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How True! "Every act of journalism is an act of curation" - that is as long as what is being reported is accurate and unbiased!

Giornalisti a scuola di Curation

Back in Feberuary of this year Debbie Millman has interviewed Maria Popova, the curator of Brain Pickings, Literary Jukebox and the inventor of Curator's Code.

Find out what Maria thinks curation is all about (How do we make sense of the world we through stuff and through objects - whether physical or metaphysical) and why she has become so interested in it.

Maria is a fantastic and highly prolific content curator producing three original posts and between 60 to 70 tweets a day.

Specific interview points I suggest you listen to: 

-> 24':30" for combinatorial creativity and the first recorded examples of content curation as a form authroship

-> 27':16" Curation - Do you define yourself a curator?

-> 28':00" Curators don't design, they organize

-> 28':50" What is curation

-> 29':19" Curation and pattern recognition

-> 37':45" The importance of discovery - why attribution matters

Source: http://chipkidd.com/journal/?p=4566 

Original audio interview: https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/maria-popova 

(duration: 52':07")

.MP3 audio download: https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/75217989/download?client_id=0f8fdbbaa21a9bd18210986a7dc2d72c 

More interesting interviews: Design Matters Podcast

Google Living Stories is an experimental project by Google that showcased (over a brief period between 2009 and 2010) how technology could be used effectively to provide a new, richer and more effective way to organize, serve and present news stories online.

In the Living Stories model, each story is a stream that is continuously updated over time with new updates, additional stories, images, and other multimedia resources that are published over time. 

These are organized on the page in a way that provides maximum accessibility to the reader, allowing him to skim, explore, filter or dig in depth into any category or specific item.

Nonetheless abandoned by Google, Living Stories remains a very inspiring example of how automated news aggregation and manual curation, both required in heavy doses to achieve this type of results, could provide a truly innovative mode of producing and offering access to news information.

The greatest news of all is that Google has left the model, examples and infrastructure for using and improving upon it available to everyone for free.

"The Living Stories code is available as open-source for anyone to use on their own sites at: http://code.google.com/p/living-stories/" 

Must see. 9/10

Free to study, use and adopt.

More info and examples: http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ 

WordPress plugin: https://code.google.com/p/living-stories/wiki/WordpressInstallation 

A really wonderful way to describe a very important concept

Wow, this is what I've been thinking I should have my independent study kids doing!

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Really thought provoking