM

Robin Good's insight:

I am under the impression that content curation is being hijacked by those who are interested in making you think that, if you adopt curation most apparent traits (picking and reposting valuable content from others) you may be in for lots of benefits and a significant time-saving bonus.

Rohit Barghava is the person who gave, back in 2009, one of the earliest and most appropriate descriptions for "content curation" and who also identified five key basic approaches to curating content.

To this day, those articles remain milestone references for anyone interested in content curation.

This week, in a post published on his blog, Rohit reminds his readers that there's an easy cure for those who can't write or create great content: curation.

He writes: "Here is the best part about content curation, though. It doesn’t require you to be a writer, or a filmmaker, or an on-screen commentator. Curation is inherently behind the scenes.

What it does require, though, is expertise. It requires the ability to think and collect. They are different skills sets than creation, but in a business environment..."

In my experience the art of content curation, unless we refer to the ability to spot apparently interesting stuff and to pass it on to others by sharing it online, is a much more difficult and unfamiliar endevour and it requires many more skills than those required to write a simple blog post on a topic.

Why?

To curate content, you first need, as Rohit rightly points out, to be able to find good, relevant stuff, without having the ability to write it yourself. True. But finding and being able to "recognize" good stuff is not an innate or intuitive skill unless you have trained yourself to do it.

Very few of those who want to do content curation for "content marketing" purposes, take the time to vet, read, verify and evaluate stuff before publishing it. This approach would negate the advantage they think they have gained: saving time and producing more content with little time and effort.

The same is true for collecting and organizing. Saving and archiving stuff may be relatively easy, but labeling, categorizing and tagging in ways that make your collection valuable and intelligible for many others and for a long time to come is not.

Morale of the story:

a) Supermarket caviar costs a few bucks, but it has nothing to do, beyond appearance to the real deal. Try the real caviar and you'll know the difference.

b) Who reaches the top of a mountain after a comfortable helicopter ride, does not have the same view of the guy standing next to him, who arrived there by climbin gup 4000 feet on his own feet. Though the view is the same, they see a very different panorama.

c) Finding and collecting things without proper vetting, categorization, contextualization and explanation, has, little or nothing to do with content curation. It has to do with content marketing which has, as its key goal, the "...acquistion of customers".

Wikipedia says: "Content marketing is any marketing format that involves the creation and sharing of media and publishing content in order to acquire customers."

Content Marketing Institute says: "Content marketing is a marketing technique of creating and distributing relevant and valuable content to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood target audience – with the objective of driving profitable customer action."

One thing is to learn the skills of research, investigation and presentation and then get good at finding and collecting things that my customers are deeply interested in, for the purpose of saving them time while giving them valuable insight on a specific topic.

Another thing is spotting apparently relevant content found online and republishing it without taking any of the time-consuming steps that a true content curator would. An increasingly common practice, fueled by many of the content curation vendors content marketing strategies.

For those interested in quick results in terms of traffic, visibility and exposure, this does appear as a godsend.

But the end result, over time, is more noise, as reposting content with little analysis and no added insight generates lots of more shallow and often unreliable content pointers with little or no additional value.

Serious researching, analyzing, vetting and contextualizing is not easily replaced by retweeting or reposting interesting things one can find online.

While in some instances, "aggregation" can bring indeed some rapid and relevant results by simply collecting and publishing news on a specific topic, all the other forms of curation identified by the author require some dedicated analysis, research and writing abilties to fully express their potential.

In essence, I think that the idea that "if you can't write or do proper research you can always curate", is a pretentious and misleading proposition, which, over time, may ironically work against those adopting it.

Appropriate for content marketers, not for true curators 5/10

Original post: http://www.rohitbhargava.com/2013/07/content-curation-how-to-content-marketing-creator.html

(Image credit: Girl thinking by Shutterstock)

Robin Martin's comment, July 15, 2013 3:34 PM

Absolutely Deb! I'm also sharing Robin's insights in my circles...great article and thanks for sharing, Robin!

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From www.scrible.com - July 12, 2013 2:20 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Scribble is web-based app which allows you to save and archive any web page while being able to richly annotate it in multiple colors & styles.

