“Curation is more than packaging, it is to help readers (discern) what is important in the world. My responsibility as an itor and curator is to get people interest in things they don’t know about yet,” said @Brainpicker .
Flipboard and Longform
The iPhone and iPad app Flipboard is such a curation tool, also call a social magazine. You can put your Twitter and Facebook fe in it and it ghana phone number list will be transform into a magazine, which looks very nice and is also pleasant to read. You can also choose from Flipboard suggestions (curator “boards”), put together by curator Mia Quagliarello, also on the panel. Flipboard shows ads in a nicely integrat way between the content and hopes that users will appreciate these ads as much as the other content, says Mia. Next to her on the panel is Mark Linksky of Longform , a new curation app, which shows in-depth articles from the world’s best magazines. Mark believes that you can make money by placing ads with your curat content, a point of discussion in the panel. Is it ethical to make money from content that you only curate and that is therefore not your own?
New vs. old content
Mark Linsky: “New stories and old stories get click on the same amount in the Longform app.” That’s interesting, because Maria Popova is also concern about the so-call ‘newsification’ of the web. Old content can be just as interesting, or even more interesting, than new content. Maria says that there are so many archives on the web (and in libraries) of great information worth discovering and sharing, because it doesn’t just surface on its own.
Brands are the new publishers
The discussion continues on who or what makes a good curator, and how to become one. Noah Grier, founder of Percolate , a tool for brands to curate social content, believes that some brands do a better job of curating than publishers. He gives the example of R Bull , Drawing by which he says covers sports lob directory better than the major sports television network ESPN . Noah continues: “For better or worse, brands are in the ecosystem of content. Brands are competing with your friends and publishers the replenishment allows customers for your attention.” Finally, during the session, a preview of a video was shown with interviews with.