The remarkable power of what I am terming “mutual curation.” If all the smart people I can find start talking to me about the things that most interest them and most interest me, my knowledge will grow exponentially. If the only price I pay is to share what most interests me in return, we have the rudiments of Adam Smith in the realm of knowledge: We each pursue our interests; we all gain.

This is a very, very good point.

Hypothes.is will be a distributed, open-source platform for the collaborative evaluation of information. It will enable sentence-level critique of written words combined with a sophisticated yet easy-to-use model of community peer-review. It will work as an overlay on top of any stable content, including news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, software code and more-without requiring participation of the underlying site. It is based on a new draft standard for annotating digital documents currently being developed by the Open Annotation Collaboration, a consortium that includes the Internet Archive, NISO (National Information Standards Organization), O'Reilly Books, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and a number of academic institutions.

Posted by Dr. Bob- Blog Curator Digital Curation, Curated Learning & Collective Curation?I have started hearing and reading about the terms “Digital Curation”, “Curated Learning” and “Collective Curation” as well. Naturally it intrigued me. What does that mean? How can I bring it into the classroom? How can “curated learning” be connected to the idea of teachers and students creating their own textbooks?Digital Curation is defined in Wikipedia as:the selection, preservation, maintenance, collection and archiving of digital assets. Digital curation is generally referred to the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists, historians, and scholars.In a fabulous article, Jeff Cobb, on his blog Mission to Learn asks Who Are Your Curators? Thank you to Mike Amante for pointing me to the description of the ISTE panel discussion he will be participating in at the end of the month and all the included resources

Imagine this. “Hashtag radio” – crowdsourced content multicasting “listen on” and “publish to” hashtags Listen on hashtags: ‘listen on’ “#scrum testing” “#agile tools” “#social storyboarding” and i can change the terms I subscribe to/listen on every so often as I wish. Imagine ‘#shopping’ channel freq. ‘#dining’ channel freq. ‘#wishlist’ channel freq. ‘#lookingfor’ channel freq. ‘#homeworkhelp-maths’ channel freq. Other channel ideas: ‘#startup-reading’ ‘#small-business-marketing’

Exploding the idea behind blekko, extrapolating it to allow curation by collective, crowdsourced voting: If you are trying to follow a number of blogs you will add the rss feed url to your RSS reader. You could also be following a number of blogs using a tool like bloglovin. Now this idea is based on the premise that, instead of following blogs you follow topics and publishers will Our ‘startup idea’ site lists a large number of sections (directory-style) Imagine something like #social-media (parent section) #social-media-metrics (child section) #social-media-marketing (child section) …

The informed opinion of one expert who is motivated by a legitimate interest in assisting customers is often superior to the collective reviews of dozens or more user-customers

Great insight on individual vs collective curation, and an overview of tools out there.

All brands and organizations have a story in their soul and a whole set of stories within their collective culture... there’s an opportunity for these stories to be told in highly compelling ways by brands, ways that help them to become distinctively social.

What could your social brand be like if it was based on a wiki of collective experiences that you gather, as a movement? Isn’t that the kind of brand you’d want to be part of, either as a fan, employee or an investor?

Social brand curation is a good way of creating a contribution economy, where there are levels of sustainable participation built into the brand. It can help deliver the kind of brand experience that can boost value and differentiation around what brands do.

Curators are in many ways creators. At least the good ones are. Think of a Disc Jockey at a night club. They all start with the same raw material: songs. Some DJ's create what we can all agree are new works - using the music to create re-mixes, mashups and new songs. The artist "Girl Talk" certainly goes in that category.

I was describing curation to someone as being a Techno DJ, taking old songs and remixing them to make new hits. That's what curators can do, putting together a new experience for readers based on existing materials, creating an experience.

Curators create entirely new editorial experiences by finding sources from diverse and sometimes divergent points of view.

Curators come with an editorial objective, a point of view, and their own editorial voice. Sometimes curators are both writers and gatherers. Other times, curators will use their contextual point of view and perspective to organize material in a way that collectively creates a larger story.