Curation, Conferences and more Good Reading (Top3ics, 2 Oct)

Just in time for the weekend.

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Yes, I’m now curating news about news curation

Logical really, given that I’ve been advocating ‘less content creation and more content curation’ by the EU authorities for probably 8 years now. I’m always on the lookout for better content curation tactics - this week I noticed:

• How six publishers digest the news for readers, which looks at how “BuzzFeed, The Economist, The New York Times, Quartz, Vox, and Yahoo News slim down a day’s worth of news“  (NiemanLab)
• Nuzzle, which “combs through your Twitter or Facebook feeds, identifying the links being shared the most by your friends” (NiemanLab again; here’s my Nuzzlefeed if you’re interested; who comes up with these names?)
• Samsung’s curated news app, in response to Apple News, which selects stories both algorithmically and by a local team of editors (Engadget)

You may have missed: Every news org should have a river, Curation vs. Algorithms, The Politics of the Curation Craze, a good example of how Digg curates (in this case, the US-Iran nuclear deal), and my own ideas on using machine-assisted curation to help European democracy.

More: 66 resources tagged curation.

Getting more out of (your) conferences

I’ve been thinking about this a lot as I prepare for my EuroPCom workshop, resulting in (PostPlugAlert) Let’s call time on ‘Park & Bark’ conference sessions. 

Gareth Harding followed three days later with Ten Commandments for Conference Organisers. 

Last week I experimented with Hangouts-on-Air as a way of ‘opening up’ the conference content development process - next week I’ll do another one with Ezri Carlebach about his Rapido conference storytelling technique (Thursday 10 October, 14h CET).

You may have missed: Tuteboard looks pretty useful for conference websites; What I Learned From Conference Bingo; some interesting thoughts on live-tweeting & live-blogging conferences using ScribbleLive and Storify; and How can we make events suck less? (hint: “there’s often more experience in the audience than there ever can be on one stage”). Yup.

Other useful, interesting stuff

No other major themes emerged last week, so here’s some good stuff in no particular order:

• 7 Key LinkedIn Stats: When to Post, What to Post & How to Improve - because Buffer always does what it says on the tin
• What Is Zero UI? (And Why Is It Crucial To The Future Of Design?) - a look ahead from FastCodesign
• Google’s Cute Cars And The Ugly End Of Driving (Buzzfeed), because today’s cars are “giant, inefficient, planet-and-people-killing death machines” 
• The Financial Times readies paid posts for advertisers (DigiDay) as native advertising (22 posts) marches onwards into European publishing
• Can Politico save political journalism, not just in the U.S. but in Europe too? (Fortune)
  

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