Scribble indexes all of the web content you save and it allows you to search through it easily. The basic version which is free to anyone allows you to:

Save web research online & access it from anywhere
Use simple keywords to search full text of saved research
Use tags to quickly and easily organize research by topic
Easily share annotated web research with others via email
Annotate, comment and highlight text in a variety of ways

Two editions are available right now:

a) Free - 125MB of storage

b) Student (free) which adds to the basic features:

250MB of storage +

Capture citations and create bibliographies in a snap.
Compile notes from multiple articles into summaries & reports.
Collaborate with others by inviting them to Sharable Libraries.

My comment: An excellent tool for researchers, journalists and teachers who need to permanently save, organize, annotate and highlight different content coming from the web.

More info: http://www.scrible.com

Tour: https://www.scrible.com/tour

Plans: https://www.scrible.com/plans

Bookmarklet: https://www.scrible.com/bookmarklet

Kaye Blum's curator insight, July 16, 2013 5:55 AM

Better than Scoop.it? It has the advantage of highlighting text... other advantages?

SLRE's curator insight, August 2, 2013 6:45 AM

Handig app om dingen die je op het web tegenkomt van aantekeningen te voorzien en te bewaren.

wanderingsalsero's curator insight, October 20, 2013 7:54 PM

I haven't read this article but I'm seriously interested in the question implied in the title.....i.e. how to 'mark up' information and get them on the web. In many cases, I think that's adequate for most people's purpose.

I have yet to find a tool that I found really comfortable for doing that. Maybe this is it.

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From feedwelder.com - July 11, 2013 6:16 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Feedwelder is a new web app for news and content curators that allows you to easily aggregate, mix and filter two or more RSS feeds and then to get a reliable JavaScript code to publish them on your website or bog.

Feedwelder does an excellent job of simplifying the need to mix multiple RSS feed together, eliminating duplicates and filtering the resulting mix according to your own specifications.

See part of the "mixing" interface: http://o7.no/154QOLH

Here is how it works:

Find the feeds you would like to show on your web site. (For example, BBC News has a page that lists all their feeds.)
Click on New Mix and give your mix a title (only visible to you).
Click "Add a Feed" to paste in each of your feeds.
Click "Save and Get Code" and you'll see the Javascript or PHP code that you can paste into your web pages.

The key benefits of using Feedwelder to aggregate and publish RSS feeds on your web site are:

a) Faster - Cloud cached feeds for maximum page load speed on your site

b) Simpler - Easy to mix and display feeds

c) Better looking - White label customizable look

My comment: For anyone doing news curation this is as useful as oxygen for humans. Aggregating, mixing and filtering RSS feeds is one of the basic activities of a good news curator and FeedWelder provides a simple tool to do it.

The only limitation of this approach remains the one that you are posting a JavaScript code snippet on your page and not the actual content of those RSS feed items. So, if you are doing this with the specific intention of improving the quality of content that search engines will find on your site, this is not going to help you. On the other hand if your first concern, - as it should - is for the end reader, the service provided by Feedwelder can provide a really useful and easy solution for publishing RSS feeds on your site while keeping control on their look.

Get invited: http://feedwelder.com/

Adam Donkus's comment, July 12, 2013 9:44 AM

Sweet..I have been using the free script from Google, which is lacking in a lot in the visual department..I will be checking it out..thanks for sharing..

Adam Donkus's curator insight, July 12, 2013 9:45 AM

cool tool..

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From www.pearltrees.com - July 9, 2013 12:30 PM

Robin Good's insight:

If you are looking for your ideal content curation toolkit here is my new completely updated supermap, listing in over 30 categories all of the tools and services you may need to curate any content, from video to news.

This new supermap includes all of the tools and services that were already listed on NewsMaster Toolkit, with the addition of 25 new tools and with a much better organization of categories and labels.

My choice for organizing and recreating this supermap has now fallen on Pearltrees, the only content curation tool that can easily handle most of my key requirements for such a large collection of tools.

Nonetheless there are over 400 tools listed in this supermap, Pearltrees makes it a breeze to navigate through them, and to add new ones to the relevant branches.

The supermap is now being updated daily.

