The first thing that struck me when I started to curate the @Ireland Twitter account was the diversity of its followers in all respects - geographically, demographically, politically and more. I tried to find out more. Read more – ‘Where are @Ireland’s followers?’.
@Storyful, the Irish news startup founded by @marklittlenews, has finally opened its backend to the world. It’s a familiar curation toolset, but one with a slight twist. Storyful is a news site, a community for curators that I’ve been following since its inception. It tells stories and breaks news in a very different way to [...] Read more – ‘Storyful opens its curation tools to the world’.
Amidst its usual fanfare, and with the triumphant (and possibly last) return from medical leave for master-showman Steve Jobs, Apple launched its latest product, iPad 2, last Wednesday. It will be available in Ireland from March 25 but pricing is yet to be confirmed. Read more – ‘iPad 2: a minor upgrade of Apple’s competition-killing product’.
My favourite web page of the entire Irish General Election campaign is The Journal’s #ge11 Twitter Tracker which presents an analysis of the tweet stream in Ireland, party leader is being talked about most and the attitude of the public to the party leaders in a very graphic and simple to understand way Read more – ‘Real-time Irish election sentiment analysis made easy at thejournal.ie’.
I’ve often clicked on a link in Twitter and been confronted with a wall of text, scrolling and speed-reading to find the part of the post that's relevant to the conversation. Paragraph-level permalinks are a simple way to link directly to a specific part of an article. Read more – ‘WinerLinks – a plugin for paragraph-level permalinks in WordPress blogs’.
Curated.by is one of the new breed of web curation applications. It makes it simple to curate tweets into a focused stream on any topic, cutting out the noise from an increasingly chatter-filled @twitter experience. I like it. I like it a lot. Read more – ‘curated.by – the best way to curate Twitter?’.
Twittfont.de makes it simple to make Flash movie of recent tweets. It's built with a few clicks – selecting a source, choosing a typeface, setting the size – and is a simple embed into any webpage. Read more – ‘Turn your tweets into a movie’.
Curation is one of the buzzwords surrounding the online future of news. It's been hailed as the 'new journalism', but I don't think that's right. It will not replace journalism, it's simply another communication tool in the online jounalist's box. Storify.com is a brand new curation tool makes it simple to create, curate and embed stories in any web page. Read more – ‘storify.com: a new way to curate the news’.
"I believe there is a future for accurate, independent, thoroughly-researched, well-presented news in all its forms ... I aim to write about all aspects of the future for news, because it does have a future." Read more – ‘A ‘future for news’ blog under construction’.
