I got my hands on a Scoop.it beta account and set up a few topics to be "curated" (as they word it). I have a few questions though.
It appears to me that it is a little more robust in it's information from Paper.li, in that it pulls information sources from more than just Twitter. It, in fact, allows you to pull from Google News, Blogs, Videos, Twitter, RSS Feeds, Youtube, Digg.
It also not only pulls from all these sources, but it also allows you as the curator to choose which of the items, it finds, to publish. So in this respect more info is posted to your Scoop than your Paper, however there is more work involved for the curator. Paper.li posts automatically and distributes via Twitter for you.
The fact that it uses the word CURATE on the dashboard of the manager of any particular Scoop I think is what gets to me. Sure I'm curating relevant items for the day, however there does not appear to be any historical view for the topic. So I'm confused by content curation. I for some reason thought that curating meant collecting, sharing, and archiving. I appear to be wrong.
I found this useful article "What is Content Curation? And how it’s useful to you and your network", by Michael Gass, that doesn't mention archiving at all, so I suppose it is not a part of curating. Maybe I'm just wishfully thinking that by collecting and distributing that I am also tracking for later use. Oh well.
I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on this topic.Do you want and need another resource to look at for content curation?
UPDATE....So I have just myself followed several topics in Scoop.it. I then added the feed for the over all pages I follow to my Google Reader. I also now am using Zite more often too read all these feeds. So in fact, I suppose having another feed for info is fine. One more place that collects the stuff I want to know about....great, bring it on. I don't need sleep...I read.
Thursday, 4 August 2011
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Tracy, when you curate new items to your scoop you then click on view and that lest you see the whole of your scoopit topic.
My main issue with Scoop.it, I get less noise using my Google Reader feeds as a source for curation. Ie. It's a lot less work to get higher quality content.
The only thing that Scoop.it has over Greader is the ability to curate easily to specific topics, rather than my whole twitter/facebook/etc stream.
I can do this using Greader, hashtags, and Paper.li, but Scoop.it makes it much easier. I wonder if there is a way to import the whole of my Greader feeds into Scoop.it.
Wwjmd - why not use Eqentia & you can sync Greader to it. Just star or put in folder what you want curated from Greader & it will automagically appear in your Eqentia stream.
Feel free to contact me.
William Mougayar
CEO, Eqentia
I really prefer Scoop-it over Paper.li. My daily newspaper at Paper.li would end up with erotic pictures that I had to remove, and articles in Japanese (great if you happened to be Japanese, but I am not). Most important, I just couldn't get the content that I wanted, especially on my home and garden theme. (The instructional design paper seemed OK.)
The control is why I like Scoop-it. I have a Scoop-it button on the bookmarks toolbar. I can select articles that I want to include and add them on the fly. So far, the system just seems to keep adding pages so I do have an archive. I don't know if that ends at some point.
What I really want to do with curation is to organize and make sense of the content. I think you share the same concerns. I am working on doing this with my website which is just getting started.
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