P.S.: I already feel the need for having a PRO account, which could allow me to further edit the pearls collected, to preserve original web pages saved, and to add images to pearls that weren't able to capture one from the web.

Enjoy the new supermap here: http://bit.ly/ContentCurationToolsSupermap

Try it out and let me know what you think.

(*and if you think I am missing some tools or can improve with my taxonomy, feel free to send me in your suggestions!)

Ajo Monzó's curator insight, July 22, 2013 2:05 AM

Complet! Gracias

Alex Grech's curator insight, August 9, 2013 11:35 AM

My current absorption with Pearltrees started with an exploration of Robin Good's incredible structure. To be studied, admired and shared.

Loli Olmos's curator insight, August 19, 2013 7:35 PM

¡Excelente! ¡Menudo trabajo!

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From fora.tv - July 5, 2013 2:22 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Last year, at the WIRED Business Conference 2012, Thomas Goetz, a Wired executive editor, presented on an interesting topic entitled: How To Spot the Future.

In it, he presented seven rules for identifying the trends, technologies and ideas that will change the world. An activity that Wired editors should supposedly be very good at.

Rule number six in Mr. Goetz presentation is "Demand Deep Design", an elegant way of saying that "curation" and the ability to do so effectively, is and will be a characterizing trait of companies capable of changing the world.

"Stripping away unnecessary info..."

"companies that help us organize our lives..."

"entities that help us understand information"

All these are all easily recognizable traits of those working, directly or indirectly, to help us better manage the large amount of information we are increasingly confronted with.

The ability to do so, is a "design ability", because it encompasses the whole purpose, reason to be and scope of an object, piece of information or tool.

And indeed, it looks like but inevitable (unavoidable), that those individuals and companies who will devise new and better ways to help us manage the info tsunami, will have a fast growing demand coming their way.

"Deep Design turns chaos into curation."

Specific video segment starts at: 8':04"

duration: 1':47"

or go to:

Video URL (specific segment) : http://fora.tv/2012/05/01/WIRED_Business_Conference_How_to_Spot_the_Future#chapter_08

Download full original video .MP4: http://fora.tv/download?cid=15486&fid=110671&sid=ZeRp3KhvVSYluF0TR1u%2BUeQFrBGtHE6yVaA%2Ff8a1kIc%3D&api=11934220-3fda-11e2-a25f-0800200c9a66

(Duration: 12 min - File size: 49MB)

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From www.marco.org - July 4, 2013 7:19 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Marco Arment the creator of Instapaper, has an excellent and provocative piece on why Google is closing down all of its RSS appendages (they just closed also the RSS feeds in Google Alerts) and the logic behind this strategy.

He writes: "Officially, Google killed Reader because “over the years usage has declined”.1 I believe that statement, especially if API clients weren’t considered “usage”, but I don’t believe that’s the entire reason.

The most common assumption I’ve seen others cite is that “Google couldn’t figure out how to monetize Reader,” or other variants about direct profitability. I don’t believe this, either. Google Reader’s operational costs likely paled in comparison to many of their other projects that don’t bring in major revenue, and I’ve heard from multiple sources that it effectively had a staff of zero for years. It was just running, quietly serving a vital role for a lot of people."

"The bigger problem is that they’ve abandoned interoperability. RSS, semantic markup, microformats, and open APIs all enable interoperability, but the big players don’t want that — they want to lock you in, shut out competitors, and make a service so proprietary that even if you could get your data out, it would be either useless (no alternatives to import into) or cripplingly lonely (empty social networks).

Google resisted this trend admirably for a long time and was very geek- and standards-friendly, but not since Facebook got huge enough to effectively redefine the internet and refocus Google’s plans to be all-Google+, all the time.4"

Provides better perspective on RSS, Google, FB and Twitter and your future relationship with RSS.

Must-read article. 9/10

Full article: http://www.marco.org/2013/07/03/lockdown

(Image credit - RSS logo - Shutterstock)

Ashish Rishi's curator insight, July 4, 2013 11:49 PM

Love you Marco!!! Agreed and couldn't have asked for more. Internet to me was the ultimate democratization tool , a leveler, a ground playing field that challenged all institutions that had unnecessary walls around them - say educational institutions , you loved them, but they were for a fortunate few. Internet platforms ( including google) were formed for the love of internet, they have milked it enough and why not ? but now these guys are trying to become to old school walled gardens, I just hope that in doing so , they don't lose the charm that defines them.

