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Robin Good's curator insight,
November 26, 2013 10:46 AM
Google Living Stories is an experimental project by Google that showcased (over a brief period between 2009 and 2010) how technology could be used effectively to provide a new, richer and more effective way to organize, serve and present news stories online. In the Living Stories model, each story is a stream that is continuously updated over time with new updates, additional stories, images, and other multimedia resources that are published over time. These are organized on the page in a way that provides maximum accessibility to the reader, allowing him to skim, explore, filter or dig in depth into any category or specific item. Nonetheless abandoned by Google, Living Stories remains a very inspiring example of how automated news aggregation and manual curation, both required in heavy doses to achieve this type of results, could provide a truly innovative mode of producing and offering access to news information. "The Living Stories code is available as open-source for anyone to use on their own sites at: http://code.google.com/p/living-stories/" Must see. 9/10 Free to study, use and adopt. More info and examples: http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ WordPress plugin: https://code.google.com/p/living-stories/wiki/WordpressInstallation
Robin Martin's curator insight,
July 2, 2013 9:03 PM
Thanks Robin for sharing this! Will definitely have to check this out.
Josette Williams's curator insight,
July 5, 2013 4:59 PM
This is the best innovative curation tool for creating your magazine for the web. Check out NOOWIT. Thanks Robin Good!
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
May 16, 2013 11:13 AM
Love Flipboard. This new feature opens up a whole new world for content curation.
Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight,
May 17, 2013 7:31 PM
Ahora ya no hace falta disponer de un Ipad o una tablet o smartphone para realizar nuestra propia revista en Flipboard, ya que con el nuevo editor online en la web de esta conocida herramienta, podremos realizar nuestra propia curación desde nuestro ordenador.
Este vídeo nos da una pequeña introducción de como empezar a usar este editor en la web de Flipboard, mediante el botón o "bookmarklet" que se puede instalar en la barra de favoritos de nuestro navegador para ir capturando los contenidos que nos parezcan interesantes para nuestra publicación.
Robin Good's curator insight,
April 2, 2013 5:59 AM
If you were wondering how likely it is that news curation may become a key strategy for offering quality local news, you should check out this three-year old project called The Breaking News Network. BNN, founded by Pat Kitano, already covers 350 cities worldwide by curating the most interesting local news stories from indigenous blogs and RSS feeds and having a unique focus on supporting community voices and interests. BNN, in its own words is an active, community-sourced and locally driven information network, that uses curation to provide just-in-time relevant info and news to its communities. We’re unique to local publishing because we curate and publish the most interesting media and blog feeds in each city (that means less petty crime and accidents, more events, opinions and commentary) to create an aggregate real time ticker tape of literally everything happening in a city. Every city’s WordPress based website (example: BreakingSFNews.com) broadcasts more than just the usual daily news; it curates news by category: Things to Do, Sports, Food, Culture, etc. so users can find breaking news by topic of interest. We utilize the curation and presentation tools by Rebelmouse to display content in a visual format. We deliver localized news streams through Twitter and Facebook for each city and have amassed over 400,000 fans/followers who appreciate our real time local content." One interesting aspect of The Breaking News Network is its strategic positioning, throughout all of its instances, as a collector and amplifier for the news coming from relevant local institutions and communities providing them with extra visibility and a very relevant context to reach out to interested people. From Journalisaccelerator.com: "When BNN was launched three years ago to give voice to community causes, Kitano brought a unique knowledge from early experiments using Twitter (2006 – 2009) and social media to develop hyperlocal community information networks for the real estate market. Focusing on social at the outset, Kitano was “cobbling together” segmented lists on Twitter before Twitter had even created “lists.” (For context, Twitter launched in July of 2006.) Kitano sees BNN providing a shared social channel – one community, one voice, one cause at a time – with promise of doing good for others by supporting civic groups, local causes and arts organizations." Here, in more detail, some of the community support they provide: "We provide free access for local institutions to our 350+ Twitter feeds via our unique Community Retweet Program. We create national campaigns and build brand advocate networks for good causes. We create unique ways for our readers to interact with their local institutions, like the National Aquarium and Chicago’s International Beethoven Festival."
Review by Journalism Accelerator: http://bit.ly/JATBNN
City directory: http://thebreakingnewsnetwork.com/city-directory/
Fernando Zamith's curator insight,
April 5, 2013 10:44 AM
Vale a pena seguir estas experiências. Já há edições na Europa (UK e Paris) - http://thebreakingnewsnetwork.com/city-directory/.
Quem se quer aventurar na criação do Breaking Lisbon News ou do Breaking Porto News?
ghbrett's curator insight,
March 30, 2013 7:28 AM
Another one of Robin Goode's Scoops with great information and assessment by him. Please read his comments below. Thank you Robin!
franzfume's curator insight,
March 30, 2013 1:53 PM
Curate The Best News Stories Across Web and Social Media with ContentGems | @scoopit via @RobinGood http://sco.lt/...
