The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
John Bell, web developer, PhD student and lecturer at the University of Maine has published a useful cheat sheet synthesizing the best file formats to work with, provide access to, and to permanently archive digital artworks. The visual guide provides archival file format references for text, audio, video and image contents as well as suggestions …
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According to Harold Jarche, knowledge is an emergent property of all sense-making activities. Curation and PKM (personal knowledge management) have the same objective: helping oneself and others gain more understanding about whatever we are interested in. The only difference between the two is that curation devotes itself to satisfy the knowledge needs of an audience …
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It’s the second time that I go back to this insightful article by Jonathan Stray, dating back to 2011, but which was visionary and rightful then as it is still now. The first time I did, right after it came out, I didn’t actually realize in full how relevant and important was the idea being …
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Verification Junkie is an excellent free online resource curating the most relevant tools for fact-checking and verification of online content. “A growing directory of tools for verifying, fact checking and assessing the validity of social media and user generated content.” For each tool collected, Josh Stearns has provided a detailed description, and relevant links. My …
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“Plagiarism is a firing offense. Don’t: a) lift passages from other sources without attribution and link…” This is what read the first slide of a presentation deck published a few days back by Steve Buttry which goes on to list all of the situations where it’s possible to run the risk of being accused of …
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Pawan Deshpande outlines, explains and illustrates with real examples six different approaches that you can use to add value to your content curation efforts. He outlines how to: Abstract Summarize Quote Retitle Storyboard Parallelize My comment: Excellent resource for content marketers wanting to move up one level the level of their curation, from simple republishing …
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Wibki is a free web app which allows you to easily organize a series of visual “start pages” from which to access your favorite web sites, resources and apps. Wibki does an excellent job of making it very easy to add and edit new sites to your visual start pages, and it automatically fetches the …
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