Laura Brown's comment, July 6, 2013 2:43 PM

This is like the AOL model of the Internet which they offered years ago. People thought they were online but they were only online via AOL which mean AOL controlled what they say, how they saw it, etc. Many people were fine with the AOL version of the Internet. People who just wanted to look at email and use chat forums for personal reason and put up a personal home page, etc. However, the people who did not like being restricted or confined choose to opt out of AOL and use other ISP's (Internet Service Providers). I'm not surprised Google wants to take several steps back and go that way, take control of what people are allowed to see and make sure the ads are featured versus having the option to block them. They have already gone several steps backwards in bringing back pop up ads. No one seems to protest those, or the video and other bulky ads which take up a lot of bandwidth. People had a large voice against all that when it was still the artists, scientists and other geeks who ruled online. Now it is the marketers and the Internet reflects the change in a big way. It's like one big ad soup. Google just wants to tie it all up in a neat bundle.

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From www.thenextweb.com - July 6, 2013 4:41 PM

Robin Good's insight:

Good news for those interested in signing up for the Content Curation Master Class coming up this Monday. Two more curations tools have lined up to freely offer their PRO or yet-unavailable features to all participants to the master class organized by TheNextWeb Academy.

These are:

1) Handpick - custom curated email news to your selected contacts

60 days access to PRO account for free

2) NOOWIT - early access to Editor / Publishing features and PRO features for free - as soon as they become available (for blog authors)

These two line up to complete a full bonus-set that includes:

3) Spundge - content curation/publishing platform

60 days access to PRO account for free

4) Listly - create/curate/publish professional-looking embeddable lists

60 days access to PRO account for free

5) Twtrland - find true influencers and experts for every niche, skill or place

60 days access to PRO account for free +

free 30-minute custom demo

6) Swayy - news discovery and curated social sharing

direct access to private Beta + PRO plan free for 45 days

7) Scoop.it - content curation/publishing platform

access to PRO account for free for 3 months

8) OpenTopic - content curation/publishing platform

access to Private Beta

9) Permamarks - permanent archival of web pages

access to Private Beta

Participants to the "Content Curation for Everyone" class will also get:

early access to my newest content curation tools mastermap, which contains over 400 tools fully organized by application/use and technology/format type.
access to my log of 100 criteria to evaluate any content curation tool

N.B.: Though the official promotion says for "beginners" this is really an "intermediate" class designed for those who already understand the basics and want to go beyond them.

You can sign-up for the class here: http://thenextweb.com/academy/

For more info, contact me directly at: Robin.Good @ masternewmedia.org

(Image credit: Chocolate candies - Shutterstock)

Michaela Mati's curator insight, July 7, 2013 7:42 AM

tools per la content curation

Catherine Smyth's curator insight, July 8, 2013 10:59 PM

Links to a range of applications for content curation of topics.

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From www.youtube.com - July 5, 2013 9:51 AM

Robin Good's insight:

Rockpack is a free iOS app for iPhones and iPads which allows you to easily clip and organize together video clips already published online.

Similar to Flipboard and Pinterest, it provides a one-click operation to add any YouTube video to one of your video channels.

Rockpack integrates with Twitter and Facebook and it allows you to follow your favorite channels easily. A browser bookmarklet is also availanle for desktop use.

My comment: A quick way to easily create thematic video channels based on existing published material. Easy to use.

Free to use.

App Store download: https://itunes.apple.com/app/rockpack/id660697542?mt=8&ls=1

Find out more: http://rockpack.com/

FAQ: http://rockpack.com/#/content-providers

Henrik Safegaard - Cloneartist's curator insight, July 6, 2013 8:50 AM

The app that makes it easy to create, share and subscribe to personalized video channels. Add your favorite videos from across the web with just one tap.

People are always looking for new ways to express themselves, especially online, and Rockpack provides a unique way for users to do so.

jspellos's curator insight, July 6, 2013 9:21 AM

Like it. A Flipboard for video? Perhaps.

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