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Ensuring quality in Social Journalism
pando.com
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There are more good recommendations in here than can be summarised, but if I had to choose one, it's: "Integrate the developers and editors, from where they sit to whom they report to. If you’re going to do social journalism well, you’re becoming a technology platform company... Almost all the important breakthroughs in social media have come fro…

Follow the money to new media startups
qz.com
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A pretty good idea of where news & journalism will be in 5 years, or deja vu all over again? "the organizations worth backing must be run by tech savvy, top-notch people focused on social distribution of stories that serve an existing but underserved niche audience. ... “They are all technology companies first ... understand how people utilize t…

Is aggrefilter a good word?
www.mondaynote.com
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Les Echos looks to be doing what I have long dreamed to do for the bloggingportal reboot - deploy semantic analysis to aid content discovery and to underpin a new wave of media and comment. But do we have to call it an 'aggrefilter'? "Les Echos launches its business news aggrefilter ... to gain critical working knowledge of the semantic web." …

Facebook's Paper Doesn't Scare Other News Apps
mashable.com
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"All of these things are using human powered context to organize and curate content in a better way. This is the rise of editors. It used to be bloggers and now it's organizing all of the activity with proper editors and direction... "

Newspaper: Article scraping & curation
newspaper.readthedocs.org

One for for the Bloggingportal reboot toolbox: "Newspaper is an amazing python library for extracting & curating articles ... delivers Instapaper style article extraction.” - Newspaper: Article scraping & curation — newspaper 0.0.2 documentation

Facebook Paper: Curated Visual News Reader
techcrunch.com
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Seems Zuck's taken Filter Bubble criticisms to heart, combining human & machine curation (now where have I heard that before?) to create what Techcrunch calls “content serendipity” (wish I'd coined that one): "Each Section combines stories chosen by Facebook’s human editors and surfaced by the Paper algorithm [from] a publication, blogger, publi…

Facebook Paper: the video. Click the #fbpaper tag for some thoughts.
mathewlowry.myhub.ai

FalseFacebook Paper: the video. Click the #fbpaper tag for some thoughts.

Facebook Flipboards you out of the filter bubble
mobile.theverge.com
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"You also can't add any site you want, as with a traditional RSS reader. Instead, Facebook has hired a team of content curators to pick stories for you in one of a dozen or so categories ranging from basic news to cute animals." - With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water | The Verge

News curation news: 2 Inside(.com) stories
mathewlowry.myhub.ai
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Interesting points emerging from the first two articles I’ve seen about Jason Calacanis’ his new venture, Inside.com.

Reminder: add expiration dates to Hub specs
www.businessinsider.com
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Basically sums up why I want a Hub, not just a stream, for my virtual presence: "If I had my way, Facebook would have a hard and fast expiration date for posts. I generally don’t want most of what I say hanging around longer than I’d keep eggs in the fridge. Sure, some links and videos are worth revisiting—but does anyone really care that I was t…

Think long-form journalism is dead? Think again
newsroom13.journalists.org
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“There is a huge audience of readers out there craving this kind of storytelling ... With phones and tablets, they now always have a reading device available on them to dig into something.”

Content curation: a new form of journalism? @fede_guerrini
www.federicoguerrini.com

"without giving up their traditional skills, journalists are becoming more and more information "managers". They are behaving like human filters which ... verify and add context to what user-generated content they think to be relevant, and feed it onto Web pages or mobile applications. Thanks to the rise of new social media curation platforms, t…

Google News at 10: How the Algorithm Won Over the News Industry - Megan Garber - The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com
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"That's about 100,000 business opportunities we provide publishers every minute." - good article on how slow the newsindustry was. Interesting thoughts too on balancing algorithmic approach with human concerns. Google News at 10 - The Atlantic http://t.co/Fupf11B6

5 ways to use social media curator RebelMouse | Poynter.
www.poynter.org

"Almost six months after RebelMouse launched, the service is finding a home in the digital journalist’s toolbox."

Tuesday Q&A: Newsana’s Ben Peterson on story discovery, how readers become experts, and celebrating high-quality news » Nieman Journalism Lab
www.niemanlab.org

"what we are trying to focus on is building a site that's optimized for those people who are news curators. For people that take joy and satisfaction out of sorting through all the stuff they read and identifying the best of that." - Newsana looks good. A model for @bloggingportal or a tool for Hubs? http://t.co/plsalGq0K2 profile on @NiemanLab

Robot news curator NewsCred launches human editorial team — paidContent
paidcontent.org
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"The NewsCred announcement coincides with a shifting perspective on automated news. While some feared that the arrival of robot story writers and editors would phase out journalists, the human touch now appears to be back in fashion..." - Human touch back in fashion for news #curation? http://t.co/uQqLSTw5 via @NiemanLab cc @bloggingportal

RebelMouse Will Now Auto-Update Your Blog for $10 a Month
mashable.com
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If only RM also read the article you link to, auto-tagged it (auto-translating it if necessary) and provided faceted search, it'd probably provide 70-80% of a Hub. Neat tool for group efforts like bloggingportal, too.

MuckReads, Meet RebelMouse - ProPublica
www.propublica.org
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Have you read a great investigative story lately? Anyone can pitch a story, video, graphic or other news link by Tweeting us with #MuckReads

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