Articles from niemanlab.org

1. Curation and amplification will become much more sophisticated in 2012 Explore niemanlab.org (Dec 21 2011) For the last year, much of the focus has been on curating content from the social web and effectively contextualizing disparate pieces of information to form singular stories. This has been especially notable during breaking news events, with citizens who are participating in or observing those events contributing content about them through social media. In 2012, there will be even more emphasis not only on curating that content, but also on amplifying it through increasingly effective distribution mechanisms. (Read Full Article)

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2. Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a ... Explore niemanlab.org (Jun 10 2011) Maria Popova: In a new world of informational abundance, content curation is a ...Nieman Journalism Lab at HarvardFinding a way to acknowledge content curation and information discovery (or, better, the new term we invent for these fluffy placeholders) as a form of creative labor, and to codify this acknowledgement, is the next frontier in how we think about ... (Read Full Article)

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3. With its new food blog, WordPress gets into the content-curation game Explore niemanlab.org (Nov 22 2010) This month, the company associated with one of the world's most popular blogging platforms took its first, quiet step into the realm of for-profit content aggregation. FoodPress, a human-curated recipe blog, is a collaboration between blogging giant WordPress.com and Federated Media, a company that provides advertising to blogs and also broker... (Read Full Article)

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4. Aggregators, curators, and indexers: There's a difference, and it matters. Explore niemanlab.org (Jun 1 2010) Aggregation. Curation. Indexing. They’re all the same, aren’t they? Ask any serious online journalist or new media entrepreneur, and the answer will be quick and obvious: of course not! But in the public debate over the future of journalism — especially the debate as framed by legal analysts and public officials — the words often get thrown around as if they are identical. Ordinarily, such word quibbling would seem a little sad. (Read Full Article)

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