“Content curation, in a nutshell, means finding the most relevant, high quality content on a given subject and sharing it with a specific target audience. And CurationSoft is a new tool to help the content curation cause.”
—CurationSoft lets publishers curate content - TNW Media
September 2011
50 posts
To commemorate the upcoming 10th anniversary of September 11th, the National Geographic Channel has launched an interactive Facebook application called “Remembering 9/11“.
August 2011
28 posts
“Share your thoughts about how your life is different because of 9/11 on Twitter, Facebook, or in the comments. Use the hashtag #becauseof911 tell us what’s changed for you. Are you afraid of flying? Did you move away from an urban center? Did you re-evaluate your life priorities? Tell us your personal story, and we’ll feature a selection of submissions on our Brow Beat blog.”
—#becauseof911: New Yorkers share how their lives changed because of 9/11. Tell us your story. - By Katherine Goldstein and Isabel Slepoy - Slate Magazine
“Broadcastr is a Social Media platform for location-based stories. It enables the recording, indexing, listening, and sharing of audio content. Just like in human memory, every story is bound to a place.
Whether dishing last night’s details to friends, uncovering local lore, perusing restaurant reviews, listening to travel guides, tuning in to citizen journalism, contemplating oral histories, or sharing hilarious anecdotes, Broadcastr amplifies all our voices.” —About // broadcastr
Whether dishing last night’s details to friends, uncovering local lore, perusing restaurant reviews, listening to travel guides, tuning in to citizen journalism, contemplating oral histories, or sharing hilarious anecdotes, Broadcastr amplifies all our voices.” —About // broadcastr
“Readers rely on aggregators to help them sort through an overabundance of information online. And aggregation can free resources for those who can acknowledge and link to good work by other news outlets rather than waste time trying to re-create what others already have reported, he says. Sonderman advises that, while algorithms are the easiest way to break into the world of aggregation, nothing quite beats a human editor.”
—Aggregating Without Aggravating | American Journalism Review
Spread of Earthquake-Related Tweets
Below is a visual of the Tweets from VA and Washington, DC one minute after the August 23 #earthquake.
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I’m one of those lines.
“At that same Arcade Fire concert, a guy in front of me held his camera phone towards the big screen that flanked the stage and hit the video record button. He stood like that for a long time, separated from a live concert by two screens. Maybe he gained some social benefit by sharing the video with a friend or a broader Internet audience. But the concert provided him an opportunity to lose himself in the music and the moment. He let a screen block that experience.”
—Tweetage Wasteland : Does the Internet Make You More Connected?
“For a birthday greeting to really sing with authenticity, then, the memory-retrieval behind it should have required some genuine dredging — battle with the limits of neurobiology. Plotz, for his birthday, wants to see a little sacrifice from his friends. By contrast, what makes the Facebook birthday alerts insidious to him is what makes them benign to me: that the alerts work, don’t disproportionately favor calendrical geniuses or drunks having flashbacks, and never fail. Also, I like that they engender actual greetings.”
—A Facebook Birthday - NYTimes.com
