The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
VIDEO (1:03) The Information Diet – Introduction Introduction to the concepts behind The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption, a new book by Clay Johnson. The Information Diet makes the case that it’s time we started being as selective with the information we consume as we are the food that we eat, then describes …
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Is There a Difference Between Critical Thinking and Information Literacy? John M Weiner Abstract This paper investigates the similarities and differences between two important ideas in information processing and knowledge utilisation. Those ideas are [critical thinking] and [information literacy]. The two phrases are shown in brackets to indicate that the two words involved in each …
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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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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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Why ‘Data Smog’ May Be Making You Depressed Information overload leads to stress, especially when much of that information is useless Andrew Weil, M.D. TIME, 14 November 2011 We live in the Information Age. But I’ve never heard — nor would any sane person suggest — that we live in the Useful Information Age. The …
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Finding Credible Information Sources in Social Networks Based on Content & Social Structure (PDF DOWNLOAD) “A task of primary importance for social network users is to decide whose updates to subscribe to in order to maximize the relevance, credibility, and quality of the information received. To address this problem, we conducted an experiment designed to …
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About || Percolate “Percolate is the first content curation platform that works by bubbling up interesting content based on your network and presenting it back to you for reaction. Percolate works by hooking up to streams of content (like RSS and Twitter, with more to come) and filtering down to the most interesting stuff for …
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