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Living Stories provide a new, experimental way to consume news, developed by a partnership between Google, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. In Li... Via Robin Good 
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
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Mashpedia a free topic-based encyclopedia that fetches content from many different sources (Wikipedia, Google, Twitter, Digg, YouTube...) to bring you the best results in real-time and in one spot....
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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?
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Whether you are a PR or own a business, the rules of social media marketing apply equally.
Massive pitching does not work anymore. Journalists are looking for PRs who are relationship builders and willing to make their work easier.
Members of the media often are under a lot of pressure to produce tons of content, so you have to contact them for the right reasons.
"The takeaway is understanding reciprocity. How can you help the reporter out? While these ideas have always been true, there are now more ways for you to do a reporter a solid before you need them."
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This piece was written by Eric Brown for social media explorer.
I selected this article because it reaffirms what many of us already know but it's still good to see this in writing: Content curation and Media Curation (a mix of machine aggregation and Human Curation) are starting to pick up steam.
Here are some highlights:
Curation comes up when search stops working,” says author and NYU Professor Clay Shirky. But it’s more than a human-powered filter.
**“Curation comes up when people realize that it isn’t just about information seeking, it’s also about synchronizing a community.”
The author says and I agree with him:
**"The value will be in the expertise of the curator, people will not read junk, and the best of the best curators will create digital domination with vibrant communities".
There is also a great quote from Fred Wilson's AVB blog in which he details what he would do if he were starting the Village Voice now:
**I would not print anything. I would not hire a ton of writers. I would build a website and a mobile app (or two or three). I would hire a Publisher and a few salespeople.
**I would hire an editor and a few journalists. And then I’d go out and find every blog, twitter, facebook, flickr, youtube, and other social media feed out there that is related to downtown NYC
**and I would pull it all into an aggregation system where my editor and journalists could cull through the posts coming in, curate them, and then publish them
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read full article: [http://bit.ly/kmZvJg]
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What a truth! TY!!
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rodrick rajive lal's curator insight,
January 7, 2014 1:27 AM
How True! "Every act of journalism is an act of curation" - that is as long as what is being reported is accurate and unbiased!
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Living Stories provide a new, experimental way to consume news, developed by a partnership between Google, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. In Li... Via Robin Good
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
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A new wave of sites based on topic curation, both human and algorithmic, are creating opportunities to reach targeted audiences. Via Robin Good
Robin Good's curator insight,
May 6, 2013 1:26 PM
Anthony Kosner on Content.ly analyzes three different news discovery services in order to illustrate the different types of approaches available today to gather and filter streams for a specific audience. He takes as examples Fuego, Upworthy and Prismatic, which utilize three very different solutions to aggregating and filtering the news in order to provide a relevant stream to their readers.
Overall, the article tries to illustrate how different can be the approaches utilized to filter and suggest content to a specific audience. Interesting. Informative. 6/10 Full article: http://contently.com/blog/2013/04/29/the-evolution-of-curation-puts-tools-in-marketers-hands/ 
Deb Nystrom, REVELN's curator insight,
May 7, 2013 5:13 AM
There can be filter bubbles (blind spots), and THEN there's just plain getting the best on a topic using the best tools. Content curation and Robin Good's insights help. ~ D
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Welcome to the new Mashable. After two weeks of beta testing, we're excited to launch an all-new version of the site that delivers a better experience on every device -- from phones to tablets to desktops and beyond....
[Mashable's launch tag line sends a message to media, PR and every organization: Social, Mobile, Visual ~ Jeff] Via Jeff Domansky, Jose H. Flores
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This piece by Adam Schweigert sparked off the idea that when you curate a topic, you can never say "I'm done now".
Adam's piece is about news curation but what he says applies across the board.
Talking specifically about news, he asks how it would be if we stop worrying about being the first to "own a story" (or a topic or niche) and instead focus on creating "the best, most thoughtful and longest-lasting curation of information that helps people to really understand it".
We literally have to own our topic and work on it for ever or until we hand it over or give up.
I like that he reminds us of the Latin verb curare "to take care".
We hear a lot about "best practices" of discovering information, filtering, adding context and attribution - this is only the start.
In a way, the easy part is adding new stories, writing a commentary on them and giving them a category and a few tags.
The hard part is going back over it to combine them into more meaningful sets or collections. I can see this will literally never end. I am certainly finding this as I try to curate a "magazine" about curation. I see how I need to constantly improve it by rearranging and recombining the content to make the most sense.
How much do you think we should go back over our curated content and review it? Where does it end?
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