Curating news NEWSCURATION
cu•ra•tor(from Latin cura, care), means manager,overseer, one who has the care andsuperintendence of something
“ The editor who sits in a big building at the New York Times or your local newspaper that chooses what content you’ll see in your newspaper is a curator. So is the page designer who decides what story is at the top of the page - Robert Scoble
INFO MOLECULESA curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms togetherin a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.
HOWNEWSCURATE TO - The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators, Robert Scoble
“ ANYONE CAN COLLECT LINKS, AND ALGORITHMS CAN AGGREGATE. BUT ONLY TRAINED EDITORS HAVE THE SKILLS TO SELECT AND COLLECT THE BEST INFORMATION “ AND BUILD A LOYAL AUDIENCE. - MARK BRIGGS, JOURNALISM NEXT
THE REVOLUTIONWILL BE TWEETED TWITTER CURATION: NPR’S ANDY CARVIN
THE REVOLUTIONWILL BE TWEETED TWITTER CURATION: NPR’S ANDY CARVIN
Storify: pulls in content from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr & YouTube and generates a story based on real-time information from these networks
IN-CLASS WORKCURATING TWEETSADD A TWITTER LIST & SEARCH WIDGET TO YOUR BLOG
HOW TO CREATE ATWITTER LIST • GO TO YOUR PROFILE • CLICK ON LISTS • CLICK CREATE A LIST • NAME IT • NAVIGATE TO PROFILE OF USER YOU WANT TO ADD • CLICK ON • CHECK BOX TO ADD
WHEN DONE, GO TO TWITTER WIDGETS PAGE, SELECT THE LIST, FILL OUT INFO, GRAB CODE & EMBED ON BLOG