4 Promising Curation Tools That Help Make Sense of the Web Steven Rosenbaum is a curator, author, filmmaker and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Magnify.net, a real-time video curation engine for publishers, brands, and websites. His book Curation Nation is slated to be published this spring by McGrawHill Business. As the volume of content swirling around the web continues to grow, we're finding ourselves drowning in a deluge of data. Where is the relevant material? Where are the best columns and content offerings? The solution on the horizon is curation. In the past 90 days alone, there has been an explosion of new software offerings that are the early leaders in the curation tools category. 1. Storify co-founder Burt Herman worked as a reporter for the Associated Press during a 12-year career, six of those in news management as a bureau chief and supervising correspondent. At the AP, editors sending messages to reporters asking them to do a story would regularly write, “Can u pls storify?” Storify is currently invite only. 2. 3. 4. Conclusion
TikiToki: Beautiful web-based timeline software NASA Latest Discovery: the Brightest Dead Star | Wall Street OTC NASA announced a new discovery while looking at distant galaxies. The bright dead star is actual the brightest one ever discovered and NASA said that its energy is the equivalent of 10 million suns. The NASA latest discovery raises some more questions about the mysterious black holes. The NuStar telescope picked up bright X-rays form a source of ultraluminous X-rays called M82 X-2. The NASA latest discovery has the energy of 10 million suns, which means it’s 10 times more than other pulsars discovered so far. Fiona Harrison from the California Institute of Technology named the NASA latest discovery “Mighty Mouse” and said that “It has all the power of a black hole, but with much less mass.” Astronomers believe that the light coming from the dead star is caused by the fact that the gravity of neutron stars feeds on the matter of the companion stars. Harrison explained: “The pulsar appears to be eating the equivalent of a black hole diet.
Curation as Digital Literacy Practice | Ibrar's space I have been writing my PhD so haven’t updated this blog for a while. Thesis writing is taking up a lot of my mental space as I get the ideas, storyline and contentions to ‘coalesce’ and cohere in a manner suitable for such a piece of work. I’ve been mulling over a series of ideas in my analysis of digital literacies, and one of them is the concept and practice of ‘curation’ as a digital literacy, and what the implications are for curation practices to be better understood, theorised, and subsequently harnessed for educational purposes. My PhD thesis (Bhatt, forthcoming) is not fully completed yet, but some ideas are worth throwing out to collide with others as part of what I believe is a public conversation (#impact #engagement). [Aside: see this brief lecture by Steven Johnson on the ‘collision’ of ideas and the sharing of half-baked hunches] Back to the topic: Source: References: Bhatt, I. Tufte, E. Like this:
Alcohol and Energy Drinks A Dangerous Combo, Study Says In a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, researchers at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan have concluded that mixing alcohol and energy drinks poses a serious public health risk, especially among college students. "We found that college students tended to drink more heavily, become more intoxicated, and have more negative drinking consequences on days they used both energy drinks and alcohol, compared to days they only used alcohol," said Megan Patrick, a research assistant professor and co-author of the study. According to the study, students who either drank alcohol and energy drinks on the same day or who combined the two at the same time wound up spending more time drinking – thus consuming more alcohol – than they would have without the caffeinated drinks. The result of spending more hours drinking raised users' blood alcohol levels to higher peaks.
Archive Web Pages, Images, Videos & Notes With Keep Everything for Mac & iOS Keep Everything is an archive solution for Mac and iOS for saving webpages, images, videos and notes in a neat digital file drawer that syncs via Dropbox. It’s a bit like the online and the unique bookmarking site Keeeb, except Keep Everything extends its usefulness to the mobile app space, too. The app is a free download on both platforms (Mac and iOS), both of which allows for archiving up to a 100 items. A premium in-app upgrade ($9.99 and $4.99 respetively) enables unlimited data storage. How It Works On both the Mac and iOS version of Keep Everything, you can import webpages, tweets, images, and videos (including YouTube, Vimeo, Ted, and Dailymotion), and manage that data into folders. In the Mac version, content can be dragged and dropped into the application, or you can use the + button to import data. Keep Everything archives the original URL and also creates a clean article view, stripped of extraneous data. iOS Version Beautifully Designed
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