The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future Mathew Ingram Gigaom, 21 January 2012 Twitter made an interesting acquisition on Thursday, when it bought a young Canadian startup called Summify, a company whose service (as its name implies) was designed to cut through the noise of all those social-media streams and summarize the content that …
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SwiftRiver Throws a Lifeline to People Drowning in Information There’s a problem that constantly plagues us in this day of information overload, and that is the ability to sift the stream of incoming information into the bits that are valuable from those that aren’t. It’s a tough issue that we’ve been working on at Ushahidi …
Bottlenose Intelligent Social Dashboard Launches Private Beta Jon Mitchell ReadWriteWeb, December 12, 2011 In the words of Nova Spivack, we are approaching The Sharepocalypse. The real-time Web sounded like a great idea, but it has become impossible to manage. The success of social media has proven, ironically, to be its biggest challenge. The services we …
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Digital Literacy: Search Algorithms are Mechanical Turks John Jones DMLcentral, December 8, 2011 One of the most pervasive features of computing culture are algorithms, the sets of processes or instructions contained in computer code that determine how a particular task will be completed. While algorithms power everything from your automatic coffee maker to your smart …
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SkillCraft: Information Access Strategies EXTRACT: So, how does expertise affect these information access strategies? A study of professional athletes’ demonstrated the idea that experts use a “just-in-time” strategy, where information that is required to do well in their respective sports is accessed at the time it necessary. Such strategies also appear to be employed in …
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How to replace email collaboration with wiki co-creation (Part one) Introduction: When collaborating by email, a lot has to happen. It is no secret that big companies still uses email as their main collaborative tool. And this habit won’t change any time soon. Changing the office culture and the habits of maybe hundreds of employees …
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Lauren Anderson: the “We” of the our collaborative age will replace the “Me” of the industrial age “Is this shift from the Me to the We as significant as the industrial revolution? And should we welcome this revolution with, so to speak, open arms?” Lauren Anderson is the Innovation Director for Collaborative Lab, interviewed here …