Robin Good's comment,
November 12, 2013 9:03 AM
RebelMouse was born to build a social media hub, but it does have strong aggregation, filtering and curation capabilities. SEO-wise it is not a great choice, but also Scoop.it has quite a few limits on this front. <br><br>Rebelmouse doesn't offer all of the extras Scoop.it has, from scheduling, to sharing to an extended number of social networks, to integration with newsletter and to the backend dashboard. <br><br>Scoop.it has also a better, cleaner and more legible format, that better lends itself to more in-depth reading than just browsing titles, images and tweets.
Stan Smith's comment,
November 12, 2013 9:22 AM
While I still use RebelMouse I have disconnected all inbound links because it posts it wacky and I was always having to go back and edit stuff. Now that I post stuff manually with their applet it isn't so bad. I still prefer Scoop.it though.
Terheck's comment,
November 12, 2013 4:12 PM
I use Rebelmouse for a while now, and I like it as a complementary tool to other Social Media tools. You can have a look at it on https://www.rebelmouse.com/Terheck/
August 10, 2012 6:26 AM
's comment
Hi Robin,
Thanks for covering us, it’s always a pleasure to receive feedback from people like you. I’d like to make some clarifications: - The social clipping feature (Facebook,Twitter, Google Plus, etc) will be available after the summer; - In the “Suggestions” area, we already have a suggestion engine based on keywords. For now, suggestions are limited to Google News, Twitter and your readers. We’re working to improve it, in order to give you an effective news discovery engine; - A FREE user can also have one collaborator for each magazine. We decided to give this opportunity to the free user because we truly believe that collaboration is a key feature for us; - Other important features such as: custom domain and custom layout (currently not listed in the pricing page) will be available in the next months; - Regarding the fact that imported content cannot be edited, we think that whenever a curator decides to clip content it’s because he wants to promote it or discuss it. In both cases, he doesn’t need to modify the original content, he may want to add personal comments or images to that content and we give him the opportunity to do so. At the end, the original content plus the curator’s comments look like a new article in which everyone takes credit for its own contribution. We’ve just launched a few days ago and we’re working very hard on improving the service to make it the best choice for a content curator. Stay tuned, there will be great new features and improvements in the near feature! Thanks Robin! Stefano Passatordi CEO, NextMags
Robin Good's comment,
August 13, 2012 2:22 AM
Hello Stefano, thank you so much for your kind comments and clarifications. Much appreciated indeed!
Liz Wilson's comment,
July 28, 2012 3:00 AM
Thanks for the review Robin and the clear explanation of what users can do. Much appreciated.
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Robin Good's curator insight,
November 26, 2013 10:46 AM
Google Living Stories is an experimental project by Google that showcased (over a brief period between 2009 and 2010) how technology could be used effectively to provide a new, richer and more effective way to organize, serve and present news stories online. In the Living Stories model, each story is a stream that is continuously updated over time with new updates, additional stories, images, and other multimedia resources that are published over time. These are organized on the page in a way that provides maximum accessibility to the reader, allowing him to skim, explore, filter or dig in depth into any category or specific item. Nonetheless abandoned by Google, Living Stories remains a very inspiring example of how automated news aggregation and manual curation, both required in heavy doses to achieve this type of results, could provide a truly innovative mode of producing and offering access to news information. "The Living Stories code is available as open-source for anyone to use on their own sites at: http://code.google.com/p/living-stories/" Must see. 9/10 Free to study, use and adopt. More info and examples: http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ WordPress plugin: https://code.google.com/p/living-stories/wiki/WordpressInstallation
Robin Good's curator insight,
October 26, 2013 1:19 PM
It's the second time that I go back to this insightful article by Jonathan Stray, dating back to 2011, but which was visionary and rightful then as it is still now. The first time I did, right after it came out, I didn't actually realize in full how relevant and important was the idea being communicated through it. On the surface the article talks about an hypotethical Editorial Search Engine as a desirable news app. But if you look just beyond the surface, which is by itself fascinating, in essence, Mr. Stray indicates how useful and effective it would be if news publishers moved on from reporting and into 100% curated coverage of a certain topic, issue or story, opening a fascinating discovery gateway around each story and allowing in time for these streams to intersect and interconnect with each other. By doing this, we can not only make the news much more interesting and relevant, but we can transform them into instruments for in-depth learning about anything we are interested in. In this light the future of news could be very much about Comprehensively Informing an Audience on a Specific Topic. And if you stop enough time to re-read it and think about it, this is a pretty powerful and revolutionary concept by itself. He specifically writes: "Rather than (always, only) writing stories, we should be trying to solve the problem of comprehensively informing the user on a particular topic." "Choose a topic and start with traditional reporting, content creation, in-house explainers and multimedia stories. Then integrate a story-specific search engine that gathers together absolutely everything else that can be gathered on that topic, and applies whatever niche filtering, social curation, visualization, interaction and communication techniques are most appropriate." Jonathan Stray makes also a very inspiring connection to Jay Rosen of NYU and his idea of covering 100% of a story which in my view correctly anticipated the niche content curation trend while going beyond it in its effort to explore gateways to innovation. . . . Insightful. Visionary. Inspiring. 9/10 . . Original article (2011): http://jonathanstray.com/the-editorial-search-engine . . (Image credit: Train tracks by Shutterstock)
Michael Britt's comment,
October 27, 2013 12:27 PM
I think the points above are excellent. I only wish "content consumers" if you will, agreed with this message. I say that because I have been critisized by one consumer because he didn't feel that I gave him ENOUGH content on a topic. In other words, in many content consumer's minds, A LOT OF CONTENT = VALUE. Hopefully the public is going to realize that this is not true.
