Tag: aggregation
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Introducing Homer: The Blogware-agnostic Feed-based Homepage Creator for the ‘News Blob’ – Alexander Shaw
So this is a Ruby-powered news aggregator publishing system. Meaning, it makes it easy to curate individual items from the feeds you tell it to watch. Add items to slots on a homepage, or topic page, for example, and it becomes a powerful aggregation publishing system. Introducing Homer: The Blogware-agnostic Feed-based Homepage Creator for the…
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Controlled Serendipity Liberates the Web
Nick Bilton on the cause, method, and effect of human curation of the Web. Controlled Serendipity Liberates the Web
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guardian-twitterfall – Google Code
Here’s the Guardian U.K.’s app for running a conference display of live tweets with *moderation* — call it curation, even — instead of just firehosing a hashtag up on the screen. guardian-twitterfall – Google Code
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Placeblogger: More human than ever
Check out the redesigned Placeblogger a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner. The aggregation-by-location niche seems to be blowing up lately, especially as startups try to hitch their maps to the iPhone’s wagon, but Placeblogger feels like real live humans are writing blog posts in real live places. I like that. via the Knight Foundation Blog.…
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Packaging national election headlines for local news sites with Publish2
Happy Election Day-After! I’m still up to my neck in post-election analytics, gathering stats and data from hundreds of news sites I work with to do a little postmortem on what worked, who learned some new tricks, and what the readers thought of it. One of the things we put together here at GateHouse for…
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Alltop is Popurls for everything
Guy Kawasaki and his friends at Alltop have been building a series of cute little aggregators a la popurls that are full of headlines from a set of hand-picked blogs submitted by people who pay attention to Guy and friends in places like Twitter. Myself included. And so, you’ll find Invisible Inkling listed now at…
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Scobleization plus three years
Three years and two days ago, I got Scobleized. The highlight of Robert’s informal talk was when he plugged his tablet into the projector in a packed room at the SJSU/MLK library and showed us his aggregator. It was Bloglines at the time, not that it mattered. I was blown away by the amount of…
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Brijit – Great content in 100 words or less
Magazine articles, summarized, aggregated, rated, linked. A little NYT-heavy at the moment, but the more users, the more diverse it should get. via Rex. Brijit – Great content in 100 words or less
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Show off your front pages
David Weinberger describes the unbundling of media in clear terms: “I’ve been saying for a while, and I think in Everything Is Miscellaneous, that the new front page is distributed across our day and our network. Much of it comes through our inbox. It consists of people we know and people we don’t know recommending…