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
October 29, 2013 1:56 PM
A useful article on the role of journalists by Jonathan Stray. He postulates that rather than writing stories, journalists should be trying to solve the problem of comprehensively informing the user on a particular topic, by applying filtering, social curation, visualistion and interaction with their audience. I think the professional press has woken up to this, and commend the Guardian for their insightful reporting.
Carmenne Kalyaniwala's curator insight,
May 19, 2013 11:24 AM
This short article provides five solid reasons why one needs to curate. Needless to say, I've bought into the idea anyway
ghbrett's curator insight,
May 19, 2013 6:08 PM
Read the other comments, they are better that what I could write. See below.
唐瑶's curator insight,
May 31, 2013 5:45 AM
Why I choose this topic to be my thesis topic? When I first heard this topic, I found it very attractive. In this world full of digital information, how can we find good content we need. Later I found scoop.it and Robin Good which strengthen my view that content curation is so useful. Because I found many valuable information in his topic and it really saves me a lot of time.
ghbrett's curator insight,
May 15, 2013 11:57 AM
Have a look at Robin Good's extensive comments about Ping.it. They are very helpful and detailed.
Stephen Dale's curator insight,
April 1, 2013 2:11 PM
Appears to be quite a slick integratoon with Wordpress. However, the $3750 per month (min) will put a lot of people off - including me!
Jeni Mawter's curator insight,
April 1, 2013 9:39 PM
Storify great for content creators using WordPress.
Josette Williams's curator insight,
April 6, 2013 1:17 AM
A great plugin for your WordPress site called Storify.
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight,
March 26, 2013 11:24 PM
Blogs can be excellent curation tools. Ask me, the woman who is saying goodbye to over 20+ Posterous blogs (public, private, shared) as Posterous shuts down at the end of April.
Víctor V. Valera Jiménez's curator insight,
March 28, 2013 11:50 AM
Interesante artículo de Nancy Mesias en "MakeUseOf" que puede servir como buena introducción para los que estén comenzando en este apasionante mundo de la Content Curation.
Alfredo Corell's curator insight,
March 10, 2013 7:28 AM
Some useful examples and goo tips to putting Storify to work...
Charlotte L Weitze's curator insight,
March 11, 2013 4:42 AM
Robin Good's insight:
Hats to Susan Mernit, who has an excellent piece on Knight Digital Media Center about how to do effective news curation and storytelling with Storify.
She brings in lots of relevant stories and examples showcasing how other individuals and journalists have been effectively using this news curation platform.
"The most successful creators of Meograph and Storify pages are united by one thing: they’re skilled editors and curators who know how to look at content posted on multiple social networks and pull out the pieces that will best help them to tell a story."
“Storify is the best way to gather tweets, comments, snippets and images from all around the Web and put them into one post. It's a new way of blogging that lets all your Internet friends participate.”
Brava Susan, great job and superglad to have intercepted you again.
Instructive. Informative. Resourceful. 8/10
Brian Yanish - MarketingHits.com's comment,
August 16, 2012 8:58 AM
After receiving an invite yesterday and also gave it a try. They have a long way to go as far as a mobile user using the site to currate content.
In find when viewing a magazine the layout has to much going on around it that takes away from the content.
Robin Good's comment,
August 5, 2012 2:13 PM
Hi Marshall, great to hear from you! Yes, we seem to be still in sync after all these years and for good reasons too.
I am well and I wish you all the best in what you are doing! Keep it up. |
A news curation tool. A possible alternative to Scoop.it. Easier to use, but not as feature rich (e.g. lacks some of Scoop.it social sharing and publishing options)
Reading time: 5 mins
A new curation tool, similar to Scoop.it, without the discover features. Simple and promising for creating on-the-fly boards and organizing topical content. via @robingood
Worth a look